Earthquake country. 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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Eamon Fogarty's 2019 lp Blue Values brought a jazzy, art-pop sheen to the songwriter's cryptic and charmingly esoteric words. A winner from start to finish, it's lingered on the turntable for quite sometime. For his very first Lagniappe Session, Fogarty teamed with drummer Ryan Jewell (Solar Motel, Ryley Walker) and his selections veer into the unexpected, covering Pacheco & Alexander's "Since I Was Born" and Carole King's "A Road to Nowhere . . .
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As a member of Neu!, Harmonia, and an early incarnation of Kraftwerk, Michael Rother's fluid, emotive playing helped define the sound of krautrock, as the music came up out of Germany's avant-garde underground in the late '60s and headed for the cosmos in the 1970s. He was kind enough to join us on Transmissions to discuss his new boxset, Solo II, his musical youth in India, and his collaborations with his fellow finding fathers of kosmische musik . . .
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Recorded at tail end of last year, at a half dozen tracks, Bent Arcana scans krautrock, minimalist jazz, prog and fusion. Positioned as "the first interstellar transmission from five days of electrified & improvised sessions recorded at Stu-Stu-Studio," the album is the inceptive chapter in a series of ad-hoc sessions to come. Stream the album in its entirety, at AD . . .
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We’ve had 25 years to reflect on the strange, oscillating chasm of Eno/Wobble’s collaboration, which in many ways feels as relevant now as it did in 1995. The music feels as cold and mesmerizing as the surrounding atmosphere of the moon, its synthetic ripples swelling into great oceans of sound. Wobble brought a zealousness to Eno’s ambience, one that stirred a great fire in the belly of an ether otherwise shapeless and benign . . .
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The second episode of Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard, our monthly four-hour broadcast every third Sunday of the month, is now archived for on-demand listening at Dublab. Originally aired August 16th, this edition features an episode of William Tyler’s Sea of Glass in the first hour, followed by Range and Basin, Doom and Gloom From the Tomb, Personal Sky and then a bonus episode of The Tonight Zone closing out the session. Individual shows are archived for our Patreon supporters . . .
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The weirdest summer ever rolls on. Who can say where the rest of 2020 will take us? But as always, there’s still a deep well of sound to dip into over on Bandcamp. A refreshing escape! Here are a few recent/recommended selections — and remember that on the first Friday of each month this year, Bandcamp is waiving its fees, sending a necessary infusion of cash into the pockets of artists and labels. The next Bandcamp Friday is September 4. Fill up that shopping cart . . .
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Shortly after lockdown we launched Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard -- a 24/7 quarantine companion. After two months on-air, the experiment morphed into a monthly 4-hour program at Dublab. Tune in this Sunday at 4pm Pacific, with AD deejays along with special guest William Tyler.
Here's a taste from May -- episode two of In Sheep's Clothing. Cole Kinnear is the selector . . .
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Tashi Dorji’s music exists in the now, the exact moment when it leaves his fingers. Playing is, for him, a kind of spiritual practice, as necessary as eating and breathing and just as instinctual. His latest album, Stateless, was recorded in about an hour and a half, Dorji laying down track after track, pausing only to retune in idiosyncratic ways between bouts of playing . . .
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Conor Oberst has never shied away from the apocalyptic, but on the new Bright Eyes album Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was he sings about the end of the world like an eye witness reporter. "I think we all, to some degree, are dreaming the same dreams and we’re fighting the same internal battles in our minds and hearts . . .
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32 lessons in hypnotism. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.
Tonight: new music from Chico Bernardes, Sessa, Will Oldham, Alex Izenbrg, PAINT, Mosses y mas . . .
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Our guest this week is Colin Dickey, author of The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession With The Unexplained. Bigfoot, UFOs, the Loch Ness Monster, phantom islands like Atlantis and Lemuria...the paranormal haunts our collective imagination. In his new book, Dickey smartly explores the lore woven into these topics, and along the way, he describes the way occult literature, pulp magazines, pop culture, and media myth-making influences and shapes our perception of these damned subjects . . .
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Founded 20 years ago, North Carolina's Three Lobed Records documents the psych-rock underground. There’s no signature Three Lobed sound or vibe — and that’s a very good thing. To celebrate 20 years of Three Lobed Recordings, we’ve pulled together a selection of noteworthy LPs from the label’s ever-expanding galaxy, with recommendations both from the Aquarium Drunkard crew and Three Lobed-related artists . . .
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Record Store Day (August 29) sees the vinyl release of Volume 2 of Aquarium Drunkard's ongoing Lagniappe Sessions. The 13 performances gathered here on wax all have one thing in common: they’re all bursting at the seams with love and appreciation for the power of song. We’re in a blessedly irony-free zone here; even if the song choices may occasionally seem unusual, there’s not a trace of mockery to be found. There are ghosts in the grooves here, as well. But don’t worry — they’re friendly . . .
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This fall promises the release of Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland—a survey of the brilliant catalog of a pioneering transgender artist. But first, the funk rock ep At Last! It's the latest affirmation of the seemingly impossible magic of Glenn-Copeland’s catalog . . .
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