A collection of dark, percussive tracks to blow off some steam this month. Inspired by J "Mo'ong" Santoso Pribadi and friends.

This episode features :

E+E – Sword; Nuno Beats – Sai do Curaçao; Divide and Dissolve – Oblique; Zoo – Hegamila; Charles Verni – That; ABADIR – Mois de Marie; Takkak Takkak – Kyouzon; Tennota – Vivious Cycle; Tennota – Apical; Raja Kirik – Buto Abang (Red Giant); Geinoh Yamashirogumi – Reincarnation

An hour of piano music this month celebrating the versatility of the instrument in its solo form. The piano alone can do so much, from minimal soundscapes to dense jazz and much beyond... and just wait til you hear what Raphael Montañez Ortiz does with it!

This episode features :

Duval Timothy – Hairs; Christian Drew – More Parlour Music; Raphael Montañez Ortiz – Piano Destruction; Fergus McCreadie – Chorale; Sakoto Fujii – Horizon; Barbara Monk Feldman – Soft Horizons; Ichiko Aoba – 2024-06-13 03.33; George Crumb – Spiral Galaxy; Hania Rani - Buka

The darned sun has brought a sudden halt to listening habits! Here: a skewered selection of music of the past 900 years - from Hildegard von Bingen to Caterina Barbieri & Bendik Giske’s recent collaboration.

This episode features :

Caterina Barbieri & Bendik Giske – Persistence, Buds; Shards – Facta est deserta; Rolf Lislevand – Pasacaglia al modo mio; Reinartz – Empty Time (Leaking Skin); Giles Swayne – Cry, IV. Sun – Moon – Stars; Holy Tongue & Shackleton – Gravity Will Fail Us; Karlheinz Stockhausen – Stimmung models 47-51; Hildegard von Bingen – O tu suavissima virga

This month had me thinking about all the great dance, opera and ballet going on round the world rn, with thriving living composers creating incredible, accessible and meaningful work and masterpieces by late legends of the game which continue to hold huge relevance in the scene and potential appeal to wider communities, should the desire to engage take them.

I heard Daniel Blumberg performing his soundtrack to the upcoming movie The Testament of Ann Lee last week - it handled free improvisation, period instruments, shaker hymns, birdsong, a percussive masterclass, and Amanda Seyfried all at once and in perfect matrimony. This mix aims to do something like that with moments of trance-like intensity, others of ethereal folk melodies and much in between.

This month's episode takes a step back and a lie down into some gentle ambient soundscapes to thaw to.

Helena Tulve - Sula/Thaw

Yuri Umemoto - huhhh

Karen Tanaka - Invisible Curve

Arvo Part - Silentium; Kevin - Cloud Cover

A christmas-adjacent edition of Seek Refuge with some festive takes and composed gems thrown in too. Betsy Jolas' Piano Concerto 'bTunes' is at the centre of this month's episode, which, while isn't exactly and chart topping xmas hit, certainly summons some seasonal spirit. Around it are a range of works including a couple of tracks from Brian Whitman's iconic 'Singular Christmas.'

Okkyung Lee – Rainy Night Ride with Roy

Brian Whitman – Singular Christmas (Radiant Bells)

hmurd – Oh What Fun!

Lina Filipovich – Blessed be the Lord

Charlie Panigoniak – Santa Claus is coming to town

Bubo bubo – Lulling 3 (Cover) (Cover) (Cover) (Cover) (Cover)

Betsy Jolas – bTunes (Nicholas Hodges, piano)

Sugar World – Merry Christmas Darling

Invisible Cities – The Devout Vary Their Chants

Endless Joy – This Is What I Call Christmas

Sugar World – Blue Christmas

Brian Whitman – Singular Christmas (Mountain Noel)

Basch – silentnight§1

Seek Refuge explores sonic spaces between familiarity and the peculiar, exploring contemporary composition and re-contextualising it through unorthodox pairings and disparate sonic relationships. This month's show reflects the docile, misty-minded mirage of riding the southwestern rail for hours on end.

Keiji Haino - 景; Leilehua Lanzilotti - on stochastic wave behavior i - ō; The Dwarfs of East Agouza - Titular; Clarence Barlow - Im Januar am Nil; Katokye - Ekyeshongoro Kyabakazi; Henryk Górecki - Popule meus