The air in the Hudson Valley has alternated between thick, leaden and smokey, and clear, bright and wispy. This live WGXC summer pledge drive broadcast from Overlook Mountain will celebrate air. Featuring all newly released music, the first half of the show will focus on heavy air - hazy, oppressive, dense, sludgy, thick and bombastic metal, rock and prog - while the second half will feature light air - jazz, psych, hippie guitar, funk and vocal music that’s floaty, spacious, diaphanous, ephemeral, trippy and euphoric. For good measure, host Rob Saffer tossed in a Grateful Dead cover, too.

Playlist:
Le Sacre du Printemps - Sylvie Courvoisier / Cory Smythe
“Overlooked Theme” Vitus Labrusca - Ben LaMar Gay
Air - Talking Heads
Vampyr - The Mon
Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album - Soft Machine
Terminator (Where An Astronaut Died in Space) - Giant Brain
Allured By Feverish Visions - REZN
El Templo Mayor - Maulen
carvers, farriers and knaves - BIG/BRAVE
Back to Fax - Bile Sister
Intro (Shambhallic Vibrations) - Lunar Chamber
Runaway - Dommengang
Porch Boogie - Rose City Band
Ellis Island - Dream House Quartet
Wax - Natural Information Society
No Rain - Jefferey Silverstein
Truckin’ - Dave McMurray
Hit the Dirt - Sex Mob
LTD - dragonchild
Junkie Rumble - Allen Lowe
Mesopelagic - Zibuckle Martinaltye
Dub a la Turque - Badiaa Bouhrizi
Penance - Cruel Diagonals

After the local 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 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