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Tokyo
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'Somewhere along the line Coltrane’s soprano sax runs out of steam. Now it’s McCoy Tyner’s piano solo I hear, the left hand carving out a repetitious rhythm and the right layering on thick, forbidding chords. Like some mythic scene, the music portrays somebody’s - a nameless, faceless somebody’s - dim past, all the details laid out as clearly as entrails being dragged out of the darkness. Or at least that’s how it sounds to me. The patient, repeating music ever so slowly breaks apart the real, rearranging the pieces. It has a hypnotic, menacing smell, just like the forest' - Kafka On The Shore Music, and specifically jazz, has always featured heavily in the literary imagination of Haruki Murakami. In this radio special, NTS lays down two hours of jazz records as featured throughout Murakami's corpus.

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Los Angeles
05:00 - 06:00

TRiNH - an hour of covers and nostalgic feels, playing a wide range of genres with a focus on L-O-V-E.

Steve Albini

NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Steve Albini on 27 June 2024. Steve Albini has been played on NTS shows including Peking Spring w/ Jon K, with A Piece Of Angel first played on 17 February 2024.

Steve Albini (born July 22, 1962, Pasadena, California) was an influential singer, songwriter, guitarist, audio engineer and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black, Rapeman and was still a member of Shellac until his death. He was founder and owner of the company Electrical Audio, which operates two recording studios in Chicago.

Albini estimated that he had engineered the recording of over 1,000 albums. Artists that Albini has worked with include Pixies, Failure (band), The Frames, Nirvana, Nina Nastasia,Chevelle, PJ Harvey, Low, Blues Explosion, Mogwai, Bush, Cheap Trick, Magnolia Electric Co, Neurosis, Zeni Geva, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mclusky, Fred Schneider, The Auteurs, Mono, Dead Man Ray, The Jesus Lizard, The Breeders, High on Fire, Fugazi, F-Minus, Leftöver Crack, Slint, Page and Plant, Superchunk, Urge Overkill, Unearthly Trance, The Wedding Present, Zao, The Ex and (most recently) Joanna Newsom, Honey for Petzi, Scout Niblett.

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Steve Albini

NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Steve Albini on 27 June 2024. Steve Albini has been played on NTS shows including Peking Spring w/ Jon K, with A Piece Of Angel first played on 17 February 2024.

Steve Albini (born July 22, 1962, Pasadena, California) was an influential singer, songwriter, guitarist, audio engineer and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black, Rapeman and was still a member of Shellac until his death. He was founder and owner of the company Electrical Audio, which operates two recording studios in Chicago.

Albini estimated that he had engineered the recording of over 1,000 albums. Artists that Albini has worked with include Pixies, Failure (band), The Frames, Nirvana, Nina Nastasia,Chevelle, PJ Harvey, Low, Blues Explosion, Mogwai, Bush, Cheap Trick, Magnolia Electric Co, Neurosis, Zeni Geva, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mclusky, Fred Schneider, The Auteurs, Mono, Dead Man Ray, The Jesus Lizard, The Breeders, High on Fire, Fugazi, F-Minus, Leftöver Crack, Slint, Page and Plant, Superchunk, Urge Overkill, Unearthly Trance, The Wedding Present, Zao, The Ex and (most recently) Joanna Newsom, Honey for Petzi, Scout Niblett.

Original source: Last.fm

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