In honor of the trendy high-carb pasta diet that I just went on, I mixed my own little spaghetti western arc for Deep Threes Radio #16. Tara Linda’s Tortilla Western Serenade provided a saucy tune to hold the set together. Here’s a live version of “Muse’s Tango”. Tara has grabbed a little of this and [...]
We’re laying out a hearty jazz buffet for Deep Threes Radio #15, with a sideboard full of sweet rock, classical and electronic treats. Henry Threadgill serves up a delightful coconut dish from 2001′s Everybodys Mouth’s A Book, but there’s no doubt he’s still cooking up some innovative dishes. He’s backing Judith Sanchez Ruiz during an [...]
Deep Threes Radio #14 features a genre-bending track from Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics. Dr. Miller is an ethnomusicologist well known for his research of Persian music. Here he talks about how he fused Eastern, jazz and psychedlic influences on his new album. Chicago indie Industrial rockers Mahjongg beat a path westward on for us [...]
In a week filled with classical influences, Deep Threes #13 embraces Bitcrush’s steadfast adherence to the dogma of shoegazing. They have two new releases. Of Embers dares the listener to burn up a set of headphones while immersed in meandering jams. We’ll treat you to one of the remixes off From Arcs To Embers. Here’s [...]
Ireland’s folk fiddler Kevin Scott and Portland’s own, guitarist Cal Scott, fuse folk and classical traditions on their new album, Suite. The duo will favor us with a folk tune on Deep Threes Radio #13. We’ll save a movement from The Irish Session Suite for next week. Tease. Here’s Kevin and Cal playing a jig [...]
Deep Threes Radio #12 features a piece from avant-garde composer “Blue” Gene Tyranny. He taught at Mills College early in his career, and has performed with John Cage, Robert Ashley and Laurie Anderson. Here’s an interview about his involvement with the play Flip Side. A music professor once told me that every formally trained musician [...]
Zack Freeman is known on the Denver and New Mexico music scenes for his beatboxing and a capella skills. One day, he hung a sampler around his neck and found a voice for his social commentary. We’ll hear a collaboration with TuMan Productions off The Radio Alchemist on Deep Threes Radio #11. Zack layers improvised [...]
You’ll hear some traditional Chinese music for watching the sun go down on Deep Threes Radio #11. Wu Man talks about the confluence of musical traditions in her homeland, and breaks down some of the basics of playing the pipa. Allen Ginsburg may be best remembered for his poems that skirted the boundaries of obscenity, [...]
Guitar great Lee Ritenour teamed up with an all-star lineup for the new 6 String Theory. We’ll reconcile playing only one track on Deep Threes Radio #11 by trotting out this video of “Captain Fingers”. String Theory is a deep subject, with or without guitar strings. It took no less a personage as Wero The [...]
Stanley Clarke plays bass. Like nobody’s business. Clarke’s recording career as a musician, producer and composer now spans across five decades with the release this week of The Stanley Clarke Band. We’ll play a track on Deep Three Radio #9. Stanley reached out to his fans to weigh in on global warming by voice mail. [...]