There’s never enough time to play choice tracks during the year they’re recorded; the queue is always longer than “Overlooked” air-time especially since half the shows are thematic, not new releases. This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature a score of tasty newly released leftovers from 2025, some featuring unusual uses of layered vocals, found sounds, and other odds and ends. Listeners will hear international music including Indonesian psych and Slovenian rock, as well as the usual grab bag of experimental jazz, noise, contemporary composition, and just intonation, veering musically from complex to simple. 

Playlist: 

Prelude:

Help on the Way/Slipknot - Grateful Dead

Every Circle A Moon - Ishmael Alis

Theme: Vitus Labrusca - Ben LaMar Gay

Brzice - Etceteral

Inner Violence - Essvus

Bunga Maker - Nusantara Beat

Kouban - Mehrnam Rastegari

Sometimes the Rain Falls in Your Favor - Trinary System

Extermination Level Eventuality - Gridfailure

Charlie Parker - WRENS

Third Space - Elder Ones

The Great - Heat On

Springend - Spinifex

Contact 1 - John O’Gallagher

Remember, Part 1 - Steve Tibbetts

just - claire rousay

Kalimanko’s Lament - Ivan Shopov, Carmen Rizzo, Dhani Harris

Shoe - Isobel Waller-Bridge

New Angel 6 - Bret Schneider

Three Voices (Morton Feldman) - Dory Hayley

“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.