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To fill out the rest of June, while I recover from surgery, ironically, it is time for a triptych of veteran spotlights. First up is the youngest (I think) of the trio: Saxophonist and composer Colin Stetson. Always busy, Stetson's most recent work has included a collaborative album with Greg Fox and Trevor Dunn as well and the soundtrack to the Netflix series Something Very Bad is Going to Happen. Enjoy the spotlight! -- Colin Stetson, Greg Fox, Trevor Dunn - Nethering (Envision/2026) Colin Stetson - When were were that what wept for the sea (Bandcamp/2023) Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol.1 (Aagoo/2011) Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory (Kartel Music/2017) Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol.3: To See More Light (Constellation/2013) Ex Eye - Ex Eye (Relapse/2017) Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol.2: Judges (Constellation/2011) Colin Stetson's Slow Descent - Slow Descent (Flying Tigers Music/2003)   Track Listing   Colin Stetson, Greg Fox, Trevor Dunn - Moleman [0:00] Colin Stetson - Passage [4:44] Colin Stetson - Tiger Tiger Crane [7:59] Colin Stetson - Between Water and Wind [11:05] Colin Stetson - What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? [17:19] Ex Eye - Xenolith; The Anvil [20:48] Colin Stetson - A dream of water [24:35] Colin Stetson's Slow Descent - For Fear of What's to Come [28:04] -- Support the Artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

There's an argument for Summer starting right as June appears, though it's also locally the time where the temperature swings about 30 degrees from day to night to day. In that frame of mind I thought I'd dig into the digital catalog for a clutch of appropriately moody "summer" songs. Enjoy. -- Six Organs of Admittance - Time Is Glass (Drag City) Strom Noir - Urban Blues (Zoharum) Milieu - Colortone (Milieu Music) Imbogodom - Metafather (Thrill Jockey) The Sly and Unseen - Summer Passes / Evidence Of Fractures (Rural Colours) Library Tapes - Sun Peeking Through (Auetic) The Declining Winter - The Waning Mill Chronicles (Self-release)   Track Listing   Six Organs of Admittance - Summer's Last Rays [0:00] Strom Noir - All Summer in a Day [6:45] Milieu - Summer Friends [11:51] Imbogodom - Summer Fungus [15:32] The Sly and Unseen - Screaming Through Summer Skies [18:39] Libary Tapes - End of the Summer [23:44] The Declining Winter - Summer Circuit [26:32] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music

Aho Ssan - The Sun Turned Black (Subtext Records) One Leg One Eye - Crone (AD93) Boduf Songs - Selected Instrumental Works (Bluesanct) I'A'V - Volatile Poem (Discrepant) Arctic Diva - Circled Green (Scorpio Red) Gaspard Claus - Cells (InFiné)   Track Listing   Aho Ssan - 100 Suns Pt. II [0:00] One Leg One Eye - What I Shall Follow I Shall Hunt [7:16] Boduf Songs - Das Liebetodesdrang Pt. 4 [11:11] I'A'V - Echoes [15:24] Arctic Diva - Circle's End [18:57] Gaspard Claus - Désir des astres [23:19] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

As is our usual way, milestone episodes are spotlight episodes. For 400 the spotlight falls on Matt Christensen. A steady presence within the confines of Surgery with both his solo work and as part of Zelienople, he has been especially prolific of late, so we've been listening and marvelling and in a sharing mood. So enjoy! -- Zelienople - Show Us The Fire (Immune Recordings/2015) Zelienople - Hold You Up (Miasmah/2020) Matt Christensen - I Know What The Fight Is (Morc Tapes/2017) Zelienople - His/Hers (Type/2007) Matt Christensen - Honeymoons (Miasmah/2016) Zelienople - Everything is Simple (Shelter Press/2024) Zelienople - Bachelor's Grove (Self-Released/2004) Matt Christensen - A Cradle in the Bowery (Under the Spire/2011) Zelienople - The World Is A House On Fire (Type/2012) Matt Christensen - Coma Gears (Bathetic/2011) Matt Christensen - Constant Green (Miasmah/2021)   Track Listing   Zelienople - Blue Sands [0:00] Zelienople - Just an Unkind Time [4:23] Matt Christensen - Sweet Child, I'll Fix You [9:12] Zelienople - Family Beast [14:38] Matt Christensen - Honeymoons [23:54] Zelienople - Hold in My Hands [29:34] Zelienople - Untitled(5) [33:42] Matt Christensen - Someday I Won't Matter [39:15] Zelienople - The Real Devil [45:07] Matt Christensen - California [50:29] Matt Christensen - It's Not Hard to Love Everyone [54:27] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

If you're listening to this on the day it drops I am currently on the fourth and last day of getting my mind blown at the 42nd edition of the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville. This episode features a taste of the artists I'll have or will be seeing at the festival this year. Enjoy. -- Darius Jones - Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (Aum Fidelity) Beast - Cetus (Bandcamp) Abdou Gouband Warelis - Hammer, Roll and Leaf (Relative Pitch) Eric Chenaux Trio - Delights of My Life (Constellation) Mativetsky, Amiri & Pagé - Metamorphose (Fifth House Records) Amirtha Kidambi Elder Ones - New Monuments, Live in Vilnius (Fernflower Records) أحمد [Ahmed] - Play Monk (Otoroku) Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution Live (Noise Precision Library)   Track Listing   Darius Jones - Affirmation Needed [0:00] Beast - Cetus [8:34] Abdou Gouband Warelis - Roll the Hammer [18:29] Eric Chenaux Trio - These Things [23:22] Mativetsky, Amiri & Pagé - Metamorphose [29:14] Amirtha Kidami Elder Ones - Third Space [34:15] أحمد [Ahmed] - Epistrophy [44:48] Rafael Toral - excerpt 1 (First Long Space) [52:12] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

Kreng - Wormhole (Miasmah) Lawrence English - The Rest is My Ghost (Room40) Neuro... No Neuro - MemLoss (Audiobulb) Federico Durand - La Manzana Mágica (12k) Kassel Jaeger - Sub Re (Shelter Press) Sulk Rooms - Songs of the Soil (Quiet Details) dav - cosas simples (éter)   Track Listing   Kreng - Marilyn's Milk [0:00] Lawrence English - Sodium Vapour Halo (alone) [3:59] Neuro... No Neuro - Peoplethings [8:27] Federicton Durand - Netherlands 1959 [11:45] Kassel Jaeger - a shell, a bell, a spell (from Sub Re) [15:41] Sulk Rooms - Pay Your Debts to the Mire [21:16] dav - bichito de páramo [24:54] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

Yana Pavlova + Pavel Milyakov - Thrill (Psy X) Kevin Richard Martin - Blue Loops (Bandcamp) Arovane & Taylor Deupree - Enth (Laaps) michael scott dawson & anthéne - broadcast colours (Home Normal) Noveller - I Am the Weather (Experimentia) Six Organs of Admittance - Six Organs of Admittance featuring The Six Organs Olive Choir (Island House Recordings) Calibre - Tricklemore Sea (Signature) Fax + Braulio Lam - Mixed Signals III (Dragon's Eye Recordings)   Track Listing   Yana Pavlova + Pavel Milyakov - Healing Sun [0:00] Kevin Richard Martin - Ambient Blue [3:35] Arovane + Taylor Deupree - Gaun [6:24] michael scott dawson + anthéne - braided stream [9:52] Noveller - Divining Dance [15:04] Six Organs of Admittance - Game of Shared Wins [18:36] Calbre - Tricklemore Sea [22:02] Fax + Braulio Lam - Serifa [25:06] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

Cate Kennan - Shadows (kranky) F.S. Blumm - Wellen Formen (Bureau B) Lasus - Conjure (Phantom Limb) inrain - Rise (Music from Memory) Euan Dalgarno - Cliff Workshop (Bytes) Emily A. Sprague - Double Moon (RVNG Intl) Daniël Jolan - Sublime Lenteur (Lost Tribe Sound)   Track Listing   Cate Kennan - Devil's Hour [0:00] F.S. Blumm - While Leaving [2:53] Lasus - Groundwork [6:02] inrain - Sleep [9:09] Euan Dalgarno - Catterline (feat. Claire Shanley-Ing) [14:31] Emily A. Sprague - Double Moon [18:10] Daniël Jolan - Ressac II [20:26] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

A crazy week of prep and rolling out for Record Store Day have made assembling a new episode nigh impossible!! Nigh, I tell you! Instead please enjoy this classic episode from the dark recesses of early years. Yes there is a typo in the graphic! No, there are no track timings! But it is presented with much love. Eagle eyed folk will notice that the last time we put up a "vintage" episode was back in December of last year -- episode 004 -- and now I'm skipping 005. This is because I have this fearful memory of having used it before somewhere back in the archives. If not, we'll add it in next time that life interrupts art. Enjoy. -- Koji Asano - Sanctuary on Reclaimed Land (Solstice) BJ Nilsen - Fade to White (Touch) Keith Fullerton Whitman / Greg Davis - Yearlong (Leaf) Keith Fullerton Whitman - Multiples (kranky) Klaxon Guele - Grain (Ambiances Magnetiques) Pita - Get Off (Hapna) Johann Johannson - Virdulegu Forsetar (Touch) Akira Rabelais - ...Bendediction, Draw (Orthlorng Musork) Loscil - "First Narrows" (Live on CBC) Various - SpireL Live at St. Pierre Cathedral (Touch) --->Fennesz - "Live in la Petite Chappelle, Morning." -- Support the Artists!! Buy music!!

Love is Yes - Ghost and More Ghosts (Kit Records) Phloe - Les Idées (Seil Records) Aspetuck - Immersion (A Strangely Isolated Place) Ital Tek - Mind Abandon (Planet Mu) Phantom Horse - Primal Forms (Umor Rex)   Track Listing   Love is Yes - Ghost Thirteen [0:00] Phloe - Le Départ [3:17] Aspetuck - Hit Me With Your Pet Shark [10:42] Ital Tek - The Ice is Thin [18:29] Phantom Horse - Umbra-Mechanik [23:07] -- Support the Artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

It wasn't a particularly hard winter, but there've been these little aftershocks of ice and snow over the last couple of weeks... so wasn't feeling quite Spring just yet. Additionally the mighty Sunn O))) just released a brand new record this past Friday... their first for Sub Pop. It felt right to shove Winter out of the way with a mighty drone. Enjoy. -- Sunn O))) - Black One (Southern Lord/2005) Sunn O))) - The Grimm Robe Demos (Hydra Head/2000) Sunn O))) - Sunn O))) (Sub Pop/2026) Sunn O))) - White 1 (Southern Lord/2003) Sunn O)))/Boris - Altar (Southern Lord/2006) Sunn O))) - White2 (Southern Lord/2004) Sunn O))) - Life Metal (Southern Lord/2019) Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord/2009)   Track Listing   Sunn O))) - Sin-Nanna [0:00] Sunn O))) - Defeating Earth's Gravity (excerpt) [2:20] Sunn O))) - Does Anyone Hear Like Venom? [7:13] Sunn O))) - A Shaving of the Horn That Speared You (excerpt) [14:34] Sunn O))) / Boris - The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep) [21:58] Sunn O))) - bassAliens (excerpt) [29:38] Sunn O))) - Troubled Air (excerpt) [36:33] Sunn O))) - Alice [44:30] -- Support the artists! Click on Sunn O))) Bandcamp link to puchase music.

Iztok Koren + Raphael Rogiński - Nocturnal Consolations (Instant Classic) Werner Dafeldecker + Lawrence English - Fathom Tides (Hallow Ground) Ard Bit - Juxtaposed (Dronarivm) Leila Bordreuil + Kali Malone - Intersecting Planes (Ideologic Organ) Tujiko Noriko - PON (Editions Mego) Tegh + Adel Poursamadi - Bayal بیل (Injazero Records)   Track Listing   Iztok Koren + Raphael Rogiński - The Spirit is Becoming a Desert [0:00] Werner Dafeldecker + Lawrence English - Fathom Tides I [5:20] Ard Bit - Silver Torch [10:56] Leila Bordreuil + Kali Malone - Intersecting Planes II [15:52] Tujiko Noriko - Bosom [23:58] Tegh + Adel Poursamadi - Toward the Vast Mountain [28:30] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

Andreas Tschopp - What if We Align Our Breath (Kit Records) Uchida Sound Labo & Friends - A strange lullaby... (Lontano Series) Laur Pihel - no na me (Schole) Vargkvint - Jorden kallar (Piano and Coffee) Harlan Silverman - Music for Stillness (Mississippi Records) Deaf Center - Through Time (Sound Pieces) Eluvium - Virga III (Temporary Residence)   Track Listing   Andreas Tschopp - We Oscillate, We Modulate [0:00] Uchida Sound Labo & Friends - Asl 03 [3:01] Laur Pihel - tallinn-kathmandu [6:30] Vargvint - Älvdans [11:05] Harlan Silverman - Shadow in the Trees [17:45] Deaf Center - Once Upon [20:05] Eluvium - A.M. [26:25] -- Support the Artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

Alan & Jan - Take me, I'm yours (Faitiche) Rosneau & Sanborn - Two (Psychic Hotline) The MerKaBa Brotherhood - The MerKaBa Brotherhood (Mississippi) Sylvain Chauveau - The Complexity of the Simple (FatCat) Big Brave - in grief or in hope (Thrill Jockey) Unknown Mobile - Field Work (pacificrhythm)   Track Listing   Alan & Jan - Déjà Vu [0:00] Rosneau & Sanborn - Harm [4:42] The MerKaba Brotherhood - Galgalim [9:19] Sylvain Chauveau - Le zen dans l'art du tir à l'arc [13:20] Big Brave - the ineptitude for mutual discernment [19:38] Unknown Mobile - Galterö ft. Rob Dickson [24:26] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music

Alexander Eldefors - Vivel (Laaps) Cleared - Lustres (Room40) Matthew Geary - Owl's Lament (Scissor Tail Editions) Ben Vida - Oblivion Seekers (Shelter Press)   Track Listing   Alexander Eldefors - Morning Run [0:00] Cleared - Shore [4:55] Matthew Geary - In the Fell Clutch of Circumstance [14:12] Ben Vida - New Distortion Properties [24:47] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

Caterina Barbieri + Bendik Giske - At Source (light-years) Yui Onodera + Arovane - Stillform (Affin) Jasmine Myra - Where Light Settles (Gondwana) Entidad Animada - Pequeño clima doméstico (Umor Rex) Foote/Dickow - High Cube (Geographic North) Anenon - Dream Temperature (Tonal Union)   Track Listing   Caterina Barbieri + Bendik Giske - Intuition, Nimbus [0:00] Yui Onodera + Arovane - Form 2 [5:30] Jasmine Myra - Reflections [9:37] Entidad Animada - Microcielo [13:01] Foote / Dickow - Volcano Snail [19:15] Anenon - Dream Temperature [26:00] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music

Ben Vince - Street Druid (AD 93) Thomas Stone - The Shunned Path (Cloudchamber Recordings) Andreas Voelk + Scott Monteith - And All The Clocks Ran Dry (Room40) Ana Roxanne - Poem 1 (kranky) The Lonely Bell - Time Lost (Oscarson) Slow Dancing Society + City of Dawn - The Dream Season (Past Inside the Present)   Track Listing   Ben Vince - Sentient Kicks [0:00] Thomas Stone - The Shunned Path I [5:30] Andreas Voelk + Scott Monteith - And All the Clocks Ran Dry Part II (excerpt) [9:49] Ana Roxanne - Keepsake [14:49] The Lonely Bell - Elsewhere [19:21] Slow Dancing Society + City of Dawn - A City Asleep [24:42] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music

Resavoir - Themes for Dreams (l'univers) Holodec - Tru Folk (Phantom Limb) Fumitake Tamura - Mijin (Leaving Records) Violeta Vicci & Bruno Bavota - Be Human (Bigo & Twigetti) Those Who Walk Away - Afterlife Requiem (Constellation) Loom & Thread - Dispersion (Macro) OHYUNG - IOWA (Bandcamp)   Track Listing   Resavoir - Far Cry [0:00] Holodec - Under Heaven's Weight [2:07] Fumitake Tamura - Resonance (feat. Saul Williams [5:24] Violeta Vicci & Bruno Bavota - In Motion [9:02] Those Who Walk Away - First Degraded Hymn (Alessandro Cortini remix) [11:13] Loom & Thread - Spheres [20:16] OHYUNG - Nevada [25:53] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music

Deadbeat - Kansai Botanicals (Quiet Details) Jakob Lindhagen, Vargkvint, Boris Rogowski - a cottage at the end of the road (Piano and Coffee Records) Fabio Anile - Minutiae (RareNoise) Alex Zhang Hungtai - Dras (Shelter Press) Pan.American - Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane (kranky) Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, Macie Stewart - BODY SOUND (International Anthem)   Track Listing   Deadbeat - Rain Teaches Stones to Sing [0:00] Jakob Lindhagen, Vargkvint, Boris Rogowski - ode to the black rental car [4:04] Fabio Anile - Compás [8:29] Alex Zhang Hungtain - Rub' Al Khali [16:11] Pan.American - Death Cleaning [18:43] Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, Macie Stewart - dawn | pulse [22:07] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

Emil Mark - Mellemtid (Tonal Union) Palle Mikkelborg - Light (Loveland) Sam Wenc - Language at an Angle (Lobby Arts) Tashi Dorji - low clouds hang, this land is on fire (Drag City) Green-House - Hinterlands (Ghostly) kwes.- Kinds (Warp)   Track Listing   Emil Mark - Rejser [0:00] Palle Mikkelborg - Stille, Hjerte, Sol Går Ned [4:43] Sam Wenc - Limitless of Blue [9:57] Tashi Dorji - burn the throne [16:17] Green-House - Farewell Little Island [22:26] kwes. - Black (Grey) [25:23] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

Velv.93 - Maidstone (Stroom.tv) Setting - Setting (Thrill Jockey) Juha Mäki-Patola - Momentary Movements of Landscapes (FatCat) Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou - Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems (RVNG Int'l) Maria Somerville - Luster (Remixes) (4AD)   Track Listing   Velv.93 - True Blue [0:00] Setting - Heard a Bubble [5:21] Juha Mäki-Patola - Moment 2 [14:10] Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou - Film Still / The Sea [17:39] Maria Somerville - Stonefly (Seefeel Remix) [22:42] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to buy music.

Dobrawa Czocher - State of Matter (FatCat) Isabel Pine - Fables (kranky) Ugne&Maria - Zotasphere (Hands in the Dark) Tristan Allen - Osni the Flare (RVNG Int'l) Maya Sheffield - Cover Up OST (Thrill Jockey) Pefkin - Unfurling (morctapes) Derek Hunter Wilson - Sculptures (Beacon Sound)   Track Listing   Dobrawa Czocher - Blue [0:00] Isabel Pine - Wolves [3:39] Ugne&Maria - Where to? [7:08] Tristan Allen - Act I: Garden [10:40] Maya Sheffield - Chain of Command [15:24] Pefkin - The Dissonance [18:15] Derek Hunter Wilson - Cape Disappointment [23:14] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music

Ciro Vitiello - Notes from the Air (Stroom.tv) Idiiom - Neural Network (Audiobulb) Paperbark - Light Behind Me (Laaps) Slow Dancing Society - The Disappearing Collecitve Vol. II (Past Inside the Present) David Shea - Meditations (Room40) marucoporoporo - Lunar / Requiem (Flau)   Track Listing   Ciro Vitiello - +days feat. Heath [0:00] Idiiom - Real Sad [5:03] Paperbark - Harmless Light [9:59] Slow Dancing Society - I Will Never Forget Those Nights [15:58] David Shea - The Morning I Awoke [19:15] marucoporoporo - Lunar [26:56] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music

Stephen Vitiello & Taylor Deupree - Brush (12k) aus + the humble bee - Chalybeate (Flau) Paul Beaudoin + Ümlaut - Cairn (Audiobulb) Deaf Center - Through Time Outtake (Sonic Pieces) CoH + Wladimir Schall - Covers (Hallow Ground) Jordan Spieth - Vestige (Affin)   Track Listing   Stephen Vitiello + Taylor Deupree - iii [0:00] aus + the humble bee - Blushing Copper Light [4:50] Paul Beadoin + Ümlaut - Shadow of Light [11:29] Deaf Center - A Second [17:04] CoH + Wladimir Schall - Snowflakes [20:12] Jordan Spieth - Residual [25:29] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

No show this week! Sorry! Just a quick hello and goodbye until we come back for the first episode of 2026 next week.

SOME of the BEST of 2025. Enjoy. -- Old Saw - The Wringing Cloth (Lobby Arts) Cerys Hafana - Angel (Glitterbeat) Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok - Uncontrollable Thoughts (Morr Music) Sam Prekop - Open Close (Thrill Jockey) Holden & Zimpel - The Universe Will Take Care of You (Border Community) Kelly Moran - Don't Trust Mirrors (Warp) Milkweed - Remscéla (Broadside Hacks) HAYWARDxDÄLEK - HAYWARDxDÄLEK (Relapse) Barker - Stochastic Drift (Smalltown Supersound) Milian Mori - Triality (Raster) james K - Friend (AD 93) Hayden Pedigo - I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away (Mexican Summer)   Track Listing   Old Saw - Blood Sumac [0:00] Cerys Hafana - Ffarwel i f'leuenctid [6:33] Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippk - Rainbow Road [10:06] Sam Prekop - Font [15:05] Holden + Zimpel - Incredible Bliss [20:19] Kelly Moran - Lunar Wave [27:32] Milkweed - The Pangs of Ulster [30:37] HAYWARDxDÄLEK - Antiphony [34:46] Barker - Positive Disintegration [38:59] Milian Mori - Ballad [44:33] james K - N'Balmed [49:38] Hayden Pedigo - Small Torch [53:15] -- Support the Artists! Click on label links to purchase music.