Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing . . .
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As its title suggests, Keys unlocks all kinds of musical doors, welcoming the listener into spaces that are alternately joyous and mournful, weird and deep. Make yourself right at home . . .
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Freeform transmissions from Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab. The April broadcast features new episodes of Range and Basin and Doom and Gloom from the Tomb plus Tyler Hale’s Tumbleweed and Uncle Tio’s Feathered Serpent. April 18, from 4—8 PM Pacific time . . .
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Nana Yamato's daydream pop evokes the limitless possibilities of a new day. Released by Andrew Savage of Parquet Courts' Dull Tools label, it pairs MIDI blips, DIY beats, gleeful guitars and neon romance . . .
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The previous Black Monument Ensemble long-player, Where Future Unfolds, was an absolute knockout. NOW might be even better. Led by the multi-talented Damon Locks, the Chicago collective includes such amazing players as Angel Bat Dawid, Ben LaMar Gay and Dana Hall, all coming together to create something totally unique — an uncanny blend of dreamy reveries and harsh realities . . .
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Silk degrees. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.
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Sun Ra was almost as prolific a writer as he was a composer. A new set of books and pamplets out on the Corbett vs. Dempsey showcase his literary side with visionary poetry, esoteric essays, heady manifestos, and occult philosophy . . .
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This week on the show, Chicago’s Angel Bat Dawid. She joined us to discuss record collecting, the influence of Sun Ra, her history with music and religion, her creative practice, race, and much more . . .
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The third installment from Maine-based ambient jazz drummer Ronald "RJ" Miller is his most ambitious and rewarding to date. FREE SOUL is a new chapter—a collage-type work which feels glitchy and yet deeply alive . . .
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Teaming with British producer Floating Points, saxophonist Pharoah Sanders evokes spiritual lushness and revels in dynamic contrast on the new recording Promises, pairing his full-throated saxophone with synthesizers and strings from the London Symphony Orchestra . . .
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Because it's only getting hotter... our hermano in sound Mathieu Schreyer's all-vinyl set from last May. All fire, via the Radio Free archives, previously solely available via our Patreon. Only the good shit . . .
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Greg Cartwright had pretty much invented a certain kind of rowdy, country-blues garage rock by the time he was a teenager playing with the Compulsive Gamblers and then the Oblivians. We caught up to discuss his latest album, A Little More Time With Reigning Sound, what it’s like to have the original band together again and the difficult, occasionally harrowing circumstances, that knocked these songs loose and into the world . . .
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Originally screened in 1968, The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda is one of the most evergreen time capsules from the apex of the psychedelic movement. Shot on 16mm and directed by poet and photographer Ira Cohen, the twenty-two minute long film showcases Cohen’s signature use of “mylar photography,” an optical technique has since become a kind of aesthetic shorthand for psychedelia; visually synonymous with the “tune in, drop out” philosophy of the hippie counterculture . . .
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It’s back. Reverberating from the hills of Glassell Park, California, welcome to season 2 of the Aquarium Drunkard Picture Show — a half-hour audio/visual crudités featuring Terry Riley, Brigitte Fontaine, Dennis Wilson, Soft Machine, Sessa, The Monks, Julien Gasc, Arthur Brown, Tim Presley, John Andrews & The Yawns, Pink Floyd & more . . .
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Writhing Squares—the Philadelphia based duo of Kevin Nickles and Daniel Provenzano—bely their own spartan approach on their new lp Chart For The Solution, employing bass, horns, and drum machine to intergalactic effect. The outfit brings a sprawling 70-minute affair to the table with patch-working motorik rhythms, ambient synth trances, post-punk dub, and psychedelic shredders . . .
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