Slide into “The Twilight Clone”, via the 1981 album, Magic Windows, a track co-written by Adrian Belew. Press play and get your Alpha Syntauri synth-funk ya ya’s out.

Furling makes the case for Baird, once again, as one of the finest singers and songwriters of her generation.

Another welcome dip into the amazing vault of Robert Lester Folsom, a Georgia-based songwriter who deserves to be mentioned alongside such oddball pop auteurs as Emitt Rhodes, Chris Bell and — hey, why not? — Paul McCartney himself.

Cut in Paris, smoking 1979 session featuring Old And New Dreams bandmates Don Cherry and Charlie Haden buoyed by Japanese drummer, Masahiko Togashi. Reissued in 2022 via We Want Sounds complete with an 8 page booklet.

Calming Signals is the 2019 debut from the Nashville, TN-based jazz-ambient composer, Rich Ruth. On the album’s mesmerizing opener, “Coming Down,” a squall of guitars and bleary synthesizers weave in and out of hypnotic swells of bass and escalating saxophone.

Recorded after Lorca, but released before it, the perfect marriage of where Tim Buckley was coming from and where he was going. 1969.

Swedish composer and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Almqvist’s 1979 debut, Nyanser, is a Nordic masterpiece of folk, fusion, and world music. A guitarist first and foremost, he plays the record largely himself, his patient and winding passages often leading the sojourn across the album’s majestic thirty-eight minutes.

The brilliantly colored and exquisitely crocheted hand talisman on the cover of Headdress beckons you in. The fingertips of the sunburned hand touch the waning crescent moon. It is a good reminder that Sunburned Hand of the Man knew how to sling that cosmic slop. Of all the free rock bands that emerged around the turn of the millennium, Sunburned were definitely the loosest and funkiest.