Spiritualized :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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In the late 1980s, after a split with his Spacemen 3 partner, Peter Kember, Jason Pierce set out to make a new kind of music, less guitar-driven, more orchestral, founded on hauntingly simple melodies, but blown out with lush arrangements, blistering noise and free-wheeling instrumental improvisation.

This year, Fat Possum has begun reissuing the first four Spiritualized albums on vinyl. We talked to Pierce about his extraordinary 1990s run, his creative process, his influences and the way that music, when done well, can transport you into different times and different places . . .

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Chris Swanson :: Transmissions

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Welcome to Transmissions. Today on the show: Chris Swanson, co-founder of Secretly Group. This year marks 25 years of two of the flagship labels in the group, Secretly Canadian and Jagjaguwar, and to celebrate they’ve got tons going on—including SC25 Editions, which features titles by Damien Jurado, Anohni, Richard Swift, and more, as well as Merch, with net proceeds benefiting Bloomington’s New Hope For Families. Also of note: Jagjaguwar’s Join the Ritual, a Dungeons and Dragons-inspired release featuring Angel Olsen, Bruce Hornsby, Cut Worms, Jamila Woods, and many more. Swanson joined us to discuss . . .

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Corntuth :: The Desert Is Paper Thin

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A bucolic atmosphere abounds on Corntuth's newest album, The Desert Is Paper Thin. For this set of warm, unhurried instrumentals, the Brooklyn-based producer is joined by Nashville’s Pete Finney on pedal steel. The sounds gathered here suggest musical accompaniment to positive aimlessness and open ended rumination . . .

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Ritual de lo Habitual :: Timber Rattle And The Value of Not Knowing

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After wandering deep into the "devotional" tag results on Bandcamp, Daniel Chamberlin brings forth a look at the music of Timber Rattle, and the value of letting go what you're thinking . . .

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Manasseh Meets The Equaliser :: Dub The Millennium

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Dub The Millennium. First released in 1993, Manasseh's swirling medley of dub, reggae, electronic, ambient and UK indie. The original vinyl edition of the lp is home to ten tracks, the CD twelve. This matters as the eleventh track, "Souljah", is a high watermark of the album-long exercise in disparate fusion . . .

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Swallow Cave :: I’m Glad (Captain Beefheart Cover)

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A low-key highlight off 1967's Safe As Milk, the soulful doo-wop of Captain Beefheart's "I’m Glad" as transmuted in the hands of U.K. outfit, Swallow Cave. Steadily sedate, the four piece stays true to the original, yet imbue the material with a gloaming air of haunted, lovelorn reminiscence. Gauzy in approach, the captain's plaintive delivery finds itself supplanted by woozy production, languid vox and an atmosphere not unlike a lo-fi Julee Cruise . . .

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Bill MacKay on New York Tendaberry

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As a guitarist and improviser, Bill MacKay specializes in collaboration and openness. He's that way as a listener too. Today he joins us for an essay about Laura Nyro's third album, 1969's New York Tendaberry . . .

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New Chance :: Real Time

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Released last month via We Are Time, the Toronto vocalist and producer is surfing the crest of her own sonic waters, crafting hypnotic, self-echoed spoken word and r&b tone poems across polyrhythms of industrial dub, playful synths, atmospheric house, and, at times, almost brutalist noise . . .

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Marisa Anderson & William Tyler :: Lost Futures / William Tyler & Luke Schneider :: Understand

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On Lost Futures, Marisa Anderson and William Tyler arrive on the scene with resplendent "News About Heaven." On the more ambient Understand, Tyler teams with pedal steeliest Luke Schneider to offer a brief sonic storybook . . .

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Deep Listening With Lawrence English

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Lawrence English is a composer, an artist, and a “philosopher of listening.” He joins us today to discuss a field recording trip to a remote Amazonian jungle that led to his latest album, A Mirror Holds the Sky . . .

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

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Ease Yourself And Glide. 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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Power Of Soul :: The Music Of CTI

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CTI occupies a liminal space in the world of jazz - funky enough for the listener who may see straight-ahead as unapproachable, yet refined and technical enough to earn a nod of respect from world-class jazz musicians. Few labels with as consistent and signature a sound have been able to bridge generational gaps with such ease, attracting both wizened jazz hipsters and sample-heads alike.

Julien Lourau’s new lp, Power of Soul, treats these selections from CTI’s catalogue in a similar, straddling manner . . .

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Venezuela 70: Cosmic Visions Of A Latin American Earth

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Released in 2016, and followed with a second volume in 2018, Soul Jazz’s Venezuela 70: (Cosmic Visions of a Latin American Earth: Venezuelan Experimental Rock in the 1970's) is a heady brew and one hot stew of a melting pot, blending Latin rhythms and Venezuelan roots with krautrock, baroque pop, intergalactic jazz, spaced-out garage rock, exotica lounge, and technicolor psych-pop . . .

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Bela Koe-Krompecher :: Transmissions

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This week on Transmissions, a conversation with author and label head Bela Koe-Krompecher on the rock & roll underground of Ohio and his new book, Love, Death & Photosynthesis . . .

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Bandcamping :: Late Summer 2021

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Another Bandcamp Friday hits on September 3, 2021 — which means that the platform is waiving its usual fees for 24 hours and you can put some much-needed cash directly into the pockets of deserving labels and artists. As usual, we’ve got a bunch of highly recommended records in case you need ‘em . . .

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