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New Mix: Balmorhea, Hayden Pedigo, Julie Christmas, more

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4.33.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

NPR Music's Lars Gotrich joins All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen to share his favorite new sonic adventures in the loud and weird, including Bodywash, the Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective and more.

Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Julie Christmas: "Not Enough" (single)
2. Bodywash: "Perfect Blue," from I Held The Shape While I Could
3. Rắn Cạp Đuôi: "What Cherubs," from *1
4. Hayden Pedigo: "Elsewhere," from The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored
5. Balmorhea: "Step Step Step," from Pendant World
6. The Aaltos: "Känner du en vän," from GRAMMOFON - MISSIONEN

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's all songs considered. I am here in the studio with Lars Gottridge and happy to be here with you, Lars. Hi. Hi. Nice to see you, Bob.

0:08.0

Indeed. We get together. Oh, you know what? The bill or cut tiny desks that you helped produce just a few weeks ago went online.

0:17.0

And I have been in love with both that moment, which is one of the loudest time he does concerts we ever did.

0:23.5

Well, Bill, when he came in to the office, he said, how loud can we be? And Josh Rogasen, who is our audio engineer, he said, well, do any of you sing or are talking to like, no, it's all instrumentally.

0:36.0

He's like, oh, you can be as loud as you want. Then they go through about a minute. And Josh is like, maybe turn it down just like a little bit.

0:43.5

But if you haven't watched it, Bill Orkett is a guitarist and musician who's been around for four decades. He's had lots of different projects and bands. And last year he released a record called Music for Four Cattars, where he basically wrote these little miniature pieces and he self dubbed himself.

1:00.5

But then he went on a short tour with kind of a who's who of experimental guitar. And I was like, Bob, I don't get to bring in too many artists to the tiny desk.

1:11.5

Especially the weirder ones, but this one, this one I know is going to be special. And it very much was absolutely. So that those are a few times every once in a while we get together in the office. And this is one of them.

1:24.5

We're starting to do the show at the top of every month together for on also, I'm excited. And it's really in your Viking spirit that I pull a couple of cuts from and you pull a handful as well. So that's when you try to meet me where I am with kind of like the more ambient and kind of like a

1:40.5

more experimental music. Yeah. So there's a nice little little rip out take going happy to happen. Let me see if I get you completely wrong. You're going to tell me. Okay. Well, what are you going to you start off? What are you guys?

1:52.5

They're starting off loud. Bob, the first piece of music from Julie Christmas under her own name in 13 years. Julie Christmas. And that's a real real. That's yeah, that's her name. That's her actual name. Julie Christmas. She's a Brooklyn based musician.

2:07.5

She was in these bands called made out of babies and battle of mice in the like and this was like 15 20 years ago. And then she put out a soul album 13 years ago.

2:19.5

That was the last time and she's done some stuff here and there but nothing under her own name and she just has like imagine a mic patent and Bjork had a child.

2:30.5

Like that's that's kind of our voice. It's kind of voice. It's like extremely piercing very exacting. Yeah. But like you feel like something is getting ripped out of you at the same time.

2:41.5

Let's do this. This is not enough. Okay.

3:00.5

I'll shut down your dreams. No wait for the weekend.

3:16.5

No shame for my heat. I'll shut over everyone.

3:24.5

Come up the water.

3:27.5

She's now trying to run where I'm dead. The slowest of all.

3:36.5

She's been alive.

3:39.5

She was friends.

3:44.5

She's been alive.

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