Sounds Out of Time 2021 in Review
12 episodes, from Franco-era Spain to Freight Train
2021 was a lot of things. It was a year of hopes and dashed hopes, openings and closings, endings and beginnings.
For Sounds Out of Time, it was a year when I listened to you, the listeners who gave suggestions at the end of 2020.
I went further out of time. I talked to more people. I kicked off a new creative partnership with the Hopewell Theater. I quit buying Facebook promotional ads.
Every time I hear from one of you about an episode, it means more than you can know. Thank you for listening. Please reach out (soundsoutoftime@gmail.com, @soundsoutoftime on Twitter) if you are moved.
Here’s 2021 from beginning to end:
31. Deep Listening: Federico Mompou, Impresiones Intimas
32. Federico Moreno Torroba: interview with Guitarist Michael Boyd
33. Deep Listening: Óscar Esplá, Antaño
34. Deep Listening: Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians
35. Deep Listening: Mary Lou Williams, Zodiac Suite
36. Deep Listening: Jimmy Giuffre 3, Pony Express
37. Deep Listening: Sonny Rollins, Way Out West
38. Interview: Time for 3 discuss Brahms, Mussorgsky, and Steve Ray Vaughn
39. Interview: Patty Larkin talks about Joni Mitchell’s “The Priest”
40. The music of eden ahbez: interview with Brian Chidester
41. Interview: Ana Egge talks about Elizabeth Cotten’s “Freight Train”
42. Interview: Susan Hellauer, Anonymous 4, talks about “Peperit Virgo”
Recent inspirations:
Charles Lloyd, “Tone Poem” (spotify) — an album-long musical conversation between Charles Lloyd and Bill Frisell.
Ornette Coleman, “The Harmolodic Manifesto” (wordpress.com)
Patricia Brennan, “Maquishti” (spotify) — interstellar chill
Bent by Nature (kcrw.com) — a podcast drawn from archives of the late Deirdre O’Donoghue’s 1980s interviews with musicians on KCRW.
Richard Scheinin’s top 25 historical jazz albums of 2021 (threadreaderapp.com)
Entranced by Paul McCartney’s book of lyrics? Thank the great poet Paul Muldoon (latimes.com)
Anonymous 4, A Star in the East: Medieval Hungarian Christmas Music (youtube.com) for the other Matt K.