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We take a look back at the last year of major social and political developments that worked to normalize covid in 2023.

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Don’t believe your ears - Pepper’s Ghost is the latest offering from NYC project Nuke Watch.

Whatever you think it is - it is not. By the same token it really can be whatever you want - electronica, jazz, improv, noise, new age, ambient - it’s none and all of these. Like the primitive visual illusion it’s named for - Pepper’s Ghost is a projection of a thing, it’s not the thing.

The Nuke Watch method - like that of Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos’ other primary project Beat Detectives - leans almost entirely on live improvisation, with some advanced studio alchemy in post. Where the Beat Detectives palette draws from club music tropes, Nuke Watch blends recognizable tones (hand drums, woodwinds, keys, fretless bass) with sounds of providence unknown, the line between organic and synthesized instrumentation unintelligibly smudged. What is real and what is projection? It’s hard to say. What do our ears tell us? This is where we arrive at Pepper’s Ghost.

Warped as the sounds may be, the playing belies a crew of deeply expressive, learned improvisers who have their craft honed. Their friendship and psychic connection enhances the ritualistic rhythms, mutant modular synthesis, nimble keyboard runs, absurdist sampling and unidentified skronk. They’re wonderfully complemented across several tracks on this set by Cole Pulice’s levitational, sublime saxophone.

As unhinged as this might all appear, once the mind and music meet on the same wavelength this is profoundly moving, energizing and uplifting Alive Music that recalibrates the sense of what music can be. 

Nuke Watch is Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos, with an array of friendly guests. They’ve released records as Nuke Watch on The Trilogy Tapes, Commend and Moon Glyph. As Beat Detectives they’ve released records on Not Not Fun, 100% Silk and their own studio imprint NYPD Records.

Pepper's Ghost was written and produced by Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos. Additional instrumentation on these recordings by Cole Pulice, Leonard King, Eric Timothy Carlson, Chris Farstad and William Statler. It was mixed by Chris Hontos and mastered by Jack Callahan. Painting on the cover is “The Unity Of Being” (2020), by Ry Fyan. Design and layout by Aaron Anderson.

RIYL - Musical illusions, puzzles and magic tricks, downtempo, music of the spheres, good journey, Eddie Harris, Ketron, "world building", orange sunshine, suspension of disbelief.

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Sounds of Belgian/Iraqi trio Use Knife in an hour long show, marking the release of their remix EP, 'Peace Carnival.' 

"Carnival's usual satire and mockery should be directed towards the one-sided definition of 'so-called' peace, because to be clear: there cannot be real peace without justice or freedom. Expect a deep dive into Use Knife’s music and influences and some tracks that are not-so-subtle attempts to expose this deceptive vision on peace." 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/use-knife-4th-may-2024

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Transportive sessions in a four-part residency from UK saxophonist, composer, and bona fide jazz innovator Shabaka Hutchings.

In this first episode, Hutchings takes us through the notebook he kept alongside his journey learning the flute over the past few years. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/shabaka-hutchings/episodes/shabaka-hutchings-9th-may-2024

Shabaka Hutchings 090524

Grab your Passport for a trip with Zack Fox & Pickpocket, aka Kat Matutina - stopping off for monthly for the best hip hop, R&B, afrobeats & more from across the world. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/passport/episodes/passport-9th-may-2024

Passport w/ Pickpocket & Zack Fox 090524

Martha is a DJ and broadcaster from South London with roots in community radio and documentary making. Each of Martha’s thoughtfully curated radio shows navigate the fringes of electronic music, with a clear narrative that is grounded in community and storytelling.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/martha/episodes/martha-10th-may-2024

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So this is a song about tomorrow and about how tomorrow can be better if we all &ampquot;Each one reach one, each one try to teach one&ampquot; 
– Gill Scott Heron, Work for Peace,1994


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Rory Bowens heads The Slip one Monday a month, squeezing an hour of hazy dub off-shoots, pupil-dilating shoegaze and uncanny dream music.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/theslip/episodes/theslip-20th-may-2024

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Further information and tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-282--chanel-beads

Celebrating the recent release of his debut album Your Day Will Come on Jagjaguwar, our Bleep Mix this week is from Chanel Beads, the project of New York-based musician Shane Lavers currently on tour supporting Mount Kimbie in their early summer run of US dates.

A welcome accompaniment to the warmer climes breathing through at the moment, @chanel-beads' selections draw from the same R&B laced lo-fi indie ambience Lavers has carved out for himself with a host of seemingly disparate yet ultimately cohesive selection taking in Van Morrison, ML Buch, his own edit of Caroline Polachek, Blawan, Tirzah and John T. Gast. Recommend listening whilst in the shade from the midday sun with Negroni in hand.

Bleep Mix #282 - Chanel Beads

Politics, culture, and public policy from the left. Stay alive another week.

w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Abby Cartus. 

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