Contrabassist James Iggenfritz joins with drummer Brian Chase and saxophonist/flutist Robbie Lee on Loss and Gain. The players mine the chaos of free jazz and the subtlety of minimalism to produce an album of shifting outlines, a fluid thing as likely to vaporize as it is to harden . . .
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On his latest album of piano, reeds, and percussion, expat composer Robert Stillman probes the notion of American identity. What Does It Mean To Be American? is Stillman's eighth studio album, and like the ones that came before it, it's a beautifully rendered work, laced with pastoral jazz-inspired piano, cooing saxophone and clarinet melodies, and clattering percussion. But it's threaded through with conflict, too. Aquarium Drunkard contributors Chad DePasquale and Jason P. Woodbury recently huddled together to share their thoughts on the album . . .
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Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. This month, poetic prose, historical fiction, a workplace novel, and a vivid travelogue . . .
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Now at Aquarium Drunkard, we catch up with Cate Le Bon to discuss her new album, Pompeii, the COVID pandemic, the Tim Presley painting that came to embody her record but which she couldn’t bear to put on the cover, and the way that the artistic process remains instinctual and mysterious, even to Le Bon herself . . .
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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