Alloy: Episode 137

More Rabbits than Holes (playlist #137)

"dream" by gbmediadesign

Missing doing a live show last week meant I had a few more opportunities to go headlong into a few music-related rabbit holes. What did I pull out of the various rabbit holes? Checkout this week’s playlist to see and listen to this week’s discoveries and rediscoveries, old and new. You can also checkout “Down the Music Rabbit Hole” my blog post about the various musical discoveries made this week.

Don't forget that you can listen to all of the music from the last episode, “The Color of New” (click here). This week's artwork, “dream” was created by yours truly.

Thanks for listening!


Composition Artist Album Listen Now!
“Invitation” Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius: the Birthday Concert Apple Music
“Bright Size Life” Pat Metheny Bright Size Life Apple Music
“Introduction (Remastered)” Chicago Chicago Transit Authority Apple Music
“Hymn To Freedom” Wynton Marsalis & Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra Handful Of Keys Apple Music
“Montana (Frank Zappa)” The Ed Palermo Big Band The Adventures of Zodd Zundgren Bandcamp
“The Other Side of Summer” Elvis Costello Mighty Like a Rose Apple Music
“Love Is the Key by the Sea” Nick Heyward Woodland Echoes Apple Music
“All Delighted People (Original Version)” Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People EP Apple Music
“John My Beloved” Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell Apple Music
“The National Anthem” Radiohead Kid A Apple Music
“Answer It!” Raoul Bjorkenheim / eCsTaSy Doors of Perception Apple Music
“Cliodynamics III” Han-earl Park, Dominic Lash, Mark Sanders and Caroline Pugh Sirene 1009 Apple Music
“Voicemail” Keyon Harrold The Mugician Apple Music
“Piccadilly Sources” Schnellertollermeier Rights Apple Music

More Rabbits than Holes

"dream" by gbmediadesign

Missing doing a live show last week meant I had a few more opportunities to go headlong into a few music-related rabbit holes. What did I pull out of the various rabbit holes? Checkout this week’s playlist to see and listen to this week’s discoveries and rediscoveries, old and new. You can also checkout “Down the Music Rabbit Hole” my blog post about the various musical discoveries made this week.

Don't forget that you can listen to all of the music from the last episode, “The Color of New” (click here). This week's artwork, “dream” was created by yours truly.

Thanks for listening!

Down the Music Rabbit Hole (Episode #137)

The last few weeks I have been enjoying revisiting selections from Sufjan Stevens’ catalog. This time around I am hearing more prog/folk-prog tendencies in his last few releases. This week’s show featured one such track, the fantastic mini-opus, “All Delighted People” from the album of the same name. This EP is probably oft-overlooked, but contains several gems that should not be missed. Additionally, I stumbled across this youtube video that tackles explaining, quite well, Sufjan’s compositional style by zeroing in on the fantastic track Casimir Pulaski Day which appears to exemplify one of his compositional formulas. If you want to see Sufjan Stevens in a full concert setting, there is a concert film that was recorded while he was touring in support of one of his more recent releases, Carrie & Lowell. This week’s show played the hauntingly beautiful track, “John My Beloved” from this release.

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