Laraaji :: Transmissions

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"Transmissions is a lovely name; I think that's a very crucial name for this age." So says mystic musician Laraaji, our guest this week on the show. His Orangeness (AKA Edward Larry Gordon) joins us to discuss his upbringing in the Baptist church, initial entry into meditation, the spiritual qualities of laughter, and much more . . .

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Nora Guthrie :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Nora Guthrie joins us for a rambling conversation just after Thanksgiving about Woody Guthrie: Songs and Art, Words and Wisdom, the current that carries Woody’s work forward, and the power of being impulsive for a good cause . . .

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Tyler Mitchell featuring Marshall Allen :: Dancing Shadows

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Dancing Shadows finds Tyler Mitchell and Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra exploring sounds from the spaceways, covering Thelonious Monk, and unfolding a set of stunning original compositions . . .

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Videodrome :: The Last Tycoon (1976)

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The Last Tycoon seems to view the fabled “hero’s journey” of Hollywood storytelling as a pandering lie; a disingenuous roadmap to regurgitate while navigating narratives, as phony to the audience as it is to the real life of the people who make the kinds of films that propagate it. It presents a contrarian disposition to the cinematic tradition of happy endings that works on a meta-level, unapologetically concluding itself in sorrow and confusion . . .

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AD Presents: Off-Piste | A Mixtape

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From the confines of a snowed in cabin, Aquarium Drunkard presents Off-Piste, a 90 minute TDK mixtape. Expect a taut embrace of ice cold synths, nascent drum machines, reverb, echo, ornithology infused Danish funk, and two tracks referencing penguins. Duck the rope . . .

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Brigitte Fontaine :: Patriarcat

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Want to hear Brigitte Fontaine spit absolute fire in 1977? Us too. Proto-hip hop, slithering funk, via the synths & drum machine laden, Vous et Nous . . .

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Don Cherry :: It Is Not My Music (Swedish TV Documentary, 1978)

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As a followup to last year's phenomenal Don Cherry archival releases and book via Blank Forms, check out Det Är Inte Min Music (It Is Not My Music), a remarkable 1978 doc on the musician made by Swedish filmmaker Urban Lasson. Over the course of about an hour, we follow Don, his partner Moki and their kids from the pastoral Swedish countryside to the decidedly un-pastoral urban landscape of late-seventies NYC . . .

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Agitation Free :: ORTF Studio, Paris 1973

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Rare footage of experimental krautrock travelers Agitation Free, captured via the French television program Rock en Stock in the summer of 1973. Shot in black & white, sixteen minutes of sweaty, glassy-eyed improvisation riffing on the track “Laila II” off the band’s sophomore album, 2nd . . .

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

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East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon). Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Alabaster DePlume :: GOLD

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Alabaster DePlume’s To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 was our de facto audio balm in the cursed year of our lord 2020—a sonorous tapestry of strings, flutes, guitars, piano, and gentle percussion, they were largely instrumentals of songs from Gus Fairbairn (DePlume’s) earlier albums. On his ambitious, sprawling, and, ultimately, glorious new double album, GOLD, DePlume returns to us the original gift of those earlier works—his voice . . .

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Cate Le Bon :: Transmissions

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Today on Transmissions: Cate Le Bon, who, for the last decade plus, has made some of our favorite modern records, as well as producing great work for other artists, like Deerhunter and John Grant, who joined us last year on the podcast to talk about their collaboration The Boy From Michigan. Her new album is called Pompeii, an art pop gem out this week on Mexican Summer records. "I think the underlying theme of the record is we will forever be connected to everything," she says, joining host Jason P. Woodbury to discuss the album's genesis, the religious quality . . .

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Placebo :: Phalène II (Seven-Inch Box)

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Formed and led by pianist/composer Marc Moulin, Placebo were a mellower, funkier, Belgian counterpart to the progressive fusion being cooked up elsewhere across the pond by Nucleus and post-Wyatt/pre-Bundles Soft Machine . . .

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Lonnie Holley :: I Went a Little Too Far (Mistreating Love)

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Taking the form of a cosmic lament, Lonnie Holley's "I Went a Little Too Far (Mistreating Love)" aches with Anthropocene remorse, and like all of the Atlanta-based artists's best work, is imbued with an emotional resonance that's as mournful as it is beautiful. "In this video I fell in love with the image of him as a sort of prophet, wandering the planet, warning the inhabitants to change our ways," says director Ethan Payne. "To 'repent' of how we harm each other and the earth . . .

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Group Listening :: Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works, Vol. 2

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Group Listening—the UK duo of clarinetist Stephen Black and pianist Paul Jones—returns with Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works, Vol. 2. The follow-up to their 2018 debut is a wintry gift, finding the enterprising instrumentalists again interpreting tunes with a tastefully minimalist approach— adding light touches of field recordings, tape manipulation, and drum machines onto their winds and keys covers of works by Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Robbie Basho, Laraaji, Syrinx, and more . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Picture Show

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Transmitting from the hills of Glassell Park, California, welcome to episode ten of the Aquarium Drunkard Picture Show. Weird times, strange signals.

Feat: Tex Crick / Kikagaku Moyo / Michael Kiwanuka / Shintaro Sakamoto / Babe Rainbow / Jon Mckiel / Allah-Las . . .

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