27 February 2016

Towering sound architecture and gentle wisps of sonorous perception vie for your lingering attentions Today from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time on KPSU.org as your host Ricardo Wang brings this week’s What’s This Called?

Streaming Live.

Brand new in the mail from Accretions recordings the debut album from Ryan Choi on ukelele, percussion, and strings; plus other sonic explorations from the likes of kitsura, Black Happy Day, Ffej, The Giant Worm live at the Olympia Experimental Music Festival 2015, Hierogliphic Being & J.L.T.U. Ahn-Sahm-Buhl, Steven Henry Fisk, Lungfish, Bugskull, and MORE!

Click your listening device to Join Us!

 Playlist:

Track    –   Artist   –   Album

• Three Dancers   Ryan Choi   Three Dancers
• Aviation Oakie   Steve Fisk   999 Levels of Undo
• DeerBiphenyl   kitsura   Soundcloud
• Dream State Police   The Giant Worm   2015 Olympia XFest June 26, 2015
• Civilization That Is Dying   Heiroglypyic Being & J.I.T.U. Ahn-Sahm-Buhl   We Are Not the First
• The Charcoal Blade   Ffej   Emulation Phase (EP)
• Ghosts Won   Bugskull   Distracted Snowflake
• Blue Sky   Lungfish   Necrophones
• Lyke Wake Dirge   Black Happy Day   In the Garden of Ghostflowers
• Die By Night   Dead Man’s Lifestyle   Hinterland
• We Are on the Side of Angels   Bing & Ruth   Tomorrow Was the Golden Age
• The Whistling Song   Meat Puppets  Meat Puppets II

13 February 2016

Playlist:

LIVE playlist right here: Body Shame – “Black Truck Creeper”; Consumer – “Loyalty Is For Tyrants (live in Olympia)”; Dr. Strangeknob – “Get Yo Gram Bro”; Destroyed For Comfort – “Split Down the Middle (ft. Lauren Bausfield)” ALL from SadoDamascus Winter Copulation 2016.

Next Up: Mahler Haze – “Solo Flight” -psithurism; Live Science – “What Colliding Black Holes Sound Like”; Genesis – “Carpet Crawlers” – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Next Set: Unwound – “Valentine Card” – Fake Train; Dead Man’s Lifestyle – “Little Creep” – Hinterland; The Fugs – “Kill For Peace” – The Fugs Second Album…; David Bowie – “Valentine’s Day” – The Next Day

Ending With: Sun Ra – “Love In Outer Space” – Somewhere Else

6 February 2016

Today on What’s This Called? at KPSU.org from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time, let the outer sounds take you to inner space.

Your host Ricardo Wang brings you decoded audio messages from the likes of A Silver Mt. Zion, A Star Too Far, Chrome, Sun Ra, Steven Severin, Cyoakha Grace O’ Manion, Julie Ruin, Ariel Kalma and MORE!

Tune your deep listening devices to hear it go down live!

*

Playlist:

So Far: The Julie Ruin – “Apt. #5” from Julie Ruin; Cyoakha Grace O’ Manion – “Ride It ‘Till the End” from Unknown Music from Dream-Quest of Kadath; Robert Aiki, Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma – “Wasp Happening” from We Know Each Other Somehow

So then we had: CHROME – “All Data Lost” from Alien Soundtracks, me yakking then A Silver Mt. Zion – :”Movie (Never Made)”‘; A Star Too Far – “Damn Mirage” from Saucers Over Lincoln on Beta-lactam Ring Records

Next: Steven Severin – “Wand of Flame Part Two” from Wand of Flame on EROTOTOX DECODINGS

Going to end with Mecca Normal – “Rigid Man In an Ice Age” from The Eagle & The Poodle.