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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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A.A. Bondy is back with Enderness, his first album in nearly eight years. Forsaking the minimalist folk of his previous records, it embraces synths and digital textures, demonstrating Bondy's willingness to keep driving at new approaches: "...Joy Williams...talks about once you figure out how to produce an effect as a writer, you have to discard it, every time . . .
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Riding the technicolor trails of last year’s debut Cosmic Cash, Peoples have recently returned with Natural Facts, which rips and roars. For their first-ever Lagniappe Session, Garcia Peoples tackle classics by Pearls Before Swine and Bob Dylan, channeling the latter's wild collaborations with the late Mick Ronson . . .
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