Jon Sung is a live-wire creative eclectic, a white hole emitting ideas into our universe at a rate only modelled theoretically in quantum mechanics. His podcast Idea Factory Giveawayshares the fruits of his ever-active mind, while bi-monthly he brings people together at an event born of just one of these ideas: Instant Band Night. Show up, put your name in a pot associated with one or more instruments that you can play (to any degree), and revel as new bands drawn at random before your eyes, given 7 minutes to write an original song, and then perform it before you on a stage. Jon shares a set of music tied into his love of improvisation and musical joviality, and we talk about the upcoming event — this week on July 11th. You should come!
Meanwhile, our album of the week comes from one Thom Yorke, whose third solo album-proper ANIMA just came out. It's an accomplished effort with long-time collaborated Nigel Godrich, familiar in tone to his work with Radiohead, but as ever more indulgent in his electronic and dance influences. It's a more coherent work than his previous Tomorrow's Modern Boxes (which I also like a lot), and has some interesting continuity to older Radiohead work too.
Playlist
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Taste by Ty Segall on First Taste (Drag City) -
Easy Way Out by Ilgen-Nur (Power Nap Records) - Break
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Not The News by Thom Yorke on ANIMA (XL) -
Bulletproof by The Soft Cavalry on The Soft Cavalry (Bella Union) -
Repetition by Ride on This Is Not a Safe Place (Witchita) - Break
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Mack the Knife by Louis Armstrong on 1956 (Top Twenty) - Break
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Take Your Medicine by Cloud Cult on The Meaning of 8 (Rebel Group) - Break
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Vital Nerve by Company Flow on Funcrusher Plus (Rawkus) - Break
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Twist by Thom Yorke on Anima (XL) -
15 Step by Radiohead on In Rainbows (XL) -
Impossible Knots by Thom Yorke on ANIMA (XL) - Break
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Down to This by Soul Coughing on Ruby Vroom (Slash/Warner) -
Like in Our Graves by Dave Matthews Band on Crash (Sony) - Break
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Why Does My Mind by Hot Chip on A Bath Full of Ecstacy (Domino) - Break
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Linked by Bonobo on Linked (Ninja Tune)