Haunting, experimental vocals, spiky rhythms, angular harmonies, and trippy guitar…just some of what listeners will hear in this live broadcast from Overlook Mountain. There will also be jazz/rock hybrids, ecstatic jams, odd vocalizing, contemporary jazz, and many other tracks tougher to categorize. 

Playlist: 

Prelude: Yamantaka - Satoko Fujii's Bunker Umenwall Orchestra

Theme: Vitus Labrusca - Ben LaMar Gay 

Eternal Swans - White Gourd

Have a Go, Hero - Let Spin 

Athiraavile - Sunken Cages

First Galactic Utopia - Horse Lords

One Whole Song - Afrofuturists

Wind at My Back - Henry Threadgill

Dar El Sudan (Hemphill) - Marty Ehrlich 

Grand Prismatic - Miles Okazaki

Sinanari - John Hollenbeck

Trip - Punkt.Vrt.Plastik

Cross - Tashi Dorji & Chris Corsano

The Serial Fabulist - Brandon Seabrook

Tajikistan (NIce to Meet You) - Lee Ranaldo

My Ouija Board Spelt Scam - Ak’chamel

Friends in Dark Places - The Black Drumset

Our First Trip - The Odyssey Cult

US 54 - Holy Wave

Coco - Lea Bertucci & Michael Beharie

Blue Elvis - Peals

All of It - Ziemba

Plantichrist - Kishi Bashi, Tall Trees, The Sound Sanctuary

Moby Dick - Caroline Shaw & Andrew Yee

Ascensions - Adam Rudolph

Metenoia - Enneads

Right Scalene Wrong Left - Glass Triangle

“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.