1. Tim’s High - Donny Hathaway 
2. The Prayer - Joe Bataan
3. Steal Away - The Montgomery Express
4. Lilith Came - Paris Smith Quintet
5. A Street that Rhymes - Norma Tanega
6. Steamboat - The Beach Boys
7. Your Smile - Allan Parker & Madeline Bell
8. Down in Atlanta - Yusef Lateef
9. Weeping and Wailing - Prince Jazzbo
10. Love - Junior Delahaye
11. High Time - Akiko Yano
12. Didn’t Want to Have to Do it - Rotary Connection
13. When He Comes - Sallie Martin Singers
14. Help is On The Way - Terrence Parker

Throughlines - March 14, 2025

1. In Bloom (Acapella) - Nirvana
2. Polly (Instrumental) - Nirvana
3. The Other Song - Spirit
4. Decades - Joy Division
5. Do You Love Me Now? - The Breeders
6. Turn Me Well - Micachu & The Shapes
7. Mannequin - Wire 
8. The Flower Called Nowhere - Stereolab
9. Menina Mulher da Pele Preta - Jorge Ben Jor
10. After All - David Bowie
11. Wurlitzer Jukebox - Young Marble Giants
12. Stop Breathin’ - Pavement
13. Cico Buff - Cocteau Twins
14. Dar Enteha - Kourosh Yaghmaei
15. Surf's Up - The Beach Boys

Throughlines - March 21, 2025

1. Vincentian Values (Intro) – Prince Nifty 
2. Reverence - Arthur Blythe
3. Ntombi Ya Mugaza – Zinga Hlungwani
4. Dasi Ko – Bella Bellow
5. She Stays on My Mind – Sugar Minott
6. Tune Into You – Prince Nifty
7. Insecure – Li'l Louis & The World
8. Makamiba – Bola
9. Delilah – Pablo Gad 
10. Fingers in the Wind- Rahsaan Roland Kirk
11. I’m Loving Nothing – The Impressions

Throughlines - March 28, 2025

1. Ntsikana’s Bell  - Dollar Brand Duo (Dollar Brand aka Abdullah Ibrahim & Johnny Dyani) 
2. I Can’t Wait Till I Get Home - Henry Threadgill
3. Neddo – Ray Lema 
4.  The Vibes is Right – Barrington Levy 
5. Raindrops – Ural Thomas
6. In the Rain – The Dramatics 
7. Teredtchewalehu - Alemayehu Eshete
8. Hypnotized - Van Jones & Mary Diggs
9. Bells – Billy Preston
10. Sugah Daddy – D’Angelo & The Vanguard 
11. Cop Beat – Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch
12. This Women’s Work – Brandee Younger & Dezron Douglas
13. Rock and Roll Lullabye – The Belmonts

Throughlines - April 4, 2025

1. Seiko 3 - Yasuaki Shimizu
2. Nyama Toutou - Nahawa Doumbia
3. Yelmengere de La Gu’usi - Guy One
4. Never Give Your Heart Away - Carlton & The Shoes
5. Oração Au Tempo - Caetano Veloso
6. Hawaiian Dream - The Beach Boys
7. Shimendōka - Haruomi Hosono & Yellow Magic Orchestra
8. Too Many Crossroads - Small Faces
9. For Lovers Only - General Caine
10. Fisherman (I – Theme) - Wally Badarou
11. Full, Deep, and Mellow - Beaver Harris & Dave Burrell
12. Soleil - Michael Masley
13. Greeting to Saud (Brother McCoy Tyner) - Pharoah Sanders

Throughlines - April 11, 2025

1. La Gitana - Los Muñequitos de Mantanzas 
2. Candomblé - Baden Powell
3. Mã - Tom Zé
4. Cotopaxi - Biluka y Los Canibales 
5. Gently Johnny - Paul Giovanni & Magnet
6. Pitbull Que É Pitbull Vs Tropa da Trem - Dj Barnabé (w/ DJ Dentihno do Escadão, FIRMA 21, Mc Th)
7. Let’s Go Away For Awhile - The Beach Boys
8. Tonadas de Ordeño - Soledad Bravo
9. First Light - Freddie Hubbard
10. Sleepless - Slim Smith
11. Mi Oración - Los Zafiros 
12. Monandengue - DJ Znobia 
13. Rhumba Multikulti - Don Cherry
14. Zumbi - Jorge Ben Jor

Image: Untitled Hand Puppet (Electric Spook) | Paul Klee | 1923

Throughlines - April 18, 2025

1. Pretoria Three - Johnny Dyani
2. Studies in African Rhythm (Nigeria): II. Jali - William Chapman Nyaho (by Fred Onovwerosuoke) 
3. Yukio-Khalifa - Abdullah Ibrahim with Cecil McBee and Roy Brooks 
4. Moods in Free Time - Booker Little with Max Roach
5. Have Mercy Upon Us - Amina Claudine Myers 
6. That’s All Right with Me - Esther Phillips
7. Lonnie’s Lament - McCoy Tyner
8. Krishna Krishna - Alice Coltrane
9. Sleeping Beauty – a.k.a. Black Beauty - Sun Ra & His Arkestra

Throughlines - April 25, 2025

1. Part 2 - Donnacha Dennehy (performed by Nadia Sirota & Liam Byrne)
2. La Folia - Jordi Savall 
3. Étude 3 - Nadia Sirota & Nico Muhly
4. Mercury - Nico Muhly, Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, & James McAlister
5. Nyepi - Ólafur Arnalds
6. Oh, Why - Balam Acab
7. Untitled (Vaka) - Sigur Rós
8. Fyrsta - Ólafur Arnalds
9. On the Nature of Daylight (Entropy) - Max Richter
10. Der Erlkönig, Grand Caprice Op. 26 - Schubert/ Ernst (performed by Hilary Hahn)
11. Stillness - Hilary Hahn & Hauschka 

Image: Five-String Viol | “Recherches de plusieurs singularités, par Françoys MERLIN, controlleur général de la maison de feu madame Marie-Élizabeth, fille unique de feu roy Charles dernier,… portraictes et escrites par Jacques Cellier, demourant à Reims” (1583–1587) | BnF, ms. fr. 9152, fol. 175.

Throughlines with guest host Alina - May 2, 2025

1.	The Message - Gerry Weil
2.	Ndzi Teke Riendzo (I’m Taking a Journey) - Foster Manganyi
3.	Foosh – George Duke 
4.	Be Thankful For What You Got (William DeVaughn) – DJ Screw 
5.	You Should’ve Seen the Way - Andy Bey 
6.	Chatty Chatty Too Much - Cornel Campbell 
7.	Love T. K. O – Teddy Pendergrass
8.	Erick Cosaque - Misik A Gwo Ka
9.     War of the Hearts – Sade
10.	To Have and Have Not (feat. Albert Wing) – David Moss 
11.	Zion in Dub - Sly & Robbie 
12.	Give a Little For the Gold – Marshall Jefferson presents the Dancing Flutes
13.	Voodoo Ray – A Guy Called Gerald

Throughlines - May 9, 2025

1.	There is a Name – The Mu-Tonic Singers 
2.	Malcolm’s Song - Taj Mahal
3.	Oté Maloya - Carrousel
4.	Chairman Mao – Old and New Dreams
5.	Sensitivity - Patrick Cowley
6.	Furu Boyan – Luka Productions 
7.	Song of the Bow – Sally Oldfield 
8.	Down Where The Valleys Are Low - Judee Sill
9.	Dream Rag - Eubie Blake
10.	Dreamer - Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles
11.	Can You Stand The Rain – Boyz II Men
12.	Old Melody - Beverly Glenn-Copeland
13.	The Trader (Second Section, A Cappella) – The Beach Boys

Image: Ad for the Casio CZ1 Synthesizer | 1986

Throughlines - May 16, 2025

1. chant - Joel Ross feat. Gabrielle Garo
2. Umunyu - Andile Yenana
3. Last Summer - Byard Lancaster
4. Kono Yoni Yomeri (Sono 2)- Yasuaki Shimizu
5. Once Upon A Time - Sonny Sharrock
6. Dedicate All My Love - Raw Soul Express
7. Smoke Rings - Les Paul & Mary Ford 
8. Didn’t You Know - Patrice Rushen
9. All The Things You Are (All) - Charles Mingus
10. Thinkin’ About My Mother - Little Richard
11. Goodbye Baby - Robert Pete Williams
12. N’aw Ma Dayele - Lobi Traoré
13. Where Did You Sleep Last Night? - Nirvana 


Throughlines - May 23, 2025

1. T (Beautiful Young’n) – Cecil Taylor
2. A Dream – Donny Hathaway
3. Dealer – Scott Walker
4. Hegyen-völgyon (Making Chaplets) - Márta Sebestyén, Vizonto Group
5. Szerelem, szerelem (Love, Love) (remix) - Márta Sebestyén, Vizonto Group
6. Tiento de Medio Registro de Baxón de 7. o Tono – Jaroslav Tůma (composed by Francisco Correa de Arauxo)
7. Yesterdays - The Hi-Lo’s & Frank Comstock & His Orchestra
8. Mirijam’s Dadadance - John Tchicai Trio 
9. A – Dun-Dun Band (Craig Dunsmuir)
10. Rat Now – Mal Waldron Trio 
11. Take Some Time Out (Dub) - Arnold Jarvis (written and produced by Tommy Muston & Yvonne Turner)

Throughlines - May 30, 2025

1. Jesu - The Joy 
2. Red Chalice - Jerry Johnson
3. I Know A Man - Flying Eagles Gospel Singers
4. Janet Sinclair - Little John & Billy Boyo  
5. Don’t You Want My Love - Moodymann
6. Don’t Treat Me So Bad - Linda ‘Babe’ Majika
7. Jungle Tempo - Noah Howard 
8. Tricky - Boo Williams
9. Source - Brother May
10. So Lonely Without You - Bettye Crutcher
11. Islands - Danny O’Keefe 
12. I Don’t Want Nobody - Eddie Harris

Image: San Francisco Waterfowl Hunting | Toni Frissell | 1958

Throughlines - June 6, 2025

1. Can’t Wait Too Long (A Cappella) - The Beach Boys 
2. Chains - William S. Fischer 
3. Kokoku - Laurie Anderson
4. The Green Fields of Canada - Planxty
5. Energy Flow (Ki No Nagare) - Shiho Yabuki 
6. Down By The River - Letta Mbulu
7. January V - M'Boom (Max Roach)
8. Coco Blues - Mbongwana Star 
9. Ndima Kaka - Tita Bakorta 
10. Prototype - OutKast 
11. Silhouette - L.A. Express
12. Watersports - Man Parrish 
13. Lonely Sea - The Beach Boys

Throughlines - June 13, 2025

1.	One For The Boys – Brian Wilson 
2.	Love Tide – Nelson Riddle 
3.	I Remember You – The Four Freshmen
4.	In My Room – The Beach Boys 
5.	Walking In the Rain – The Ronettes 
6.	Don’t Cry (Put Your Head On My Shoulders) – The Beach Boys
7.	Wind Chimes (bootleg insert take 2) – The Beach Boys 
8.	Moonshine – Dennis Wilson 
9.	In Blue Hawaii – Brian Wilson 
10.	Cabin Essence – Brian Wilson 
11.	Rio Grande – Brian Wilson 
12.	‘Til I Die (Long Version With Alternate Lyrics) – The Beach Boys 
13.	Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring – The Four Freshmen
14.	Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring (Live Rehearsal) - The Beach Boys


Throughlines, Brian Wilson tribute - June 20, 2025

1.	Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! – Billy Harper
2.	Spirits in the Field - Arthur Blythe
3.	Adios - Weather Report
4.	Le singe bleu – Vangelis
5.	Super Blue - J.J. Cale
6.	‘Til I Gain Control Again - This Mortal Coil
7.	Warm Valley – Duke Ellington (w/ Charles Mingus & Max Roach)
8.	Blu Blu Blu - The Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra
9.	It Remains To Be Seen - Bennie Maupin
10.	Sotho Blue - Abdullah Ibrahim
11.	Thank You - Amina Claudine Myers





Image:  Untitled (Cadavre Exquis) | Joan Miró, Yves Tanguy, Man Ray, & Max Morise | 1927

Throughlines with guest co-host Alex - June 27, 2025

1. Almost Chinese - K. Leimer
2. A Folk Study - Laurie Spiegel 
3. Pheng Lom Phat Phay - Molam Lao 
4. Johnny Cope - Noel Hill & Tony Linnane 
5. Churchyard Entertainment - Meredith Monk 
6. Cantu a Ballu Seriu - Tenores di Bitti 
7. Yithina Labo - Ladysmith Black Mambazo 
8. Résurrection (Souviens-Toi de Jésus-Christ) - Choeur des Moines de l'abbaye de Keur Mossa au Sénégal
9. Worship Buddha Qigong - Toshimi Mikami 
10. I Love the Lord, He Heard My Cry - Donny Hathaway 
11. Madrigali a cinque voci, libro sesto: Chiacro risplender suole - Carlo Gesualdo (conducted by Robert Craft)
12. Falling as Flowers Do, Dying a Glorious Death - Geinoh Yamashirogumi 
13. No Stars - Rebekah del Rio

Image: Focusing Water Waves | Berenice Abbott | 1959-61

Throughlines - July 4, 2025

1. Free Minds - Titi Bakorta
2. Air Mail - Don Cherry & Latif Khan 
3. Kabedo Mot - Odong Romeo
4. Ancestral - Jay Mitta feat. Hanuna 
5. No Promises - Nídia & Valentina  
6. Pinta Manta - António Sanches 
7. Misty - Baby Face Willette 
8. A Little Bit More - Frankie Paul 
9. Musical Episode - Horace Andy 
10. Amanece - Ensamble Juyungo 
11. Njuzu - Stella Chiweshe 
12. Relaxin' - Willie "The Lion" Smith 
13. Surpass - Omar S

Image: The Sprinters | John Baldessari | 1984

Throughlines - July 11, 2025

1. Eleven Light City (Pt. 4) - Marion Brown 
2. Kade Fakha - M'Mah Sylla 
3. Atrás Da Porta - Elisa Regina 
4. Satin Doll - Terry Callier 
5. Where is My Other Half - Tim Maia 
6. Your Smile - Rene & Angela 
7. Manzanita - Bobby Hutcherson 
8. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Joni Mitchell 
9. Little Church (Take 7) - Miles Davis 
10. Sweet Lovely - David Murray Octet 
11. Any Time, Any Place - Janet Jackson 
12. black hole sun - bigboihums

Image: A Wheatfield on a Summer's Afternoon | Marc Chagall | 1942

Throughlines - July 18, 2025

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