Events Podcasts Videos News About NTS Supporters Help and Feedback

iOS App Android App Join the Chat Newsletter

Live now

NTS GUIDE TO: JAZZ IN MURAKAMI NOVELS

'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.

Word of Command

DJ, artist and techno impresario, Word of Command welds fevered collage and high-octane techno into a hallucinatory dreamscape. He is the founder of FIST (@funisstilltransgressive), a queer techno party that pays tribute to radical fun, while engaging the visibility of communities of otherness through techno in NYC.

Calm

Calm

Calm has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 18 episodes and was first played on 5 July 2016.

There are several different artists named Calm: 1) A mid-90's post-hardcore band featuring members of Mohinder. Just after Mohinder and right before Duster, Calm surfaced in the mid-’90s to feed on the wage-depressed suburban Gen-X malaise. The trio of Clay Parton, Dove Amber, and Albert Menduno criss-crossed the west coast DIY scene by the time of their final recordings, “Moonraker” b/w “Scienists and Sabatuers,” etched at Mountain View’s Trainwreck Studios by noted sludge documenter Tom Yates. More metal than emo, Calm’s last record is nine-minutes of ear-bleeding racket from a couple of future spacewalkers. 2) An American nu-metal band (ex-Seeded Crown) 3) A hip hop duo consisting of Time (Raps) and AwareNess (Beats). 4) A Swedish 6-piece experimental/nu metal band based in Stockholm. 5) A Romanian rock band, still underground but quickly making a name for themselves. 6) A hip hop duo consisting of Time (Raps) and AwareNess (Beats). 7) A Japanese ambient electronica project by Kiyotaka Fukagawa (深川清隆). Active since 1997.

8) A Psychedelic Death Metal band from Poland.

The Swedish band recently released their second album for free on their website, with all songs available for download.

read more

Calm

Calm has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 18 episodes and was first played on 5 July 2016.

There are several different artists named Calm: 1) A mid-90's post-hardcore band featuring members of Mohinder. Just after Mohinder and right before Duster, Calm surfaced in the mid-’90s to feed on the wage-depressed suburban Gen-X malaise. The trio of Clay Parton, Dove Amber, and Albert Menduno criss-crossed the west coast DIY scene by the time of their final recordings, “Moonraker” b/w “Scienists and Sabatuers,” etched at Mountain View’s Trainwreck Studios by noted sludge documenter Tom Yates. More metal than emo, Calm’s last record is nine-minutes of ear-bleeding racket from a couple of future spacewalkers. 2) An American nu-metal band (ex-Seeded Crown) 3) A hip hop duo consisting of Time (Raps) and AwareNess (Beats). 4) A Swedish 6-piece experimental/nu metal band based in Stockholm. 5) A Romanian rock band, still underground but quickly making a name for themselves. 6) A hip hop duo consisting of Time (Raps) and AwareNess (Beats). 7) A Japanese ambient electronica project by Kiyotaka Fukagawa (深川清隆). Active since 1997.

8) A Psychedelic Death Metal band from Poland.

The Swedish band recently released their second album for free on their website, with all songs available for download.

Original source: Last.fm

Thanks!

Your suggestion has been successfully submitted.

Tracks featured on

ONDAS W/ Shintaraw 29.06.25 Radio Episode

The One Glove Breakfast Show w/ Macca 21.06.25 Radio Episode

The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Flo 11.06.25 Radio Episode

The Early Bird Show w/ PAM 16.01.25 Radio Episode

ALL STYLES ALL SMILES W/ Javybz & Chida 07.05.24 Radio Episode

Moxie - PART ONE: BEST OF DOWNTEMPO SELECTIONS 2023 13.12.23 Radio Episode

Moxie w/ Red Pig Flower 20.09.23 Radio Episode

A soundtrack for night cruising w/ Minami Haus Jun 11.08.23 Radio Episode

From Sun City 18.05.23 Radio Episode

The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Flo 25.01.23 Radio Episode

Tuff Shed 17.01.23 Radio Episode

Light in the Attic w/ Greg & Max 25.11.22 Radio Episode

Most played tracks

Big City Takes (Tapes Remix 1)

Calm, Jimi Tenor

Hell Yeah Recordings•2023

Dubbing For The Nature #2 (Waltz For The Virgin Forest)

Calm

Music For Dreams•2002

Late Summer Night

Calm

Music Conception•2023

Shining Of Life (Calm Remix)

Calm, K.F. "KeyFree"

Music Conception•2004

Light Years -2017 Full Moon Mix

Calm

Music Conception•2017

Pharoah -The Sun

Calm

Music Conception•2017

Time & Space (Calm's Version)

Calm, Jimi Tenor (Calm mix)

Hell Yeah Recordings•2023

Moon Shower

Calm

Music Conception•2023

Long Summer Dream

Calm

Music Conception•2021

組曲「太陽はまだ暑く燃えていた」光の洪水 (Clair Deluge Calm Re-Edit & Re-Construction)

横田年昭, ビート・ジェネレーション (Calm mix)

Jet Set, King Records, Wax Poetics Japan•2011

Thanks!

Your suggestion has been successfully submitted.