We’ll also survey a batch of new releases from Europe, featuring music by Bernhard Lang, Elena Firsova, Moritz Eggert, a pair of young London-based composers, and the great Pierre Henry, represented by the premiere recording of an epic tape piece completed a few months before his death. We’ll also hear from our “50 years ago in the avant-garde” department as we commemorate two intriguing recordings of improvised music from a time when experimentation and dense, complex textures were flourishing in the jazz world.

Thursday, July 22, 9pm–Midnight Pacific Time (UTC -7) on Hollow Earth Radio: KHUH 104.9 in Central Seattle, HollowEarthRadio.org everywhere else, and „play Hollow Earth Radio on TuneIn“ with your smart speaker. Available on demand at Mixcloud starting Friday. Radical new music from the Northwest and beyond.

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Photo credits: Bernhard Lang by Harald Hoffmann, Joan Tower by Michael Schell, Weather Report (Wayne Shorter, Miroslav Vitous, Joe Zawinul) by Bill Smith/Coda, Patrick Jones by Jonathan Slade, Pierre Henry via Decca France, Elena Firsova via Wikimedia, Keith Jarrett Quartet (Dewey Redman, Paul Motian, Jarrett, Charlie Haden) by unknown photographer courtesy of the Paul Motian Archive, Moritz Eggert by Katharina Dubno.

“Cheers to Radio Eclectus and Michael Schell, a great program out of the Pacific Northwest featuring experimental music.” -New Focus Recordings

Also featuring Christian Drew, London Symphony Orchestra, New Hermitage, Darren Bloom, Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, Albany Symphony, David Alan Miller, Wolfram Oettl, Blair McMillen, Alphonse Mouzon, Dom Um Romão, Maacha Deubner, KAPmodern, Da Capo Chamber Players, Andrew MacKelvie, India Gailey, Ellen Gibling, Jason Jenkyns, AniaVegry, David Lefeber, Silas Brown, Ruth-Maria Nicolay, Simon Bode, Hans Christoph Begemann and the Chorus and Orchestra of Musikakademie der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes on the NMC, innova, GENUIN, Centaur, KAIROS, NEOS and Atlantic labels.