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This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith. Since the 1960s, Wadada has scored much of his music in Ankhrasmation, a visual language he invented for improvisers.

His new album, Constellations and Hemispheres, is out now, built from four different groups he recorded over five years, with lots of post production.

We talk about why his players study light and color, using the studio as an instrument like dub producers, and choosing love in a world at war.

(The musical excerpts heard in the interview are from Wadada Leo Smith's Constellations and Hemispheres)

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