Mixtape: Lost in Transmission – Episode 104

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Another Lost in Transmission mixtape featuring new music from Jerron Paxton, J.R. Bohannon & Dave Shuford, Naima Bock, Kate Young, Danny Paul Grody Duo and Setting, alongside some older favourites.

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Music Played

1. Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express – Julus (Junun)
2. Delta Spirit – Parade (Ode to Sunshine)
3. Jerron Paxton – What’s Gonna Become of Me (Things Done Changed)
4. Rhona Dalling – How Did We Get Down (Walk Me Round)
5. Roger Dean Young & The Tin Cup – Down Juan (Casa)
6. J.R. Bohannon & Dave Shuford – Reclined in the Haze (Reclined in the Haze)
7. Dana Gavanski – Eye On Love (Late Slap)
8. Naima Bock – Gentle (Below a Massive Dark Land)
9. Dana Anastasia – Cassiopeia (Cry If You Need To)
10. Daughter Of Swords – Grasses (Dawnbreaker)
11. Dan Haywood’s New Hawks – Middle Nowhere (Dan Haywood’s New Hawks)
12. Kate Young – Dandelion (Umelliferæ)
13. Quinie – Wagtail (Buckie Prins)
14. Danny Paul Grody Duo – Hawk Hill (Arc of Night)
15. Pumajaw – Lamkin (Featuring James Yorkston) (Curiosity Box)
16. Setting – I (at Eulogy)
17. A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Bayati Maqam (Forest Bathing)

Notes on New Music

On October 18, the acclaimed blues singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jerron Paxton will release his next album, Things Done Changed, on Smithsonian Folkways. You can hear Paxton’s lead single, What’s Gonna Become of Me.

“Etched within Jerron Paxton’s voice you can hear the wind, feel the hot prickle of the high-noon sun, smell the exhaust from an automobile on its last-gasp miles. It’s all there,” Lynell George writes in the liner notes. “You’ll discover context and background: the history of people and place and the come-what-may gamble of life-altering journeys.” In Paxton’s own words, “I write and sing about the culture I come from. It seems a bit neglected.”

Barchan Dune Recordings sent us a new LP by J.R. Bohannon and Dave Shuford coming out on September 13th titled Reclined In The Haze (pre-order on Bandcamp). The label said: John and Dave have been playing and recording together for a number of years, piling up improvised and loosely structured instrumentals. There are some acoustic flavours and electric as well, with bouzouki, pedal steel, and other stringed options in tow. They reach into some roots action, but also sort through more abstract sounds at the edge of tonality.

On September 27th, Naima Bock will release Below a Massive Dark Land worldwide through Sub Pop/Memorials of Distinction. Her second album, Below… comes as the follow-up to Giant Palm, one of 2022’s most critically acclaimed debuts. 

Dandelion is the second single from Kate Young‘s debut album Umbelliferæ (September 27th – Bandcamp). She shared that the songs on Umbelliferæ “draw upon many herbalist’s accounts and folk stories about local wildflowers. More broadly, it is an album that is about our human connection to the land, what this means to live here as our home, and seeing plants as an active medium between it and ourselves.”

Danny Paul Grody Duo dropped Arc of Night on June 21st on Three Lobed (Bandcamp), and Hawk Hill was one of the singles. They shared: “As is the case with so much of the material that comprises Arc of Night, “Hawk Hill” and the accompanying video by Ian Albert seeks to pay homage to the geography we are lucky to call home. The idea of place is central to this work and this piece is no exception. It is essentially a love letter to the coastal region in Northern California called Headlands, where land meets the Pacific Ocean. Our hope is to evoke the grandeur and raw beauty of this place at sundown as the fog begins to roll in.”

Setting, featuring Nathan Bowles, Jaime Fennelly and Joe Westerlund, delivered their excellent Shone a Rainbow Light On last year (reviewed here). Their new album “at Eulogy” will be released on Friday, Sept 6th as a limited edition cassette on Drop of Sun’s label DOSed, as well as digitally via Bandcamp.

Recommendation: The opening track from Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express comes from the album Junun, the making of the album was also made into an excellent documentary.