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Our multi-channel broadcast media installation includes the following selections:
artist — work
Y/Y and The Drummers – DrumCircle December 23, 2025 (edit)
SUNN O))) – 01 soundcheck (2009.10.22)
SUNN O))) – Crank (2025.10.19)
Lord Mantis – Vile Divinity
Actress – Voodoo Posse Chronic Illusion
Jay Duncan ft. Ben Vince – In Limbo
Alèkpéhanhou – Zozo Piaa!
Maral x El Kontessa – Butterfly Magic
Eyad – Qalq
Autechre – YJY UX
Chaka Chawasarira – Hurombo
Four Tet ft. Hope Sandoval – Into Dust (Still Falling)
islamabad discipline – aankh micholi
Mark Ernestus & Ndagga Rhythm Force – Ndiguel
SUNN O))) – 01 soundcheck (2009.10.22) (edit)
SUNN O))) – Pills (2025.10.19) (edit)
Y/Y and The Drummers – DrumCircle December 23, 2025 (edit)
For this first Inter-Dimensional Music: Field Recordings from the Sunn SuperSession, I took fragments from two shows that first caught my attention when I began my ongoing deep dive into the live archive, and mixed them throughout the sort of broad percussive spectrum regular listeners to our airwaves have come to expect.
We start out with blackened sludge metal, in keeping with Sunn’s origins, but quickly detour to ‘80s West African dance music, deconstructed techno, a Kieran Hebden/Hope Sandoval collaboration, and Islamabad Discipline’s “kaleidoscopic exploration of his cultural heritage filtered through a collage of field recordings, guitar mantras, and experiments in traditional forms influenced through his studies with the late Ustad Mohammad Ajmal Khan.” In keeping with Sunn’s minimal written commentary on their live archive, this is a “more dharma rock, less dharma talk” edition of ID Music, free of any announcements or commentary from your host.
I returned to using a four-deck setup, and faded loops of a 2009 soundcheck from the Monoliths & Dimensions tour that features a lot of chanting in-and-out of a recording of the band in their Shoshin Duo configuration performing in Athens, Greece in 2025. This mix of the two performances lurks in the background of the entire set, resurfacing at full volume during in-between moments.
The 2009 recording catches the band in partial ensemble mode—core duo Greg Anderson on guitar and bass, Stephen O’Malley on guitar, with Attila Csihar offering his signature vocal performance that ranges from soaring arias to croaks of gastric distress, and Steve Moore on keyboards and trombone. According to the show notes, it was recorded by “retrodude83 utilizing the Olympus LS-10 Recorder, plus Church Audio STC-9000 with the Church Audio CA-11 mics.”
The 2025 show documents the minimalist setup of Anderson and O’Malley and their guitars, as recorded by “vavmos” who writes “here’s my recording from your recent performance in Athens, Greece, using Church Audio CAFs – Church Audio Ugly 2 – Sony PCM.”
The session is book-ended by excerpts from DrumCircles, an expanding collection of live psychedelic ritual trance music from YslashY and the Drummers of Zevenkamp. It’s not exactly 77 Boa Drum and I don’t know much about the artists beyond the statement of purpose on their label’s Bandcamp profile to “promote experimantal ways of getting into a mediative or trance state of being.” Conveniently, their ethos is also in keeping with the themes of communal rituals discussed above. “Donkse Oog prefers releases by artists who also perform live. everybody can be a studio/laptop artist, but not everybody is able to reproduce their sounds on stage.” Beyond that, the label’s hidden behind a Dutch FB reg-wall so I hope it’s nothing sketchy . . . but I’m a Nag-Champa huffing sucker when it comes to decent long-form drum circle jams like this.
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