PRX - Pieces for Tone: Unconventional
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One man's vision led to a vinyl-only record company producing albums of spoken-word horror literature. And the craziest part? It's flourishing.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Jan 20, 2018
- Length: 09:57
- Purchases: 1
Most music listeners are unaware of cello quartets such as the Delphia Cello Quartet. But to a cellist, its’ the most normal thing in the world. Th...
- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 08:00
One Ukulele. Well, it’s actually three men who sing with ukuleles and guitars, too. The group performs and spreads the word about how fun it is to ...
Bought by PRX Remix and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 2
One Ukulele. Well, it’s actually three men who sing with ukuleles and guitars, too. The group performs and spreads the word about how fun it is to ...
- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Mumblin’ Drew is a local guy who discovered folk music, and followed the interest. His playing is based on classic performances of American folk mu...
- Added: Oct 11, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Mumblin’ Drew is a local guy who discovered folk music, and followed the interest. His playing is based on classic performances of American folk mu...
- Added: Oct 11, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Jay Afrisando is from Indonesia, where the national form is gamelan music. And Jay is interested in gamelan. But his starting place is really jazz,...
- Added: Aug 31, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Every once in a while you learn of a group that really is different than all others. Such is the case with Captain Gravitone and the String Theory ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2017
- Length: 05:00
When you see the New Primitives, you’re seeing a band that is a master at creating and maintaining a great vibe. Stanley Kipper helped start the ba...
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 08:29
Kari Tauring is a leading researcher and performer of ancient Norse traditions, but she uses them in healing sessions. Hers is a point of view that...
- Added: May 04, 2016
- Length: 09:22
Kari Tauring performs really old music in a really modernistic way. It’s a combination you wouldn’t expect, but is completely natural to someone li...
- Added: May 04, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Tabla player Marcus Wise and Guitarist Dean Magraw have one of the few musical cultural syntheses that really works. It is because the Wise/Magraw ...
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Les Claypool never rests. Whether he’s dealing with his most famous band, Primus, leading his Frog Brigade, or jamming with his new friend Sean Le...
Bought by KUCB, KHNS, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 07:10
- Purchases: 4
Conor McSweeny is a graduate student studying music and popular culture and a lifelong guitar nerd. Naturally, his Song Story fits nicely into his...
- Added: Oct 25, 2015
- Length: 04:44
Joe Donia's Song Story is a memory piece taking him from the music that filled his childhood to his son Natty's performance of Clocks in a rarely h...
- Added: Sep 26, 2015
- Length: 06:56
Jonathan Vallis remembers the first time he heard Billy Bragg.
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 03:43
Rick Peate's Song Story will touch a nerve with anyone who's ever had the kind of day where all you want to do when you get home is bash something.
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 04:06
Pat Zakaib's bitter-sweet memory of friendship lost and found spans decades as she shares a frustrating tale of her travels from Paris to Athens.
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 05:01
Colin Bartlett takes us to East Germany before the wall came down.
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 04:20
In his Song Story, Rod Clarance reminds everyone born in Montreal something we all intuitively know. You can leave Montreal, but Montreal will neve...
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 06:06
Sandy Senyk remembers his bad drinking days and hearing, for the first time, "some girl called Bonnie Raitt ..." It's "one of the best when night'...
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 03:51
Here's a Song Story from the Maritimes (Canada's easternmost provinces) and it features Charlotte Britten and Great Big Sea.
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 03:09
Artist and medical technician Deb Mueller Peate take us to her youth and back in a Song Story that covers four decades of memory.
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 06:42
“I'll always have this wonderful memory of my father who loved to dance with his daughter, and still does to this day.”
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 04:57
Award-winning composer Jenny Olivia Johnson explores synesthesia, where sound is perceived as color or touch. Her feature is a work of sound art as...
- Added: Apr 10, 2015
- Length: 10:09
