This installment of “Overlooked” will feature all newly released music alternating between short, efficient tunes and longer more exploratory ones. The short tunes, such as a preacher’s 23-second rhythmic rant and 90-second musical sketch of a painted bunting, function as interludes between the longer pieces that explore improvisation, just intonation, drones, and a host of other long-form musical strategies. 

Playlist: 

String Quartet No. 4 (comp. Grażyna Bacewicz, 1951) - Telegraph String Quartet

Aura - Unknown Mortal Orchestra

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

Stutter - Gideon Broshy

Trying to get to heaven before they close the door - Patrick Shiroishi

Maybe I Won’t Do What I Say I’d Do - Pastor Chris Congregation

One Can Only Go Up - Jacob Garchik

See It in the Room - Latter

Assembly of All Beings - Thomas Morgan

B - Henry Threadgill

An Dro - Cerys Hafana

Lime to Gold (intro) - Lex Korten

Improvisation 5 - Shelter Collective 

Birds & Insects Book II: Painted Bunting - Sarah Cahill

Just Intonation Etudes for Big Band - Timbre - Webber/Morris Big Band

Bulgarian Rhythm (Mikrokosmos Sz. 107 Book 4 - Bela Bartok/Avi Avital

Staring at the Cracked Window - Kalia Vandever

Murzilka - Shostakovich

Milo - Dave Gisler

Shadows in the Library - Scree

The Desert Music (V. fast) - Steve Reich/Joe Hisaishi, The Philharmonic Chorus of Tokyo 

Darkness Leaning Like Water Against the Windows - Wilder Maker

Impulse Array - Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt

“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 'critic' for the annual Downbeat Magazine critics poll.