Giraffe, Jan Harbeck Quartet, Kirsten Sym Undectet, Linda Sikhakhane & more

The 131st episode is built around August 2026 releases. Two debuts—one from Los Angeles, one from Norway—set the tone: jazz without fixed borders, shaped by listening rather than planning. From there the programme moves through stillness and restraint, then into the question of what happens when musicians spend decades absorbing tradition until it becomes entirely their own. Identity rooted in place drives the next stretch, from the Mediterranean to Western Australia to South Africa. The episode's most personal moment comes near the end: two albums made in the shadow of loss. A three-track epilogue closes the argument about freedom that opened the show. Artists from the US, Norway, Poland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, the UK, Greece, Australia, South Africa, Chile and Cuba. (In Polish—broadcast on Bemowo FM.)

Playlist

• Intro: Hank Levy "Whiplash" from Whiplash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Varèse Sarabande)
• Giraffe "Gate of Crimson Silence" from The Towering Inferno With Bongo Drums (Earshot Media)
• Supereon "Remain" from Phase I (Losen Records)
• Host talks
• Adam Bałdych European Quartet "Endless" from Endless (ACT Music)
• Kosmos Trio "Clairvoyance" from ... and the Sun (April Records)
• Linda May Han Oh & Melissa Aldana "I'll Be Seeing You" from Beneath Lifted Skies (Biophilia Records)
• Host talks
• Hendrik Meurkens & Steve Sandberg "Second Waltz" from Just Born (self-released)
• Kelly Green "By The Way" from Eat Your Greens (Green Soul Studio / La Reserve Records)
• Mike Clark "Toys" from Kuon Ganjo (Wide Hive Records)
• Host talks
• Jan Harbeck Quartet "Interaction" from Conversation (Stunt Records)
• Larry Goldings / Peter Bernstein / Bill Stewart "Dissipation Blues" from Rhombus (Smoke Sessions Records)
• Henry Threadgill's Zooid "Bingo Part 1" from Cut You Where You Was (Pi Recordings)
• Host talks
• Andreas Paragioudakis Chamber Ensemble "Heritage" from Heritage (Soundblossom Records)
• Kirsten Symczycz Undectet " Broken Hill" from Somehow It Will Be (self-released)
• Linda Sikhakhane "Ubizo" from LINDA (Blue Note Records)
• Host talks
• Miki Yamanaka "Breathe" from Breathe (Cellar Live)
• John Donaldson "Evening Song" from We Were Together, I Forget The Rest (Hexagonal Records)
• Host talks
• Mulo Francel & Tim Collins "Personal Hero" from How Did We Get Here? (GLM Music)
• JuMa "Ukulyaba" from Between Tides (self-released)
• Matthew Putman / Hill Greene / Hill Greene "A New Beginning " from Bright Sun Outside (577 Records)
• Outro: Hank Levy "Whiplash" from Whiplash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Varèse Sarabande)