Alice Coltrane :: My Favorite Things

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While her late husband's 1961 modal rendering helped reinvigorate the Rodgers and Hammerstein chestnut, the orchestral presentation Alice put forth a decade later is a beast of an altogether different stripe. Kicking off Coltrane's sixth lp, World Galaxy, the instantly recognizable melody quickly dissolves amidst a very free, swirling cacophony of sound....something like the aural equivalent of David Bowman's star gate sequence. High praise, indeed . . .

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Flanger Magazine :: Breslin

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Though best explored in its entirety, “Approaching Shore” serves as an appropriate microcosm—a drifting synth line wandering circles around tranquil guitar, eventually joined by bubbling electronics that throw ripples across the song’s waters. Unassuming, bucolic, and wistful—Breslin is an absolute delight, borne from a juxtaposition that could easily go astray . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)

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Weird tales from the pacific rim. Outré California.

The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. Wednesday’s / 7pm PST & on-demand.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Cy Dune

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Cy Dune serves as the stage name of Seth Olinsky of defunct freak-punk-niks Akron/Family. While the music of his former group resides somewhere at the intersections of noise, new age, free jazz and rock ’n’ roll, Cy Dune is rooted in the raw power of guitar and drums -- where proto-punk beats blast, and early rock ’n’ roll dance over layered drum riffs. It’s like Teen Wolf fronting The Starlighters – it is hairy but it’s the future! More from Seth – we mean Cy, below . . .

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David Berman :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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David Berman is now recording under the moniker of Purple Mountains, and with the help of Jeremy Earl and Jarvis Taveniere of Woods, has created an album that encapsulates an entire missing chapter of his life—and, in typical fashion, has revealed quite a lot about that chapter in the process . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays + on-demand. Hot as a roman candle, cool as a case of watery domestics, tonight's episode digs into The Old, Weird America . . .

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Alasdair Roberts :: The Evernew Tongue

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On September 13th, Alasdair Roberts releases his new album, The Fiery Margin, via the venerable Drag City label. To mark to the occasion, guitarist and archivist Nathan Salsburg reflects here on "The Evernew Tongue," the first selection shared from the forthcoming lp: "...a jeremiad against the all-too-familiar 'mocking whine of demagogues…. quick to mock and slow to bless,' hollered from amid the revelry of the changing year and among the small comforts of home . . .

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Bandcamping :: Summer 2019 Edition

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Alright, as we settle in for what looks to be a long, hot summer, dig into this latest installment of Bandcamping, our regular cruise through Bandcamp’s ever-expanding offerings. Skip the middleman and put some cash directly into artists’ and labels’ pockets. Hear a new world . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Mega Bog

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The songwriting vehicle of Erin Birgy, Mega Bog bathes in the multiplicity of the human condition via an ever-eccentric blend of oblique pop experimentalism. Anchored by Birgy’s ethereal yet fixed vocals, sonically, the project leans as deftly into Badalamenti-esque jazz-scapes as it does biting, angular art-rock.

For their Lagniappe Session, covers of Yukihiro Takahashi, Lady June & Kate Bush . . .

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Lee “Scratch” Perry :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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When I call up the reggae legend, Lee “Scratch” Perry, The Upsetter, to talk about his new album Rainford I reach him on a grainy WhatsApp audio connection. He’s in Jamaica and he’s in bed, “looking at the lights. looking at the day, and looking at the night.”

Perry’s in his eighties and when he gets going he speaks in limericks, but he doesn’t come across as wacky, just joyful. The first thing I notice about Perry is the giggle that roils through the conversation and punctuates his sentences. It’s disarming, a Buddha-like by . . .

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Dr. John’s New Orleans Swamp: 1974 Television Special with The Meters

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The Night Tripper introducing The Meters. An occasion which begs the question, could things really get any funkier? Nuh-uh. The aforementioned footage is culled from the television special, Dr. John's New Orleans Swamp -- the 1974 season finale of the Chicago based Soundstage series. Whoever had the stones to make this happen deserves doubloons aplenty, along with an extra slice of king cake . . .

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Kreaturen Der Nacht: Deutsche Post-Punk Subkultur 1980-1985

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Released at the tail end of last year, the double lp Kreaturen Der Nacht compiles rarities and oddities from Germany’s post-punk and independent underground spanning the years 1980-85 . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)

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This week, joining Justin in Los Angeles, Tim Heidecker is the selector . . .

SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Jake Xerxes Fussell :: Out of Sight

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His first album recorded with a full band (featuring fellow like-minded traveler Nathan Bowles on drums), Out of Sight sees Fussell fixing his gaze on songs from a wide variety of sources and locales, though the treatment they receive is the same—compassionate, revelatory, and seemingly effortless. It’s no small wonder the likes of Bill Callahan and Will Oldham count themselves among Fussell evangelists . . .

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Alice Coltrane :: Live At The Berkeley Community Theater 1972

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This is a bootleg, make no mistake! But however you hear it, you gotta hear it (perhaps over on YouTube?). A major addition to the Alice Coltrane canon, this soundboard recording features the pioneering musician and her incredible band (Charlie Haden on bass, Ben Riley on drums, Aashish Khan on sarod, Pranesh Khan on tabla and Bobby W. on tamboura and percussion) journeying fearlessly across the astral plane. Four tracks, fours sides! Tons of AC’s intense organ hijinks – how did she get that crazy sound . . .

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