

The Wind
Fil Corbitt, The Wind
A podcast about listening made at a handmade desk in the mountains.
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Jan 14, 2025 • 44min
Echo from Deep Valley with Ho Lan
Subscribe hereLinks, photos and more at www.thewind.orgA song bounces from slope to slope, emerging from the valley as an echo. Just of out earshot from Spokane Falls we meet star Taiwanese yodeler, Ho Lan.Ho Lan • Bandcamp | Website /// Tags, Topics and Mentions: Ho Lan, Echo from Deep Valley, Yodeling, Yodel, Taiwanese Yodel, Puli, Spokane, Washington, Spokane River, Spokane Falls, Expo '74, Manito Park, Yodeling cowboys, Hawaiian yodel, Mike Hanapi, Vicente Fernandez, Josaya Hadebe, Bulawayo Blue Yodel, yodeling in nature, waterfalls, birdsong, Hsia-jung Chang, the wind, eastern washington, high desert, silent night
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Dec 17, 2024 • 42min
Jazmine (JT) Green in Brooklyn, New York
The word “transit” comes from the Latin “transitus”, meaning to pass across or through. Off the subway in Brooklyn, down the stairs into the busy green room of On Air Fest, we meet Jazmine (JT) Green.|| Ephemera, change, sound. ||This episode features a piece called:Transformation through Repetition (feat. Jemma Rose Brown) - aired on Jazmine’s experimental audio podcast U+1F60CThanks to: Eleanor Qull, Jemma Rose Brown, Ray Pang, all the folks at On Air Fest.Jazmine's album "As A..." available here
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Nov 20, 2024 • 40min
Alash Ensemble in Winnemucca, Nevada
From the backroom of a Basque hotel in the Great Basin, Tuvan throat singing flows out through the bar, over the train tracks, and into the vast sagebrush steppes.||Topics, Tags and Mentions: Alash Ensemble, petroglyphs, freight train, The Martin Hotel, the martin hotel winnemucca, winnemucca nevada, basque, picon punch, tuva, throat singing, xoomei, tuvan throat singing, seven troughs, ghost town, mazuma nevada, tunnel camp nevada, ghost towns, mining towns, casino cafe, the martin hotel menu, bai taiga, Sygyt, Kargyraa, Xöömei, Ezenggileer, Borbangnadyr, great basin arts and entertainment, throat singer winnemucca, winnemucca throat singing concert
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Nov 15, 2024 • 4min
Year 5 • Prologue
Year 5 • Prologue -- notes on maintaining the desk and wandering far from the home mountain.This year you'll hear more of the interviews left long form; more intact. More raw material, collected from the road.
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Aug 27, 2024 • 28min
Guest Episode: Twenty Thousand Hertz + Listener Survey
LISTENER SURVEY • CLICK HEREThe second Wind listener survey!Plus, a guest episode from our friends at Twenty Thousand Hertz.The guest episode is called Dias Irae, and I think it works as a companion piece to Devil Music.The Wind will be back in the fall -- thanks for listening.
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Jun 12, 2024 • 2min
99% Invisible / The Los Angeles Leaf Blower Wars (Announcement)
I reported another episode for 99% Invisible. It’s called The Los Angeles Leaf Blower Wars.Listen in the 99pi feed, or at https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-los-angeles-leaf-blower-wars/•••If you're new to The Wind:Start with: "Prologue"For politics of sound: "Whip Law" // "Judas Priest on Trial"Music: "The Demon who Eats Demons" (Nepali death metal)Music History: "Frontier Music" (western film scores)Fan Favs: "Coyote" // "A Hobo, a Tramp, a Bum"Subscribe on your podcast app, or at https://thewind.org/subscribeInstagram | YouTube | TikTok•••Year 5 of The Wind coming this Fall/Winter.
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Jan 30, 2024 • 35min
The Crossroads
In the season finale of Devil Music, we walk down to the crossroads to make a deal. Featuring: The myth of Bluesman Robert Johnson selling his soul at the crossroads.Steven Johnson, president of the Robert Johnson Blues Foundation and grandson of Robert Johnson.Chris Smith of the great podcast, Sounding History.A trip to the cemetery in Compton, CA where Robert's guitar mentor Ike Zimmerman is buried.
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Jan 16, 2024 • 27min
Satanic Panic | a conversation with Aja Romano
Aja defines the Satanic panic as 2 separate but connected things. First, a specific era in the 80s and 90s where moral hysteria spread and court cases about satanic ritual abuse lead to the very real imprisonment of innocent people. Second, the Santanic Panic is a mode of thought, a moral panic, whose framework continues to exist and sway legislation and public opinion to this day.
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Jan 2, 2024 • 29min
The Demon Who Eats Demons | लाखे
A tour of Himalayan metal music, from the ethnic-metal of Lakhey to Binaash's रमाइलो Death Metal. // दानव जो दानव खान्छ.
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Dec 11, 2023 • 26min
The Devil's Postpile
The history of Mailer Daemon, a clip from Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata, Rumble: the Indians who Rocked the World, Charley Patton and the development of the blues, Link Wray, Stairway to Heaven Backwards and Lil Nas X. Plus, the final vote for a fiddle duel between a boy named Johnny and The Devil.
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