The Underwhelmed Helmsman

Photo is of the zig zag wanderer setlist for 4feb26 which goes as follows: Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda Pharoah Sanders - Lumkili (Live at the East, NYC, 1971) Pharoah Sanders - Love Is Here (Part 3) [Live] Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy - White Nile Philip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble - Unity Kelan Philip Cohran & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Spin Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Sankofa Sons Of Kemet - In The Castle Of My Skin Steve Reid - Lions of Juda (feat. The Legendary Master Brotherhood) Sun Ra - Island In the Sun Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Spiral Parable 1a (Live) Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Future Shaman Chicago Underground Duo - Two Concepts for the Storage of Light Chad Taylor Quintet - Paradise Lawns/October 29th Bark Culture - Slippy's Tune Jason Adasiewicz - River Blindness (Trio) Natural Information Society - Perseverance Flow Mikel Patrick Avery - igewansi Icy Demons - Hold the Air Inside

Yesterday's show wound up being mostly jazz: Satchidananda at 55 into some Pharoah, a block of heat from the Cohran family, new Chad Taylor Quintet, full Perseverance Flow from NIS, and a few tracks from the new Gold Bolus comp.
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zig zag wanderer 3dec25 Tara Cunningham & Jack Cooper - When Reaching Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington - Chile Roast Waltz Michael Beach - No One Knows Any Better Bill Callahan - Drover Dirty Three - Indian Love Son...

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Image lists playlist for this show: Tara Cunningham & Jack Cooper - When Reaching Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington - Chile Roast Waltz Michael Beach - No One Knows Any Better Bill Callahan - Drover Dirty Three - Indian Love Song Ghost - RabiRabi The Dwarfs of East Agouza - Neptune Anteater Alvarius B. - Forgive me, my Love Rising Shotgun - Spotlight Sunwatchers & Eugene Chadbourne - The Price of Paradise Eugene Chadbourne - Knock On the Door Dog Faced Hermans - The Rain It Raineth Jeff Tobias - Political Solution Church Car - Goat Studies The Early - Chopaghetti (ft Patrick Shiroishi) Winged Wheel - Beautiful Holy Jewel Home Jessica Moss - until all are free Natural Information Society - Perseverance Flow (Jump Rope Edit) 75 Dollar Bill - I.New New II.The Worm III.Like Laundry Fatou Seidi Ghali - Migrid Noulhawan Les Filles de Illighadad - Inssegh Inssegh Mamman Sani - Lidda Animal, Surrender! - A Boot for Every Bane أحمد [Ahmed] - Farah 'Alaiyna [Joy Upon Us] Ipek Eginli - Clouds are whatever you make them out to be.

3dec25 show now on mixcloud. New heat from: Cunningham/Cooper, Fussell/Elkington, Michael Beach, Church Car, The Early (ft P Shiroishi), Winged Wheel, Jessica Moss, Natural Info Society, Animal Surrender!, and [ahmed]. Plus a grip of tunes from Sahel and covers of David Allan Coe & the Minutemen.

Playlist for this episode is: Chad Taylor Quintet - Broken Horse Hearts & Minds - Particle Field Hearts & Minds - Step'n Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Spiral Parable 1a (Live) The Eternals - Blackout! HiM - Arrival Underground Spiritual Game - No End Getatchew Mekurya - Cofèré - Antichi Hoyé Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Rabbit Hop Kelan Philip Cohran & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Cuernavaca Asher Gamedze - Following Up Asher Gamedze - Siyabulela Jessamine - Continuous Fontanelle - The Telephone Fade Can - Thief Faust - Jennifer Jackie-O Motherfucker - Nice One Akron/Family - Italy Angels of Light & Akron/Family - Future Myth Angels of Light & Akron/Family - I Pity the Poor Immigrant

26nov25 now on mixcloud. New heat from Chad Taylor Quintet, Underground Spiritual Game, and Asher Gamedze. A block of Chad Taylor drum work to open, a grip.of Akron/Family to close and all sorts goodness in between - including a brass band cover of Moondog.

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Photo containing the show's playlist which is as follows: Jason Meagher - Row Row Row Row (2 Finger Blues) Gwenifer Raymond - Bleak Night in Rabbit's Wood Sir Richard Bishop - They Shall Take up Serpents Sir Richard Bishop - Esoterica of Abyssynia Paper Jays - Complex Premonition Pullman - FLT Tim Barnes - Inside Energy Wilde Vier - Map of 33rd Dream TONE - the guitar ensemble - Milhous Trans Am - Cologne Need New Body - Tittiepop Icy Demons - Jump Off (Power is Made by the Sun and Love) Icy Demons - Jantar Mantar Pit Er Pat - Big Pants (Surprise You on a Cliff) Pit Er Pat - Bird Jeff Tobias - Political Solution Thee Reps - Espadrilles Nick Millevoi - Mower Henry Cow - Viva Pa Ubu Robert Wyatt - The Internationale Soft Machine - Hope for Happiness Matching Mole - No 'Alf' Measures Mayo Thompson - Worried Worried verity den - highway fifty four Winged Wheel - Speed Table Polvo - Colonial Arms Polvo - Fractured (Like Chandeliers) (live) New Radiant Storm King - MIsdirected Energy Versus - Sunburned (Life’s a Beach) Spatula - Dinghy Ohio Penitentiary 511 Ensemble - Psych City Herbie Mann - Ooh Baby

5nov25 show now on mixcloud. Feat new and new-ish from: Gwenifer Raymond, Sir Richard Bishop, Wilde Vier, Jeff Tobias, Verity Den, & Winged Wheel. Plus 15mins on Sharrock bliss in support of Herbie Mann & Wyatt's take on The Internationale for the NYC mayor-elect.
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Image depicts the shows playlist: Ahmad Jamal Trio - The Awakening Thelonious Monk - Misterioso (Live) Lounge Lizards - Epistrophy The Golden Palominos - Clean Plate Ui - Drive Towards The Smoke Body Meπa - Adnan Melvin Gibbs - O.G. Dreams of Lost Love Artifacts - Song for Joseph Jarman (feat. Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid & Mike Reed) Wendy Eisenberg - If an Artist Broadcast - Unchanging Window / Chord Simple (live) Smoke Bellow - Friendly Fire Jeff Tobias - END IT Icy Demons - Bunny's Bablicon - Chunks of Syrup Amidst Plain Yoghurt Khaled Al Reigh - Zannik Can - Dead Pigeon Suite Sonic Youth - Youth Against Fascism (Clean-Ex Version) West Virginia Snake Handler Revival - Don’t Worry It’s Just a Snakebite (What Has Happened to This Generation?) Willy Mitchell - Call of the Moose Jonathan Richman - Shameless, Shameless Holly Golightly & Dan Melchior - I'm Feeling Good Holly Golightly - All Around the Houses El Michels Affair - Detroit Twice Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 - Open & Close

22oct25 show is up on mixcloud. A bit truncated due to the day job. New tracks from Melvin Gibbs, Jeff Tobias and the West Virginia Snake Handler Revival recording in Sublime Frequencies. A live banger from Broadcast. A Floyd cover from Libya. Etc

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Photo displays setlist for 8oct25 show: Can - Paris 73 Zwei Los Piranas - Los pendencieros del Latin Anna Butterss - Shorn The Eternals - Makeshift Satellite Sun Ra - Retrospect - The World is Not My Home Chad Taylor Quintet - Broken Horse Bark Culture - Slippy's Tune Brahja - Qwikness Wendy Eisenberg - In the Pines Neneh Cherry & The Thing - Dream Baby Dream Jeff Tobias - Political Solution Dave Ruder - James Worthy Robert Wyatt - Dondestan Stereolab - Vermona F Transistor Laetitia Sadier - Panser L’inacceptable Tortoise - Works and Days Jeff Parker - Max Brown Underground Spiritual Game - Hella's Room Mulatu Astatke - Yèkèrmo Sèw Hailu Mergia & The Walias - Tche Belew Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble - Drum Dance Don Cherry - Untitled Summer House Session 3 Eric Dolphy - Epistrophy Marguerite at the Hammond - Alaska's Flag Song

8oct25 now is up on mixcloud. New tunes from Sun Ra, Chad Taylor Quintet, Jeff Tobias, Dave Ruder, Stereolab, Tortoise, Underground Spiritual Game, and Mulatu Astatke. Tracks from Neneh & Don but, alas, no eagle eye....

Playlist for this show is as follows: Billy Mohler - Tsunami (feat. Jeff Parker, Damion Reid & Devin Daniels) KVL - North Branch Ben LaMar Gay - Sometimes I Forget How Summer Looks on You (feat. Ohmme) The Eternals - Blackout! Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble - From a Spark to a Fire Underground Spiritual Game - Above Ground Anbessa Orchestra - Aynotche Terabu Mulatu Astatke - Kulun Mulatu Astatke - Nètsanèt Hailu Mergia - Musicawi Silt Getatchew Mekurya - Ambassel Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex & Friends - Ambassel The Ex & Brass Unbound - Theme from Konono No. 2 The Dwarfs of East Agouza - Neptune Anteater Land Of Kush - Bilocations Thee Reps - Exit A Dave Ruder - James Worthy Jeff Tobias - Gimme Coherence Icy Demons - Desert Toll - Spirit Guide Animal, Surrender! - Misswanderer Zachary Cale - Fixing A Fire On Hope Island Vague Plot - Cyclic Modern Nature - Totality Robert Wyatt - The United States of Amnesia P.G. Six - Crooked Way / Farewell To Music (Live at The Unitarian Meeting House, Amherst) Aerial M - Dazed and Awake

17sep25 up on mixcloud. Featuring new heat from Underground Spiritual Game, Mulatu Astatke, The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Dave Ruder, Jeff Tobias, Animal Surrender!, Zachary Cale, and Modern Nature. No show next Wednesday as I'll book out on the water for work

Picture of Number 6 from The Prisoner with the caption "crime jazz music"

I'm out of town for work this week, so there'll sadly be no zig zag wanderer tomorrow morning. If I were on air, though, I'd definitely spin some [crime jazz music]

Box of Chameleons, by Sun City Girls 128 track album

Co-sign on Torch.

This comp was my intro:
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Picture of the shows setlist which is as follows: Alice Coltrane -- Journey In Satchidananda (Live) Alice Coltrane - Blue Nile Joe Henderson & Alice Coltrane - Earth Sonny Sharrock - Bialero William Parker & The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra - Anast Crossing The Lake of Light Dustin Laurenzi - Lament I (Bird's Lament) Chris Cochrane - When Just Paying Attention is Not Enough Chris Cochrane / Collapsible Shoulder Big Band - Interdependence Motherfuckers JMB & Co - Strange Planet Pärson Sound - Tio Minuter The Denison & Kimball Trio - Walk Away The Denison & Kimball Trio - Blueball Avenue Laughing Hyenas - Here We Go Again Mule - Mississippi Breaks State Champion - Bottom of the Bleak Michael Beach - The Sea Springtime - Will To Power Jim White - Inner Day Beings - Flowers That Talk Winged Wheel - August 6, 2024 Jessamine - Ordinary Sleep Prolapse - On the Quarter Days Pitchblende - Mercator Projection Polvo - Can I Ride New Radiant Storm King - Froglegs (I Suppose) New Radiant Storm King - Go Back and Start Savak - Tomorrow And The Day After Jeff Tobias - Gimme Coherence

27aug25 up on mixcloud. Birthday props for Coltrane and Sharrock. A block featuring the late Jim Kimball (RIP). New tunes from Chris Cochrane, Motherfuckers JMB & Co, Michael Beach, Jim White, Winged Wheel, and Prolapse. Etc etc

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A note to listeners informing them that the radio station is unable to broadcast FM signal, but that shows are still streaming via the website: outnorthradio.com

Attention morning commuters & heads in our radius with tuners

Playlist for 13aug25 is: James Blackshaw - Dexter P.G. Six - Come In/The Winter it is Past (Live at Dwars Festival, Amsterdam) Tim Barnes - I Know You Walk in the Wilderness Chris Cochrane - When Paying Attention is Not Enough Thee Reps - Mr. Telephone Thrower Jeff Tobias - Gimme Coherence Modern Nature - Alpenglow Zachary Cale - Northwestern Wolfgang Pérez - Tristeza Paper Jays - Complex Premonition Sir Richard Bishop - Pass the Juggernaut Sir Richard Bishop - Franklin Street Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet - On the horizon (Live) Editrix - No Wombo - A Dog Says Wombo - Common Things Edith Frost - Cars and Parties Jessica Risker - Camera Obscura Robert Wyatt - The United States of Amnesia Dragons 1976 - Canopy Chad Taylor Quintet - Broken Horse Bark Culture - When I Look Over Asher Gamedze - Wynter Time Melvin Gibbs - Felonious Monk Body Meπa - Scout Brent Cordero & Peter Kerlin - Decolonize This Place Marguerite at the Hammond - Alaska's Flag Song

13aug25 up on mixcloud. Tons of new heat on this one from the likes of Tim Barnes, Chris Cochrane, Thee Reps, Jeff Tobias, Zachary Cale, Wolfgang Perez, Sir Richard Bishop, Editrix, Wombo, Chad Taylor, and Melvin Gibbs. And that's just the brand new stuff....

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Los Mirlos - La Danza de Los Mirlos / Cumbia de Los Pajaritos (Video Oficial HD Remaster) (Infopesa) YouTube video by INFOPESAvideos

All about it

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Juaneco Y Su Combo - Ya Se Ha Muerto mi Abuelo YouTube video by Gerardo

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zig zag wanderer 23jul25 Hailu Mergia - Eti Gual Blenai The Sorcerers - Echoes of Earth The Sorcerers - The Viking of 5th Avenue Kaunas Baltic Connect - Baby, I Don't Care (feat.The Sorcerers) Los Piranas - Despectiva cari...

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Playlist for 23jul25: Hailu Mergia - Eti Gual Blenai The Sorcerers - Echoes of Earth The Sorcerers - The Viking of 5th Avenue Kaunas Baltic Connect - Baby, I Don't Care (feat.The Sorcerers) Los Piranas - Despectiva caridad La Clave - Baila Mi Guaguanco Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go (Live) Lee Moses - She's a Bad Girl Black Sabbath - War Pigs (Live) Stone Axe - Slave of Fear Hellstorm - Cry For the Newborn Fadoul - Al Zman Saib Koes Barat - Kisah Sedih Di Hari Minggu Alvarius B. - Forgive me, my Love Sun City Girls - Me and Mrs Jones Sir Richard Bishop - They Shall Take up Serpents John Fahey - Poor Boy Gwenifer Raymond - Requiem for John Hurt (John Fahey) Gwenifer Raymond - Jack Parsons Blues Six Organs of Admittance - Bar-Nasha Steve Gunn - Slow Singers On The Hill Eli Winter - Black Iris on a Burning Quilt Thee Reps - Life Mask Thee Reps - Ghost Story Prymek, Fuchs, Rose - Test Footage Brahja - Bushido Primitive Art Group - Artic Waltz (Live) Marguerite at the Hammond - Alaska's Flag Song

23jul25 now up on mixcloud. New tracks from The Sorcerers, Sir Richard Bishop, Gwenifer Raymond, Steve Gunn, Eli Winter, Thee Reps, and Prymek/Fuchs/Rose. An obligatory Ozzy tune (RIP). The best 'Me & Mrs Jones' cover. Bonus shot of the longest my hair has been in nearly 2 decades

Frank Miller’s The Hamburglar

Life Mask, by Thee Reps from the album Cryptocartography

I'd like to invite you to set aside 7:22 of your day to listen to "Life Mask" by Thee Reps. Sam Morrison wrote it. Like much of Sam's music, it operates according to a very personal and odd geometrical logic. When the violin comes in you will know what I mean. theereps.bandcamp.com/track/life-m...

zig zag wanderer 9jul25 Tim Barnes - Day Goes All the Time Tim Barnes - At the Threshold On Fillmore - Foli Ke Oren Ambarchi - Tre Jim O'Rourke - Please Patronize Our Sponsors Chris Corsano - I Don't Have Missions Rangda...

a few tracks of gamelan adjacency, some Dolphy bass clarinet bangers, and a brief dip into the SF underground of the late 80s courtesy of Bulbous Monocle.

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Setlist for 9jul25: Tim Barnes - Day Goes All the Time (feat. Joshua Abrams, Roberto Carlos Lange & Chad Taylor) Tim Barnes - At the Threshold (feat. Darin Gray, Glenn Kotche & Jim O'Rourke) On Fillmore - Foli Ke Oren Ambarchi - Tre Jim O'Rourke - Please Patronize Our Sponsors Chris Corsano - I Don't Have Missions Rangda - Tres Hambres Sir Richard Bishop - Barbary Sir Richard Bishop - They Shall Take up Serpents Gwenifer Raymond - Jack Parsons Blues Ofir Ganon - Miel ENSEMBLE NIST-NAH - Pasang Eberhard Schoener - Gong-Gede Horse Lords - Law of Movement Sunwatchers - Ape Phases Hearts & Minds - Horizon Eric Dolphy - Burning Spear (Alternate Take) John Coltrane - When Lights Are Low (with Eric Dolphy) [Live] Los Piranas - El nuevo Prometeo U.S. Maple - The State Is Bad Dead Rider - Two Nonfictional Lawyers Bill Callahan & Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Our Anniversary (feat. Dead Rider) Azita - It's Understanding Cheer-Accident - Gold-Plated Savior Shannon Wright - The Caustic Light World Of Pooh - Dominance & Submission Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Change Your Mind Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Hurricane

9jul25 now up on mixcloud (link/bio). Featuring new heat from Tim Barnes, Sir Richard Bishop, Gwenifer Raymond, ENSEMBLE NIST-NAH, Hearts & Minds, and Cheer-Accident. Plus:

Magical Nights - Saigon Surf Twist & Soul (1964-1966), by Phương Tâm 25 track album

#nowplaying

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A banger through and through

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Setlist for zig zag wanderer 2jul25: Joe Chambers, Kevin Diehl, Chad Taylor - A Meta Onilu Kyle Crabtree - To Drown Is to Live Bill Orcutt - The Wild Psalms Sir Richard Bishop - Beans and Slop Baligh Hamdi - Gazairia Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian - Improvisation Based on Shushtari (feat. Behzad Varastev) Orcutt Shelly Miller - A Star is Born Tim Barnes - The Year of the Rabbit (feat. Licht, O'Neil & Vandermark) Jungle Boogie - Phase Space Singer - Oh Dusty D. Rider - Body to Body (To Body) 5feb25 Shop Regulars - Emerson Run Down The Velvet Underground - What Goes On Stereolab - Esemplastic Creeping Eruption Los Piranas - El aguazo de Javier Felipe Pit Er Pat - Bird Cheer-Accident - Cold Comfort Flowers Destroy - Hawks Listen New Radiant Storm King - The Correct Liar Savak - Hitting Therapy Activity - In Another Way Jessamine - (I'm Not Afraid of) Electricity Swirlies - Two Girls Kissing Wombo - Neon Bog Modern Nature - Pharaoh Thee Reps - Fluency

jul25 is up on mixcloud. Featuring new ish from Orcutt Shelly Miller, Tim Barnes, Stereolab, Cheer-Accident, Savak, Activity, Wombo, Modern Nature, and Thee Reps.

zig zag wanderer 18jun25 Herbie Hancock - Ostinato (Suite for Angela) Golstain-Nosov Quintet - Rosinent In Toledo Sons Of Kemet - My Queen Is Angela Davis Christopher Hoffman - Discretionary Bark Culture - Tempered Jason...

2 homages to Angela Davis, a bunch of vibraphone, etc etc

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Setlist for 18jun25: Herbie Hancock - Ostinato (Suite for Angela) Golstain-Nosov Quintet - Rosinent In Toledo Sons Of Kemet - My Queen Is Angela Davis Christopher Hoffman - Discretionary Bark Culture - Tempered Jason Adasiewicz - River Blindness (Trio) The Dylan Group - Avila Brahja - Qwikness The Sorcerers - Ancestral Machines The Sorcerers - Moth Los Piranas - Los pendencieros del Latin Stereolab - Transmuted Matter Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup Nightshift - Dice Smoke Bellow - Vaso Wombo - Neon Bog Wombo - Wolfe Ave 40 Seluah - Signals You Still Know When to Send The For Carnation - A Tribute to Dead Rider - Not a Point on a Scale (feat. Mr. Paul Williams) U.S. Maple - Open a Rose Bunnies - Homunculus Enon - Cruel Gwenifer Raymond - Jack Parsons Blues John Fahey - Medley: Interlude; the Portland Cement Factory Cul de Sac - The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California Speed Stick - Fringe Matter

Missed last week cuz my mom was visiting and I took her to our property deep in the woods north of Talkeetna for a few days. 18Jun25 show is up on mixcloud though, featuring new tracks from Spiritual Jazz 18, The Sorcerers, Stereolab, Nightshift. Wombo, and Gwenifer Raymond. Plus...

Banger

Photo of a trio of highway lights in front of an obscured sun sitting low on the Anchorage horizon

11:30 pm in the land of the midnight sun

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New single from Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra, recorded in São Paulo 🇧🇷

from the album ‘Holy Mountains’ coming June 27

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