This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature about 20 newly released pieces of music, much of it employing vocals in unusual ways, as well as microtones, in genre mashups, opera to metal, avant jazz to contemporary classical, from both domestic and international recordings. 

Playlist: 

Prelude: Abstrusions - Tyshawn Sorey

Theme: Vitus Labrusca - Ben LaMar Gay

Carving Faces - Sharada Shashidha

Semmelweis 7 - Out in the Yard - Charlotte Mundy, Raymond Lustig, The Rhythm Method

Brain of the Firm - Horse Lords

Gigantes - Simon Hanes

Senex Rule - Leila Abdul-Rauf

Cruxifiction (not a word) - Jeff Lederer

Keep Going - Irreversible Entanglements

Folk Song - Chicago Immigrant Orchestra

Bless Your Ancestors for Being Born (Namibia) - Various artists

Nigde Baglari - Altin Gun

Gamel Be Sure to Spiral - OOIOO

Bland Stenar - Fauna

Sarniezz - Angine de Poitrine

Cloud Core - Lightning Bolt

Does Anyone Hear Like Venom? - SUNN O)))

Deerhoff is God - Jenel Leppin/Ensemble Volcanic Ash

All the Wolves are Watching - Last Scene Alive

Morning Star - Jon Irabagon

loyalty oath - Phillip Golub

Fatal - The Necks

“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.