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Every season we host & produce a new series of virtual sound space performances & mixes ranging in local, national & international contributions beaming directly to listeners & archived here & at: www.mixcloud.com/lostdiscoveries/playlists/lost-discoveries-2020/

Artetetra

Lost Discoveries Radio rides the waves this week with the wet & wild Babau boyz via their imprint Artetetra Records. Babau is the pantropical Italian duo harkening unearthly delights of unconscious reticular motion, wacky 3D shredding, and daily “side quests”. What these “quests” are is open to interpretation, but we’re on the trail of where they lead.... Dare brave their drop zones of animal memories, glowing red altars, pixie exodus (?!) , neon gallery meltdowns, moon spirits, groshings, cabin fever, amphibian vertex mass and more klang than you can count! All this along with a live transmission from their recent tour road-dogging through southern Europe featuring a flair of exotica influences that builds full of lofty low poly structures, tentacular “mickey-mousing” gesticulations, and already obsolete sonic ontologies. RIDE THE BARREL

The Return of ARB

Lost Discoveries Radio returns with the always amazingly abrasive DJ ARB reporting deep from within the “The Arbitrarium”, her latest avant-garde sound collage program on WFMU with an emphasis on far fringes of (un)spoken words drawing from performance art, sound poetry, underground cassette culture, industrial music, cinema of transgression, obscure post punk, no wave, queer, counter culture, prose of protest, performance poetry, found sound, and other underground/outsider music. Tonight’s blazing broadcast is no exception with choice navigation through the mind maze of madness ! So tune up, roll in, and zoom on through the hilariously haunted, bugged-out burning breeze of DJ ARB’S special LD edition broadcast release of delirium dreams & beloved sleaze...

Allesandre & White Gourd present Beltane Bouquet

We welcome back Allesandre and White Gourd presenting Beltane blessed mix along with guided wisdom of the Sweet Woodruff and Pink Lady Slipper plant allies to align spirits for the season!

Hydrofemme w/ Francesca Heart & Agua Viva

Francesca Heart is a musician, dancer and researcher with volcanic & marine origins in Southern Italy. Her practice explores the nuances between connection & alienation, through dance, hydro-feminist research, electronic music fantasia & landscape choreology, and is currently exploring computer music as a means of incantation. Agua Viva currently lives in NYC, by way of Buenos Aires, Argentina, merging galactic soundscapes with dream pop, tropical chill, and surreal bilingual lyricism inspired by visions & meditations, sometimes arriving in dreams. Please join us tonight for two back-to-back guest mixes along with a full feature of explorations in synth-pop perfumes, water mirage ambience, oceanic hymns to Beauty & Fortune for some new season blessings!

Big Debbie presents Soviet Synths

This ‘Soviet Synth’ driven sonic tapestry of old & new things that echo each into a mishmash of state sponsored, and underground music, pre / post collapse of the empire that includes old sci-fi soundtracks, diy disco, aerobic electro, new wave, post Soviet - post industrial, and nostalgic synth pop. Born in the USSR in the early 1980's, Ursula Yashenko discovered Western pop music and Soviet new wave first through their father, a navy officer, who had access to smuggled media, and an underground distribution network, and has been long time active in the San Francisco punk / noise DIY scene and later relocated to LA. With a handful of releases, backed by national & international tours, BD Productions combines music with neon collages, crude stop motion animation, camera feedback, and analog video effects, to weave “visual spells of a rhythmic state.”

Impractical Cockpit, Turned Word, & The Village of Spaces

Starting with an evening fireside chat at the Ro-He-Ge homestead, under the oak, with Dan Beckman who guides us initially into the Impractical Cockpit insanity, then wanders through the Turned Word label lore, and finally lands in the Village of Spaces , and how that was built out of a love tale in which we are joined by Amy Moon . While traversing across the American byways & highways in a grease powered storage container converted mobile home/studio on wheels, Turned Word accumulated 20 years of inspiring works which we reflect upon including hardcore heavy rippers, “freak/free-folk”, nasty electronics, flakmask frequencies, deranged expressions, slippery surfaces, musky punk pumps, odes to/from the wild waterways, riff pounders, “The Last Acts of St. Fuck You”, yodeling of future’s past, frozen head, Amps for Christ and a few things beyond general audible comprehension presented into a three part package digestible for those that dare to imbibe…

Calvin Arsenia

With Cantaloupe and petals, Lost Discoveries Radio welcomes the way for Calvin Arsenia, who’s angelic stylings on voice & harp create rare harmonies & arrangements that look past the boundaries of traditional gospel & classical disciplines. Known for his elaborate and ceremonious sensory concert experiences, that merge jazz & electronic influences, “Calvin has consistently delivered genre-bending (and gender-bending) shows that tackle sexuality, religion, and race in a stunningly unorthodox manner. Somewhere between sacred and sacrilege." Heavenly Heat mix by DJ Dachstein Angel beaming directly from downtown Kansas City, Arsenia joins us for the second half of the program to broadcast recent tracks by his inspired music community of bandmates & local song writers, and debuts a few fresh tracks that all dance daringly through a variety of artistic expressions by these KC contemporaries that are on the rise!

Alessandre & White Gourd present Summer's Height

Alessandre and White Gourd presenting the Solstice Heights celebration mix along with some guided wisdom of the Pear tree and Cinquefoil plant allies. Our first transmission is received by Chanelle, a flower essence devotee, poet and has soundscaped as Mille, De_Plata, Tenisele or SuperMoon Music. While tending her gardens in North Carolina she's funneling the atmosphere into a textured soundscape to match the evenings airing. Back-to-back is a new track & mix by White Gourd, who explores the depths of tarot as a metaphorical exploration in the forms of complex live performance rituals. . Tonight join in the week of the longest day of the year through the lively pulsations, focusing on a deepening relation with the verdant world, all guided by these ever-dynamic beings!

Orphan Fairytale presents 'Dream Escape'

Lost Discoveries Radio wanders through Eva Van Deuren's Orphan Fairytale, a deeply hypnotizing & playful dreamlike sound world using self-made electronics, toy instruments, cassette loops and keyboards. For over 15 years of performing & recording, Eva shows an admirable creativity in guiding listeners through the idyllic wilderness of cosmic sea stars, melting ice giants, bloodthirsty hekates, tropical tans, blobs, dragons of the deep and hummingbird cities all coalescing in high-spirited rhythms, twinkling trances, unfurling ambience and a “electronic psychedelia that deftly teeters between the bubbly and the eerie.” We celebrate the latest releases ‘Tune in Tree Ears’ and ‘Titania Moon’ with ’Dream Escape’ guest mix along with a premiere of ‘Chinese Garden Music’ by Tristan & Titania. Wing blossoming & wondrous neverending waves ensue!

Thollem's Astral Travelling Sessions

For over a decade, nomadic pianist shredder Thollem & photo / video artist AC Villa have been living on the road collaborating with a wide variety of artists & organizations throughout the world, in both concert & studio settings. Astral Spirits Records is releasing 2-3 albums a month for a year (starting November 2020) to celebrate the beautifully wild & powerful parts, connections, and communities.

Thollem's Astral Traveling Sessions is a 25 album series that includes 70 improvising musicians with cover art of Villa's illuminated landscape photos during their journeys, and both offer some additional commentary. We hear many possibilities & approaches to freely improvised music containing sonic elemental tempering of fiery noises, free jazz banshees, extreme crescendos of cascading classical currents into volcanic gremlin magnet eruptions. Truly an extraordinary account of sound shaping & satisfyingly shocking profusion!

Humanbeast

After searching the local dungeon, museum, pulpit, club, funeral, forest and end of a leash we finally found the Humanbeast! NYC artist duo V Manuscript & Maralie [VALISE] have collaborated since 1996 using ritual performance, music, photography, video, noise, installation, text, and bondage to “form a sticky web of tension connecting their protagonists & these varied medium through wet & softwares” including solo projects throughout the Providence era [V Manuscript, Valise, Humanola, Vodun Tron] and past bands from Little Rock/Kansas City days 1994-2004 [Soophie Nun Squad, Tem Eyos Ki]. Get suspended in whatever position you please & prepare to plummet in reverse at accelerating sonic speeds!

Voices of Malta Refugee Alliance

After hearing a podcast of a Nigerian refugee's brutal narrative of escape from mistreatment that finally landed him Malta, Chad Ashby aka 2 Nasty, a long running activist out of Oakland, became deeply moved to bring his knowledge of electrician, carpentry and music making skills to team up with Ladder Outreach and Rescue Alliance, and got involved in the front line. Tonight’s story sheds a little light on the dangerous travel by both refugee, and rescue crew, risking extreme stormy sea weather, military gang border control, crushing stories of endurance, corrupt police tactics, trials of adaptation, Ladder’s support process, and the power of music to heal. Producers Aydro, Cool Mind, Akim, and Brysonbeats have donated music to the cause, which we'll hear, alongside acapella excerpts by Malta refugee voices of Melanie & Beleav, Blacka & Khalifa, and the more recently produced rap tracks by Mekon feat. 2 Nasty.

Timelash

In the blink of an eye, we fly on Lost Discoveries Radio gliding through the tethered world of Timelash, a “visionary collaboration” between Midcoast Maine mutant Corum and “Chilean cosmic riddler Embassador Dulgoon of Nonlocal Research,” to launch ‘A Morphology of Wonders’ album on Aguirre Records releasing in the U.S. this month, and recent track on Artetetra Record's 'Exotic ésotérique' series. Tonight, we feature their recent map of previously uncharted Beguiling Isles, Xeethra parasite motions by Los Archimboldos, Eden’s Fuselage, and The Orchardist’s notes on nocturnal pollinations by sphinx; All alongside various sonic sights, provided by the Timelash duet, infused into a two hour mega mix of distant walks on parallel dimensions by previous explorers, space craft sounds, fabulous forests, dusk rider racing, pumpkinhead soup, the ‘Incident at Cryogenian Nantuo’, a sunken galleon in shadow rivers and froggy’s surprise…

Andy Storrs presents 'Let's Get Lost'

Launching the new bootleg compendium “Lets Get Lost” produced exclusively for Psychic Sounds & presented by independent documentary, producer and filmmaker Andy Storrs revealing raw cuts off the “the best of the best” lo-fi highlight reels from the past 10 years of portable cassette taped underground sounds & performances; All broadcasting nation-wide on your side beaming directly to the Ro-Ho-Ge tower in Maine from the Hi-Desert of Yucca Valley, California! Tonight’s magnum offering features performances by some of the “hallowed few of American underground sound”: Little Howlin’ Wolf, Daniel Higgs, The Savage Young Tater Bug, Sewn Leather, Frank Hurricane, Weyes Blood, Buddy Bag, Brody Wilson, and (Unknown)….to name a few…. Light it up, get holy freaky and feel the gritty warble all wafting with second hand smoke of the punk!

Ka Baird presents 'Microcosmic Flutes'

Breath deep this evening on Lost Discoveries Radio with Ka Baird, a multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, producer, and performer based in New York City. She is one of the founding & continuing members of the psych-folk/avant-garde group Spires That In The Sunset Rise and explores solo works as Sapropelic Pycnic.

Tonight, Ka presents ‘Mircrocosmic Flutes’ a 2 hour journey guiding listeners through a brief history of breathe, wind, flutes, and horn, as told from a psychedelic sensibility & personal relationship with the flute, that includes a range of bone puffing, Mandara Mountain music, hypnotic choral movements, sacred intonations, Shakuhatchi grooves, baroque polyphonics, channeled hums, ecstatic reeds, joyous fife and coocoo jazz…. As always, it’s all here, so come celebrate this love cry of whooping & wailing!

Aaron Dilloway

Lost Discoveries Radio ascends into the new year riding high in the passenger seat with Aaron Dilloway across America’s highways on a car drive through a cold Midwestern night during last year’s first impeachment proceedings. Buckle up as much laughter ensues during this familiar & frightening 6 hour mega mix (in 3 parts) inspired by the ‘Modern Jester’s casual story telling navigating us through the labyrinths & jokes of being a young punk growing up in Michigan, early music interests & shows, Wolf Eyes, snake charmers in Nepal, chain shots, tape loop techniques, mangled & majestic Lucifer Rising sounds, MK Ultra, ‘medicine stunts’, Hanson Records, and new tracks including a recent collaboration with Lucrecia Dalt, and some chickens pecking metal….

Xhurch

Exploring the power of myth to form an alternative holiday ritual, Xhurch has offered an ambiguous zone that is at once familiar & uncanny, engaging visitors in an exploration of sacrality and ritual within unorthodox, nondenominational and indefinite sacred space. Tonight we celebrate a decade long series of Xhurch performances with it’s creator Matt Henderson whom has curated a mix of music defining the space, gives some background context for the venue’s unique ethos, and guides us through the 10 ’nativity' scenes. Tune into the octagonal tunnels, holographic glyphs, ceremonial vats, alien nativity, virtual reality gravity inversion, a tube full of baby Jesuses, live score motion capture performances, illuminated altars, mystical mirror manger. trans-humanism, immortality, technological singularity, and eschatological end times.

Experimental Santa

Through the shifting planets and solstice glow, Lost Discoveries Radio's Holiday Special is visited by none other than Experimental Santa, the mulled moniker & spiced seasonal spirit of Colby Nathan. For over a decade, Colby has been an active member of the New England music community and beyond, operating under the guise of his small label, Laughable Recordings. He is one half of comatose pop duo, Dimples, frontman for post freak punk band (New England) Patriots, contributing guitarist/singer to the psychedelic country sounds of Clay Camero & the County Line Bandits, and collaborator to many, such as Big Blood, Tom Kovacevic, Ralph White, Video Nasties, and Greg Jamie (of O'Death and Blood Warrior), to name a few. He has toured extensively with his many varied outfits, but also as a one man show, with Tina, the wonder dog, in tow.

Avola

Tonight we welcome ‘West Coast Weirdmaker’ Veronica Avola to the hellacious helm here with DJ Conjunction alongside guiding listeners on a mix into @avola_verns.world Vern has been a long time activist of electronic bump & bliss throughout the last decade touring the U.S. with projects as EMS, Avola and Elrond @elrondislove in addition to DJ’ing on @theneonhospice station, programing scrambled virtual ouijas, DIY solar generator aid @communitypowerpodspdx , and the newly hatched @grilka.press screen printing operation offering a whole slew of electronic pioneers, bizarre animations, and sci-fi homage which sums up tonight’s show freshly oozing out a cryogenic escape pod. Strange sonics , joyful noise & psychedelic stirrings....

Come Holy Spirit

Mount up and join DJ Sky Lift alongside honored guest DJ, and Come Holy Spirit’s fabulous bassist & singer, Gina Favano, a visual artist, hexoligist, musicophile, songwriter, musician, naturalist, and off-grid floating geodesic dome dweller originally from Philadelphia, currently living on the Mississippi River. We receive a fully inspired transmission directly from the dome drifting through lapping waves, water birds and hard hitting songs for hitting hard times. Always a force to reckon with, Come Holy Spirit, has just dropped a powerful new piece of ‘Undiscovered Land’, now erupting through Water Wing Records in which we premiere a new track from along with rough & rowdy mix!

Meercaz

Lost Discoveries hits the streets hard tonight with a fully flexed 2 hours of hallucinogenic punk rock, melted glam, fiendish erotica, thumpin' bumpin' and fuzzed-up freakouts all hosted care of DJ Head-Spike & the one, and only, Muslim Delgado! Originally launching off from Portland, OR hometown, Muzz has been shredding, dropping beats and making noise out of Oakland for over a decade as George Heroine, Sleeper Cult, and Meercaz. We’ll catch some world-wide premieres, freshly released tracks along with a new mix by the Muzz-meister himself! So get freaky, strap up & come get your schwerve on!

Bernard Herman presents...

A Lost Discoveries regional DJ takes an unexpected ride on the Haunted side while prepping for the gig near a frog infested pond. Disappearing under the influence of an invocation, hypnotized into subconscious underworld tunnels, stumbling into the brain center of a Haunted NYC Rock N' Roll Dungeon, hosted by none other than the infamous Bernard Herman, not to be confused with the dead film music composer Bernard Herrmann. Bernard Herman has written music, made videos, and has given disturbing night time tours through the various parks and green spaces of New York City, testing the mind, body and spirit of their guests and described by the Village Voice as "a psychological minefield that pushes participants’ boundaries beyond any place considered normal."

Annapurna Himal Wagner

Tonight, we get Heavy by paying tribute to Annapurna Himal Wagner with a full scope of her '(anti) musical' workings by way of bass dirges, guitar shrieks and hellish wails. For almost 2 decades Purna drifted through, rode & ripped the often bleak & beautiful byways of America forming bands with Assassins, Mating Dance, Ganja, Vvltvre, and Purism. We've compiled newly mastered versions of past albums, pulled from our archives, sharing a couple premieres and, importantly, been careful to make sure it's fully AP approved by the advice of all close bandmates whom we deeply thank for guidance & contributions. E3, of Purism and FINISHED, has lovingly provided an hour long birthday mix of her favorite songs including Arvo Part, Rudimentary Peni, Big Black, Swans, and Coil to name a few.. so light up a candle, crack a cold one, shake your wallet at the full moon, get your boots on and swirl into the Scoripionic settings....

Carlos Gonzalez

Tonight, we Weird in a nearby crypt for a spider-side chat with Carlos Gonzalez, a deeply inspirational figure in the underground comics and music scenes. He has created a vast body of DIY work including the 500 page sci-fi opus, Slime Freak, along with Gates of Plasma, Test Tube and most recently the augmented reality cyberpunk fantasy series, Everglide which will be presented as some late night radio theater. We also explore some bizarre dialogue excerpts from the many experimental films shot on VHS, and drift through a number of cassettes & LPS recorded with his solo musical project, Russian Tsarlag, starting from the ‘dirty little seed’ growing into unleashed tendrils of tricks & treats by Byron House, Hepatitus Youth, Dynasty, Hexmorb, Cyclops and Cream Candles!

Ju Suk Reet Meate shares 78s / Smegma

Lost Discoveries Radio is joined tonight by Ju Suk Reet Meate, founding Smegma and core LAFMS member since 1973, to share his favorite 100 year old 78 rpm records from the deep vaults for the first hour of our program. Juk Suk & Oblivia (aka Rock & Roll Jackie) make up the The Tenses using concepts developed over 40 years of organized & spontaneous sound making, attempting a new focus on “live performance” in which the room, or space, has a major effect on the unfolding sounds. DJ Spider Smoker guides us through the mad excitement, barbaric pulsations and incomparable rhythms of forty+ years of the Smegma cosmos including obscure, rare & wild tracks by The Tenses, Electric Willie, Lee Rocky, Psychic Sounds Ensemble, Guzo, Ju Suk Reet Meate solo works, Reverend Toad Eater croaking on phone, Pigface tapes, Is-In Unsamble, collaborations with MSHR, Black Leather Jesus, John Wiese and much more!