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In this excerpt from the new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, legendary record producer Bob Ezrin describes the song as the script for a film and the record as the film itself, built from performances and atmosphere. Don't miss the full conversation: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/bob-ezrin-holding-artists-to-their-own-best-work/ #Shorts #BobEzrin #RecordProducer #MusicProduction #MusicHistory #TheJayhawks #SanctuaryPark…

In this excerpt from The Tonearm Podcast, Bob Ezrin describes mixing the Jayhawks' Sanctuary Park to sound neither too modern nor like a throwback, and treating each record as a task he sets himself and then works to accomplish. Don't miss the full conversation: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/bob-ezrin-holding-artists-to-their-own-best-work/ #Shorts #BobEzrin #RecordProducer #MusicProduction #MusicHistory…

In this clip from the new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, legendary record producer Bob Ezrin explains why the Jayhawks saw him as very direct in the studio, someone who would rather say "that one's not working for me" than spend two days beating around the bush. Tune in to…

From Alice Cooper to the Jayhawks, Bob Ezrin explains why artists keep coming back to him and why he asks permission to hold them to the best work they have ever done. ------------------ This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on famed record producer Bob Ezrin. Bob has worked with…

In this excerpt from The Tonearm Podcast, David Katz asks anyone starting his new book, 'Dub Revolution,' to set aside everything they think they know about dub — the same thing he had to do across forty years of research and five years of writing. Don't miss this latest episode:…

In this clip from The Tonearm Podcast, David Katz traces the Dread Broadcasting Corporation back to Rita Marley's brother Leroy—known as Lepke, The Dread Outta Control—who ran it as a soundsystem and pirate radio station. Don't miss the full conversation: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/david-katz-chasing-dub-reggae-beyond-the-soundsystem/ #Shorts #DavidKatz #DubRevolution #KingTubby #LeeScratchPerry #SoundSystemCulture #DubReggae #Reggae #BassMusic…

In this excerpt from the new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, author David Katz describes walking into the Elite Club in San Francisco five days after his seventeenth birthday and hearing selector Fat Jaw hold back the bass on a Jack Ruby Hi-Power stack before clobbering the room over the…

The reggae historian joins us to discuss 'Dub Revolution,' his account of how King Tubby, Prince Jammy, and Scientist pulled reggae records apart at the mixing desk and sent the pieces back out. ------------------ This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on noted reggae author David Katz. His new book,…

In this clip from The Tonearm Podcast, guitarist Richard Murphy of Fling ii traces the genealogy of krautrock and doom metal back to a distant common ancestor and argues that both get accused of repetition for the same reason: the interest is in how a core idea evolves over several…

In this excerpt from The Tonearm Podcast, Brad Gowland explains that "Fling" was already taken, so the band took Amon Düül II's way out — when the German group could no longer be Amon Düül, they simply added the numeral and kept going. Don't miss the conversation: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/fling-ii-modular-synths-pedal-steel-and-michigan-motorik/ #Shorts #FlingII…

In this clip from the new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, Brad Gowland describes the Ann Arbor and Detroit habit of turning out for an anonymous bill of amateur electronic musicians, and how talking to players convinced him he should be one of them. Listen to the entire conversation: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/fling-ii-modular-synths-pedal-steel-and-michigan-motorik/…

Seven players, four cities, and no rehearsals: Fling ii's Brad Gowland and Richard Murphy describe a recording method that turns a weekend of continuous tape into a six-track album. ------------------ This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Ann Arbor krautrock band Fling ii. I sat down with drummer and…

In this clip from The Tonearm Podcast, legendary recording engineer Martin Bisi describes Bill Laswell returning to BC Studio after outgrowing Gowanus, coming back like an alchemist for some of the dirt and grit he hoped would sprinkle onto the recording. Don't miss the conversation: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/martin-bisi-forty-five-years-of-sonic-murder-bc-studio-gowanus/ #Shorts #MartinBisi #BCStudio #NoWave…

In this clip from the latest episode of The Tonearm Podcast, record producer Martin Bisi describes the narcissism of small differences at work in NYC's downtown scene, where mods and goths sneered at each other across the same bar. Listen to the whole conversation: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/martin-bisi-forty-five-years-of-sonic-murder-bc-studio-gowanus/ #Shorts #MartinBisi #BCStudio #NoWave #Goth…

In this excerpt from the new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, legendary NYC producer and engineer Martin Bisi traces his attraction to autonomy back to the Yippie clubhouse in the West Village and to his favorite anarchist of the era, the Pie Man. Tune in to the entire conversation: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/martin-bisi-forty-five-years-of-sonic-murder-bc-studio-gowanus/…

The acclaimed music producer joins Lawrence Peryer to explain why he has worked out of one Gowanus building since 1979, what the rezoning is displacing, and why he thinks genres behave like social movements, with their own looks, uniforms, and language. ------------------ This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on…

In this excerpt from The Tonearm Podcast, saxophonist Azar Lawrence lays out the practice regimen he has kept for a lifetime and quotes pianist Albert Dailey on how audible the difference is between players who study and players who don't. Don't miss the full conversation on our latest podcast episode:…

In this clip from The Tonearm Podcast, legendary jazz saxophonist Azar Lawrence describes the condition of the electric piano left behind on a night when the venue had no acoustic instrument for McCoy Tyner, then makes the case that Tyner took the acoustic piano as far as it would go…

In this excerpt from the new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, Azar Lawrence lists the players who keep reappearing across his career — Cecil McBee at the North Sea Jazz Festival, Billy Hart and Buster Williams by way of McCoy Tyner's bands, Eddie Henderson's A-frame in the Oakland Hills —…

The saxophonist joins us to discuss 'Turn the Music Up,' the friendship with Pharoah Sanders behind its central tribute, and why he refuses to think of the jazz lineage as something outside himself. ------------------ This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on tenor saxophonist Azar Lawrence. Lawrence is a veteran…

In this clip from The Tonearm Podcast, Josh Mason explains what happens once the spaghetti of a modular system stops being mysterious and how he misses the initial magic of naïve experimentation. Be sure not to miss this past week's episode of our podcast: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/josh-mason-punk-and-circuitry-zippered-together-greyfade-dark-horse/ #Shorts #JoshMason #greyfade #KickingADarkHorse #ModularSynthesis…

In this excerpt from The Tonearm Podcast, sound artist Josh Mason explains why reading the 'Kicking A Dark Horse' book without the music is, in his words, an incomplete experience … when the music thins out, the words take over. Don't miss this fascinating conversation: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/josh-mason-punk-and-circuitry-zippered-together-greyfade-dark-horse/ #Shorts #JoshMason #greyfade #KickingADarkHorse…

In this excerpt from the new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, Josh Mason describes what survived the move from punk bands to modular synthesis. His work is built to give somebody a reason to reach out — "less violent, a little bit less random, but still equally as chaotic." Hear…

The Florida sound artist joins us to discuss 'Kicking A Dark Horse,' a modular album bound into a hardcover book, with each half composed to fill the silences left by the other. ------------------ This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Florida sound artist Josh Mason. Mason’s new album, Kicking…