(first aired March 21, 2023)
For Women’s History Month, celebrating female, femme, trans, non-gender-confirming musicians
Honoring the legends Delia Derbyshire, Wendy Carlos, Suzanne Ciani
New music from Rachel Thierren and NAVVI
local music from Grouper, Chromatics, Midday Veil, Mt. Fog, and Patricia Wolf
and more!
| Artist | Title | Album | Notes | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chromatics | Cherry | Cherry (Deluxe) | 2017 EP from Portland | Italians Do It Better |
| Mt. Fog | Blue Summer (Graduation Remix) | Blue Summer (Graduation Remix) | Mar 31 vinyl release party: Easy Street Records | Ghost Mountain |
| Caroline Polachek | Door | Pang | May 4 & 5: Showbox Sodo | Sony Music |
| Tune-Yards | hypnotized | sketchy. | 2021 album from Merrill Garbus | 4AD |
| Midday Veil | Babel | This Wilderness | 2015; Seattle group co-founded by Emily Pothast | Beyond Records |
| L’Rain | Two Face | Fatigue | Experimental musician Taja Cheek | Mexican Summer |
| Delia Derbyshire | BBC interview (excerpt) Time on our Hands (excerpt) Doctor Who Theme | BBC Radiophonic Workshop – 21 | Incidental music for program on leisure Iconic sci-fi theme | BBC Records |
| Lisa Bella Donna | Onward to a Dream | Moogmentum | 2021 Benefit for Bob Moog Foundation | Behind The Sky Music |
| Stephanie Sante | Binary Cluster | Dark Matter Evolution | SF Bay composer | Sante Music |
| Suzanne Ciani | 3-2-1 Contact interview (excerpt) Morning Spring | @0 EP | Ambient compilation… | Ninja Tune |
| Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith | Mt Baker | @0 EP | …benefitting mental-health charities | Ninja Tune |
| Enya | Caribbean Blue | Shepherd Moons | Iconic 3rd LP | 1991 |
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| Laura Groves | Infinite Wisdom | A Private Road | UK dreamy pop | |
| Sarah McLachlan | Into the Fire | Solace | 1991, 2nd LP | Nettwerk |
| NAVVI | Clemency | V | New LP drops May 5 pre-order on Bandcamp | Hush Hush |
| Wendy Carlos | BBC interview Brandenburg Conctero No. 3 in G Major: I. Allegro | Switched-on Bach 2000 | 1992 , 25th anniversary of Switched-On Bach | Telarc |
| Sign Libra | Sea of Nectar | Sea to Sea | Latvian n new age | |
| Patricia Wolf | Pacific Coast Highway | See-Through | Touring! May 10 – Victoria BC May 11 – Vancouver May 12 – Bellingham, May 13 – Seattle May 14 – Portland | |
| Caterina Barbieri | Pinnacles of You | Ecstatic Computation | Berin school from Berlin artist | |
| Rachel Therrien Latin Jazz Project | Mojo | Mi Hogar | Quebec nu-jazz trumpeter | Outside In Music |
| Mary Halvorson | Amaryllis | Amaryllis | Two LP set (Amaryllis/Belladonna) from fusion guitarist | |
| Kelly Lee Owens | Jeanette | Inner Song | Ambient techno from 2020 | Smalltown Smpersound |
| Grouper | Heavy Water I’d Rather Be Sleeping | Dragging a Dead Deer | Slowcore/horror-core from Portland | |
| Julianna Barwick | Oh Memory ft. Mary Lattimore | Healing is a Miracle | Ambient collabs with Nosaj Thing, Jónsi, and harpist Mary Lattimore | Ninja Tune |
