Collecting rare 45s released by small labels in the 1970s, Luaka Bop's World Spirituality Classics Vol 2: The Time For Peace Is Now (Gospel Music About Us) is a compilation that prizes the galvanizing spirit of gospel music as much as explicitly evangelical aims . . .
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On October 25th, Light in the Attic will release two follow-ups to the label's reissue of Jim Sullivan's mythic U.F.O.: a collection of solo acoustic performances titled If Evening Were Dawn, and a reissue of Sullivan's self-titled 1972 lp, originally released by Playboy Records. Taken together, these three records represent the entirety of Sullivan's recorded work, all leading up to his vanishing—a rock & roll mystery that endures to this day. The new edition of Jim Sullivan features liner notes by Aquarium Drunkard editor Jason P. Woodbury and art by our own . . .
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Earlier this week the troubadour released the mini-doc Bottle Back, capturing footage of Vile and co. hunkered down at a verdant and remote homestead in the Catskills, NY. Featured players include guitar-guru Matt Sweeney and the ever-awesome Canadian group, the Sadies . . .
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High Weirdness is author Erik Davis' most heroic effort yet: a more than 400-page immersion into the lives of Terence McKenna, Philip K. Dick, and Robert Anton Wilson, figureheads of American weirdness. With these three serving as a psychic trinity to orbit, Davis is free to address the shifts in consciousness that occurred on the American West Coast in the 1970s: "I'm interested in the drift of the counterculture . . .
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Jazz-funk and big band rarities from the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia from the 1970s and 1980s; tracks recorded in Yerevan, Soviet Armenia and Moscow, USSR. Armenia has been without the symbolic mountains of Ararat and Sis since the latter stages of the Armenian Genocide and during the inception of the Armenian SSR ... think of these records as “the sound of Armenia on the other side of Ararat . . .
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Tobacco City, the musical project of Chris Coleslaw and Lexi Goddard, leans ably into traditional country blues and honky-tonk shuffles. Reminiscent of Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons in their most incandescent . . .
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Different doors to the same house. The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XM radio ~ Channel 35. Wednesdays / 7pm California time + on-demand.
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~spiritual jazz, free improvisation, experimental electronics, ethnographic oddities, and world-wide psychedelic funk~
And now something far out. Avant-Garde Got Soul Too is a mixtape by David Mittleman, host of Tucson's KXCI independent radio's Observations of Deviance, a weekly "all vinyl, free form program that harkens back to early days of underground FM radio . . .
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Here's one we've been waiting for: instrumental Danish duo Brewer/McCoy's forthcoming lp, Utopia. On their Luaka Bop debut, the pair continue to hone the myriad, meditative jazzscapes explored over their previous three albums. A nuanced, walled garden of sound, strains of dub, ambient and neo-classical coalesce throughout . . .
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He may be 40 years into his career, but a new David Kilgour album (whether with The Clean or the Heavy Eights) still feels like a gift. Bobbie's a girl, his latest, is another exquisite offering from the New Zealand guitarist-singer-songwriter — one that seems a bit modest at first, but reveals its immense charms the deeper you dive into it . . .
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If you're in need of a fast-acting dose of unadulterated rock action, look no further than Major Stars' latest slab. This long-running Massachusetts psych collective seem to just be getting better with age, finding new ways to kick out the old jams . . .
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Vancouver’s Gal Gracen latest release, FANTASY GARDENS, is a work brimming with empyreal bedroom pop and kaleidoscopic fantasia. Recorded in Vancouver, Ho Chi Minh City and on Malaysia's Mount Kinabalu, this record would have fit in neatly with Underwater Peoples’ mean streak of lo-fi releases in the late '00s. Self-described as a collection of "elysian pop ballads dressed in a new age aesthetic," there’s a wholly imaginative sonic world to get lost in here -- one equal parts exotica and art rock . . .
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Beloved in the Bay Area but seemingly uninterested in breaking out of it, working-class garage-rock band The Mantles quietly called it quits last year. Their end is a well-earned conclusion of a romantic saga, but it’s also another lost canary in the coal mine of independent rock . . .
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Time is elastic, let's stretch. The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XM radio ~ Channel 35. Wednesdays / 7pm California time + on-demand.
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The son of folklorist Fred C. Fussell, Jake Xerxes Fussell spent his youth documenting the sound and feel of blues singers and indigenous fiddlers. The younger Fussell carries on curatorial work with Out of Sight, his latest lp. AD caught up with him to explore how the scope of traditional music is not limited by region or provenance . . .
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