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Sonarchy (Variety)

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Next available on KEXP-FM 90.3 in 1 day 22 hours 15 minutes
Host: Doug Haire
Sonarchy Radio is a live performance broadcast that is a showcase for the many northwest artists who are pushing the limits of their music. Each week Jack Straw Productions in Seattle's University District hooks up it's non-profit recording studio to KEXP and sets the stage for you to sit in the middle of unique performance.
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Genres: Variety
Location: Seattle, WA
Language: English

Last updated 1613 days ago Update show info

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Spicer Trio

Mon, Jan 5 Listen

A full hour of organ-fueled jazz recorded live on KEXP's Sonarchy Radio.

Seattle Harmonic Voices

Mon, Dec 29 Listen

Led by Stephen Fandrich, this remarkable ensemble of 8 singers navigates a true path through harmonic space, featuring Jessica Kenney, Gretta Harley, Jarrad Powell, Scott Adams, Jeppa Hall, Roger Nelson, and Brandon Johnson.

The Cherry Ghosts

Mon, Dec 22 Listen

A full commitment to the art of improvisation featuring Matt Norman (keys, percussion), Ethan Cudaback (drums, samples), and Zach Shaw (reeds, electronics and cymbals).

BomberGirl And The Mechanic

Mon, Dec 15 Listen

A NYC/Seattle hybrid featuring the deep beat driven sounds of electronica mixed into expansive orchestral soundscapes.

Milo Petersen Trio

Mon, Dec 8 Listen

New jazz music with Milo on electric guitar, Chuck Kistler on upright bass, and Brad Boal on drums.

eR DoN with Foscil

Mon, Dec 1 Listen

This Seattle based producer has built a palette of samples and techniques that leads to an original sound sure to please electronic, jazz and dance lovers worldwide. He is joined by Foscil, which is Tyler Swan (drums), Adam Swan (Rhodes/guitar) and Anthony Moore (clarinets and trumpet).

Free World Jazz

Mon, Nov 24 Listen

Bassist Keith Judelman put this new music project together with Andy Coe (guitar), Jason Chambliss (trumpet), Phil Parisot and Ivan Galvez (both on drums), and Lalo Bello (percussion).

Meepers / Morta Haze

Mon, Nov 17 Listen

Two solo sets of intense noise communication followed by a duo bomb dropping episode.

Neil Welch And The Narmada Project

Mon, Nov 10 Listen

New jazz music with Neil Welch (tenor sax), Brian Kinsella (piano), Cam Peace (guitar), Luke Bergman (upright bass), and Chris Icasiano (drums).

Fish Out Of Water

Mon, Nov 3 Listen

Fish Out Of Water: masterful free-improvisation create a unique listening experience. Toshi Makihara - percussion, Elizabeth Falconer - koto, Suzie Kozawa - sounds and textures.

Martin Bland's Randomized Control Trials

Mon, Oct 27 Listen

Original recordings edited, processed and put onto CDRs then performed by 6 CD players in shuffle mode. The results are highly entertaining and unique to each performance.

Sylvi Alli

Mon, Oct 20 Listen

This vocalist and multi-instrumentalist unravels a hypnogogic dream journey through the internal landscape of twilight visions and memory.

Butcher, Mller and van der Schyff

Mon, Oct 13 Listen

John Butcher (saxophones), Torsten Mller (bass), and Dylan van der Schyff (drums) perform a spectacular hour of free improvisation.

Oval League

Mon, Oct 6 Listen

Olli Klomp sits on a cajon, sings and plays ukelele, along with Bill Wolford on banjo, guitar, mandolin; Dave Faigin on cajon and percussion; and Todd Baker with a big bass tone. This is international music from a Seattle backyard.

Chris Stover Quartet

Mon, Sep 29 Listen

New music, beautifully made by Chris on trombone, Victor Noriega on piano, Byron Vannoy on drums, and Chris Symer on bass.

Analog America

Mon, Sep 22 Listen

Hollow Earth Radio founders, Amber Kai Morgan and Garrett Kelly use phone machine tapes and found sounds to make the world the way they want it. Joined by Doug Arney and Olie Esheleman on guitars, toys and effects.

David Haney Sextet

Mon, Sep 15 Listen

This pianist is drawn to experimental settings, and he creates a promising one here, with Juan Pablo Carletti (drums), Doug Haning (clarinets), Dan Blunk (sax), Marc Smason (trombone), and Frank Clayton (bass).

Grey Filastine (2008)

Mon, Sep 8 Listen

Grey Filastine play smashed-up international street beats. A solo performance on laptop, drum triggers, darbouka, loudspeakers and junk.

Yellow Hat Band

Mon, Sep 1 Listen

Yellow Hat Band plays loud, fun brass music from Indonesia to Yugoslavia, Klezmer to Bollywood and beyond. The 13 players of brass and percussion will spank the plank for your entertainment.

3 Spot

Mon, Aug 25 Listen

Sonarchy continues its survey of Pacific Northwest neo-soul and jazz trios with this cool number, featuring Reshard Radford (keys), Michael Catts ( basses), and Mike Hams (trap set and percussion).

Bagger 288

Mon, Aug 18 Listen

John Farrell (buddha guitar, mixer, radios and effects) and John Fisher (computers and midi controllers) make intricately brutal sound structures evocative of outer space, apocalypse, forgotten lullabies and the music of the spheres.

Black Friday

Mon, Aug 11 Listen

Black Friday is the ever flexible combination of grand piano and upright bass in a freely improvised setting, featuring Paul (PK) Kemmish (bass) and Matt Norman (piano).

David Knott Large Ensemble

Mon, Aug 4 Listen

David Knott Large Ensemble performs two compositions dedicated to the memory of Matthew Sperry. Deep, beautiful and weird soundscapes made by objects and instruments played by a great listening ensemble of 14.

Pontius Pilots

Mon, Jul 28 Listen

pianist Victor Noriega and producer Robert D. Nelson (e.r.d.on) explore improv jazz forms imbued with inscrutable mpc-triggered samples. Grand piano with beats and samples will take us into a new territory.

Anomie Belle

Mon, Jul 21 Listen

Anomie Belle is the project of composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Toby Campbell. With her band, they make dark social issues eerily lovely in a down-tempo way.

Jason Kopec

Mon, Jul 14 Listen

Jason Kopec is an audio ethnographer, continually roaming the globe in search of lesser known sonic treasures. Jason will do a live mix of soundscapes and music to create "a sonic sampling of the exotic other."

Michael Owcharuk

Mon, Jul 7 Listen

new ensemble music from the Michael Owcharuk sextet featuring Michael on piano, Mike Hams (drums), Nate Omdal (bass), Beth Fleenor (clarinet), Jim Knodle (trumpet) and Katie Mosehauer (violin).

Paundy

Mon, Jun 30 Listen

Paundy is Paul Burback and Andy Miller joined by 7 musical pals. The result is a unique brand of lo-fi / hi-fi soundtrack music that is sure to keep you entertained.

Here Now

Mon, Jun 23 Listen

Here Now is Charlie Smithsurrounded by a pile of instruments. Cody Rahn plays the drums. They push Ableton Live to the edge of its software capabilities in a lovely effort to compose and arrange new music on the spot.

Jonathan Way

Mon, Jun 16 Listen

Jonathan Way mixes and processes recordings made in the remote mountains of northeastern Washington revealing the textures of snowbrush, horsetails and pine bark alongside electronic manipulations.