Mercurial Angels: Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein

2026-04-30 · via WFMU's recent playlists

Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from April 29, 2026

Ridgewood Radio features concert recordings by adventurous bands and experimental musicians and restored archival tapes from private and institutional collections captured at venues large and small across the five boroughs of New York. It is produced by David Weinstein and Outpost Artists Resources operating out of the Ridgewood section of Queens, NY, where you'll find more yellow bricks than on the road to Oz and the cemetery of your choice is never more than a few blocks from home.

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April 29, 2026: Mercurial Angels

Phantom of the Opera 1925

Music that floats, flutters, and stings, from Toshinori Kondo+Massimo Pupillo+Tony Buck,
Christian Wolff, Alex Dowling, Horst Rickels, Luigi Lullo Mosso+Massimo Simonini, and more...

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments
Fatern	Tong Poo	Synthtopia	YouTube	2010	A Ryuichi Sakamoto's piece as realized by WataFei using Moog Etherwave Theremins, with guitarist Wataru Saijyo.

Horst Rickels	Le Sacre Du Moment	Mercury	staalplaat	2026	Hand- and foot-pumped cannibalized organ pipes in an installation designed by Rickels, here with Joop Van Brakel. Recorded at De Fabriek, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 1989. Remastered 2026.
Christian Wolff	Exercise 32	Sveglia	i dischi di angelica	2023	Composed 2011. Robyn Schulkowsky percussion, vibraphone, tubular bells, timpani, voice, stones; Joey Baron drums, metals, objects, stones.
Charles K. Noyes	Fox Window	Blue All	zOaR	2026	Described as "sonic extrapolations and landscapes in the tradition of Xenakis and Varèse", realized on electric guitars and electronics.
Guerilla Toss	Land Where Money’s Nightmare Lives	What Would The Odd Do?	NNA Tapes	2019	Singer Kassie Carlson, drummer Peter Negroponte, guitarist Arian Shafiee, keyboardist Sam Lisabeth, and bassist Stephe Cooper.

Elliott Sharp	Twenty Below	K!L!A!V! - Music for Keyboard Instruments	zOaR	2026	From a collection of compositions for organs, synths, samplers composed 1986-1990,. Performed by Anthony Coleman, Wayne Horvitz, Zeena Parkins, Joseph Paul Taylor, Gwen Toth, David Weinstein and conducted by composer Sharp.
Alex Dowling	Reality Rounds	Channeling	Carrier Records	2020	Dublin, Ireland. Realization of a cybernetic vocal consort – created by four singers individually equipped with AutoTune and other effects, with Emma O'Halloran, Annika Socolofsky, Chris Douthitt, and composer Dowling.

Luigi Lullo Mosso & Massimo Simonini	Selections from Fuoriforma Suite	Fuoriforma	i dischi di angelica	2021	The first 43 of an 80 track montage of miniatures by creators Mosso, voice, contrabass, electric bass, objects, acoustic guitar; and Simonini, records, CDs, tapes, sound procession, voice, Casio SK1, toys, radio. With improvised lyrics & texts by Mosso and Vincenzo Vasi.

Michael Harrison	Mystic Lyre	From Ancient Worlds (For Harmonic Piano)	New Albion	1992	Recorded by the composer on his altered and well-tuned piano in the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, dedicated to La Monte Young.
Toshinori Kondo, Massimo Pupillo, Tony Buck	Eternal Triangle - I	Eternal Triangle	i dischi di angelica	2022	Toshinori Kondo, electric trumpet; Massimo Pupillo, electric bass, electronics; Tony Buck drums, percussion.
Joshua Mastel & Alec Goldfarb	Mastel’s sky goes dark I+II	Firmament	Gold Bolus	2026	Works for microtonal harpsichord and strings, using a double-manual harpsichord based on a 16th-century tuning by theorist Nicola Vicentino, played by Mastel. With Goldfarb on electric guitar, Austin Wulliman (JACK Quartet) on violin, and Daniel Hass (Renaissance Quartet) on cello.

Listener comments!
	🥁 ♥ 5:02pm : Hi David and ridgewoodians!
	🥁 ♥ 5:03pm Yvang: Hello David and Ridgewoodland people, hello Chresti!
	🥁 ♥ 5:08pm david w: chresti! Yvang! Welcome!
	🥁 ♥ 5:12pm listener james from westwood: Afternoon, Ridgewoodians and all!
	🥁 ♥ 5:13pm david w: james! Good afternoon!
	5:14pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there, David, and others!
	5:14pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Yvang @5:03 Hi, Yvang!
	🥁 ♥ 5:16pm david w: Andrew! Hi back to you!
	🥁 ♥ 5:30pm chresti: Hi Yvang!
	🥁 ♥ 5:31pm Yvang: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @5:14 Hi Andrew!
	5:38pm Ruth: And you're playing on this one! YAY!
	🥁 ♥ 5:39pm david w: ↳ Ruth @5:38 Yeah (blushing)
	🥁 ♥ 5:39pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "Twenty Below" by "Elliott Sharp" This is what happens when guitarists and keyboardists fraternize
	🥁 ♥ 5:41pm david w: ↳ DJ Peter @5:39 Peter! Ha!
	♥ 6:00pm doctorjazz: Hi David, Ruth, Ridgewood Residents and visitors!
	🥁 ♥ 6:01pm DJ Peter: ↳ doctorjazz @6:00 Hey doc!
	🥁 ♥ 6:02pm david w: ↳ doctorjazz @6:00 Hi, doc!
	♥ 6:10pm ranjit: ↳ Song: "Selections from Fuoriforma Suite" by "Luigi Lullo... spooky!
	🥁 ♥ 6:11pm david w: ↳ ranjit @6:10 ranjit! You ain't heard nothin' yet...
	♥ 6:12pm Feldy: ↳ Song: "Selections from Fuoriforma Suite" by "Luigi Lullo... This is fully up-my-alley
	🥁 ♥ 6:13pm Yvang: ↳ Song: "Selections from Fuoriforma Suite" by "Luigi Lullo... This is fun. Same spirit as People like Us or Otis Fodder
	🥁 ♥ 6:14pm david w: ↳ Feldy @6:12 Feldy! It takes a particularly twisted focus, specially if you dig the Italian sensibility.
	🥁 ♥ 6:16pm WR: Hello David W, Ruth, and folks.
	🥁 ♥ 6:17pm david w: ↳ WR @6:16 WR! Climb on in...
	♥ 6:19pm Feldy: ↳ david w @6:14 I have a tuning fork for this. It is so fun. No way to guess what's happening next
	🥁 ♥ 6:19pm tom tom the pipers son: Hey David.... just got in...gusto de tiempo
	🥁 ♥ 6:21pm david w: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:19 tom tom! Just in time for wack and bliss.
	♥ 6:21pm doctorjazz: ↳ DJ Peter @6:01 Hey DJ Peter (been getting some office work while listening, just got back to the chat)!
	♥ 6:22pm doctorjazz: ↳ Yvang @6:13 Second Yvang, this IS fun!
	♥ 6:31pm ranjit: Hey now, I think Fuoriforma was ridiculous AND divine.
	🥁 ♥ 6:32pm tom tom the pipers son: David.... I've become an acquaintance of a former resident of Outpost.... Her name begins with C... Do you know who it is?
	🥁 ♥ 6:33pm david w: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:32 Hmm, need a bit more. Caterina Verde?
	🥁 ♥ 6:33pm tom tom the pipers son: Ding ding ding
	🥁 ♥ 6:34pm david w: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:33 Very cool person and artist.
	♥ 6:34pm doctorjazz: Just living on leftovers from the freezer the past few days, but made this last Friday, really good... cooking.nytimes.com...
	♥ 6:35pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @6:34 (easy to make, extra bonus)
	🥁 ♥ 6:36pm david w: ↳ doctorjazz @6:35 Looks tasty. I've been trying to fit tofu into my diet with some success.
	🥁 ♥ 6:37pm tom tom the pipers son: Yes...well then we off on the good foot
	🥁 ♥ 6:38pm david w: Coming to a radio near you... 7-10pm EDT: BODEGA POP with Gary Sullivan: Melodiya Madness! Strange prog, jazz, electronic, experimental, post-pop, and non-pop on Soviet-era vinyl. wfmu.org... 10-midnite: IF YOU LOSE YOUR HORSE with Sam Segal
	🥁 ♥ 6:40pm DJ Peter: ↳ Song: "Mystic Lyre" by "Michael Harrison" David am I right in thinking that was two pianos? Or was it one piano but with different registers tuned differently?
	🥁 ♥ 6:42pm david w: ↳ DJ Peter @6:40 Great ears. I believe each octave was tuned to a different scheme.
	🥁 ♥ 6:51pm DJ Peter: ↳ david w @6:42 Cool! Maybe like a string instrument (the lyre) that isn’t perfectly in tune from top to bottom.
	♥ 6:52pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Mastel’s sky goes dark I+II" by "Joshua Mastel & ... This is cool!
	🥁 ♥ 6:52pm david w: Wrapping up here today. Great reactions from a very eclectic show. Thanks, everybody!
	♥ 6:52pm doctorjazz: Thanks, David! Bye all!
	♥ 6:55pm ranjit: thank you, David!
	🥁 ♥ 6:55pm tom tom the pipers son: Thx David.... Have a good evening
	🥁 ♥ 6:56pm chresti: Thanks David!
	♥ 7:00pm Feldy: GREAT SHOW, DAVID!
	🥁 ♥ 7:00pm Yvang: Thanks David for the ride!