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After the local news at noon, detuned pianos, faded field recordings, audio palimpsests, hazy improvisation, melancholic composition, loopy, circular, and slow are just a few words to describe the newly released music contained in the broadcast. Host Rob Saffer could list genres like angular pop, avant-jazz, punk metal, and Ethio-Ska, but this dreamy, sometimes hallucinatory late-summer program largely defies genre.

Playlist:
Stillpoing - Awadagin Pratt
Overlooked Theme/Vitus Labrusca - Ben LeMar Gay
Vampyr - The Mon
Gum - babybaby explores
New Life - Bile Sister
Ruby - Kid Fears
New Age - Lifeguard
Circles Part 2 - Gavial
Riverhead - Cinema Cinema
Devil Doesn’t Dance - The Budos Band
More Than Human - Wayne Shorter
Ketchaoua - Clifford Thornton
xooox - Kate Gentile/International Contemporary Ensemble
Circular Temple 1 - Matthew Shipp Trio
Ghosts of Us - Emily Kuhn
Peaches - Nora Stanley & Benny Bock
Above the Gray - Scott Clark
I Don’t Mind - Vines
Tracing Time - Richard Sears
Planetary Glide - Anthony Wilson
Fencer - Gunn - Truscinski - Nace

"Overlooked” is a show focusing on overlooked and under-heard jazz, improvisational, and other fringe music, from early roots to contemporary experiments, a mix of familiar to rare, classic to weird. Live from the shadow of Overlook Mountain in Ulster County.

Host Rob Saffer is the former Executive Director and Producer of the Creative Music Foundation. 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.

Overlooked Playlist Archive