In 2016, James Blackshaw announced an indefinite hiatus from music. And while it sadly hasn't gotten easier for musicians in 2019, Blackshaw is back with a stunning new cut, "Why Keep Still . . .
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Fingerpickers can't seem to resist uncovering (or just plain inventing) the folk-blues roots of these timeworn melodies. Whatever the motivation, it's always nice to have an alternative to the treacly seasonal music that is inescapable this time of year. Frozen Fingers is playlist of (mostly) acoustic wintry music that'll put a little wonder into the most wonderful time of the year . . .
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The Bay Area convergence of art, technology, drugs, and other disciplines is well-documented, but one mostly forgotten node is the San Francisco Radical Laboratory at 759 Harrison Street. The home base of composer Doug McKechnie and electrical engineer Bruce Hatch . . .
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Bandcamping returns! As the year comes to a close, dig into some more recent/random/recommended offerings via Bandcamp. Put some money in artists’ and labels’ pockets and prepare to have your mind blown . . .
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Ernest Hood's 1975 proto-ambient masterpiece Neighborhoods is a reminder of what happens when quiet makes space to really listen. Combining idyllic field recordings and washes of synth and zither, the album illustrates the relationship between the specific and the universal . . .
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Skarbø Skulekorps: a remarkable debut, and one of the most interesting records of the year: a record with a wide palette of sounds, styles and grooves—from funk to blues to noise—by a band that can pull them all off . . .
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Despite the apocalyptic tenor of his songs, Bill Fay's second act has been a triumphant one. On January 17th, he releases Countless Branches, the third lp in his post-hiatus discography. "Filled With Wonder Once Again," released earlier this month, is indicative of the album's a simple orchestration, featuring little more than acoustic guitar, piano, scattered percussion, bass, and Fay's distinct croon . . .
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Crisp, sly and slinky, expect an instrumental patchwork of kosmische musik, euro-funk, vintage library music and knotty groove . . .
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Houses in motion, welcome to Babylon. The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XM radio ~ Channel 35.
Tonight: music from Catavento, Mellotron Variations, Craft Spells, Duffy Power, Tindersticks, L'eclair, Yo La Tengo, Arthur Russell & more . . .
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Drummer Doug Hammond's 1982 album Spaces was recorded on the day of Thelonious Monk’s funeral. To consider it now, a psychic loop seems to connect the two events: at Crossfire Studio, Hammond and the others are recording an album showcasing the continued innovation of jazz, while at St. Peter's Church, the public mourned the death of one of the genre’s most beloved innovators . . .
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Though reason might suggest an eventual end to the steady stream of brilliant work from the Arthur Russell archives, thankfully they haven't been exhausted just yet. A new release, Iowa Dream shines new light on Russell's genre-bending beauty . . .
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Mellotron Variations—the new collaborative project from John Medeski, Pat Sansone, Jonathan Kirkscey, and Robby Grant—sounds like it could have scored an imaginary, chimerical Stanley Kubrick film. The quartet compositions of the great tape replay keyboard of the 1960s were originally conceived of as Mellotron duets between Memphis locals Kirkscey and Grant, before looping in the Medeski Martin & Wood and Wilco stalwarts. Doing so expanded the possibilities to an almost limitless scale, but one that rooted in a serene, and often severe, neoclassical aesthetic . . .
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Tokyo underground space rock power trio. New album, Threshold 発端, out this month via the Guruguru Brain trust.
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Released in 1979, Belgian group COS ditched the blueprint of their previous three albums, wholeheartedly embracing a swirling amalgamation of avant-reggae-artpop-punk. That's indeed a mouthful, and Swiss Chalet is that and then some. Pascale Son's vox at the fore, the album often bobs, grooves and weaves like zeitgeist-y efforts from Adrian Sherwood and Eno-era Talking Heads. And it works . . .
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Hitchhiking the silk road of sound. The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XM radio ~ Channel 35. Wednesdays / 7pm California time + on-demand . . .
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