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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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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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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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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Tropical orientation. The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm Pacific, Wednesdays. No static at all.
34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .
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Wire singer/guitarist Colin Newman and former guitarist Bruce Gilbert join us for a conversation about PF456 Deluxe, released June 12 for Record Store Day, which documents the band's transitory turn at the start of a new century . . .
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Our guest is electronic composer Cécile Schott, who records as Colleen. Her latest album of spacey synths and vintage drum machines is called The Tunnel and the Clearing and she joined us for a talk about its roots in heartbreak and personal rebirth . . .
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"It’s all human, baby, and we're all just trying to figure it out." Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak and Flock of Dimes joins collaborator Alex Toth of Tōth for a conversation about creative health, meditation, and personal acceptance . . .
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Eschewing mainstream sounds from the musical spectrum of North Africa and the middle east, this niche collection highlights largely overlooked artists riffing on Egyptian organ funk, Moroccan disco, Lebanese protest music, Libyan reggae, Algerian library music and beyond . . .
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In their ongoing excavation of all things Robert Cox, RVNG Intl. has released Sync or Swim, the sole album from The Same, a document from 1981 which finds Cox and fellow DIY enthusiasts exploring their own version of British psychedelia, or as Cox called it: “folk music meeting technology and going bonkers . . .
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Imminent summer approaches as we check in with with Monster Rally, whose "Imaginary Palms" drops later this week -- a balmy dreamscape framed by harps, water, live drums, air and maracas.
This, our third mix collaboration [following Volume I (2012), and Volume II (2013)], finds Monster Rally's Ted Feighan pulling from an appropriately humid crate. Press play, get lifted . . .
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Bay area duo Sugar Candy Mountain returned late last month with the release of their fourth long-player, the 13 track psych-pop that is Impression. Recorded with Papercuts' Jason Quever, the record maintains the aesthetic touchstones of previous work, yet organically expands their sonic palette. For this installment of the Lagniappe Sessions, the group take on the nonpareil oeuvre of Serge Gainsbourg . . .
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In an age of “one-click” accessibility to a plethora of media, it’s surprising that a film as salient as To Live and Die in L.A. is so difficult to find. While its current scarcity undoubtedly plays into the lore that surrounds it, To Live and Die in L.A. transcends the cult genre and revival house programming. It’s not only one of the most potent crime films ever made, but a unique time capsule of Los Angeles . . .
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Much like Bolinas itself, the poems gathered in On the Mesa exist in an unincorporated state—apiece and apart, at home and at ease, glad to be among each other. They reflect and transcend an era ripe with love, longing, domestic life, tempestuous sociopolitical events, growing ecological concern, burgeoning spiritual consciousness, and good old-fashioned small-town gossip . . .
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