A heavy dose of tripped-out French psychedelia circa 1971, “Long Song for Zelda” slow burns its way through the mind, courtesy of Parisian prog-rock stalwarts Gong and novelist, musician, and pseudonym extraordinaire, Dashiell Hedayat . . .
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A remote supergroup from members of Matches, Spray Paint, Expensive Shit, and Tyvek dives into My Bloody Valentine and Cocteau Twins bliss. The result reveals the wonders of modern technology and the exceptional musicianship and editing skills of these American rock, drone, and experimental elites . . .
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Acres of Rhodes. Originally released by Three Blind Mice in 1975, the Masaru Imada Trio’s "Green Caterpillar" is eleven minutes and twenty seven seconds of righteous groove. The LP has once again been made available via reissue, courtesy of the Paris based label Le Tres Jazz Club . . .
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Bandleader, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Jack Cooper continues to push boundaries, expanding upon the breadth, depth and scope of the ever-evolving Modern Nature. Open-ended in approach, Cooper and co. return with their second Lagniappe Session, this time digging into the lovelorn, torch perennial, "Stormy Weather", and the Billie Holiday penned blues lament, "Fine & Mellow . . .
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Born into a family of musicians, Alberto Continentino made a name for himself playing in backup bands for legendary Brazilian artists like Milton Nascimento, Caetano Veloso and Marcos Valle. His solo work, however, isn't far below. While 2018's Ultraleve delves deep into the Brazilian jazz tradition of Azymuth, 2015' Ao Som Dos Planetas delivers a modern synthesis of bossa nova and indie pop that sounds like a more grounded version of Stereolab, The High Llamas or Giorgio Tuma . . .
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“No one medium is fully capable of representing that which we are trying to express.” Loscil (Scott Morgan . . .
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Dig into a homemade comp of choice Velvet Underground performances at the Boston Tea Party, the club that served as the band's home away from home in the late 1960s. These so-called “Professor Tapes” have circulated for years, but the master reels were made available a while back, and – though they’re still far from an audiophile experience – they’re much more listenable now. And the music here more than makes up for the 50+ year old tape hiss . . .
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Major on every possible level. Not only do The OZ Tapes present one of the earliest sonic portraits of Les Rallizes Dénudés, it serves as an instant de-facto entry point into the band’s vast, unwieldy catalog. It also marks the first release sanctioned by The Last One Musique, an organization formed by band alumni and family in the wake of Mizutani’s passing in 2019 to oversee the issuing of all future archival material . . .
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Does buzzy band-of-the-moment Wet Leg have legs? On the strength of the full-length, indeed it does . . .
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Following up the set she laid down in 2019, Erin Rae returns this month with her second Lagniappe Session. Comprised of live, single mic takes cut at a rehearsal before performing at the Newport Folk Festival, the following four recordings find Rae reflecting on the music of her childhood, the wisdom of a young Kathy Heideman, and the aching blues of Karen Dalton . . .
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Dropout Boogie. 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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Floating Action, the ongoing musical masterwork of North Carolina’s Seth Kauffman, defies easy categorization. Kauffman’s heady lo-fi synthesis of folk, surf, blues, funk, and other world (or otherworldly) influences, has yielded a rich back catalog, one worthy of far more attention than it typically garners. Dig in almost anywhere in his 16 years or so of releases and you'll find sturdy gems that are diverse in genre and yet somehow unified by that Floating Action sound . . .
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Pastor Wylie Champion walked a path tough traveled—he grew up in the Deep South, spending some time on the wrong side of the tracks, before heading west to California. Later on, a saved man, he worked as a carpenter and raised four children. He also took the good word, now equipped with his electric guitar, on the road, visiting congregations and homes from the West Coast to the Gulf . . .
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Liz Lamere and Jared Artuad join us this week on Aquarium Drunkard's weekly talk show podcast Transmissions to discuss the life, work, and creative philosophies of the late Alan Vega . . .
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Sporting dead on Lemmy Kilmister doppelgänger-vox, the Paris based Schizo dropped “Paraphrenia Praecox” in 1972. Clocking in just under four minutes, it’s a slab of chugging, ruffian, maximum rocknroll that more than doubles down on the wah pedal . . .
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