Aug 27, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
His work was dismissed by scientists, but Jim Nollman’s playing was admired by orcas for years. Now he’s releasing an album of oceanic field recordings that capture his efforts “Jim Nollman once wanted to be the next Eric Clapton. Instead, his guitar playing...
Aug 26, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
An Art-Statesman’s Heel Turn—and Other Art World Matters “Plus, Laurie Simmons does Zyn, while Jim Nollman makes art with orcas.” | Read More at...
Aug 11, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Favoriting Out Here in the Field with Amanda: Playlist from August 10, 2026 “Musician, sound artist, and environmentalist Jim Nollman has spent his fifty-year career conversing with animals through music.” | Read More at...
Aug 11, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
“They would come in with a chord change”: Composer Jim Nollman has collaborated with turkeys, kangaroo rats and whales. Now he’s dropping “Orcas’ Greatest Hits” “Staff writer Sascha Pare spoke with musical composer and sound...
Aug 11, 2026 | BBC, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Turkish psychedelia and whale song blues “Lopa Kothari presents the best in global folk and roots-based music, with Turkish psychedelia from BaBa ZuLa and sound artist Jim Nollman duetting the blues with his local orcas.” | Read More at...
Aug 6, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
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 ecology.” | Read More at Cyclic...
Jul 31, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
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 interspecies music-making between humans and whales.” | Read More at...
Jul 31, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
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...
Jul 24, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Comes to Vinyl for the First Time in New 2LP Edition: Review “Smithsonian Folkways brings decades of blues history to vinyl in a well sequenced 2LP set with good sound, a solid pressing, and much to...
Jul 16, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Jim Nollman, “The Three Jimmies” “The piece takes its musical starting point from the clipped, propulsive guitar style associated with Jimmy Nolen, whose playing helped define the rhythmic force of James Brown’s records.” | Read More at...
Jul 15, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
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 Columbia.” | Read More at Caught by the...
Jul 8, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Rant & Roll “The sound, amazingly enough, is devoid of the usual snap/crackle/pop of most early blues recordings.” | Read More at The...
Jul 1, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
“Whilst we’ve repeatedly featured improvised music here on Cyclic Defrost usually it’s occurring between humans. This piece is a little different.” | Read More at Cyclic...
Jun 30, 2026 | No Depression, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
BEST OF BLUES: Smithsonian Folkways Classics, Swamp Dogg, and Joe Krown “Additionally, Smithsonian Folkways has assembled an impressive blues collection that features well-known blues artists performing material that may be unfamiliar to some blues fans.” ...
Jun 23, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
LA Look at the Present and Distant Past Via Blues Recordings Over 103 Years “Like musical styles, record formats can have cycles of desirability or even fashionability.” | Read More at...
