Hugo Largo :: Drum

Two bass guitars, a violin and the ethereal vox of Mimi Goese. Released in 1988,on Brian Eno’s label, Opal Records, and produced by Michael Stipe, Drum succeeds in sounding out of time. Autumnal, haunted, and more akin to incantation than album, its nine tracks exist on a plane of twilight ambience. Restraint and minimalism as aesthetic.

Who Knows Where The Time Goes: Twelve Years of Turquoise Wisdom

Aquarium Drunkard turned 17 a few months ago, and Zach Cowie (aka Turquoise Wisdom) has been a part of it for 12 of those years, beginning with the third entry in our (then new) guest selector series. A music supervisor by trade, Cowie’s mixes span myriad decades, genres, and moods, always aesthetically maintaining an empathetic through line. Now totaling a baker’s dozen, we have re-upped each individual mix beginning with the first volume from 2010.

Goodtime John & Bonnie Prince Billy :: New Life

For the last 20+ years, Irish singer/songwriter J. Cowhie has released music under his own name and the Goodtime John banner. Now he’s back with the mighty Will Oldham aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy in the cut with him. On the recently released “New Life,” Cowie applies AOR textures to his minimal form, conjuring up a grand but sparse sense of atmosphere that wouldn’t feel out of place on a late-era Pink Floyd recording.

Between and Beyond :: Japan’s Mutant Pop Underground

Over the past five years, Light in the Attic have offered wanderlusting listeners a series of primers with reissue compilations featuring music not yet released officially outside of Japan.

The label’s latest collection is called Somewhere Between. Subtitled Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds of Japan 1980–1988, this compilation attempts to connect the dots between various fringe figures operating outside of the country’s monolithic commercial music industry.

An Evening In Mono (A Medley)

… which brings us to this mix… in tribute to Art Dudley, here are tunes from some of my favorite mono LPs recorded using an emt 930 turntable with a Miyajima zero mono cartridge on a 12” Schick tonearm fed into a Miyajima etr-mono step up transformer and a Shindo Monbrison preamp.

Carlo Vinci, Jr. :: Piper Of Dreams

Sometime in January a parcel appeared on our doorstep with Vingaard’s address listed as the sender. Inside was a record, sealed, yet clearly vintage. Which, it turns out, it was. Frederiksberg is bringing Carlo Vinci, Jr.’s 1979 lp, Piper Of Dreams, back into the light digitally, along with having unearthed a stash of deadstock LPs pressed upon its original release.