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A longer-than-usual track opens this week’s playlist; a quartet led by American saxophonist, composer Jeff Coffin (Dave Matthews Band, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones), alongside Mark Raudabaugh, Ethan Jodziewicz and Bob Lanzetti. The album, When Now, is out now on Ear Up Records and is described as “a psychedelic sound painting” — a space between awake and dreaming.
There’s also new music from BASIC – the trio of Chris Forsyth (Solar Motel Band), Doug McCombs (Tortoise, Eleventh Dream Day) and Mikel Patrick Avery (Natural Information Society) – they will release their self-titled 2nd album on June 12th. “Index of Memories” is their latest single, a textured drone that showcases the evolution of the group since their 2024 debut (recorded before McCombs came into the fold) and their 2025 Dream City EP.
Cass McCombs and Hand Habits recently announced a Split 7”. The release pairs two new tracks: McCombs’ “Seeing The Elephant” (featured in the playlist) and Hand Habits’ (the project of Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Meg Duffy) “Good Person,” and will be issued via Domino and Fat Possum.
We’ve also got Kevin Farge with Two Bags of Rice, from his latest double A-side. Farge shared with us: “I’m joined by Kyle Field on bass. The two KFs – Kyle Field & Kevin Farge – burn it down to a Brazilian baiao triangle beat. I moved to Costa Rica six years ago, and have been living in my mom’s home village by the sea with just a bicycle. I did this so that I could concentrate full time on writing songs and painting. This song is about the 800th trip home from the grocery store on my bicycle, the rhythm of the dirt road bouncing beneath the bike wheels, as we fly up and down the hills, groceries studiously balanced on both the front and back rails. It’s a song about remembering to treat yourself like someone worth taking care of, and forgetting your worries. World peace is coming, everyone just doesn’t know it yet.”
It features on his latest release, Never Gonna Back Down, feat. Little Wings (Turtle Island folk scene poet laureate), Gregory Rogove (frequent Devendra Banhart collaborator), Karol Barboza (Costa Rica’s most beloved singer-songwriter), and many others.
Plus Occitan folk music from Cocanha as well as Francis Bebey, Natalie Jane Hill, Wendy Eisenberg, Carsie Blanton & The Burning Hell, Classic Trucks, Katy Pinke and more.
We’ve also got a small bundle of new music recommendations ranging from piano miniatures and kruatrock to Freak Folk and Psychedelic rock, Dub and British Folk – and a dip into the strange world of analogue synth design.
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