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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.

Glenn Astro

On 15 July 2017, Glenn Astro was a guest on Is This Thing On? w/ Hector Plimmer; and on 27 October 2016 was a guest on NTS X Carhartt WIP Radio Tour. Glenn Astro has been played on NTS over 100 times, featured on 95 episodes and was first played on 2 July 2012.

Glenn Astro is just one pseudonym of the 29 year old producer and DJ. In 2015, alongside Max Graef and Delfonic, he launched his own label; Money $ex Records, and also saw the release of his debut album, Throwback, on Tartelet Records. A collaborative album with Max Graef emerged in 2016 on Ninja Tune.

Glenn Astro is currently based in Berlin.

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Glenn Astro

On 15 July 2017, Glenn Astro was a guest on Is This Thing On? w/ Hector Plimmer; and on 27 October 2016 was a guest on NTS X Carhartt WIP Radio Tour. Glenn Astro has been played on NTS over 100 times, featured on 95 episodes and was first played on 2 July 2012.

Glenn Astro is just one pseudonym of the 29 year old producer and DJ. In 2015, alongside Max Graef and Delfonic, he launched his own label; Money $ex Records, and also saw the release of his debut album, Throwback, on Tartelet Records. A collaborative album with Max Graef emerged in 2016 on Ninja Tune.

Glenn Astro is currently based in Berlin.

Original source: Last.fm

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