Instrumental Saturdays

29/06/2024

Tune in tonight for my live in-studio Three Hour Tour with guitarist Tom Caufield. Tom has traveled to Milwaukee to play live in the studio. WMSE 91.7FM is thrilled to present this live concert and chat with Tom.

This Saturday on Instrumental Saturdays, Mary Bartlein has Tom Caufield in the WMSE Studios for a special live interview and performance! Caufield is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with a contemplative, acoustic/electronic, near-ambient, classical-adjacent style. His music often (but not always) places the acoustic guitar at the core of his pieces

Originally from Michigan, Caufield lived variously in New York City, Nashville, and Los Angeles while pursuing his solo career. Many of his pieces have been used in national advertising campaigns, as well as in network and cable television. Additionally, Caufield has scored three independent films.

His latest album, ‘The Endless Chimera,’ Tom’s first electric-centric album is a suite of four pieces, unique yet interconnected. The music was created using a 1992 Fender MIJ ’62 Vintage Stratocaster and an arsenal of analog and digital pedal f/x. Tom’s goal for this collection was to invoke the more spectral side of existence, trading his usual grounded, acoustic approach for a foray into isotopic, molecular, mysterious, Upanishadish layers. This final version of the album includes an acoustic coda for smooth transition back to terra firma. Transportive stuff.

Tune in on the dial at WMSE 91.7FM or stream using the WMSE website or free app.

19/11/2022

Hello from Instrumental Saturdays! Please join me tonight if you can on WMSE 91.7FM or WMSE.org for another Three Hour Tour. Tonight I have the pleasure of interviewing the group Delay Tactics for their long awaited reunion CD “Elements of Surprise”. After an extremely long hiatus Carl Weingarten, Walter Whitney and David Udell are back at it and tonight we will hear the album in full and find out how it all came together. Tune in at 6 PM CST for my live interview at WMSE.org and if you can’t listen live you can find it after the broadcast in our station archive https://www.wmse.org/program/instrumental-saturdays/

26/06/2021

Join me tonight on WMSE 91.7 fm for another Three Hour Tour: Pianist and composer Lynn Tredeau will be my guest and will we be listening to and discussing her latest album A Quiet Path. Lynn is great fun to interview and I am looking forward to sharing the new cd and a few extra tracks as well. Tune in live at 6pm CST at www.wmse.org or ask your smart speaker to Play WMSE. You can always catch the show later from our archive too.

15/05/2021

Tonight on Instrumental Saturdays on WMSE Radio 91.7fm

Milwaukee School of Engineering's free-format radio station broadcasting in streaming MP3 and Windows Media and on 91.7FM.

29/08/2020

Just when you might have thought I was done torturing innocent musicians by making them talk for three hours guess what, I am back at it!
Tonight, Saturday August 29 my guest (read innocent victim) is Bryan Tewell Hughes AKA AeTopus. His recently released CD Variant will be featured in our conversation tonight. Bryan is a truly unique and thoughtful musician and this will be our second conversation on Instrumental Saturdays. It has been a while since we last talked so we have some catching up to do. Please join us live tonight at 6pm CST from our website: WMSE.org or just tell your smart speaker to “Play WMSE”
If you can’t listen live you can access the WMSE’s archive from the website, just check out “the shows” and look for Instrumental Saturdays, the streaming link will be posted after the show.
Instrumental Saturdays is a three hour instrumental music radio show on WMSE in Milwaukee Wisconsin.

15/08/2020

Please join me tonight Saturday August 15 at 6 pm CST for a live interview with musician/composer Chuck Wild. Under the moniker Liquid Mind, Chuck has recently released the 13th cd in the series of ambient meditative music. Tonight, on Instrumental Saturdays, we will be featuring Liquid Mind XIII Mindfulness in another Three Hour Tour. Chuck has a fascinating history in the music world and I am excited to chat with him about it. Hope you can tune in.
You can listen live at WMSE.org or just tell your smart speaker to “Play WMSE” If you can’t listen live you can access the WMSE’s archive from the website, just check out “the shows” and look for Instrumental Saturdays and it will be there after the show.

02/08/2020

Tonight’s Instrumental Saturdays playlist featuring my interview with Jon Durant’s new CD with Robert Jurjendal called Across the Evening. Thanks Jon for taking the Three Hour Tour with me!

6:06 PM Jon Durant "Open Window" from Parting Is on Alchemy Records
6:59 PM Jon Durant & Robert Jürjendal "Early Evening Colors" from Across the Evening on Alchemy Records
7:13 PM Jon Durant & Robert Jürjendal "Distance Groove" from Across the Evening on Alchemy Records
7:29 PM Jon Durant & Robert Jürjendal "Reflective Sea" from Across the Evening on Alchemy Records
7:51 PM Jon Durant & Robert Jürjendal "Mirage" from Across the Evening on Alchemy Records
8:08 PM Jon Durant & Robert Jürjendal "Leading Indicator" from Across the Evening on Alchemy Records
8:21 PM Jon Durant & Robert Jürjendal "Beguiling Eyes" from Across the Evening on Alchemy Records
8:29 PM Jon Durant & Robert Jürjendal "On the Water" from Across the Evening on Alchemy Records
8:42 PM Jon Durant & Robert Jürjendal "Return to Russia" from Across the Evening on Alchemy Records
8:55 PM Jon Durant & Robert Jürjendal "Bulkan Blue" from Across the Evening on Alchemy Records

01/08/2020

I can't wait to chat with Jon Durant tonight about this CD! You will get to hear the whole CD tonight and how it came to be.

Milwaukee School of Engineering's free-format radio station broadcasting in streaming MP3 and Windows Media and on 91.7FM.

01/08/2020

Please join me tonight Saturday August 1 at 6 pm CST for a live interview with guitarist Jon Durant and if we are lucky, we may be joined by guitarist Robert Jurjendal from Estonia. Jon and Robert have collaborated on the new CD “Across an Evening” and it is brilliant! It was just released yesterday so tonight we will be doing a full Three Hour Tour on Instrumental Saturdays. We will be talking about and listening to the full CD.
You can listen live at WMSE.org or just tell your smart speaker to “Play WMSE” If you can’t listen live you can access the WMSE’s archive from the website, just check out “the shows” and look for Instrumental Saturdays and it will be there after the show.

06/06/2020

Please join me tonight Saturday June 6, 2020 at 6 pm CST for a live interview with Emmy Award winning Musician/Composer, Record Executive, Michael Whalen. I will be doing a full Three Hour Tour on Instrumental Saturdays with Michael featuring his latest CD “Sacred Spaces”.
Please tune in to WMSE.org to listen to our live stream or tell your smart speaker to “Play WMSE” You can also find WMSE on iTunes and TuneIn Radio. If you can’t listen live you can stream or download the show later through WMSE’s archive.