Playlist.

A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.

Spotify jukebox does not correspond precisely with the selections listed, but maintains the playlist’s continuity and personality.


Kitaro – Sacred Journey of Ku​-​Kai, Vol. 3 (Domo Music Group; 2007)


Dennis González & Derek Rogers – Cathedral: Ambient Sound Structure for Museum Courtyard (self-released; 2017)


Andrew Smiley – Dispersal (Astral Spirits; 2017)


Kevin Drumm – Live Last Week (self-released; 2017)


Bootsy Collins – Bootsy? Player of the Year (Warner Bros., 1978)


La Tène – Vouerca/Fahy (three:four; 2017)


The Residents – 80 Aching Orphans (Cherry Red; 2017)

Robert Ashley – Tap Dancing in the Sand – Ensemble MAE (Unsounds; 2008)
> Tap Dancing in the Sand; Outcome Inevitable; Hidden Similarities; In Memoriam Esteban Gomez; She Was a Visitor


Bruno Duplant & Pedro Chambel – All we have learned and then forgotten (ÉTER; 2017)


The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Apple; 1967/2017)

King Crimson – Live in Chicago (DGM; 2017)

Annea Lockwood – A Sound Map of the Danube (Lovely Music; 2008)

Valentin Silvestrov – Symphony No. 5; Postludium – Alexei Lubimov, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/David Robertson (Sony Classical; 1996)

Valentin Silvestrov – Symphony No. 6 – SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra/Andrey Boreyko (ECM New Series; 2007)


Enslaved – E (Nuclear Blast; 2017)


Insub Meta Orchestra – Archive #1 (insub; 2012)


Joda Clément & Mathieu Ruhlmann – Kindred (Marginal Frequency; 2017)

Johann Sebastian Bach – Suites for Solo Cello – Thomas Demenga (ECM New Series; 2017)


fraufraulein – heavy objects (Marginal Frequency; 2017)

Èliane Radigue – Occam Ocean 1 – Rhodri Davies, Julia Eckhardt, Carol Robinson (Shiiin; 2017)
> Occam River I; Occam I; Occam III; Occam IV; Occam Delta II


Valentin Silvestrov – Symphony No. 3 (“Eschatophony”) – Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music/Bruno Maderna (YouTube)

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