A Miniature World with Binnie Klein

Binnie Klein, WPKN
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My musical tastes swerve through Euro-pop, trip-hop, electronica, indie-rock, singer-songwriters. You might hear Icelandic rock, World music, Radiohead, Bjork, Tricky, Kate Bush, Cocteau Twins, The Books, Caroline Polachek, weird cover tunes, Milosh, Stevie Nicks, PJ Harvey, Cat Power, Owen Pallett, Hot Chip, Dandy Warhols, Kae Tempest, In These Trees and Tartie, Perfume Genius, Brian Eno, Karsh Kale, War on Drugs, Moby, Patti Smith, Juana Molina, Peter Gabriel, to name a few. And poetry. And words. My interviews have included Chris Frantz, Jeff Pevar, Dick Cavett, David Denby, Harry Shearer, Katha Pollitt, Bert Randolph Sugar, Abigail Thomas, Carl Safina, Matthew Klam, Gretchen Rubin, Tig Notaro, Ophelia Eisenberg, and many more! Many will be available on my Interview podcast, coming soon.....

  1. 6d ago

    A Miniature World with Binnie Klein October 15, 2026 Fragile and Ferocious

    Welcome to A Miniature World with Binnie Klein; this episode is the fragile and ferocious edition. My intro is by French composer Gabriel Yared, from the film "Betty Blue." Michelle Gurevich -she’s got Russian heritage – lives in Toronto…had been a filmmaker and performed under the name Chinawoman. "Party Girl" inspired the 2014 French film Party Girl – there’s been a lot of remixes of this song…from Late Night Tales album……..put out by  Agnes Obel, who invited some remarkable artists to delve deep into their music collections to create the ultimate "late night" selection. It is a fantastic album, with a great range of music and artists, and certainly not limited to playing only at night!!!   Nico/All Tomorrow's Parties continued an instant theme!  Bauhaus/ She's in Parties  ((Remix by The Cemetery Lovers), Modest Mouse/The Good Times Are Killing Me/Good news for people who love bad news - 2004- and we leave the partying theme for - Ray Davies/I Go To Sleep – a song later recorded by Peggy Lee and Cher, and a version you might not find anywhere else. Life Without Buildings/Sorrow - formed by students and ex-students of the Glasgow School of Art. This short-lived Scottish band was named the band after a B-side track by the English new wave band Japan (or The Durutti Column), Greek composer Lena Platonos/ Bloody Shadows From A Distance ---  first came out in 1985, then 2018  (okay it’s already a fine show, no? we’ve til noon together – with some features later on and more cool music), Elephant & Castle/Altered Scones/Transitions..Elephant & Castle is Bay area beat maker David Reep, Death Cab for Cutie/Transatlanticism/2003, PJ Harvey/We Float/Stories from the City; Stories from the Sea, 2000, The Reds, Pinks & Purples/Houses /Acknowledge Kindness, 2026, Agnes Obel/Poem About Death/ late night album, Elephant and Castle/En Memoria/Transitions (feat. tUne-YaRds), The Postal Service/Such Great Heights, Kristin Hersh, 101 Run/Sugar on the Blackstone/a darker album than previous ones, the album's title references places in Providence, Rhode Island, where Hersh is living. She's had more than her share of trauma. Her sound is so unique, and she can sound both fragile and ferocious! Maria Chiara Argiro/Closer, Nilufer Yanya (London-based singer/songwriter)/Just a Western/My Method Actor, CAN/Sing Swan Song - 1972 experimental German krautrock album Ege Bamyası oKRAScHOTEN I love that song and I particularly enjoy saying the album title  Penguin Cafe/At the Top of the Hill, They Stood/handfuls of night, 2019 Ian Cooke/Monkey and Bear (Joanna Newsom) I love when men cover Joanna Newsom songs, don't you? Sometimes Joanna Newsom sounds like she's covering her own songs!! The Books/Classy Penguin/ Playall 2007 (an American Dutch experimental indie electronic duo formed in NYC in 1999 by Nick Zammuto (guitarist/Vocalist) and Paul de Jong (cellist/archivist)/they split up in 2012; each going on to solo projects, P.P. Rebel/Sanctuary/ Devotee 2017,  rooted in her embrace of the spiritual path of Kriya Yoga and an acquisition of a harmonium at an Indian furniture store, the new album from Paris Rebel Richens (Parsnip, Hierophants) blends chant, drones, and a spare vision of ‘60s rock. The first single from Richens’ new album opens with the fermented hum of harmonium and chants that befit an album titled Devotee. The song evolves, underpinned by a shaggy beat and a subdued sway that toes the line between the art house regulars at the edge of the ‘60s / ‘70s and deep meditative zones. Under the name P.P. Rebel, Richens channels a dose of cosmic calm on the album Devotee (from a blog called “raven sings the blues”)/ Ahmoudou Madassane/Akaline Akaline/an instrumental track by Tuareg guitarist and composer Ahmoudou Madassane, featured on his 2018 album Zerzura (Original Soundtrack Recording) described as the first Saharan acid Western, which follows a nomad's quest for a mythical city of gold. The Books/Fralite/a dot in time (2012),  Zammuto/Great Equator (one half of the talented duo the Books), Waxahatchee/Right Back to It, Vicky Sometani/Keep Coming Back To You, WONDER OF BIRDS - this segment discusses a special ability of the Woodpecker, GaiaGram (climate change news contributed by Kevin Gallagher), Patti Smith/ Peaceable Kingdom, Midori Jaeger/“see” acoustic Live at the poet’s studio, Arms/Kids Aflame, The Brian Jonestown Massacre/Fingertips, and that's a wrap!!!! Next show is November 5! Get in touch......binniek (at) comcast.net  Stay fragile and ferocious!!!

    A Miniature World with Binnie Klein October 15, 2026 Fragile and Ferocious

  2. Oct 1

    A Miniature World with Binnie Klein, October 1, 2026 Autumn Sweater

    Autumn is here and the struggle is real. Leaves, chilly, darker. BUT on A Miniature World you will hear the poignant, the imaginative, the reliable, and the unique way the host mixes it all together. "Superior show," said a listener recently. Music from The Dandy Warhols, Death Cab for Cutie, Yo La Tengo, Coldcut, Edgar Winter, Charlie Parker, The Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, The Neighborhood, Caamp, Future Islands, Joanna Newsom, (all those just cited have something to do with Autumn, and we need seasonal transitions to be noted when so much else is chaotic and unpredictable! )French Police, Prewn (touring now), Robert Wyatt, Perfume Genius, Iam6teen, Holly Munro, Unmoored --poem written and read by Doug Ramspeck (appeared In The Sun magazine, September 2026 issue), Agnes Obel, Imogen Heap, Matt Berninger, Robyn Hitchcock, one year later re-broadcast of Binnie on the deck watering plants, made exclusively (heh-heh) for WPKN, Lotte Kestner, Gia Margaret, Lowenzahn honig, STATION ID with Johnny (Loudboy) Andrews from touring with the B-52s, Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib and Dylan Day, Gia Margaret, Big Thief, Binnie & Scott (who met at WPKN) have a discussion in the car (premiere of a series?), Futurebirds, Iggy Pop, Godzooki, DEHD, Mini-feature: The Wonder of Birds! (intro by Innocence Mission), tales of the bird that flies backwards (hummingbird), and I haven't hooked up with a crow yet but I may settle for a bluejay, Boy With a Fish, GaiaGram #333 (Kevin Gallagher feature on the effect of climate change), SIPHAMANDLA ARTS GROUP - UBUNTUMadassane – ‘Zerzura Theme II’ Original soundtrack recording to the film “Zerzura”, the first ever Saharan acid Western, telling the story of a nomad’s search for a magic city of gold. Evoking the desert journey with free form guitar improvisations, the soundtrack is a meditation on the mysteries of the Sahara. Composed by writer and actor Ahmoudou Madassane, the instrumental score takes the familiar Tuareg guitar tradition into new directions, transforming desert blues into ambient soundscapes. released November 23, 2018 Les Filles de Illighadad – ‘Erilegh Ifanata’ Sublime recordings from rural Niger. Two very different sides of Tuareg music - dreamy ishumar acoustic guitar sessions, and the hypnotic polyphonic tende that inspires it. Guitarist Fatou Seidi Ghali and vocalist Alamnou Akrouni lead the troupe, named after the village. Recorded in the open air studio of the desert. released February 24, 2016   Yup, got all intellectual on ya at the end!  My next show is October 15, 2026!!! Stay warm; put on your Autumn Sweaters. Love, Binnie

    A Miniature World with Binnie Klein, October 1, 2026 Autumn Sweater

  3. Sep 17

    A Miniature World with Binnie Klein September 17, 2026 Arms Outstretched

    This episode is lovable pop songs and lyricists. Of A Miniature World, listeners write in: "It's the way she puts it together." "World weary but with hope for the future." Gabriel Yared kicks us off with music from the French film Betty Blue, Birdsongs of the Mezazoic (with an ENO cover of Somber Reptiles), Githead, Patti Smith ("oh when we'll be as one/oh but until that day/oh we will just await/in our snow white shrouds/waiting underground/waiting underground"), Teddybears feat. Iggy Pop, Moaa, ANNOUNCE, Kae Tempest feat. Kevin Abstract), Rosa Damask (post-punk from Russia!), LP (phenomenal songwriter became a performer), The War on Drugs, Tricky & Lita Lores, Bonobo, ANNOUNCE, Human Tetris, Lowman, The Participant (experimental collective from Australia), Merci Raines, Lykke Li (new!), Bjork, soft siren, SOREN, Morgana (says "her song I'm Not Going Anywhere" became a North Star for her solo project), ANNOUNCE, Saint Sister (Morgana's early project with a school friend), Kate Bush, Miyaxx, Two Lanes & Sohn (Live), "Cereus," poem by Henri Cole, from Aug 17 issue of The New Yorker, Sternpost, Iniko, First-Ever Chapman Stick Trio, Nature vs. Nurture feat. the Ebinum Brothers, Laura Misch, Johnny Loudboy Andrews on tour with B-52s announces third hour of Binnie's show, Explosions in the Sky, Erik Blood, pearl, The United States of America, the Wonder of Birds segment: The Kildeer fakes a limp to draw attention away from her babies, Joy Oladokun/I'd Miss the Birds, LP (new one), London Grammar, Tori Amos, GaiaGram (Kevin Gallagher's segment on the threats to our planet from climate change), Slowdive, Widowspeak, the Dandy Warhols....... Bye! Next show October 1, 2026 - Please like, subscribe and share!!!!

    A Miniature World with Binnie Klein September 17, 2026 Arms Outstretched

  4. Sep 3

    A Miniature World with Binnie Klein September 3, 2026 Summer is Not Over

    The Doors may have sung "...summer's almost gone..." and people are already mourning. But I say no! Let's flip that on its head! In his poem, Suddenly, Summer, Alex Dimitrov brings in some tulips. "They merely filled the room/their purpose being to be loved/for what they were, entirely/by how I saw them....And so I did. I loved them." Let's love these days and enjoy today's Miniature World. With Gabriel Yared (my theme song), Ane Brun (new single out now), Annabel Lamb, Stevie Nicks, Pink Floyd (with the synthesized voice of Stephen Hawking, Miniature Words collage by BK, REM, Dana Gavanski (King Crimson cover), Eli & Fur, Sternpost (intriguing band from Sweden and new), Tadzio, Jordan Eller, Julia Holter (goddess), Agnes Obel (another goddess, new work out soon), Courtney Barnet, L CON, Masahiro Takahashi (Japanese artist based in Toronto, using rotating ensemble of 10 guest artists--LOVE THIS), Boards of Canada, Sneaker Pimps (a classic), Angus & Julia Stone, Lolo Zouai, Spacemoth ("producer, engineer & noisemaker"), Ex Colorado (with self-coined "dreamykraut"), Constant Smiles, Adam Howell, Alex Serra, Ivy (1st album in 14 yrs), Jordana and the TV Girl, Quilt, Grace Ives, Big Thief, Lana Del Rey, Neon Indian, Kitty Hoff & Foret-Noire, Neil Halstead (Tim Buckley cover!), WONDER OF BIRDS feature (An R-rated, non-binary edition about the white-throated sparrow; the bird with four "sexes"), Parov Stelar, Kitty Solaris, GaiaGram (climate change news from Kevin Gallagher), Andrew Bird, The Participant, Ofir Ganon, NEXT SHOW is SEPTEMBER 17, 2026!!!!!

    A Miniature World with Binnie Klein September 3, 2026 Summer is Not Over

  5. Aug 20

    A Miniature World with Binnie Klein, August 20, 2026 Walking & Running

    "I'm in a love affair with music/and I think I am obsessed/I search for new and quirky sounds/and celebrate the rest.."My intro is by Gabriel Yared, from the sdtrk to French film Betty Blue..The Participant (experimental Australian music community), 4 Non Blondes, katie dey, Morcheeba, Arvid, Glass Beams, August, Yours Truly, Imagine Dragons, ("....a fun thing as a DJ is to leap from an unusual indie track to a pop song, so that's what I did") Morcheeba, Arvid, Legendary Pink Dots, Concrete Blonde (great George Harrison cover) Imperial April (Aldous Harding cover), Daphne's Demise, bunkbed nights, Kristin Hersh (w/Michael Stipe!) Micah P. Hinson, Friends of Dean Martinez, Sam Amidon, "presenting" Insta phenom Todd Crozier, Tim Buckley, Arvid, poem, "Cereus" by Henri Cole (August 17 issue of The New Yorker), Hayley Williams, The Participant, David Bowie (we miss you), HAAi & Echonomist (two great producers), Thomas D feat. Franka Potente, Moby, A Flock of Seagulls, OneRepublic, the Doors, ("....so we did it...we 'ran' - we were running...it just sort of happened..and then we...walked a bit"): Flash and the Pan, Laurie Anderson, Bob Dylan, WONDER OF BIRDS SEGMENT ("some birds keep clean by keeping their feathers covered with ANTS!!"), Celine Cairo, GaiaGram (climate change news produced by Kevin Gallagher), Marianne Faithfull, The Bony King of Nowhere (another Aldous cover!) Hozier....      NEXT SHOW AND PODCAST IS SEPTEMBER 3, 2026!!!!!

    A Miniature World with Binnie Klein, August 20, 2026 Walking & Running

  6. Aug 6

    A Miniature World with Binnie Klein August 6, 2026 Rainbow Weather

    Saw a double rainbow this week. What is that certainty of knowing you're going to see a rainbow? When you say "THIS is rainbow weather?" When you know just the right juxtaposition of forces will result in something uncanny and beautiful? Always trying for those moments here on A Miniature World...are you ready? ready for that certainty? Or at least that hope? Let's stand or sit or lounge or walk or run together for a few hours and watch and LISTEN to new and special music and special features about the Wonder of Birds (today's bird is the white bellbird and Jeff Tweedy talks about wanting to befriend a crow), and the effects of climate change and then more special music. I'm Binnie Klein and so happy to have you near me! Hear like nowhere else...Music from Gabriel Yared, Thao & Tune-Yards, David Bowie, Katia Pojidaeva, Jonathan Bree, Dragonflies, Loren Beri, Blood Orange, Fever Ray, Kosmicho, Odd Little Thrills, Nouvelle Vague & Melanie Pain, Portuga.The Man, Asaf Avidan, Blur, Odesza, Marta & Tricky, Million Moths, Heated Floors, FOLLOW-THROUGH SEGMENT: Genesis, Alice in Chains, Bob Dylan, Roni Alter, Lykki Li, Kaleo, Mother Earth, M83, PJ Harvey, SAULT, WONDER OF BIRDS: Delicate Steve, Kristin Hersh, Underworld, Patti Smith, The Be Good Tanyas, GaiaGram, Adrien Belew, Tweaks, Ofir Ganon, Mo'ti tei, midori jaeger, My Brightest Diamond....NEXT SHOW IS Thursday, August 20!!!!!

    A Miniature World with Binnie Klein August 6, 2026 Rainbow Weather

  7. Jul 15

    A Miniature World with Binnie Klein July 16, 2026 The Wonder of Birds

    It's not an easy time. From the perils of violence to the perils of bacteria to the perils of the air to the misfits at the helm...it's as if a powerful, cross-cultural "trickster" has been set free to roam at will. The chaos is alternately mesmerizing and numbing. So we turn to art and each other !!   Here, for 3 hours, is a miniature world of cool, surprising music and wry commentary AND a new feature .....about the wonder of Birds!!!!   The details: Ben Bohmer, Feist, Oklou, Mogwai, Lia Ouryang Rusli, Robert Wyatt, First Aid Kit, Madi Diaz, Timber Timbre, raeann fetcho, The Slip, Cabaret Nocturne, Baptiste W. Hamon, Marianne Faithfull, Boards of Canada, The Rolling Stones, Hibou, Sneaks, Christopher Mir,more eaze, REM, The Innocence of Mission with "The Wonder of Birds" and a fascinating fact about birds and sleep, REM, Curiosity Shop, Merce Lemon, Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick, Kevin Gallagher's segment "GaiaGram" about the effects of climate change on our planet, Tom Paxton,El Buho, Arooj Aftab & Bonobo, midori jaeger, Animal Collective, Obongjayar, Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, M. Ward, Hot Chip, Arms, Triggerfinger, Emily Wells.....next show  August 6, 2026!

    A Miniature World with Binnie Klein July 16, 2026 The Wonder of Birds

  8. Jul 2

    A Miniature World July 2, 2026 "Strong but steady, Subtle but Sublime"

    I hope you are inside (heat wave). and that yr animals are inside.And that "inside" is significantly cooler than "outside"If you ARE outside, may you be listening in the middle of a lake, river, pond or pool.A Miniature World is 3 hours where I smooth things out by mixing things up.Where we go strong but steady and subtle but sublimeand pick you up when you feel like falling   Artists today: Gabriel Yared, Patrick Watson, midori jaeger, Kely Pinheiro, Motte, Broadcast, Donovan, PJ Harvey, KARYYN, Trippin Jaguar, Akin Sevgor, Manchester Orchestra, Him & Earl, The Delmonas, Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin, Esta Tonne, The Civil Wars, Lowenzahnhonig, James Baldwin, Trippin Jaguar, The Last Dinner Party, Mulatu Astatke, Mozart Gabriel, Mo'ti tei, Curiosity Shop, Charley Ann, Single Gun Theory, Lowenzahnhonig, GAIAGRAM from Kevin Gallagher (climate news), ear, Wild Beasts, Kazdoura, Yoshida Brothers, Drupad at the Lake, Mo'ti tei, Kodak to Graph, Tracy Chapman, Manha de Carnaval by Elizete Cardoso, Vince Staples, The Church, Erik Strauss.....   BACK WITH YOU JULY 16, 2026 WITH ANOTHER EPISODE OF A MINIATURE WORLD WITH HOST BINNIE KLEIN

    A Miniature World July 2, 2026 "Strong but steady, Subtle but Sublime"
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My musical tastes swerve through Euro-pop, trip-hop, electronica, indie-rock, singer-songwriters. You might hear Icelandic rock, World music, Radiohead, Bjork, Tricky, Kate Bush, Cocteau Twins, The Books, Caroline Polachek, weird cover tunes, Milosh, Stevie Nicks, PJ Harvey, Cat Power, Owen Pallett, Hot Chip, Dandy Warhols, Kae Tempest, In These Trees and Tartie, Perfume Genius, Brian Eno, Karsh Kale, War on Drugs, Moby, Patti Smith, Juana Molina, Peter Gabriel, to name a few. And poetry. And words. My interviews have included Chris Frantz, Jeff Pevar, Dick Cavett, David Denby, Harry Shearer, Katha Pollitt, Bert Randolph Sugar, Abigail Thomas, Carl Safina, Matthew Klam, Gretchen Rubin, Tig Notaro, Ophelia Eisenberg, and many more! Many will be available on my Interview podcast, coming soon.....

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  • Creator
    Binnie Klein, WPKN
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    25
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Binnie Klein, WPKN