SSS is a monthly psychedelic tone poem. It’s equal parts structure and improvisation, meditation and provocation, sacred and profane. It’s made up mostly (though not exclusively) of short compositions or excerpts of compositions. These come from several musical genres and sub genres including spiritual and free jazz, contemporary classical, electronic and electronica, ambient and folkloric music of the world. The source material is sometimes analogue, sometimes digital and often remixed or reedited and augmented by spoken word, sound effects and sometimes even live percussion. It would not exist without hip hop . . .

*edited, remixed or otherwise f’ed with by Mark Maxwell

HOUR 1

*Babatunde Lea “Invocation” (excerpt) Umbo Weti (Motema; 2009)

Babatunde Lea “Invocation” Suite Unseen: Summoner Of The Ghost (Motema; 2005)

Josef Leimberg “Interstellar Universe” Astral Progressions (Alpha Pup; 2016)

Django “Sweet Potato” Oxygen Eternal (private press; 2012)

David Budbill / William Parker / Hamid Drake “No Escape” Songs For A Suffering World (Boxholder; 2003)

Dewey Redman “Dew” Momentum Space (Verve; 1999)

David Ornette Cherry “To Alice Coltrane” Organic Roots (Diatic; 2000)

Various “Shrine Music” Music From The Kabuki (Nonesuch; 1966)

Steve Davis “On A Sad Day” Music (RCA; 1970)

*Either/Orchestra “The Eighth Wonder” (intro Max Mix) More Beautiful Than Death (Accurate; 2000)

The Gaslamp Killer (w/Mophono) “The Butcher” Instrumentalepathy (Cuss; 2016)

Georgia Anne Muldrow “Industrial Bap” Kings Ballad (Ubiquity; 2010)

*Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio “Celestial Blues (Max Mix)” Love Is The Answer (Ninja Tune; 2005)

Josh Abrams “Space Modulator” (excerpt) Cipher (Delmark; 2003)

Space (Roscoe Mitchell / Tom Buckner / Gerald Oshita) “An Interesting Breakfast Conversation” An Interesting Breakfast Conversation (1750 Arch; 1984)

Iliad “Interplosion” Distances (Northern Lights; 1976)

Ensemble Al-Salaam “Optimystical” The Sojourner (Strata-East; 1974)

The Fourth Way “Farewell Goodbye” The Sun And Moon Have Come Together (Harvest; 1969)

*Amsterdam String Trio “vnl uit Muziek and Kartonnen dozen” (excerpt Max mix) Wild West (Nimbus; 1988)

Patrick Butler “Chord Climb” (intro) Sound Pinnacle (M.M.O.S., 2015)

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble “Sankofa” Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (Honest Jon’s; 2009)

Horace Tapscott “Waltz Tune (from music for King Christophe)” The Dark Tree: Jazz And The Community Arts In Los Angeles (University Of California Press; 2006)

James Newton “Bennie” (from Arkansas Suite) Flute Music (Flute Music; 1985)

Kelan Phil Cohran “Kalahari” African Skies (Zulu; 1993?)

HOUR 2

Moondog “Oasis” Moondog And His Friends (Epic/Honest Jon’s; 1953/2005)

Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris / ORT-Orchestra della Toscana “59E2” Holy Sea – Conductions 57, 58, 59 (Splasc(H); 1999)

Laszlo Kalmar “Sotto Voce” (excerpt) Trio / Four Canons / Cycles / Sotto Voce / Song / Notturno No. 1 (Hungaroton; 1976)

The Tony Williams Lifetime “Two Worlds” Ego (Polydor; 1971)

Thundercat “Song For The Dead” The Beyond / Where The Giants Roam (Brainfeeder; 2015)

Dennis Gonzalez “Interlude 30 December” A Matter Of Blood (Furthermore; 2009)

Abdullah Ibrahim “Threshold” The Song Is My Story (Sunnyside; 2014)

Bill Lee “Ferrybank Restaurant” She’s Gotta Have It (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Island; 1986)

Avery Sharpe “I Am My Brothers Keeper” Extended Family III: Family Values (JKNM; 2001)

George Benson “Because” The Other Side Of Abbey Road (A&M; 1969)

*Pink Floyd “Bike” Relics (Starline; 1971)

Little Roger & The Goosebumps “Gilligan’s Island (Stairway)” 7” (Splash)

*Skyline Electric “Temple March” (Max Mix/Edit) Church And State Of The Art (private press; 2012?)

? “?” (excerpt) ? (?; 19??)

Misled Children “B2 – Untitled” (excerpt) Peoples Market (Porter; 2008)

Dereck Higgins “Congo 3”(excerpt) Sketchbook (Bandcamp; 2016)

Céu “Sereia” Caravana Sereia Bloom (Six Degrees; 2012)

Santana “Spring Manifestations”/”Canto De Los Flores” Borboletta (Columbia; 1974)

Bill Cole’s Untempered Ensemble “Grounded” (excerpt) Seasoning The Greens (Boxholder; 2002)

Los Hombres Calientes “Kendavshubi” Vol. 5: Carnival (Basin Street; 2005)

Clyde Borly & His Percussions “Afromania” Music In 5 Dimensions (ATCO; 1966)

Ras_G & The Alkebulan Space Program “Star Messengers” Spacebase Is The Place (Poobah; 2014)

Mandingo Griot Society “Chedo” (excerpt) s/t (Flying Fish; 1978)