Nuits D’Été Avec Abdou El Omari

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Abdou El Omari: keyboardist, composer, bandleader, record store owner and hairdresser. Since we last wrote about the Moroccan musician back in 2016, his music has been reissued and gone out of print. But now it's back, courtesy of Belgium's Radio Martiko Records, compiled on three separate lps. Hypnotic, sinister funk. Snaking organ lines. Polyrhythms. Untethered vocals . . .

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Jimi Hendrix :: Nine To The Universe

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Still unreleased, the full, unedited “Nine To The Universe” finds Hendrix summoning forces of unnatural transcendence that nearly explode out of the speaker. The extra 10 minutes offer some of the guitarist’s most unadulterated, bluesadelic soul and stretching improvisations, with bent-nail guitar rips and wah-wah wails from here to the cosmos . . .

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The Babe Rainbow :: Changing Colours

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Riding the surf from the coastline of Byron Bay, The Babe Rainbow reach new creative heights on Changing Colours, the culmination of a recent prolific tear . . .

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Family Portrait :: Won’t Tell Barbara (feat. Julian Lynch and Alex Bleeker)

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Washed ashore from the sands of time … it’s an Underwater Peoples reunion. The New Jersey-based label and players, responsible for some of our favorite lo-fi pop of the late aughts, returns with “Won’t Tell Barbara,” a warbly and wholly humid slice of submerged cool featuring Family Portrait’s Evan Brody, Julian Lynch, and Alex Bleeker . . .

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Rich Ruth :: Where There’s Life

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Rich Ruth quietly released Calming Signals in the late summer of 2019, its nuanced charms carrying us into autumn and beyond. Based in Nashville, Ruth returns this month with the Where There's Life ep, a collection of meditative pieces written during the early months of the pandemic, and first recorded output since his debut . . .

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Elevated Rail 4: 2016 Was A Million Years Ago (Pt. 2)

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Picking up a few weeks after where Part 1 left off, this second ‘2016 Was A Million Years Ago’ mix offers a retrospective glimpse at what used to be a pretty typical late summer zone in Chicago. A time when indoor shows of all sizes, outdoor festivals / street fests, and larger city-sponsored events all coexisted in a glorious blur of sound and humidity . . .

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Robin Kenyatta :: Girl From Martinique

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Funky: the last descriptor one would ever reach for while describing an ECM record...but that's exactly what this is! Released in 1970, Robin Kenyatta's lone ECM effort finds the reedman employing the clavinet vamp of Wolfgang Dauner, swathes of reverb, electronics, and the rhythm section of bassist Arild Andersen and drummer Fred Braceful. Come for "Blues For Your Mama", stick around for the rest . . .

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Woodsist Festival :: September 2021

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The return of live music. We’ll be in Accord, NY the weekend of September 25th djing the annual Woodsist festival. It’s going to be a happening…come hang.

Yo La Tengo / Kevin Morby / Woods / Bridget St. John / 75 Dollar Bill / Cassandra Jenkins / John Andrews + the Yawns / Parquet Courts / Kurt Vile / Natural Information Society / Laraaji / Steve Gunn / Anna St. Louis / Sessa . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter Five

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Welcome back to the stacks. It's Aquarium Drunkard's Book Club, featuring looks at Jennifer Lucy Allan's The Foghorn's Lament, Joe Banks' Hawkwind: Days of the Underground-Radical Escapism in the Age of Paranoia and more recent (and not so recent) recommended reading . . .

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Pony Express :: Queens of Beruit

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A look at a Richard Swift assisted bummer pop gem by Jeff Cloud and Pony Express, a Starflyer 59 supergroup, recently reissued for the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Blue Music label . . .

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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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Mega Bog :: Station to Station

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Erin Birgy returns to the art-pop playground of Mega Bog with "Station to Station," the first taste off her forthcoming Life, And Another. In its visual companion, co-directed with visual artist Laura Conway, she lurks amongst the purple and gold grandeur of Colorado’s Paint Mines . . .

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Sarah Louise :: Transmissions

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Guitarist, songwriter, and producer Sarah Louise joins us this week on the show to discuss her new album, Earth Bow, an interconnected eco-system of guitar, synth, vocals, and hypnotic rhythms. Though Louise is known for her 12-string folks fantasias, her work is wide ranging, evoking the soundscapes of Robert Fripp and the interlocked rhythms of electronic pop. Louise joins us for a return visit to Transmissions to discuss being off the grid, the perils of social media, and her spiritual and creative practice . . .

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The Chills :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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New Zealand icons The Chills have a new LP, their seventh, out this month entitled Scatterbrain. We caught up with founding member Martin Phillips to discuss the history of the group, their sonic trajectory, being an “autarchic on the mend", the new record, and more.

"There have been a lot of wasted years, being down and out, and, you know, drug addicted,” says Phillips. “This time for the first time, I feel that we’re back where we should be and we’re able to move forward. I’m excited about it . . .

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Videodrome :: The Cursed Kleenex Commercial

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The true story of how a song from Manchester and a commercial from Tokyo came together to form a deadly curse . . .

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