Modern Nature :: A Soundtrack/Score Companion

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Constant readers will no doubt recognize the name Jack Cooper, whose former project (Ultimate Painting) remains an in-house favorite. Following a stripped back solo venture, 2017's Sandgrown, Cooper returns with a group proper - Modern Nature - who have just released their debut full-length, How To Live. While anchored by Cooper, the record's grooves find a formidable cast of players exploring myriad veins of Kosmische Musik, British folk traditions, and beyond - all underpinned with an oblique sense of otherness . . .

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Marcia Griffiths :: Here I Am (Al Green)

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Decidedly more dank than UB40’s version, Marcia Griffiths' cover of Al Green’s “Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" simmers and sizzles with a primal rocksteady beat and a saccharine slow rhythm. Perfect for these dog days of late August . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: A Tribute to Talk Talk / Los Angeles, 8.26

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This Monday night (8.26), Aquarium Drunkard presents a tribute to the music of Talk Talk and its late founder, Mark Hollis. The evening will be a showcase of the group's work led by Mirror Man - a group comprised of the members of Derde Verde and friends. The collective put this on several months ago downtown, and it was fantastic, demanding an encore performance. This is it. Free and open to the public. 8pm at Gold Diggers in East Hollywood . . .

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Akira Toyoda :: Benkei

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Recorded in New York City, smack in the middle of the 1980s, Benkei deftly sidesteps the era's too frequent production woes. In sharp contrast, the record presents aesthetically perennial. As a piece, Benkei emanates a presence, an atmosphere that in no way feels ad hoc, but one more befitting a group of serial collaborators. This is both a testament to Toyoda as a bandleader and the players innate communion and agility throughout . . .

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Bill Callahan :: The AD Interview

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June 14th marked the return of Bill Callahan, via his latest record — the double lp, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest. One of our favorite listens this year, we asked singer/songwriter Jerry David DeCicca to catch up with the artist on our behalf as they embarked a short west coast tour together. Their conversation, below . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)

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Pacific rim bivouac. 34.1090° N, 118.2334° W ~ The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XM radio. Channel 35. Wednesdays / 7pm California time + on-demand.

This week, live oaks and weeping willows . . .

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Rich Ruth :: Calming Signals

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Calming Signals is the latest ambient offering from promising Nashville, TN-based composer, Rich Ruth. On the album’s mesmerizing opener, “Coming Down,” a squall of guitars and bleary synthesizers weave in and out of hypnotic swells of bass and escalating saxophone. Eventually the groove crumbles and the roar intensifies, though there is still serenity to be found amidst the clamor . . .

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Olden Yolk :: The AD Interview

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Speaking with Shane Butler and Caity Shaffer of Olden Yolk feels like a great conversation with friends where one alleyway of thought leads into another. It’s a feeling similar to their latest album, Living Theatre, a gorgeous record that funnels a broad collection of musical influences, but also ends up sounding like some of the best of Yo La Tengo’s gentler moments . . .

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Lower Dens :: The AD Interview

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Earlier this summer, Lower Dens' Jana Hunter stopped by AD hq in Los Angeles as the guest selector on our SIRIUS/XM show. Several months out from the release of the group's fourth LP (The Competition, September 6th), the conversation reflected on Hunter's solo beginnings, the formation of Lower Dens and the project's subsequent sonic evolution over the past ten years. Also discussed were the intervening years between 2015's Escape From Evil, Hunter's experience with gender dysphoria, and coming out the other side . . .

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Blanks And Postage: How To Weird Your Mind

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Several recent books provide counterpoints to Michael Pollan’s best-selling How To Change Your Mind. “Psychedelics for normies” in writer Alison Hussey’s memorable phrase, Pollan’s 2018 book almost instantly transformed the dialogue around the substances with its clear and direct arguments about their miraculous power to heal trauma. Only on occasion, though, does it entertain a present or future in which psychedelics might be used meaningfully outside the medical model, or acknowledge the ways that’s occurred in the past. How To Change Your Mind is a skeptical book, and draws some of its power from this . . .

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Unearthed, Vol. 7 :: Rocky Mountain Time

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Welcome to the seventh installment of Unearthed, a series of thematic mixes that travel deep into dusty vintage zones to dig up bootleg gold.

For the latest Unearthed, we've gathered together a totally eclectic sampling of Mile High sounds, ranging from lowdown blues crawls to futuristic synth-pop, from blazing funk-rock to jangly Britfolk . . .

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Talk Show / Aquarium Drunkard: In Conversation With Author Timothy Denevi on Hunter S. Thomson / Los Angeles / August 15 @ Gold Diggers

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TALK SHOW returns tonight - August 15 - at Gold Diggers in east Hollywood. 8pm / Free.

Your host Justin Gage in conversation with Timothy Denevi, author of 2018’s FREAK KINGDOM: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)

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If you ask me my name, it's High-Low-Jack in the game. The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm PST, Wednesdays + on-demand . . .

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Eamon Fogarty :: I Am The Cosmos (Chris Bell)

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Covering former Big Star guitarist Chris Bell's 1978 ballad "I Am the Cosmos," progressive art-rocker Eamon Fogarty manages to thread the needle, honoring the original's ache while also tearing it apart via a Sonny Sharrock-style free jazz freakout . . .

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Boots In Transit: An Appreciation of the Dead on Cassette

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Author’s note: this article originally appeared in 2012 on a now-defunct website called Dead Journalist. It has been salvaged, edited and updated for Aquarium Drunkard. - j jackson toth . . .

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