Jazz Articles about Radio I-Ching

Radio I-Ching: The Fire Keeps Burning

by Fred Bouchard
August 10, 2008

Ever eat wild duck? It can be tough and sinewy but often has oddly fascinating flavors. Try it spit-roasted over resiny charcoal from a Djibouti street vendor and you get an idea of Radio I-Ching--wacky quacky. The odd intersections of 'world' music (here Pan-AfroAsian meets jazz and Americana pop) are strangely unsettling yet grounded in this little ugly beauty. Radio I-Ching--a Gotham-based trio hot- potting piri (Korean bamboo flute), plectra and percussion--blare out mostly puckish, raw, playful covers and bizarre ...