Alternate Take: Spotlight on Orquesta Akokán, Milton Nascimento, Kim Gordon + more

On this episode Alternate Take, I travel the globe with new music from Brazil’s Milton Nascimento, Cuban Latin jazz ensemble Orquesta Akokán, Los Angeles’ Kairos Creature Club and Kim Gordon.

Plus, I also include WDET’s The New Music Show host Shigeto and The Boulevard host Waajeed — and more music from Detroit.

See the playlist below and listen to the episode on-demand for two weeks after it airs using the player above.

Alternate Take Playlist for June 6, 2024

• Status IV – “You Ain’t Really Down (Jazzanova’s Hey Baby Remix)”
• Kairos Creature Club – “Exile”
• Apifera – “Theodor Marmalade”
• Will Gregory Moog Ensemble – “Young Archimedes (feat. BBC National Orchestra of Wales)”
• Weval – “Where It All Leads”
• Hania Rani – “Don’t Break My Heart”
• Kate Bollinger – “Any Day Now”
• The Folk Implosion – “My Little Lamb”
• Kim Gordon – “Sketch Artist”
• Infinite River – “Track 5”
• George Harrison – “Wah-Wah”
• Masino – “I’m Lonely”
• La Comitiva – “Paradiso”
• Bebel Gilberto – “So Nice (Summer Samba)”
• Air – “Cherry Blossom Girl”
• Orquesta Akokán – “Con Altura”
• Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding – “Outubro”
• Seefeel – “Blue Easy Sleep” Polyfusia | 1993 UK
• Tammy Lakkis – “Hello??”
• DJ Holographic – “Gemini”
• The Detroit Escalator Co. – “Abstract Forward Motion as a mission”
• Brijean – “Roller Coaster”
• Material – “Black Light”
• Mark de Clive-Lowe, Shigeto & Melanie Charles – “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence”
• Waajeed – “The Rock (Bridge to a New Day)”