Tyondai Braxton's "Central Market"

Composer Tyondai Braxton is perhaps best known for playing keyboard and guitar with the experimental group Battles, and creating strange voice samples that sound more alien than human.

Last month Braxton released Central Market, a sweeping, orchestral album that veers from Technicolor-era cartoon themes to controlled chaos. Influences range from 19th-century European classical music to the no-wave music of the early 1980’s.

Tyondai Braxton joins us from the NPR studios in New York.

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Listen to "Platinum Rows," the centerpiece of Tyondai Braxton's new album, Central Market.

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