Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein:
Playlist
from May 27, 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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Image from Elvi Tarot
Image from Elvi Tarot
Works with spiritual or political subtext, from Moussa Doumbia, Nala Sinephro,
Artist
Track
Album
Label
Year
Comments
Approx. start time
SML
Window Sill Song
Small Medium Large
International Anthem
2024
From an album edited, compiled, and constructed from live improvisations at ETA in Los Angeles. Anna Butterss, electric bass; Jeremiah Chiu, synthesizers, live-sampling, aux percussion; Josh Johnson, saxophone, electronics; Booker Stardrum, drums, percussion; Gregory Uhlmann, guitar, effects.
0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The MerKaBa Brotherhood
Galgalim
The MerKaBa Brotherhood
Mississippi Records
2026
Roman Norfleet, vocals, percussion, alto sax; Andre Raiah (Brown Calvin), Fender Rhodes, electronic drums, FX. Inspired by esoteric texts, sacred imagery, and mystic thought.
0:02:27 (MP3 | Pop-up)
John Ondolo
Yunie Mpenzi We
Hypnotic Guitar of John Ondolo
Mississippi Records
2022
From a collection of restored 50s-60s 78rpm recordings. Ondolo (Tanzania, Kenya) used an open tuning borrowed from American blues guitarists, and was influenced by the pop music scene in Nairobi, rock and roll imports from the US, and the Abakuria tribal music of his youth.
0:09:12 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Moussa Doumbia
Menebo Nden
Sound D'Afrique II Soukous
Mango
1982
"Soukous", a word understood throughout French-speaking Africa, means "going out, checking the music, dancing and, cool or passionate, having the Best Time... as in juking... but also as in the slang term for the Congolese style that dominates the continent's pop". -Robert Chistgau
0:12:11 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Etran de L'Aïr
Tahawerte Ine Idinette
Agadez
Sahel Sounds
2022
Agadez guitar music in a pan-African style citing a myriad of cultural influences, from Northern Malian blues, Hausa bar bands, to Congolese Soukous. Abdourahamane “Allamine” Ibrahim, guitar, vocals; Abdoulaye “Illa” Ibrahim, bass; Mahmoud “Achkouskous” Ahmed Jabre , drums; Idrissa “Bouzou” Amouman, Abdourhamane “Lallou” Almoustapaha Bilal, djembe.
0:18:30 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Nala Sinephro
Continuum 10
Endlessness
Warp Records
2024
London. Nala Sinephro , synthesizers, piano, Wonky Logic, synth bass; Natcyet Wakili, drums.
0:24:13 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Harry Partch
And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma: Verses 21-34
Harry Partch: And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma
Composers Recordings, Inc.
1966/2017
Restored! The Gate 5 Ensemble: Harry Partch, director; Danlee Mitchell, Michael Ranta, Emil Richards, Wallace Snow, Stephen Tosh. Using a just intonation scale with 43 pitches in each octave, based on an eleven-limit tonality diamond (29 pitches per octave), which Partch tweaked with 14 additional intervals. Performed on homemade and adapted mallet, percussion, keyboard, and string instruments.
0:34:53 (MP3 | Pop-up)
SML
Industry
Small Medium Large
International Anthem
2024
From an album edited, compiled, and constructed from live improvisations at ETA in Los Angeles. Anna Butterss. electric bass; Jeremiah Chiu, synthesizers, live-sampling, aux Percussion; Josh Johnson, saxophone, electronics; Booker Stardrum,drums, percussion; Gregory Uhlmann, guitar.
0:49:41 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Black Rain
Obliterine Silvergreen/All Snowflake Melt
Obliteration Bliss
Room40
2025
Two conjoined tracks from Stuart Argabright, programming, keyboards, sound design; Shinichi Shimokawa, programming, guitar; Soren Roi, modular synth, guitar; Masashi Ohtsu, guitars, modular synth; Zanias, vocals.
0:54:09 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Grupo Um
Mobile/Stabile
Nineteen Seventy Seven
Far Out Recordings
2026
Grupo Um members Lelo Nazario (keys, Arp2600 and EMS Synthi AKS), Zé Eduardo Nazario (drums), and Zeca Assumpção (bass) joined by saxophonist Roberto Sion and percussionist Carlinhos Gonçalves. Recorded 1977 when Brazil's military dictatorship was at its most repressive. “There were no open doors to those who dreamt to be protagonists in creative instrumental music”, remembers drummer Nazario, “even popular composers and singers had to submit their songs to censors and many records were banned and confiscated from the stores.”
1:08:25 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bridges of Königsberg
Rust Issues
The Shenanigans-to-Tomfoolery Continuum
Rubber City Noise
2023
The formerly Milwaukee, Wisconsin based trio of Christopher Burns, David Collins, and Peter J. Woods integrates broken techno, twisted patterns, harsh noise, and drones using fractured samples, digital and modular synthetics, bowed objects, and lo-fi electronics.
1:18:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Niblock Hooker Soldier First
Paiva River Songs (excerpt)
Paiva River Songs
Gold Bolus
2026
Excerpt from a studio collaboration between William Hooker, drums; Dave Soldier, violin, banjo; David First, guitar, harmonica, slide whistle, jews harp, voice; and Phill Niblock, who decided his contribution would be field recordings he made of the Paiva River in Portugal in 2010.
1:35:13 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Carrie Frey & Alex Van Gils
five of cups reversed
Lesser Arcana
Long Echo Records
2026
Van Gils’s custom microtonal synth and Frey’s trove of variously sized, variously colored violas in often indistinguishable alignment. Frey and Van Gils have long been fond of Tarot card readings where the Lesser Arcana cards represent the daily events and tendencies that make up the overarching themes of a querent’s life.
1:48:56 (MP3 | Pop-up)
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