The Audio Ecotone

Join Eddy Owt as he explores the rich genre diversity, cross-breeding, and hybridizing in the back waters and tributaries of the past 100 years of music: rock, jazz, pop, r&b, soul, country, ska, electronica, J-Pop/C-Pop/K-Pop, afrobeat, and much more.

"We have a tropical situation where there are thousands of 'species' of music around and they're all constantly cross-breeding and hybridizing. It's very exciting, but you can't keep up with it easily." -- Brian Eno

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The Joy of Sax! (Jun 27th, 2025)

On June 28, 1846, Belgian musician and inventor Adophe Sax was granted a patent for his new instrument called the saxophone. The horn was designed to project as well as a brass instrument while retaining the harmonic feeling of a woodwind. While the horn gained some adoption in the military, ragtime and vaudville bands, it wasn't until the 1920s jazz boom that the foundation for the sax's place in popular music was established. On the eve of the 179th anniversary of Sax's patent,  The Audio Ecotone celebrates the saxophone with a wide-ranging selection of music from Charlie Parker, Albert Ayler, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Moon Hooch and a whole host of others. 

Sorry, no Yakety Sax on the playlist.

Tommy! (May 9th, 2025)

On this special Spring FUNdraiser edition of The Audio Ecotone, special guest Tommy Dunbar, co-founder and guitarist of Bay Area power pop icons The Rubinoos joined me LIVE in the studio to spin some of his favorite 45s and talk music. The full interview lasted 90 minutes, but the station recorder only picked up the final 60 minutes of our talk. We hope to post the full interview soon.

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