1-16-20 The NightOwl

Pictured: Kelly Lee Owens

Listen here for up to two weeks (click ahead to the second hour on the timebar).

Kelly Lee Owens   /  8
Kelpe   /  Polymar A
Holly Herndon   /  Alienation
Max Cooper, Poppy Ackroyd   /  Lovesong - Poppy Ackroyd Remix
Fatima Al Qadiri   /  Souleiman's Theme
Mica Levi, Oliver Coates   /  Barok Main
Max Cooper, Wilderthorn   /  Nanotech
Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, MF DOOM   /  Ninjarous
808 State, Bjork, Eric Kupper   /  Ooops - Eric's Kup of Hysteria Mix
Grouper   /  She Loves Me That Way

1-15-20 Merging w/the Night

Pictured: Gil Scott-Heron

Listen here for up to two weeks.

Andrew Bird   /  Bloodless
Thom Yorke   /  Runwayaway
Other Lives   /  Lost Day
Gil Scott-Heron, Makaya McCraven   /  Where Did the Night Go
Maxence Cyrin   /  Where Is My Mind
Eartheater, LEYA   /  Mint
Waldeck, Patrizia Ferrara   /  One of These Days
Yello   /  Blue Green
Svinhunder, Echo Collective   /  Anna
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma   /  Love's Refrain
Susumu Yokota   /  Lapis Lazuli

1-8-20 Favorites from 2019

Pictured: Bat For Lashes

Some favorites from last year to begin the new year on Merging w/the Night.

Listen here for up to two weeks.

Bat For Lashes  /  The Hunger
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross  /  Life On Mars?
Loma  /  Half Silences
Holly Herndon  /  Last Gasp
Max Cooper, Six Sigma  /  Parting Ways
Radiohead  /  Ill Wind
Jonny Greenwood, Katherine Tinker, Daniel Pioro, Clare O'Connell, Christopher Graves, Dave Brown, Nicolas Magriel  /  Three Miniatures From Water
EOB  /  Santa Teresa
Kelly Moran  /  Reflexive Music (Autowave)
Nils Frahm  /  The Roughest Trade
Susumu Yokota  /  The Art of Contemplation
Anne Muller  /  Solo? Repeat!
Carmen Villain  /  Observable Future
Max Cooper  /  Aleph 2
Portico Quartet  /  Gradient
Poppy Ackroyd  /  The Calm Before - Daisuke Tanabe Remix
Andy Stott  /  It Should Be Us
Carla dal Forno  /  Leaving For Japan; No Trace
Penelope Trappes, Mogwai  /  Burn On - Mogwai Rework
Amon Tobin  /  One Shy Morning

12-18-19 Merging w/the Night, holiday edition

Pictured: Nils Frahm

Listen to this radio set for up to two weeks.

Vince Guaraldi Trio   /  Greensleeves
Leonard Cohen   /  Leaving Green Sleeves
John Coltrane Quartet   /  Greensleeves - single version
Olafur Arnalds, Voces8   /  momentary - choir version
trentemoller   /  Silent Night
SASAMI   /  Little Drummer Boy
Caroline Shaw, Roomful of Teeth, Brad Wells   /  Partita for 8 Singers: No. 2. Sarabande
KAZU, Amedeo Pace, Simone Pace, Matt Haimovitz   /  Misery is a Butterfly (arr C. O'Riley for Cello & Piano)
Lambert   /  Otis
Svinhunder   /  Giallo
Michael Gordon, Mantra percussion, Hauschka   /  Timber (Hauschka Remix)
Michael Gordon, Mantra percussion, Mira Calix   /  Timber (Mira Calix Remix)
EOB   /  Brasil
Daniel Lopatin   /  Back to Rosyln
Oneohtrix Point Never, (Sandy) Alex G   /  Babylon
Nils Frahm   /  nils frahm xmas mix 2019

12-14-19 Artist Feature: Philip Glass

Part of the 2019 WTJU Classical Music Marathon

1. Opening   /  Philip Glass, Vikingur Olafsson   /  Philip Glass: Piano Works
2. Etude 2   /  Philip Glass   /  Etudes for Piano Vol 1 No. 1-10
3. Truman Sleeps, Living Waters   /  Philip Glass, Burkhard Dallwitz   /  The Truman Show
4. Songs from Liquid Days: No 4, Liquid Days, Pt 1   /  Philip Glass, Michael Riesman   /  Glass: Songs from Liquid Days
5. Songs from Liquid Days: No 5, Liquid Days, Pt 2   /  Philip Glass, Michael Riesman   /  Glass: Songs from Liquid Days
6. New York - Mad Rush   /  Philip Glass, Thibault Cauvin, Adelaide Ferriere   /  Cities II
7. Einstein on the Beach: Knee Play No. 4 (Arr. P. Barnes for Piano)   /  Philip Glass, Nicolas Horvath   /  Glass: Glassworlds, Vol. 3
8. Dreaming of Fiji   /  Philip Glass, Burkhard Dallwitz   /  The Truman Show
9. Orphee Suite - 6. Orphee's Return   /  Philip Glass   /  The Orphee Suite
10. Satyagraha: Tolstoy Farm   /  Philip Glass, Douglas Pery, Christopher Keene, New York City Opera Orchestra   /  Glass: Songs from the Trilogy
11. Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (Violin Concerto No. 1) - 1    /  Philip Glass, James Strauss, Alfonso Lopez Ch., Camerata Simon Bolivar   /  Venezuelan Elegy
12. Akhnaten: Epilogue   /  Philip Glass, Paul Esswood, Dennis Russel Davies, Staatsorchester Stuttgart   /  Glass: Songs from the Trilogy
13. Songs from Liquid Days: No. 6, Forgetting   /  Philip Glass, Michael Riesman   /  Glass: Songs from Liquid Days
14. Runaway Horses   /  Philip Glass, Maki Namekawa   /  Mishima
15. Ragas in Minor Scale   /  Philip Glass, Ravi Shankar   /  Passages
16. Offering   /  Philip Glass, Ravi Shankar   /  Passages
17. Perpetulum: Cadenza   /  Philip Glass, Third Coast Percussion   /  Perpetulum
18. Aguas de Amazonia: Paru River   /  Philip Glass, Uakti   /  Philip Glass: Aguas da Amazonia
19. Aguas de Amazonia: Amazon River   /  Philip Glass, Uakti   /  Philip Glass: Aguas da Amazonia
20. Naqoyqatsi    /  Philip Glass   /  Philip Glass: Cello Concerto No. 2 Naqoyqatsi
21. String Quartet no.2 Company: II.   /  Philip Glass, Dublin Guitar Quartet   /  The Dublin Guitar Quartet performs Philip Glass
22. Songs from Liquid Days: No. 1, Changing Opinion   /  Philip Glass, Michael Riesman   /  Glass: Songs from Liquid Days
23. Glassworks: VI. Closing   /  Philip Glass, Philip Glass, Ensemble, Michael Riesman   /  Glassword - Expanded Edition

12-13-2019 Artist Feature: Jonny Greenwood

A special radio show featuring the music of Jonny Greenwood, part of the 2019 WTJU Classical Music Marathon.

1. Radiohead   /  Street Spirit (Fade Out)  /  The Bends
2. Johann Sebastian Bach, Daniel Pioro   /  Partita No 2 in D Minor: Allemanda  /  Octatonic Volume 1
3. Michael Gordon, Oliver Coates, Jonny Greenwood   /  Industry  /  Octatonic Volume 2
4. Jonny Greenwood, Katherine Tinker, Daniel Pioro, Clare O'Connell, Christopher Graves, Dave Brown, Nicolas Magriel   /  Three Miniatures from Water  /  Octatonic Volume 2
5. Jonny Greenwood   /  Phantom Thread II 
6. Jonny Greenwood   /  Clockwork Tin Soldiers  /  Bodysong.
7. Jonny Greenwood   /  Open Spaces  /  There Will Be Blood
8. Jonny Greenwood   /  Oil  /  There Will Be Blood
9. Jonny Greenwood   /  Tree Synthesizers  /  You Were Never Really Here
10. Jonny Greenwood   /  Quartertone Bloom  /  Norwegian Wood
11. Jonny Greenwood   /  Toki no Senrei wo Uketeinai mono wo Yomuna  /  Norwegian Wood
12. Jonny Greenwood   /  Tree Strings  /  You Were Never Really Here
13. Jonny Greenwood   /  Sandy's Necklace  /  You Were Never Really Here
14. Jonny Greenwood   /  Phantom Thread I
15. Jonny Greenwood   /  Alethia  /  The Master
16. Jonny Greenwood   /  Shasta  /  Inherent Vice
17. Jonny Greenwood   /  The Chryskylodon Institute  /  Inherent Vice
18. Jonny Greenwood   /  Shasta Fay Hepworth  /  Inherent Vice
19. Jonny Greenwood, Shye Ben Tzur, The Rajasthan Express   /  Eloah  /  Junun
20. Jonny Greenwood, Shye Ben Tzur, The Rajasthan Express   /  Kalandar  /  Junun
21. Jonny Greenwood, Shye Ben Tzur, The Rajasthan Express   /  Hu  /  Junun
22. Jonny Greenwood, Daniel Pioro   /  Phantom Thread IV (feat. Daniel Pioro)
23. Jonny Greenwood   /  Mou Sukoshi Jibun no Koto, Kichinto Shitaino  /  Norwegian Wood
24. Jonny Greenwood   /  Prospectors Arrive  /  There Will Be Blood
25. Jonny Greenwood   /  Phantom Thread III
26. Jonny Greenwood, Krzysztof Penderecki, Marek Mos   /  Greenwood: Popcorn Superhet Receiver: Part 2B
27. JJ Doom, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood   /  Retarded Fren - Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood Version

12-4-19 Merging w/the Night

Pictured: The Sugarcubes

Listen to this radio set for up to two weeks.

Khruangbin   /  Christmas Time is Here
Deerhunter    /  Timebends
Jonny Greenwood   /  Moon Trills
The Sugarcubes   /  Hit
Dif Juz   /  Crosswinds
Romare   /  Motherless Child
Aphex Twin   /  Pancake Lizard - Peel Session
Eartheater   /  Spill the Milk
Four Tet, Avalon Emerson   /  Teenage Birdsong - Avalon Emerson Scrub Jay Remix
Animal Collective   /  Man of Oil
Egemen Sanli   /  Touch of Surrender

12-5-19 The NightOwl

Pictured: Kelly Moran

Listen to this radio set for up to two weeks (click ahead to the second hour on the timebar).

Boards of Canada   /  XYZ - Peel Session
Kelly Moran   /  Love Birds, Night Birds, Devil-Birds
Ships in the Night, Corey Gorey   /  The Floor (Tinderbox Thorn Mix)
Mogwai   /  Sine Wave
Forest Swords   /  Swarm
Mica Levi   /  Hosting
Jonny Greenwood   /  Dark Streets (Reprise)
Jonny Greenwood   /  Get Thee Behind Me Satan - feat. Ella Fitzgerald
Clint Mansell   /  The Last Man
Egemen Sanli   /  Rooted in Stillness
Colleen   /  Captain of None
Olafur Arnalds   /  ekki hugsa (amsterdam) - live

11-27-19 Merging w/the Night

Pictured: Lisel

Listen to this radio set for up to two weeks.

Leonard Cohen   /  Moving On
Destroyer   /  It Just Doesn't Happen
James Holden, The Animal Spirits   /  Each Moment Like The First
Lisel   /  This Time Tomorrow
Dif Juz   /  A Starting Point
Dirty Beaches   /  Elizabeth's Theme
Anne Muller   /  Solo? Repeat!
Jonny Greenwood   /  Clockwork Tin Soldiers
Yann Tiersen, Blonde Redhead   /  Closer [Portrait Version]
AED, Fede Zarba, Tricky   /  This Place
Grimes   /  So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth - Algorithm Mix
Flying Lotus   /  MmmHmm - Maida Vale Session

11-28-19 The NightOwl

Pictured: Olafur Arnalds

Listen to this radio set for up to two weeks (click ahead to the second hour on the timebar).

Andy Stott   /  Dismantle

Download   /  Base Metal

Olafur Arnalds   /  ypsilon (leicester) - live

Jon Hopkins   /  Emerald Rush

Plaid   /  Elide - Peel Session

Seefeel   /  Time To Find Me (AFX Slow Mix)

Ahmed Malek, Natureboy Flako   /  Tape 9, Pt. 4

Royksopp   /  Shores of Easy (Lost Tapes)

Klein   /  Claim It

11-21-19 The NightOwl

Pictured: Ships in the Night

Listen to this radio set for up to two weeks (click ahead to second hour on the timebar).

Seefeel   /  Time to Find Me (AFX Fast Mix)
Ships in the Night, Synthetic Division   /  Elegy (Nightshade Mix)
Del Jef Gilson, Malagasy   /  Valiha
Bjork   /  Hyper-Ballad - Remix LP
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds   /  Bright Horses
Peter Murphy   /  Marlene Dietrich's Favorite Poem
Massive Attack, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi   /  Fatalism
Gonja Sufi   /  Candylane
Mogwai   /  You Don't Know Jesus
Hype Williams   /  Jesus to a Child 2
Fever Ray   /  Concrete Walls - Live

11-20-19 Merging w/the Night

Pictured: Siouxsie Sioux

Listen to this radio set for up to two weeks.

Siouxsie and the Banshees   /  Turn to Stone
Cate le Bon, Bradford Cox   /  Canto!
Brad Mehldau   /  Paranoid Android
Mount Eerie, Julie Doiron   /  Real Lost Wisdom
This Mortal Coil   /  Dreams Made Flesh
Warpaint   /  Whiteout
T. Rex   /  Cosmic Dancer
Brad Mehldau   /  Paranoid Android
Radiohead   /  Talk Show Host
Sessa   /  Flor do Real
Oliver Coates   /  Faraday Monument
Aphex Twin   /  Slo Bird Whistle

11-13-19 Merging w/the Night

Pictured: Johnny Rotten / John Lydon

Listen here for up to two weeks

Clams Casino   /  Cupidwing
Blockhead   /  Bubble Bath
Thurston Moore   /  Leave Me Alone
Dean Blunt, Inga Copeland   /  The Narcissist
Cate le Bon, Bradford Cox   /  Secretary
CAN   /  Mary, Mary So Contrary
Mogwai   /  Punk Rock - Cava Sessions
Mogwai   /  Hunted by a Freak
John Lydon, Sid Vicious   /  It's Just a Load of Rubbish
Public Image Ltd   /  Careering
Yann Tiersen   /  Rue des Cascades - Portrait Version
Anne Muller   /  Drifting Circles
Steve Hauschildt   /  A Planet Left Behind
Mica Levi   /  Interlude I
This Mortal Coil   /  Fyt (Remastered)
Mogwai   /  Oh! How The Dogs Stack Up
Robin Guthrie, Harold Budd   /  How Close Your Soul
CocoRosie   /  Smash My Head
Susumu Yokota   /  Direct Transmission
Forest Swords   /  An Hour
Trentemoller, Marie Fisker   /  Sycamore Feeling - Marie Fisker Version
The Black Dog   /  Chesh
Micachu & The Shapes   /  L.A. Poison
The Orb   /  Alpine Evening

11-9-19 Reggae Vibrations

Pictured: Sampa the Great

Listen here for up to two weeks from when the show aired.
Thanks to DJ Zostress for guesting with me.

Horace Andy   /  Straight to Hell
Norma Fraser   /  First Cut is the Deepest
The Heptones   /  Book of Rules
Chalice   /  Revival Time
Scientist   /  Morning Glory
Sampa the Great, Nadeem Din-Gabisi   /  Energy
Yellowman   /  Zungguzungguguzungguzeng
Scientist   /  Daylight Loving Time
Bob Marley   /  Rainbow Country
Bunny Wailer   /  Pass It On
Marcia Aitken   /  I'm Still in Love
Linval Thomson   /  Dread Are the Controller
Twilight Circus Dub Sound System   /  Lightning Strike
Lone Ranger   /  Dancehall Style
Kiddus I   /  Graduation in Zion
10 Ft. Ganja Plant   /  Blood Money
Reggaesta, Fugees   /  Fu-Gee-La Reggae Remix
Nay Nichelle   /  No War
Scotty   /  Clean Race
Grace Jones   /  She's Lost Control
Toots and the Maytals   /  Rastaman Dub
Ken Boothe   /  Artibella/Satamasagana
Reggaesta, Fugees   /  Killing Me Softly Reggae Remix
Johnny Lover, The Upsetters   /  Like It Like This (Don't Rock My Boat)
Bob Marley & The Wailers   /  Put It On

11-6-19 Merging w/the Night

Pictured: Mica Levi

Listen here for up to two weeks after the show aired.

Plaid, Leila    /  Getting
Ella Fitzgerald, Layo & Bushwacka!   /  Angel Eyes - Layo & Bushwacka
Micachu & The Shapes   /  Oh Baby
Madonna, Massive Attack   /  I Want You
KARYYN, Young Paint   /  TILT - Edit
Polica   /  Wandering Star
Massive Attack   /  Unfinished Sympathy - Nellee Hooper 12" Mix
Poppy Ackroyd   /  Light - Hauschka Remix
This Mortal Coil   /  A Heart of Glass
Nils Frahm   /  The Roughest Trade
Slowdive   /  Spanish Air
John Maus   /  Hey Moon

Oliver Coates   /  Norrin Radd Dreaming

DJ Bone   /  Cultural Variance - Original Mix

Hype Williams   /  Blue Dream

Flying Lotus   /  Takashi

Nine Inch Nails   /  Piggy

Trentemoller, The Soft Moon   /  Complicated - The Soft Moon Remix

Mica Levi   /  Love

Selda Bagcan   /  Gesi Baglari

Siouxsie and the Banshees   /  Helter Skelter

Juniore   /  Ah bah d'accord

The Chemical Brothers   /  Alive Alone

10-30-19 Devil's Night

Oct 30 is 'Devil's Night', according to the film The Crow (1994)

Listen to this radio set for up to two weeks.

Graeme Revell   /  Devil's Night
PJ Harvey   /  Red Right Hand
Leonard Cohen   /  Happens to the Heart
Thom Yorke   /  Volk
Joy Division   /  Dead Souls
The Cure   /  The Holy Hour
Sex Pistols   /  No Future - God Save the Queen
Susumu Yokota   /  Incantation of the Stars
Peter Murphy   /  Socrates the Python
Pale Saints   /  Hair Shoes (Demo)
Cocteau Twins   /  The Spangle Maker
Duran Duran   /  Night Boat
Machines of Loving Grace   /  If I Should Explode
Angelo Badalamenti   /  The Black Dog Runs at Night
Angelo Badalamenti   /  Theme from Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me
Julee Cruise   /  Falling
The Legendary Pink Dots   /  The Whore of Babylon
The Legendary Pink Dots   /  Pennies for Heaven
This Mortal Coil   /  Song to the Siren
Coil   /  Batwings (A Limnal Hymn)
Carla dal Forno   /  The Garden
Rage Against the Machine   /  Darkness
Skinny Puppy   /  Spasmolytic - Brap Version
Nine Inch Nails   /  Reptile
Nine Inch Nails   /  The Downward Spiral
Modest Mussorgsky, Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic   /  Night on Bald Mountain

10-24-19 The NightOwl

Pictured: Holly Herndon
Watch the profound video for her track 'Eternal'.  It will make you hear the song differently.

Listen here to this one hour radio show for up to two weeks (click ahead to the second hour on the timebar).

Playlist:
Trentemoller, Lisbet Fritze / Blue September
Biosphere / Black Mesa
Holly Herndon / Eternal
Dalhous / You Don't Know What You Want, Do You?
Plaid, Nicolette / Extork
mobilegirl, Scintii / Ceremonial Song - Scintii Remix
Brambles / Spirits
Boards of Canada / 1969
The Orb, Lee "Scratch" Perry / Golden Clouds
Mary Lattimore, Mac McCaughan / I
Brian Eno, Kevin Shields / Only Once Away My Son

10-23-19 Merging w/the Night

Pictured: Jenny Hval's latest album cover

Listen here to this one hour radio show for up to two weeks.

Playlist:
Yves Tumor / Faith in Nothing Except in Salvation
Jenny Hval, Vivian Wang / Lions (feat. Vivian Wang)
Bat For Lashes / The Hunger
Brian Eno, John Cale / Spinning Away
Ariel Pink / Baby
New Order / Thieves Like us
Wild Nothing / Partners in Motion
Plaid, Benet Walsh / Ralome
Cocteau Twins / Beatrix
Yves Tumor, James K / Licking an Orchid
Nils Frahm / A Walking Embrace
Alice in Chains / Nutshell

10-16-19 Merging w/the Night Owl

Pictured: Channy Leaneagh of Polica.

The styles blend!

Listen here for up to two weeks.

Polica   /  Driving
EOB   /  Santa Teresa
Gravenhurst    /  I Found The F [Original by Broadcast]
Thom Yorke   /  Guess Again!
Atoms For Peace   /  Ingenue
Officer!   /  Elephant Flowers
Jonny Greenwood, Thom Yorke, Philip Selway, Edward O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, Voces8, Thomas Gould, Matthew Sharp, Eleanor Turner   /  Pyramid Song (Arr. Lawson)
Aphex Twin   /  IZ-US
Yves Tumor   /  Noid
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds   /  Hollywood
HTRK   /  You Know How to Make Me Happy
Anne Muller   /  Nummer 2
Fennesz, David Sylvian   /  Transit (feat. David Sylvian)
Jefre Cant-Ledesma   /  Love's Refrain
Heron & Crane   /  Cave Cricket Crossing
Dalhous   /  He Was Human and He Belonged with Humans
Tamaryn   /  Love Fade
IDLES, Tricky   /  Colossus - Tricky Remix
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds   /  Wonderful Life
I.A.O.   /  The Clan (Mongol Hordes)
The Black Dog   /  Black Daisy Wheel

10-10-19 The NightOwl

Pictured: Poppy Ackroyd

Listen here for up to two weeks (click ahead on the timebar to the second hour).

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds   /  Spinning Song
Carla dal Forno   /  Heart of Hearts
Amon Tobin   /  One Shy Morning
Delroy Edwards   /  I Love Sloane
Saajtak   /  If You Ask - Acoustic Version
Steve Hauschildt   /  Nonlin
Poppy Ackroyd   /  The Calm Before - Daisuke Tanabe Remix
Pye Corner Audio   /  Lost Ways
The Black Dog   /  Business Car Park 9
Boards of Canada   /  Julie and Candy
Mira Calix with Oliver Coates   /  In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country