This week’s episode of Artscape features an interview and studio session with Providence-based “hot jazz” band Paper Moon. Morning Edition host Luis Hernandez talked with guitarists John Birt and Dylan Harley, who describe the band’s music as a kind of time travel back to the sounds of early jazz and artists like Django Reinhardt.
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Studio Session: J. Mamana looks inward with hope and grief on ‘For Every Set of Eyes’
Providence musician J. Mamana has a new album coming out this summer called “For Every Set of Eyes.” It draws on influences that range from Neil Young to Mahler and Schumann. Mamana lost two of his closest friends in recent years, and through making the album, he found a way to process his grief.
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Studio session: Gian Carlo Buscaglia sings songs of romance and social justice
This week on Artscape: a studio session with Gian Carlo Buscaglia. The Pawtucket-based singer and guitarist got his start performing Latin American ballads and songs of social justice in the streets of Harvard Square in the 1980s. “Very bohemian, a lot of jugglers, clowns, different musicians,” Buscaglia said of that time. “Tracy Chapman was around that time playing in the streets of Harvard Square. So it was a very magical time.”
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Studio Session: Allysen Callery’s quiet, haunting ‘Ghost Folk’
For Artscape this week, we have a studio session with Allysen Callery, a singer/songwriter from Bristol, R.I., who creates quiet, haunting, ‘ghost folk’ with her acoustic guitar and delicate voice.
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Studio Session: Providence hot jazz collective Paper Moon
This week’s episode of Artscape features an interview and studio session with Providence-based “hot jazz” band Paper Moon. Morning Edition host Luis Hernandez talked with guitarists John Birt and Dylan Harley, who describe the band’s music as a kind of time travel back to the sounds of early jazz and artists like Django Reinhardt.
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Studio Session: Providence musician Asher White explores city streets, salvaged sounds on ‘New Excellent Woman’
“New Excellent Woman” is the latest album from Providence-based musician Asher White. At twenty-three years old, she already boasts an impressive catalog of over a dozen albums. White describes her music as collage pop — reflected in the range of influences you can hear represented in it, from Sufjan Stevens, to The Books, to Daniel Johnston. She came to the studio for this conversation – and a performance – with Artscape producer James Baumgartner and Morning Host Luis Hernandez.
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Studio Session: Roz Raskin on self-healing and Nova One’s latest album, ‘Create Myself’
Raskin’s latest release is a collection of dream-pop songs with a message of love and acceptance to their younger self.
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Studio Session: Musician Jake Blount’s Afrofuturist vision of a post climate-change world
The Providence local imagines what traditional Black American folk music will sound like in a world where rising seas, desertification and natural disasters have rendered much of the world uninhabitable.
