Listen to music from Laurie Anderson and Sexmob, Laurie Anderson with Kronos Quaret, Sexmob, and Marshall Allen covering Sun Ra, and Steven Bernstein of Sexmob with Fight the Big Bull.

New York-based multimedia composer and artist Laurie Anderson’s creative work encompasses music, spoken word, film, photography, sculpture, and installations. She was NASA’s first artist-in-residence, has published several books, invented instruments, and produced numerous videos, films, radio pieces, and original scores for dance and film. Sexmob is the “American jazz band based in New York City that formed as a Knitting Factory vehicle for Steven Bernstein to exercise his slide trumpet” (Wikipedia). Bernstein is also a composer, arranger, and bandleader with Millennial Territory Orchestra, Diaspora Soul, and served as musical director for John Lurie's Lounge Lizards. Hear music from Sexmob, with and without Laurie Anderson, in exotica arrangements, funk, blues, jazz, and otherworldly stylings – including a tune together with Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, and Marshall Allen covering Sun Ra.

Listen to Laurie Anderson performing her work “Only an Expert” together with Sexmob, along with a work by her late partner, Lou Reed, as recorded live from the WNYC Centennial celebration in Sept. 2024. Also, hear recent music from Sexmob, from their 2023 offering, The Hard Way, featuring pianist and composer Vijay Iyer. There’s also work from a recent Kronos Quartet tribute record to the cosmic jazzer Sun Ra, featuring Laurie Anderson, Sexmob, and Marshall Allen.

Plus, hear Sexmob’s tribute to Martin Denny, the “Father of Exotica,” along with a version of the same piece with the Richmond, VA big band Fight the Big Bull, led guitarist, composer and arranger Matthew E. White, featuring trumpeter Steven Bernstein (of Sexmob, MTO) as co-arranger, and co-producer. That, and more. - Caryn Havlik

Program #4931, Sexmob, with and without Laurie Anderson (First aired 10/1/2024)

ARTIST: Laurie Anderson and Sex Mob
WORK: Only An Expert [1:10]
RECORDING: Live at Central Park SummerStage, 9/9/2024
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The work appears on Anderson's record, Homeland

ARTIST: Sex Mob
WORK: Martin Denny [6:31]
RECORDING: Sexotica
SOURCE: Thirsty Ear #57171
INFO: www.thirstyear.com

ARTIST: Laurie Anderson and Sex Mob
WORK: Only An Expert [6:14]
RECORDING: Live at Central Park SummerStage, 9/9/2024
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The work appears on Anderson's record, Homeland (Nonesuch) Available via AppleMusic, Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon.com

ARTIST: Laurie Anderson and Sex Mob
WORK: Lou Reed/Metallica: Junior Dad [4:12]
RECORDING: Live at Central Park SummerStage, 9/9/2024
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The work appears on Lulu, (Warner Bros. Vertigo), Available via AppleMusic, Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon.com

ARTIST: Laurie Anderson, Kronos Quartet, Sex Mob, Marshall Allen
WORK: Sun Ra: Images Suite [9:36]
RECORDING: Outer Spaceways Incorporated
SOURCE: Red Hot Org
INFO: https://redhot.bandcamp.com/album/outer-spaceways-incorporated-kronos-quartet-friends-meet-sun-ra

ARTIST: Sexmob, ft. Vijay Iyer
WORK: You Can Take a Myth [4:18]
RECORDING: The Hard Way
SOURCE: Corbett Vs. Dempsey
INFO: stevenbernstein.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Fight the Big Bull, Steven Bernstein
WORK: Martin Denny [8:07]
RECORDING: All is Gladness in the Kingdom
SOURCE: Clean Feed Records
INFO: cleanfeed-records.com

ARTIST: Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra
WORK: All You Need is Love [2:53]
RECORDING: We are MTO
SOURCE: Rex Records
INFO: https://stevenbernstein.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-mto

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