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Martian Gardens Episode 1253
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
January 25, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Musicians of Marrakesh: ʾĀda (trad.)
The Music of Islām – Volume Six
Al-Maghrib, Gnāwa Music, Marrakesh, Morocco
Celestial Harmonies/1997
vocals and percussion: Marchane Abdelkbir Lechhab; Hamzaoui Ahmed; Kharmouss Mahdjoub; studio recording: Marrakesh, Morocco; time: 9:25

Richard Carrick: l’Algérie (selections)
a. Mémorial (3:50)
b. Aïn Bessem (1:48)
c. Joie (6:30)
l’Algérie
New Focus Recordings/2026
Either/Or (oud: Bahar Badieitabar; piano: Richard Carrick; violin: Jennifer Choi; cello: John Popham; percussion: Justin Jay Hines); recorded at Miller Theatre, New York City, October 1, 2024; composition year: 2024; total selections time: 12:08

SET TWO
Christopher Trapani: Tunis
Noise Uprising
New World Records/2024
vocal: Sofia Jernberg; Zwerm ensemble (daf frame drum: Kobe Van Cauwenberghe; banjo, guitar: Toon Callier; melodica: Christopher Trapani; microtonal Telecaster bass guitar: Joahannes Westendorp); recorded at Studio 3, DIE SINGEL International Arts Center, Antwerp, Belgium, May 15-18, 2024; time: 5:34

Elisabet Curbelo: Kara Toprak*
Resonance Unbound
Neuma Records/2024
voice, computer processing: Elisabet Curbelo; kanun: Sanaz Nakhjavani: recorded at Istanbul Technical University, İTÜ Dr. Erol Üçer Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM); composition year: 2011; time: 7:38
*Turkish for “Black Earth,” inspired by Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu‘s poem Kara Toprak

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Walter Zimmerman: Das Irakische Alphabet (The Iraqi Alphabet)
Voces
Mode Records/2021
vocals, bass flute: Natalia Pschentschnikowa; bourdon tones: Stefan Bartling; text: Joachim Sartorius; recorded at Stefan Bartling’s studio, Helsinki; composition year: 2005; time: 12:30

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Illusions & Two Intermissions
Illusions
a. Very Fast (2:24)
b. Slow & Tranquil (2:18)
c. Very Fast (0:31)
d. Very Fast (0:39)
Two Intermissions
a. 1:52
b. 1:44
Feldman Edition 1 — Aki Takahashi Plays Morton Feldman
Mode Records/1996
piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded at SUNY Purchase, December 6-8, 1995; composition years: Illusions, 1949; Two Intermissions, 1951; total selections time: 9:42

In celebration of Morton Feldman’s centennial (b. January 12, 1926)

SINGLE PLAY
Arlene Sierra: Birds & Insects, Book 3
a. Lovely Fairywren (4:46)
b. Canyon Wren (2:20)
c. Great Grig (2:22)
d. Tawny Owls (2:59)
e. Troupial (6:20)
Birds & Insects — Arlene Sierra, Vol. 4
Bridge Records/2025
piano: Sarah Cahill; recorded in South Salem, New York, 2023-2024; composition year: 2023; total time: 18:47

SET THREE
John Luther Adams: Arctic Dreams (selections)
a. River with No Willows (6:26)
b. One that Stays All Winter (6:55)
Arctic Dreams
Cold Blue Music/2021
(for voices and string quartet); Synergy Vocals (soprano: Micaela Haslam; soprano: Amanda Morrison; alto: Heather Cairncross; bass: Simon Grant); violin: Robin Lorentz; viola: Ron Lawrence; cello: Michael Finckel; bass: Robert Black; voices recorded at the Almeida Opera, London; mixed and mastered in London, January 2021; composition year: 2021; total selections time: 14:21

Henry Cowell: Piano Music (selections)
a. Aeolian Harp and Sinister Resonance (3:41)
b. Advertisement (Third Encore from Dynamic Motion) (1:08)
Piano Music
Smithsonian Folkways/1993 (orig. Folkways LP/1963)
piano: Henry Cowell; composition years: Aeolian Harp, 1923; Sinister Resonance, 1930, Advertisement, 1916; total selections time: 4:45

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Squid in Chains: The Icy Air
Drifiting
Earsay Music/2024
basset clarinet, electronics: François Houle; bandoneon, saxophone: Douglas Schmidt; synthesizers, samplers, sound processing: John Oliver; recorded at the Canadian Music Centre Creative Residency, Vancouver, 2023-2024; time: 6:22

Joel Gressel: Lamentation Off White
Unmeasured Time
Ravello Records/2025
computer music: Joel Gressel; recorded in New York City, March 27, 2025; composition year: 2021; time: 12:05

SET FIVE
Christian Bouchard: Trois Miniatures en Suite
a. Sacréboules (Holy Balls!) (3:26)
b. The Point of View of the Parking Meter (2:51)
c. Tonicity (3:52)
Fractures
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustic music realized at Conservatoire de musique de Montreal, 1997; premiered at the Concert Hautes Tensions presented by the ACREQ at the Usine C, Montreal, January 29, 1999; total time: 10:09

Luc Ferrari: Two etudes
a. Aux accident (2:10)
b. Aux sons tendus (2:56)
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
musique concrète created at Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), Paris, 1958; total time: 5:06

SET SIX
Lucas Werenkraut and TRoneitor: Leteo
Inframundo
Emotional Analog Resonance (EAR)/2025
TRoneitor home-built electronic instrument: Lucas Werenkraut; recorded live in Buenos Aires, Argentina; time: 12:58

Pas Musique: Shout at the Horizon
Come Follow Me
Alrealon Musique/2014
electronics, voice, lyrics: Robert L. Pepper; time: 6:33

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