For nine years, “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer has presented the “Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music” as a public service to get his listeners to spend holiday time with their hopefully less intolerable families. Given the abundance of intolerability lately, Saffer has decided to change the subject from intolerable music to music that’s relentless and ecstatic; ignore your family this holiday and listen to the radio! Or, if possible, listen with them. And, please don't OD on tryptophan. 

“The Second Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Relentless & Ecstatic Music” will feature psychedelic rock, jazz and African music, Krautrock, and Prog, among other styles, from the 70s through today. The first part of the program will feature long jams while the second part showcases much shorter, yet no less ecstatic, pieces. This Thanksgiving program was originally aired on November 25, 2025. 

Playlist:

Prelude: 

Promises Kept - Sonny Sharrock. 

Vitus Labrusca (“Overlooked” theme) - Ben LaMar Gay

A Thanksgiving Prayer - William S. Burroughs

Hazard Profile, Part 1 - Soft Machine

All That Glitters is Not Nail Polish - King Crimson

And the Glitter Is Gone - Yo La Tengo

Mayan Space Station - William Parker 

Spring & Summer Idyll - Sun Ra Quartet

Kelya Keleko - Orchestra Gold

Super Djata - Zani Diabate

Omri - Kadef Agbi

Crime Time - Charm School

Der Mann in Nappa - A.R. & Machines

Vitamin C - Can

Uncle Herbie’s Dance - Sonny Sharrock & Nicky Skopelitis 

Jumping Wired - Henry Flynt

“Overlooked” is a show focusing on overlooked and underplayed music of all varieties: jazz, improvisational, international, and other fringe music, ancient to future, familiar to rare, classic to weird. Broadcast live from Overlook Mountain in Ulster County, “Overlooked” offers programs focused solely on newly released music along with others that focus on specific musical themes or history.

Host Rob Saffer is the former Executive Director and Producer of the Creative Music Foundation and Creative Music Studio. While living in Brooklyn for 25 years, he served on advisory boards for Celebrate Brooklyn! and Symphony Space. He also curated the Brooklyn Museum’s summer jazz series and helped found The Mingus Big Band with Mingus’s widow, Sue. He is also a judge for Downbeat Magazine's annual critics poll.