Song(s) For Insane Times. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.
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This week on Transmissions, Hari Kunzru in conversation with host Jason P. Woodbury. Kunzru is a novelist and writer; his latest is called Red Pill. It’s about a writer who receives a fellowship in Germany, where he finds himself sucked into a spiral of reactionary thinking. His other 2020 project is a podcast called Into the Zone, from Puskin Industries. It’s a podcast about, well, to put it in reductive terms, the opposite of reactive thinking. Examining the liminal space between borders—visiting Stonehenge, remarking on the early days of the internet, examining what divides country from the . . .
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It's November 3rd. As such, here's a little something to assist in your embrace of "hygge" - if that's possible - this season: Tape 3/4 -- the latest entry in Felbm's ongoing "tapes" series. At 14 tracks, the Utrecht based artist continues down the path set out in 2018, woodshedding material via 4-track. A homespun instrumental affair brimming with low key jazzscapes, here's a taste...a rendering somewhat reminiscent of an alternate universe, lo-fi, Vince Guaraldi . . .
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From the wayback machine that was 2012. Eight years on into the weirdest year ever, Ela Orleans "In The Night" sounds right on time. Culled from Orleans retrospective collection, Movies For Ears, the compilation finds the Polish composer and multi-instrumentalist artfully gliding across a palette of sound reminiscent of Nico, Broken English-era Marianne Faithfull, and Broadcast. An oeuvre of multi-layered, clever avant-pop music . . .
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Released in 2019, the Turkish/English hybrid that is Kit Sebastian's Mantra Moderne swirls with psychedelia, its unique blend pinched from dexterous crate-digging scanning 20th century European library music, Chanson, Tropicália and pop. An aural time machine, the record manages to avoid pastiche, pay homage and remain firmly planted in the present. If any of that sounds good, press play. Highly recommended . . .
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If you’re anything like us, your hard drives are stuffed to the proverbial gills with the spoils of past Bandcamp Fridays, during which Bandcamp waives its usual fees, offering a much-needed infusion of cash to artists and labels. Clear some more digital space. The next Bandcamp Friday is Nov. 6 — and we’ve got a few recent/recommended items to grab below . . .
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Broadcasting from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery … The Aquarium Drunkard Show. The Halloween edition, Wednesday night / 7pm California time. SIRIUS/XM ~ Channel 35 . . .
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This month sees the release of two new albums by longtime collaborators Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone. On Lost and Found Pavone paints spacious and patient sets of tones for violin and viola that seem suspended in time. And on Artlessly Falling, Halvorson's Code Girl is joined by Robert Wyatt for adventurous progressive jazz-rock. We're pleased to offer this conversation between close friends, collaborators, and creators . . .
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On his new album Nite Creatures, composer, podcaster, and journeyman Joe Wong stares down existential dread with vivid psych pop lushness and playful sonic abandon. He joins us this week on Transmissions to discuss his work as a television music composer and much more . . .
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"Music is not material. Music is spiritual." Swirling, the first studio effort from the Sun Ra Arkestra since 1999, is about more than just music. It's part of a vast cosmic legacy of Sun Ra. Guest reviewer Brad Farberman joins us for a listen . . .
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This is it! The tenth and final episode of Pretty Good Stuff: Dylan historian James Adams’ hour-long, monthly, program diving deep into the depths of all things Dwarf Music. Listen to the show below, and to explore further, support our Patreon for the individual tracks and more . . .
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Toronto’s instrumental wrecking crew the Badge Époque Ensemble expand to eight bodies on “Unity (It’s Up To You)” with the full-time addition of sax hero Karen Ng and the boundless talents of guest vocalist James Baley. The second single from their upcoming album Self Help is liquid and libidinous, winding through six minutes of ebbing, flowing jazz-funk. It comes complete with the Ensemble’s most ambitious video project to date, a vibrantly colourful claymation acid trip that reportedly required six months of work . . .
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Bursting with melodies and completely unironic passion, Cut Worms latest hits like a golden-hour cigarette on a fire escape, and that won’t change anytime soon. The fact that it’s one of the best records of 2020 feels irrelevant; it could have been one of the best records of 1960, given the vintage production sound created at Sam Phillips Recording Studio in Memphis, and to some crate-diggers down the line, if there is still such a thing, it should be one of the best records of 2080 too . . .
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This is Scorpio Drifting: A Range and Basin supplemental mixable for days and nights when the veil is thin. Beautiful and dread-filled songs to take you through spooky season and on through to the other side . . .
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New Jersey's own Garcia Peoples open Nightcap at Wits' End with an arch, vaguely evil-sounding riff that signals what's to come: a set of songs that would feel equally at home soundtracking a backyard hang, a rousing game of D&D, or a solitary night at home considering the universe. Founding members Danny Arakaki and Tom Malach join us to discuss the band's progward drift and open source creative flow . . .
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