Favoriting Out Here in the Field with Amanda: Playlist from August 10, 2026"Musician, sound artist, and environmentalist Jim Nollman has spent his...

"They would come in with a chord change": Composer Jim Nollman has collaborated with turkeys, kangaroo rats and whales. Now he's dropping "Orcas'...

Turkish psychedelia and whale song blues"Lopa Kothari presents the best in global folk and roots-based music, with Turkish psychedelia from BaBa...

Jim Nollman: “Whales liked it best if we got into a really good groove""US artist Jim Nollman exists somewhere between, art, music and acoustic...

Jim Nollman: The Man Who Jams With Orcas"The 1960s gave us many artistic firsts from pop and performance art to psychedelic rock and free jazz to...

Graded on a Curve: Classic Blues"Folkways, formed by Moses Asch in 1948, had a distinctive approach to the blues."  |  Read More at The Vinyl...

Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Comes to Vinyl for the First Time in New 2LP Edition: Review"Smithsonian Folkways brings decades...

Jim Nollman, "The Three Jimmies""The piece takes its musical starting point from the clipped, propulsive guitar style associated with Jimmy Nolen,...

Now Playing: "The 47 Whale Raga," by Jim Nollman"‘The 47 Whale Raga’ by Jim Nollman. A welcome escape into the cool, deep waters under British...

Rant & Roll"The sound, amazingly enough, is devoid of the usual snap/crackle/pop of most early blues recordings."  |  Read More at The Aquarian

"Whilst we’ve repeatedly featured improvised music here on Cyclic Defrost usually it’s occurring between humans. This piece is a little different." ...

BEST OF BLUES: Smithsonian Folkways Classics, Swamp Dogg, and Joe Krown"Additionally, Smithsonian Folkways has assembled an impressive blues...

Orcas’ Greatest Hits by Avant-Garde Sound Artist & Naturalist Jim Nollman—with Whale Collaborators—Released Today Via Smithsonian Folkways“I very...

Orcas’ Greatest Hits by Avant-Garde Sound Artist & Naturalist Jim Nollman—with Whale Collaborators—to Be Released August 14“Stunning... Nollman...

“Lovely, pure voice.” --NPR, interview piece “This is the family music that I love- soulful, mysterious, inclusive and rollicking!” --Dan Zanes...

One Of Smithsonian Folkways’ Best-Selling Titles Since Its 2003 Release, 26-Track Collection IncludesFoundational Recordings by Lead Belly,...