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Can, Steven Bernstein, Hen Ogledd, Scrimshire, Cento Threeo, And More.
by Lawrence Peryer
This week's Rotations moves outward and back. It opens with a fifty-year-old Can improvisation newly pulled from the archive, swings through a set of brand-new records by three artists featured this week on TheTonearm.com, then settles into Japan for three records spanning eras, a vintage recorded dialogue, a television-drama score, and psych-rock's Kikagaku Moyo frontman gone ...
Alden Hellmuth: Saxophone Tethered To A Galaxy Of Bass
by Lawrence Peryer
This week, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on saxophonist and composer Alden Hellmuth.Alden grew up in Hartford, studying in the Jackie McLean tradition, and now works out of New York City. Her new album is called Tether (Leiter, 2026), and it features a band centered on two bass players, rounded out by drums, piano, ...
Alden Hellmuth, Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson And Much More
by Lawrence Peryer
This hour of Rotations keeps landing on people who built something durable and then disappeared from view before the credit caught up: Julius Eastman, memorialized on Wild Up's fifth anthology volume; Francis Bebey, still ahead of his contemporaries decades after wiring a thumb piano through a drum machine; Amara Touré, whose entire known output fits on ...
Dave Douglas: Transcend Is Not The End
by Lawrence Peryer
This week, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas. Douglas's latest album, Transcend (Greenleaf Music, 2026), came out in April 2026. It's the second record from GIFTS, his band with Rafiq Bhatia, James Brandon Lewis, Tomeka Reid, and Ian Chang. His last several records were openly political. This one turns ...
Dave Douglas, Sun Ra, Frank Zappa And Much More
by Lawrence Peryer
This week's Rotations is a parade of restless inventors. A surf-psych single gives way to modern jazz, a score for a 1960 horror film, and the room-sized synthesizer a pair of tinkerers built in 1970. From there it's Seattle indie pop, New Jersey jangle, two saxophones turned into an orchestra, and a New York shapeshifter, before ...
Ora Cogan: Hard Hearted Is How You Survive
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on singer and songwriter Ora Cogan. Ora Cogan's music pulls from folk, country, psychedelia, and gothic rock. She holds all of it without flinching, as heard on the fantastic album Hard Hearted Woman, her latest release on Sacred Bones. Ora has worked as a photojournalist and ...
Elton Dean & The Wrong Object, Steven Bernstein, Joe Henderson And More
by Lawrence Peryer
This episode of Rotations is about the conversation between what's just been made and what's been waiting to be heard. We move from a clutch of brand-new records and hear art-pop, haunted folk, choral minimalism, drumless ambient jazz before moving into a 1969 session that sat lost for half a century. It's an hour built on ...
Billy Polo: Audio Engineer As Archaeologist
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Billy Polo, in-house audio and mastering engineer, at iconic Jamaican music label VP Records. Billy has spent years restoring and remastering some of the most important recordings in reggae and dancehall history. Works from Peter Tosh, Dennis Brown, King Jammy, Sly and Robbie, and dozens more. Billy ...
Collin Walcott, Yussef Kamaal, Max Roach, Bobby Previte And More.
by Lawrence Peryer
This episode of Rotations uses jazz as a spine but refuses to stay on it. We start with Collin Walcott's sitar-laced ECM reverie and Max Roach's 1968 post-bop intensity, move on to Bobby Previte's long-awaited return to small band writing and Randy Weston's luminous live performance at Montreux. Then it's the Belgian absurdism of Flat Earth ...
Stephen Emmer: Composing At The Edge Of Silence
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, The Tonearm's needle lands on Dutch composer and musician Stephen Emmer. Stephen Emmer came up in the late '70s post-punk underground in Amsterdam. His band Minny Pops was the first international act signed to Factory Records. Since then he's been a curious genre-explorer, working with Lou Reed, Chaka Khan, Tony Visconti, Trevor Horn, ...


