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  • Current Joys
    Current Joys
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    Current Joys, past woes.

    Music:

    Roots Connective, Vann Frsh and Tutzi by Yclept Insan

    Something's Burgeoning Inside the Dead Deer by Magnétophonique

    An unnamed song by me

    A Different Age, Fear and Become the Warm Jets by Current Joys

    37 min
  • A shout across the valley

    How did a singing style from the lungs of swiss herders make it into the mouths of the cowboys? An examination of voice breaking, wildness and parallel histories in North America.

    Yodel playlist:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNYDyXn6qso&list=PLkNGcT8rdUVlvvYM-VvcHJYwpP58vnAdz

    Music, Book links and photos at www.vansounds.org

    49 min
  • It Will Never Be Quiet Again
    It will never be quiet again
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    A story from Kent Irwin of Howlsroad.com, and declaring independence from internal monologue.

    Music:

    Roots Connective - Yclept Insan

    Hamsa - Sandman Project

    Tail Chaser - Gitkin

    Revolutionary war songs

    20 min
  • Postcard - Florence, Italy
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    Postcard - Florence, Italy

    Contributor Lauren Baker reads a postcard from Florence. Recorded on a hike in the Sierra Nevada.

    Photo: Lauren Baker

    Music:

    Master Spirit by I Believe, available through Interactive Test

    4 min
  • A Hobo, A Tramp, A Bum
    A Hobo, a Tramp, a Bum
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    You are what you do but sometimes that line moves, then blurs.

    “I think about how far away from here I’ll be tomorrow. But tomorrow is only a horizon. It’s the line wavering under my feet — just a trick I’ve played on my eyes to convince me there’s a destination in sight. This must be time travel.” - Em Jiang

    References:

    https://archive.org/details/NightRide-V30-Trainhopping

    http://www.billdaniel.net/who-is-bozo-texino/

    Music:

    Roots Connective - Yclept Insan

    Motion by Gabrielle HB & Emilio Reyna via Discos Carnitas

    Lost Train Blues - Price Goodson (public domain)

    Deville by Yclept Insan

    Field Recording of a song by Well (interviewee)

    19 min
  • A Catalogue of Nights
    A Catalogue of Nights
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    Winter Solstice in São Paulo

    "In January I left my home for 6 months of wandering and, of course, one of the main things I explored were the infinite shades of night in each new place. What I noticed more than ever is that every night is a finger print – each is unique, with no one the same as another. The sounds tell the stories." - Vanessa Lowe, Nocturne

     

    Listen to Nocturne HereDarknet Diaries
    27 min
  • Fool's Gold!

    Extra Extra!! From the banks of the Satoshi River to the banks of the Reese River, a mining-town newspaper that propped up a honest-to-goodness LIARS CLUB, no lie, and a story from the city who built itself on such falsehoods. The secret history of bitcoin? The Toiyabe Mole Man in the mines of ERN, NEVADA? The TRUE story of TOTAL LIARS and the history they invented for themselves. Right?

    21 min

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