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Bob Ezrin: Holding Artists to Their Own Best Work (opens the original)
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This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on famed record producer Bob Ezrin . Bob has worked with artists including Pink Floyd, KISS, Deep Purple, and countless others, though he is best known for his nearly 60-year relationship with Alice Cooper. He's back working with The Jayhawks on their latest, Sanctuary Park , twenty-six years after their first project together. We talk about how the reunion started with an offhand remark from Gary Louris, both men leaving the United States for Canada
David Katz: Chasing Dub Beyond the Soundsystem (opens the original)
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This week we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on noted reggae author David Katz . His new book, Dub Revolution: Jamaica's Sonic Innovators and the Birth of Remix Culture , traces Jamaican music from its earliest sound systems to the 21st century. We talk about the 1982 San Francisco night that blew David’s mind and opened his ears, the job that paid his way to London, and even the technology and tools the dub greats used. (The musical excerpts heard in the interview are Lee “Scratch” Perry - "Du
Fling ii: Modular Synths, Pedal Steel, and Michigan Motorik (opens the original)
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This week we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on Ann Arbor krautrock band Fling ii . I sat down with drummer and synthesist Brad Gowland, and guitarist Richard Murphy, to chat about their third album, 3 , which is out now on We Are Busy Bodies. It’s six tracks cut down from hours of studio jamming. We talk about Richard's path from ambient guitar to doom metal, Brad finding four minutes inside a fifty-minute take, and how a Magic: The Gathering card - and a commune breakup - inspired the band’s
Martin Bisi: Forty-Five Years of Sonic Murder (opens the original)
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This week we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on producer and engineer Martin Bisi . Bisi has run BC Studio out of the Gowanus section of Brooklyn since 1981, recording Sonic Youth, Swans, Herbie Hancock's "Rockit," and countless others. We discussed his new album, Dancing On The Power Lines , his ongoing community activism, the changing landscape of New York's music scene, and so much more. It’s a good one. (The musical excerpts heard in the interview are from Martin Bisi's Dancing On The Power
Azar Lawrence: Spiritual Jazz With the Funk Left In (opens the original)
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This week we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on tenor saxophonist Azar Lawrence . Lawrence is a veteran of Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner's bands and a leader of his own group, The Azar Lawrence Experience, whose new album, Turn the Music Up , arrives September 25th. We talk about his unique relationship with Pharoah Sanders, dodging McCoy Tyner’s broken piano strings, and how the fifty years between the first and latest recordings of his own songs trace his evolution as a musician. (The musical e
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