Recorded over the span of 48 hours in his adopted home of Holland, this is very much a Maston record, yet one as scanned through the collective lens of the Swiss prog-jazz quintet, L'Eclair . . .
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On this latest archival release, Boogie Shoes: Live on Beale Street, fans of Alex Chilton get a sonically perfect snapshot of the polished side of the artist—the side that loved playing funky-ass R&B with a tight backing band . . .
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One walks away from Lavender wondering if Calvin Love is Svengali, shaman, or Sputnik – the album is as comfortable on the astral plane as it is on the great plains of North America . . .
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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