Craig Leon :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Craig Leon spent the '70s helping define the sound of New York City's punk and experimental explosions. His new album, The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2: The Canon, features new recordings that return to the celestial focus of his album 1981 album "Nommos," blurring distinctions between minimalism, electronic folk, and New Age . . .

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Private Pressers: Warren Winter’s Band / Merry Airbrakes / Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre

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Rescued from the underground! Check out a handful of highly recommended private press gems, recently reissued.

An oddball masterpiece, lost in the 1980s — Warren Winter’s Band’s Crossbar Hotel casts a melancholy eye on the “me” decade. Masterminded by songwriter Edward Winterhalder (Warren Winter is a pseudonym of sorts), the album might strike you as a bit normie on first listen, thanks to its almost-slick production values. But give it a little more attention . . .

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Bill Evans: Evans In England / Wes Montgomery: Back On Indiana Avenue

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Hot on the heels of last year’s revelatory Eric Dolphy release, Resonance Records returns this spring with two essential sets of previously unheard jazz bliss, all presented with characteristic care and love . . .

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Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise (Documentary)

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For those interested in the potent alchemy that was the brew of bandleader, philosopher, player and poet, Sun Ra, filmmaker Robert Mugge’s documentary "A Joyful Noise" is essential. Released in 1980, the hour long film captures Sun Ra’s Arkestra performing in Washington D.C., Philadelphia and Baltimore, along with behind the scenes footage of the players at rest, rehearsal and in interview.

Stream the film, in its entirety, below . . .

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Connan Mockasin: Auckland, New Zealand, April 2015 / Sundae Session

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Over the past decade the Kiwi artist (née Connan Tant Hosford) has called California, England, and, at present, Japan home. One thing that hasn’t changed? Hosford’s singular fealty to a sound that can only be described as his own. There have been numerous imitators since, yet Mockasin’s homegrown surrealist psychedelia, and exploration thereof, has remained both constant and in flux . . .

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Future Language: The Dimensions of VON LMO

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Lori Felker’s documentary about no wave/space rock weirdo Von LMO is a true labor of love. Like many other music docs about obscure or forgotten acts, it began from Felker’s fandom, but unlike most of the others, this film acknowledges its subject’s faults and often even calls into question whether he’s worthy of celebration. I’m glad Felker kept going because Von LMO’s flaws are as fascinating as his strengths . . .

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Aaron Beckum :: Obsolete

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Los Angeles, lo-fi cosmic country, newcomer Aaron Beckum has the pyramids on his mind. It’s here, in a metaphysical Egypt, the crooner drowns a platitude of sorrows in terra-cotta whiskey amongst the monument's 2.3 million stone blocks…all the while counseled and kept company by Sphinx. Naturally . . .

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Speed: The Infinite Soup Can, Psychic Visigoths and The Beatles Going Fast

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The Speed At The Heart Of The World’s Most Beautiful Soup Can, The Roar And Burn Of Chopper Wheels In Your Bedroom And The Beatles Going Very Fast: An infinitesimal scratch at the surface of speed in popular art. By Ethan P Miller (Howlin’ Rain . . .

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

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Water's warm tonight. The Aquarium Drunkard Show / SIRIUS XM, channel 35. Wednesdays. 7pm California Time. Fazed cookies explicado.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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David Nance Group // Long Hots

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Been a minute since we caught up with David Nance, but he’s back on the 7″, and back on the road next month with Philly shitkickers, Long Hots, who serve up their own special brand of fried zoner boogie blues.

Nance’s “Meanwhile” is 4 minutes of post-everything rock n roll death race to the bottom of the sea of tape hiss and Wiper-ian broken space riffage. This is an essential 2-sider for anyone whoever stared in their dad’s closet at his faded denim jacket and DREAMED . . .

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Joseph Shabason :: I Don’t Want To Be Your Love (feat. Dan Bejar)

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Stunning video for Joseph Shabason's "I Don't Want to Be Your Love."

What follows is an illuminating and wonderful dive into the sublime, via both the textures of Shabason's beautifully spare compositions and the surrealist bent of the world created by writer and director Zach Shields. Dan Bejar's hazy vocals float like the dust in those headlights, which remind us that overwhelming beauty can be found in the strangest of places . . .

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Joel Lyssarides :: Dreamer

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Scandinavian jazz. A sleeper released at the tail end of last year, Joel Lyssarides' lp Dreamer made an appearance on our winter medley, Music For The Deluge: A Sonic Meditation. Augmented by Niklas Fernqvist (upright bass) and Rasmus Svensson Blixt (drums), Lyssarides' debut draws inspiration from the Russian symbolist composer Alexander Scriabin and the Argentinian composer Astor Piazzoll. Space, composition, improvisation. A luminous arrival . . .

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Wolfmanhattan Project

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A trio, the band consists of Mick Collins (Gories, Dirtbombs), Kid Congo Powers (Gun Club, Cramps, Bad Seeds), and Bob Bert (Sonic Youth, Lydia Lunch Retrovirus.) In 2016 they put out a 7” of “Smells Like You,” a catchy, sing-along raveup that probably would not surprise fans of the members previous bands. Blue Gene Stew, though, is an altogether different animal — one that starts out on familiar ground, yet soon veers and meanders into unknown terrain . . .

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Cate Le Bon :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Cate Le Bon joins Aquarium drunkard to "reconcile all of the people and places that played into her most glamorous (and best) work to-date," Reward, "a musical product that was informed and fueled by what she learned from "working with her hands, becoming comfortable with just focusing on the physical product in front of her . . .

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Joy and Defiance: A Conversation with Rickie Lee Jones

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Rickie Lee Jones joins Aquarium Drunkard for a career spanning conversation, from her self-titled debut to forthcoming album Kicks.

"This thing with music," Jones says. "It's like working with magic . . .

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