Jeffrey Silverstein :: Transmissions

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Musician and writer Jeffrey Silverstein. His new EP of gently cosmic guitar music is called Torii Gates, and he's the head behind the wonderful It’s So Easy (When You Know What You’re Doing), a tribute to the late cult folk musician Ted Lucas, featuring AD favorites like John Andrews & the Yawns, Julianna Barwick and William Tyler, Barry Walker Jr., Amelia Courthouse, and more. He’s also a teacher and a runner. We get into it all on this special bonus episode of Transmissions . . .

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JAUBI :: Nafs at Peace

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Powerful sounds from Pakistan. Here emerges JAUBI, a largely instrumental sextet based in Lahore, with their debut album Nafs at Peace. A captivating range of ideas gleaned from recording sessions where "nothing whatsoever was written down...no sheet music and no song titles, which allowed the six musicians to forget about their worldly issues . . .

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Spiritualized :: Lazer Guided Melodies

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With Spiritualized's Lazer Guided Melodies, recently reissued by Fat Possum, Jason Pierce imbued the songs with an overwhelming sense of freedom and relief. It not only pointed a way forward, it laid out a path Pierce has followed ever since . . .

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Videodrome :: Wild At Heart

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“Wild At Heart is a love story that barrels down a strange highway through the twisted modern world,” David Lynch said of his 1990 film. “There are very tender moments, and there are very violent moments. And then there’s confusion and despair, and then suddenly - you’re in love. There’s got to be room for all of these things…film, in my mind, should have contrast to it. It should have many different kinds of feelings all weaving their way throughout . . .

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

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Houses in motion. The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. Wednesdays. 7pm California time, and on-demand. No static at all.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Interior :: S/T (1982)

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Originally released in 1982, INTERIOR’s debut blends fluttering loops of melody with punched-up percussion and heaps of moody echo. The whole album finds synthetic and acoustic sounds working in symbiosis. Sopranino sax and 808 snares share space alongside trance-like acoustic piano progressions and finger snaps. Warping bass lines commingle with Linndrum kicks. To this day it still sounds somewhat revelatory . . .

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John Grant :: Transmissions

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John Grant on his synth-dappled Boy From Michigan, produced by Cate Le Bon, full of Blade Runner synths pulsing underneath incredible melodies and vocal performances . . .

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Joni Mitchell w/ Brian Blade :: Fez Club NYC, 1995 | Bootleg

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This is folk-jazz straight from the source, folks. Shimmering, harplike chords swirl around Mitchell’s sylvan-siren-meets-full-throated-thrush descants, while Blade’s thundering percussion and cymbal splashes push it into those poignant uppers . . .

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Diversions: Evan Cheadle / Beyond ‘Fault Line Serenade’

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Evan Cheadle’s debut full-length is a staggering collection of hazy and fragile songs, adorned with the finest of baroque and psychedelic flourishes. Written between several years of touring as a member of Canadian stalwarts The Deep Dark Woods, Fault Line Serenade builds upon Cheadle’s 2018 EP, and recalls greats like Bill Fay or Gene Clark and more contemporary earthy travellers like Josephine Foster or Jacco Gardner . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard: ECM Night { June 24, Los Angeles @ In Sheep’s Clothing

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Next Thursday, June 24, we are hosting our third night of dedicated listening to the perennial ECM Records catalog. Free to attend with RSVP, the event is in conjunction with In Sheep's Clothing hi-fi, at Neuhouse in Los Angeles. 7pm-midnight. Expect full sides from Eberhard Weber, Codona, Steve Reich, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Terje Rypdal, David Darling, Don Cherry, Shinya Fukumori Trio and . . .

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Bandcamping :: Summer 2021

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A good thing: in celebration of Juneteenth this year, Bandcamp is donating 100 percent of their fee share of sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on Friday, June 18. So, you’ll get some new music, support artists, and help a great cause. A win-win-win. In need of a few recommendations? Here are a few recent releases that are worth your time and money . . .

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Serge Gainsbourg :: Panpan Cucul

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Here we find a funky Gainsbourg, back from the near-dead, with Alan Parker on chicken scratch, wah-wah guitar, KPM's Alan Hawkshaw on keys, Chris Karan on percussion and a rhythm section on lock . . .

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Les Filles de Illighadad :: At Pioneer Works

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Recorded live in the fall of 2019 in Brooklyn, At Pioneer Works has a calmness and serenity about it. Melodically, there is plenty of room to breathe. Each instrument – vocals, guitar, hand claps, percussion -- fills in what it needs to organically. Nothing is overworked, just enhanced . . .

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Roscoe Mitchell Sextet :: Sound (1966)

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Sound’s impact can be felt along a wide spectrum of contemporary sonic explorers: The saxophonists Chris Pitsiokos, Sam Gendel and Aaron Burnett, for instance; as well as in the works of the drummer/composer Tyshawn Sorey and his iconoclastic contemporaries Mary Halvorson and Jeremiah Cymerman; and not to mention the Folk-Jazz experimentalist Sam Amidon . . .

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Improvisational Sphere :: A Roy Brooks Mixtape

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The following mix is a tribute to the brilliant--sometimes misunderstood--artist, featuring a selection of albums under Brooks' own name, as well as crucial collaborations. It ends with a blistering version of Woody Shaw’s composition, “Zoltan,” taken from the exceptional new collection, Understanding . . .

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