Fuzzed-out guitars, haunting vocals, pop hooks, drones, distressed instruments, and detuned microtonal cacophonies crash against ethereal minimalist experiments as host Rob Saffer plays two dozen newly released pieces of music in this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain. The show will conclude with a raga-infused piece released just weeks before the untimely death of composer Michael Harrison.

Playlist: 

Prelude: 7-11 Redeye - Chris Forsyth

Theme: Vitus Labrusca - Ben LaMar Gay

RV Entry - Geologist

Fleeting Illumination - Roy Montgomery

Index of Memories - BASIC

Interlude - Holland Andrews + Methods Body

Sliced by a Fingernail - Dry Cleaning

Walker’s Dead Birds - Ambronia

At All - Status/Non-Status

All the Wolves Are Watching - World Class Pep Talk

Points of No Return - Chrome Hill

Paramasturbatory Delusions - Ak’chamel

Clarinet solo - T. Balaram

The Multiple Hallucinations of an Assassin (part 2) - Alvarius B.

Hollow - Isabel Pine

Deisiderium (Ellen Reid) - Willows

Passage II - Holy Sun Opera House

Out Cry - Dave Adewumi

Pricklings - John Butcher

Pygmora - Marta Sanchez

Embracing the Otherness - Marilyn Crispell, Anders Jormin

Trinkle Tinkle - Chick Corea

into air - Robert Humber

Act 1: Garden - Tristan Allen

Canto Ostinato Sections 56-73 (Erik Hall) - Sandbox Percussion, Metropolis Ensemble

Water Jhala (Raga Yaman) - Michael Harrison and Ina Filip

“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 co-curated the Brooklyn Museum’s summer jazz series and helped found The Mingus Big Band with Mingus’s widow, Sue. Rob is also a judge for the annual Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll.