Radio Is A Foreign Country :: Electro-Folk Sounds of North Sumatra (Mixtape)

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Radio Is A Foreign Country is a not-for-profit radio platform and mixtape series that exposes listeners to obscure (and mostly vintage) regional folk and pop music from the global hinterlands, featuring cut-ups of international radio broadcasts (AM, FM, shortwave), field recordings, ethnographic film, vintage records and cassettes, and digital ephemera from the far reaches of the internet. For this special mixtape, the Radio Is A Foreign Country crew brings us a cross-section of North Sumatran electro folk . . .

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Simon Joyner :: Songs From A Stolen Guitar

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Simon Joyner, who recently turned fifty, has been quietly making records for a small cult of dedicated fans since 1990. Hovering above the intersection of chaos and beauty, the Omaha-based songwriter’s vivid and imagery-rich songs occasionally recall Leonard Cohen at his most personal and apocalyptic, while always revealing Joyner’s affinity for the fearless, unpredictable sounds of the noise and experimental scene on which he cut his teeth . . .

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Badge Époque Ensemble :: “Zodiac”

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On their new album, Clouds of Joy, Toronto’s Badge Époque Ensemble has swelled into a 13-headed hydra. In director Colin Medley’s rock doc style video for Badge’s latest single, “Zodiac”, the laid back left-handed stickman steps us through their history, briefly introducing each member like a jazz bandleader offering everyone a solo . . .

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Bill Laswell :: Dreams Of Freedom (Ambient Translations Of Bob Marley In Dub)

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Bill Laswell's 1997 remix collection of the Bob Marley catalog. At eleven tracks, the set deftly works a seam that feels at once familiar yet pleasantly discordant. As an ambient exploration of dub, traces of Marley's original compositions float in and out, at times cresting, though more often submerged in atmosphere. As Laswell's paints the walls with sound, melodies appear and disappear. Spacious, impressionistic and meditative, Dreams proves the exception to the rule of the remix album---no small feat for a cottage industry with a history of sideways results . . .

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Lee Ranaldo :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Ten years past the end of Sonic Youth, Lee Ranaldo takes the stage at a low key festival in northern New England with just a couple of guitars and a few microphones. He strikes a note, hard, on an aging acoustic, cocks his head a little, and seems to contemplate that reverberating sound. From an iPhone lying on a stool next to him, the sounds of urban life flicker—an indistinct voice, some running water, the sounds of faraway traffic.

A few days after the concert, we connect by phone to talk about Ranaldo’s experience of the pandemic, how . . .

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Michael Rault :: S/T

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Four years in the making, Michael Rault is a personal album exemplified. After wrapping up the album cycle for 2018's excellent It's A New Day Tonight, recordings for the eponymous new record were juggled between commutes from California and Rault's Canadian hometown, Edmonton. Like the uncertain logistical challenges of the pandemic that corresponded with this trajectory, the changes came both personally and professionally . . .

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Zach Phillips :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Zach Phillips’ OSR Tapes is probably among the most admired contemporary labels you’ve never heard of. Defining Phillips’ style in one paragraph is as hard as summarizing the history of the dozens of pseudonyms he has composed under.

For this interview we caught up with Philips to discuss institutional experiments with labels, his relation to South American music, his poetry and friends in New York, his imagination of harmony, Agamben’s messianism, and more . . .

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Marco Benevento :: Benevento

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Step inside a surprising, reviving, 40-minute set of sounds from bohemian keyboard savant Marco Benevento. The new album is Benevento (a hat tip to Paul McCartney's solo debut) and the new music is a neon pool party; powering an addictive, hazy blend of West African grooves, psychedelia, and electro through your entertainment speakers . . .

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Orchestre Massako :: Orchestre Massako

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For the Gabonese Republic, the 1970’s opened with an oil boom, and with it came an ensuing willingness to invest in a cultural endowment. In 1971, it was decided that the nation’s armed forces should have a band. Thus was born Orchestre Massako . . .

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Taper’s Choice :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Since their live debut at Gold Diggers in December of last year, Taper’s Choice have rolled through a smattering of dialed-in shows: more nights at Gold Diggers, Big Sur freakouts, New York rooftops and playing amongst the wine vines of Sonoma. Ahead of their inaugural festival later this month (Choice Fest), we caught up with the band to get a bit more detail about what's ahead, how fast things have come together, and much more . . .

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

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Outré California. 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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Bandcamping :: Summer 2022

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Here comes the summer once again and we’ve got a bunch of recommended tunes to help soundtrack the season as temperatures inevitably start to rise. Tune in, spread out — and don’t forget the sunscreen . . .

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Horsegirl :: Transmissions

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This week on the show, we're joined by Chicago indie trio Horsegirl—Penelope Lowenstein, Nora Cheng and Gigi Reece. Their new album, Versions of Modern Performance, echoes classic indie rock and features members of Sonic Youth. They join us to discuss it all: high school, Chicago's all-ages scene, recording at Electrical Audio, and more . . .

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Miles Davis Septet :: Chateau Neuf, Oslo Norway | November 9, 1971

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Funky tonk, indeed. In the fall of 1971 the Miles Davis septet embarked on a 21 date tour of Europe. Captured for broadcast on Norwegian television was the ensemble's ascendant set at Chateau Neuf in Oslo, Norway. A high water mark of this iteration of Davis' band, the incendiary hour-plus set runs the voodoo down and back again, with untethered performances from all involved. Edging into the beyond, Keith Jarrett appears especially possessed . . .

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Dealer’s Choice :: A Chance Meeting With Ras Tayo (Roots Reggae & Beyond)

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By chance I met Ras Tayo at Deadly Dragon Sound a decade ago. He invited me to bring some tunes out to The Den in Brooklyn, and soon I began spinning with a serious group of selectors every Sunday night. All the DJs had their big tunes and favorites that I'd look forward to hearing. These songs are ones they played often . . .

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