On this edition Michele K-tel reports on the highlights from this year’s genre broadening Big Ears Festival lineup that erupted last weekend in Knoxville, TN.

Playlist 3.28.17

Nils Økland Band “Start” Kjølvatn
Robyn Hitchcock “Chimes Of Freedom” Luminous Groove
Matana Roberts “As Years Roll By” Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
Colleen “Going Forth By Day” The Weighing of the Heart
Laetitia Sadier “Psychology Active (Finding You)” Find Me Finding You

Horse Lords “Toward the Omega Point” Interventions
Glenn Kotche “The Traveling Turtle” Adventureland
Matmos’ Robert Ashley PERFECT LIVES interpretation intro
Mica Levi & Oliver Coates “Xhill Stepping” Remain Calm
Xiu Xiu “Forget” Forget

Frode Haltli “Vagabonde Blu”
Dakha Brakha “Baby” South X Lullaby
Joan Shelley “Wild Indifference”
Wilco “Quarters” Schmilco
Michael Hurley “You Get Down by the Pool Hall Clickety Clack – Sister Song” First Songs

Deerhoof “Acceptance Speech” The Magic
The Magnetic Fields “’79: Rock’n’Roll Will Ruin Your Life” 50 Song Memoir
Emilia Amper “Den melancoliska pollonessen (The Melancholic Polonaise)” Lux
The Quavers “Circle Line” Fell Asleep On A Train

Musica Elettronica Viva “Cosmic Communion”
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith “When I Try, I’m Full” Ears

Henry Threadgill & Zooid Tomorrow “Sunny Tomorrow” Sunny / The Revelry, Spp