Howie Reeve on song, scenes, and oblique angles
This interview was recorded on a walk in Glasgow’s Pollok park. It might take your ear a minute to adjust. We discuss how Howie makes music, listen to some...
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Christof Migone: art, radio, burps, and farts
Christof Migone is a sound-artist working with language, voice, bodies, performance, intimacy, complicity, and endurance. We discuss teaching, radio, sound art, rhythm, sounds the body makes…and a typology of...
One-man orchestra Nick Storring
Host Josh Thorpe and composer Nick Storring listen to and discuss Storring’s music and others. ‘What a Made-up Mind Can Do’ begins with what one might call noise, improvisation,...
Feathers and energy with Matana Roberts
In this interview Matana Roberts and host Josh Thorpe, we discuss and listen to some excerpts of Roberts’ new release on Constellation Records… it’s Coin Coin Chapter 5 (as...
Honey by Josh Thorpe
Unusual Music editor Josh Thorpe launches his new album with Toronto’s Ur Audiovisual. Honey, Thorpe’s 5th album, is DIY pop with a taste for unusual sounds. Honey by Josh...
Asad Raza on Dan Graham, the religion of rock, comedy, the body, and untidiness
Josh Thorpe and Asad Raza discuss Dan Graham, a radical American artist who died last year around this time. We listen to some of the music Dan loved and...
Chris Newman’s strange parlour music makes me happy
Chris Newman’s weird parlour songs first came to via a friend at York University during postgraduate study. At first they didn’t read to me; I expected an amount of...
Powerdove: humpbacks, tap shoes, and ancient Greece w/ Lewandowski and Bonvalet
Josh Thorpe speaks with Annie Lewandowski and Thomas Bonvalet. We listen to their unusual duet Powerdove, which combines austere melodic singing with cosmic rattles and bursts of machinic joy…...
“Hello, How and Hey” by Eric Chenaux
This track, this whole album, is a psychedelic space of warmth. Sink into it like a mud bath that doesn’t smell of sulfur but rather frankincense. Eric will be...
What is the world? Nobody knows.
This month editor Josh Thorpe’s How Things Happen launched with Canadian / French imprint Rat-drifting. Eric Chenaux writes: “Thorpe’s How Things Happen inhabits detailed fields of time stretched beyond...
Interview w/ viola player Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh
Ailbhe joins me to listen to the viola, the violin, some guitars, a horse-hair harp, some outside jazz and a sewing machine. Ailbhe’s great to speak with and her...
OneTwoThree’s strange bass songs
This trio of women from Zurich make an unusual chorus of bass guitars. Madlaina Peer, Sara Schär, Klaudia Schifferle on Kill Rock Stars. ONETWOTHREE by ONETWOTHREE
Ecstatic noise w/ Marshall Trammell and Tashi Dorji
Joy with ferocity. Rattling drums and dirty electric guitar feels like punk opera unwound and bent. Recorded live in Portland, Duo Damage, Vol I is loud and distorted in...
Banjo Music for Carole Finer
Allison Cameron brought this release by Stephen Chase’s mon se taire truc editions to our attention. A tribute to Scratch Orchestra original Carole Finer and a fundraiser for Resonance...
Punkish w/ Martin Arnold and Jaye Kovach
In this episode Josh and Martin listen to Lemon Kittens, Shaggs, Junko, and the Kyoto Imperial Court Orchestra. After the break Josh and Jaye listen to Homo Monstrous, Forced...
We love trippy: Listening with Renée Lear
This episode is with video artist Renée Lear, who has taken an unusual interest in unusual music. We listen to and discuss unusual music from Ween and Clown Core...
Number Seven by Dos
Mike Watt and Kira Roessler’s project Dos scratches an itch I didn’t know I had. Two bass guitars with weird riffs and arrangements. Justamente Tres by Dos
Thorpe’s art rock Love & Weather
Our editor Josh Thorpe has a band and it’s unusual songs with dissonance, consonance, and some pretty neat sounds. Love & Weather by Josh Thorpe
Goat Girl
“Dance of Dirty Leftovers” by Goat Girl lays easygoing dissonant chords over a psychedelic swirl. Goat Girl by Goat Girl
An hour of Unusual on Clyde Built Radio
An eclectic radio show on Glasgow’s Clyde Built Radio. We listen to a song of mine, Sonic Youth, composer Allison Cameron, strange roots pop by The silt, Amps for...