There’s been a flurry of both snow and music up on Overlook Mountain and “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer has been using snow days to listen to new music of all sorts, compiling the best for three new releases programs in a row. This show features proggy, guitar-driven rock, slashy noise punk, airy atmospheric vocals, On the Corner-era Miles-style funk, a slew of new jazz, a string quartet version of a tune by Charles Mingus, and even an acapella song by a folk goddess who named a tune after him, Joni Mitchell.

Playlist: 

Live at Pioneer Works, Oct 26, 2023 - Anthony Braxton & Wolf Eyes

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

Fanfare for the Last Human Being - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Millions of Armies (Wipe ‘Em Out) - Prison

With Your Veins Full of Night - Apparitions

Do You Like Long Hair? - Kinski

Lucent Eyes - Jason Blake

Crime Time - Charm School

Route 9 Falls - Geologist & D.S.

Don’t Mess With Frank - Kadawa

Headspace - Christian Winther

Mushi Dance - Satomimagae

The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines (Live) - Joni Mitchell

Sunflower Eyes - Eye Jay

cosa rara - Lucrecia Dalt with David Sylvian 

Floating Ballerinas - Michael Sarian 

Speeding Blots of Ink - Adam O’Farrill

Destroyer - Billy Mohler

Inner Critic - Nicole McCabe

Nostalgia in Times Square (Mingus) - The Hemphill Stringtet

Burning - Brian John McBrearty

to outstretch - Laura Cocks

Ouroboros - Nick Dunston

After the news at noon, “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 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.