October 6, 2025

This BTT episode started with a big soul-jazz groove ("Delilah" by Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet from Turn it up!) then most of the rest of the proceedings headed into the sonic orbit. I dig the freak outs and there was definitely some of that in this show. What was the wildest thing? Probably "Monoceros 2" by Evan Parker from the Monoceros album (at some point in the not-too-distant future, I will play "Monoceros 4" from the same record). Check it all out and get weird here.

The next BTT show will be Monday, October 13, from 10 to 11 am MT, at cjsw.com or 90.9 FM. This will be the last "regular" show for a couple of weeks as the annual CJSW Funding Drive is beginning soon. The Drive will run from Friday, October 17 through Friday, October 24. The Breaking The Tethers Funding Drive show will be on Monday, October 20, usual time, usual place. This show, which will be my 20th CJSW Funding Drive program, should be lots of fun and hopefully will raise much money for the station. If you'd like to get a jump on donating, you can do that here. I'll have more on the Drive and BTT soon. 

Oh, I should also note that I'll be hanging out with Kerry Clarke on the FD version of her show, Alternative To What, on Thursday, October 23, from 4 to 6 pm MT, cjsw.com or 90.9 FM. More on this later, too.

Thanks.

Andrew

September 29, 2025

The main feature of this show was the version of “Slightly all the time” by Soft Bounds. Soft Bounds was one of the alternative/follow-up bands to Soft Machine after Soft Machine broke up. Last week, I played a track from Soft Works so I figured I would play another track from a similar group this week (there were a number of other similar bands e.g. Soft Heap, Soft Ware, Soft Mountain, Soft Head, Soft Machine Legacy). The Soft Bounds was good and long (almost half an hour) which left only a bit of time for a few other fine tracks. It’s here for the listening. 

The next BTT episode will be on Monday, October 6 (we’re into October, already!) at cjsw.com or 90.9 FM, from 10 to 11 am MT. Please join me!

Thanks.

Andrew

PS I mention the upcoming CJSW 2025 Funding Drive, which is taking place from October 17 through 24th…

September 25, 2025 - Alternative To What?

Howdy. I was called back to duty on Alternative To What again this week. Many thanks to ATW host Kerry Clarke for letting me run amok on her show once again, which I kinda did. Here's a word salad sample of what appeared in this show: The MC5, English folk on sitar, English folk rock, a bunch of death/black metal, Froggie Went A-Courtin', A Love Supreme, 70s prog, and much, much more. This is the kind of crazy I aspire to when I host Alternative To What. I think you should listen to this episode and you can do that here.

Thanks.

Andrew

PS Coming up soon, the annual CJSW Funding Drive, running from October 17th through 24th...

September 22, 2025

On the page on the CJSW site for this edition of BTT (see here; you can listen to a recording of the program at this spot), I described this show as having more tracks than usual (11), especially for a jazz (ostensibly) program, of which some were weird and some were not. That sums it up well, I think.

Thanks.

Andrew

PS ...CJSW Funding Drive 2025... October 17-24...

September 15, 2025

The podcast of this episode is available here. Musically, it was mostly newly-released items (one of the two older tracks was "Free above the sea" by Jack DeJohnette from the Oneness album, released in 1997; I hadn't played anything from solo DeJohnette in ages). The main element of the show was an interview with Aimee-Jo Benoit and Lisa Buck from BuckingJam Palace (buckingjampalace.com) about the upcoming Chocolate Box #1 event. Many thanks to Aimee-Jo and Lisa from joining me.

Thanks.

Andrew

September 8, 2025

Lotsa new jams this week, with just a couple of trips into the past (Turtleboy and Vijay Iyer Trio). My fave piece was probably the first track played, "Go lonely woman" by Chris Smith, from the Jazz grunge album; it's a mix-up of "Go" by Pearl Jam and "Lonely woman" by Ornette Coleman and it works pretty good. You can take in this song and everything else played here.

Thanks.

Andrew

September 11, 2025 - Alternative To What?

As I sometimes do, I got behind the wheel at Alternative To What this week. It's always a pleasure hosting this show. As I always do when I'm there, I played loads of music (and less musical things e.g. recordings of numbers stations) from here, there, and everywhere, 18 tracks in all, long and short. Take it all in here.

I'm also going to be hosting ATW on Thursday, September 25. Again, I'm much looking forward to it. You can join me for more musical mayhem from 4 to 6 pm MT that day, at cjsw.com or 90.9 FM.

And, of course, I'll be sticking with my regular gig, Breaking The Tethers, which will be on next on Monday, September 29, 10 to 11 am MT, same place as ATW.

Thanks.

Andrew

PS ...CJSW Funding Drive 2025... October 17-24...