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Jeff Parker and ETA IVtet—saxophonist Josh Johnson, bassist Anna Butterss, drummer Jay Bellerose—stopped by the WNYC Studios in New York City to perform on New Sounds' Soundcheck and talk with host John Schaefer about their new album, The Way Out of Easy. They perform a short improvisation and the album track "Freakadelic" live in the studio. You can watch both and hear the full episode here.

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Shye Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express—while in NYC to perform music from their album Junun with Jonny Greenwood on tour opening for Radiohead—stopped by the WNYC studios as guests on New Sounds' Soundcheck. Ben Tzur spoke with host John Schaefer about the album and joined the band to perform songs from it. You can watch it here.   

Composer Donnacha Dennehy was on WNYC's New Sounds to talk with host John Schaefer about his piece Land of Winter. Its premiere recording—which Schaefer includes on his Top Ten for the year—is up for two GRAMMY Awards: Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Dennehy and Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for Alarm Will Sound and conductor Alan Pierson. You can hear the conversation here.

"When you've had a six decade long career at the forefront of contemporary music, and your record label issues a 27-disc box set called Collected Works, you tend to want to look back a bit," says New Sounds host John Schaefer. "Steve Reich is the subject of such a box set." Reich is also Schaefer's guest on the show, in which they do look back at some of those earlier works as well as two new works in the set, Jacob’s Ladder and Traveler’s Prayer. You can hear the episode via WNYC here.

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"There is a dreamy, hard-to-place quality to the sound of MESTIZX," WNYC Studios' New Sounds host John Schaefer says of Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Frank Rosaly's new album, which sets the tone for the latest episode of the show, focused on songs from the Caribbean and South America that "mix cultures and styles and instruments." There are tracks from MESTIZX; Gustavo Santaolalla's acclaimed 1998 album Ronroco, recently released on vinyl for the first time; and Gaby Kerpel's 2003 Santaolalla-produced Nonesuch album, Carnabailito; and more. You can hear it here.

Haitian-American singer and composer Nathalie Joachim stopped by WNYC Studios in New York City to talk with New Sounds’ Soundcheck host John Schaefer and perform three songs from her new album, Ki moun ou ye: "Kenbe m," "Kouti yo," and the title track. You can hear the conversation and live set and watch the performances here.