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"Musical Odyssey" with Professor G (archive)

Thursday, January 8, 2026 | 16:00 to 18:00 | Playlist

New Artist Song Album Label Comments
* Kelan Phil Coran & Legacy White Nile African Skies Listening Position
Cochemea Chito's Song Vol. II Baca Sewa Daptone Cochemea Gastelum, long time sax player with the Dap Kings
BADBADNOTGOOD City Of Mirrors Talk Memory XL Canadian jazz experimentalists, here working with the great Brazilian producer Arthur Verocai; 2021 release
Tom Ze, Marcia Castro Filho Do Pato Estuando o Bossa: Nordeste Plaza Luaka Bop
Os Mutantes Algo Mais Mutantes Omplatten Their 2nd album, released in 1969
Dom Salvador & Abolição Uma Vida The Brasileiro Treasure Box Of Funk & Soul Cultures of Soul Originally released in 1971 on the album Som, Sangue, E Raca
João Selva Banho De Mar Onda Underdog Records 2025 release
Mikio Masuda Let's Get Together Funk Tide WEWANTSOUNDS Compilation of tracks from the Electric Bird catalogue, recorded between 1978 and 1987. Newly remastered in Tokyo by King Records.
* Akiko Yano GOD'S LOYAL LOVE - Tokyo Wa Yoru No Shichi-ji Tokyo Wa Yoru No Shichi-ji WEWANTSOUNDS Cult 1979 album 7'O Clock in Tokyo, recorded live in Sept 1978
* Hitomi Penny Tohyama Wanna Kiss Tokyo Funk Diva WEWANTSOUNDS Japanese funk & city pop singer from Okinawa, huge in the 1980s
* Jim Jarmusch & Anika Jetlag Father Mother Sister Brother - Original Music From The Film Sacred Bones
* Jake Xerxes Fussell, James Elkington Don't Steal My Heart Away feat. Kathy Rose & Nancy Morlan Rebuilding Fat Possum
Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer In Åland Air Recordings from the Åland Islands International Anthem In 2017, they traveled to the Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland; in 2019 they got a grant to return and perform. Chiu plays synths, Honer viola.
* Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo Outside In the Earth Again The Flenser Chat Pile are the reigning kings of noise rock, here teaming up with Texan guitarist Hayden Pedigo for an album of desert rock
* Ragana & Drowse In Eternal Woods Pt. 4 Ash Souvenir The Flenser Ragana is a two-woman experimental band, Drowse is a one-man noisegaze band. The album was inspired by familial stories of Mt St Helen's eruption and its aftermath.
* Cameron Winter Can't Keep Anything Heavy Metal Partisan
Linda Perhacs River of God The Soul of All Natural Things Asthmatic Kitty Made Parallelograms in 1970, then this album 44 years later
* Holy Sons Puritan Themes Puritan Themes Thrill Jockey Solo project of Emil Amos (Grails, Om, Lilacs & Champagne). 17th album, 4th for Thrill Jockey.
Anohni and the Johnsons It Must Change My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross Secretly Canadian
Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance Spring Will Return / Oliver's Letter Jinxed by Being Drag City
* Yves Jarvis Victim Victim ANTI Montreal's Jean-Sebastian Yves Audet
J.J. Cale After Midnight Naturally Mercury
* Hungrytown Another Year Circus For Sale Big Stir Records Vermont-based duo of Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson
James Blake The Wilhelm Scream James Blake A&M From his 2011 debut
* Loula Yorke Flumen Hydrology (DiN94) DiN
Bitchin Bajas Outer Spaceways Incorporated Switched On Ra Drag City
* Ishmael Ali Stars In My Pocket Burn the Plastic, Sell the Copper Amalgam Music
Comet Is Coming Angel of Darkness Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam