She’s A Keeper Of The Fire – Buffy Sainte-Marie (A Medley…)

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On the eve of her birthday, a journey through some lesser-known songs of the inimitable Indigenous artist and activist's Vanguard years. Nine albums of groundbreaking folk and country, with diversions into pioneering electronic rock and searching orchestral pop—always with her singular perspective and searing vibrato leading the way. words / k evans + art/ b hettinga

CivilizationAdamThe Jewels Of HanaleiLittle Wheel Spin And SpinBetter To Find Out For YourselfMoonshotThe CarouselThe Piney Wood HillsMany A MileThey Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dawg AroundShe Used To Wanna . . .

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Charles Ditto :: In Human Terms

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An experimental minimalist from the Texas hill country, Charles Ditto self-released In Human Terms on his own label in 1987. He calls it “nootropic deconstructed pop minimalism,” and it slots nicely with the spacey ambient worlds of Michele Mercure, Pauline Anna Strom, and Savant. Picture round shapes floating through a light fog and you’re in the right astral territory . . .

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Spencer Doran on Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Environmental, Ambient & New Age Music 1980-1990

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Producer and curator Spencer Doran on Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Environmental, Ambient & New Age Music 1980-1990, a new compilation out on Light In The Attic that documents a substrata of Japanese music born out of a growing interest in new computer and synthesizer technology, and the influence of composer Erik Satie . . .

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A.A. Bondy :: Images Of Love

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Here comes Auguste Arthur Bondy out of the wrath of the California wildfires toting Enderness, his first album in eight years. “Images of Love” is an intoxicatingly spare, private-press-R&B-style affair built on skittering percussion, warm synthesizer and a locked bass riff. Bondy’s weathered tenor tells of surrender, death, and the nuances of companionship. That synth doubles back and looms larger midway through the track. And with a quick snap . . .

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Music For The Deluge: A Sonic Meditation

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A sonic meditation crafted during an exceptionally fierce 24 hour downpour in northeast Los Angeles. An imaginary hour and half instrumental score . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Hand Habits

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Lagniappe (la·gniappe) noun ˈlan-ˌyap,’ – 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus.

Hand Habits, the working sobriquet of Meg Duffy, first entered our sphere in 2015 backing Kevin Morby at a house party. Their weapon of choice is the guitar, an instrument they wield with aplomb. However, to focus too heavily on this one attribute is to miss the greater whole of the songwriter . . .

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Tim Presley’s White Fence :: Phone

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The artists that tend to intrigue and hold our attention are rarely one dimensional. They build worlds. They create myths. Often they savvy the importance of both—for themselves as well as their audience. Tim Presley understands this. Having followed his work for more than a decade, through various permutations of his craft/muse, he continues to evolve via his paintings, his music, and his very presentation of the self.

2019 introduced the artist's latest incarnation, appending his full name name to the existing cloak of White Fence. See: become a member or log in.

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Bandcamping :: Winter 2019

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Our quarterly Bandcamping roundup is back for 2019. As a digital institution it’s hard to beat Bandcamp. It’s ridiculously easy to use, it puts money directly into artists’ (and labels’) pockets and there’s a seemingly endless amount of music to discover there -- new, old and in-between. Of course, that endlessness can be a little overwhelming, so here are 10 recommended releases to dig into. words / t wilcox

Michael O’Shea - S/T: A necessary . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Jonathan Wilson (Sawmill, Volume 1)

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Sawmill, Vol 1 is a collection of traditional songs and a few songs I have written, all recorded live to cassette on acoustic and nylon classical guitar. This is a handpicked selection for Aquarium Drunkard from that collection . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Guide to ECM Records: The New Millennium

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Welcome to the third installment of the Aquarium Drunkard Guide to ECM Records: The New Millenium. Writer James Jackson Toth (Wooden Wand) explores the label's contemporary output, that of "a boutique label in the guise of a music industry behemoth . . .

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The Cosmic Range :: The Gratitude Principle

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The Cosmic Range’s second LP finds the Toronto-based collective exploring all sorts of zones: dense Bitches Brew-worthy jams, soothing astral travels, freeform freakouts, Afrobeat groovers. Miles Davis called this stuff “New Directions in Jazz” back in the day. And while the approach is not so new anymore, it’s still fresh. Led by multi-instrumentalist Matthew “Doc” Dunn, the band is familiar to some as the backing group on US Girl’s 2018 release In A Poem Unlimited. But as adventurous as the sonics were on that stellar LP,  . . .

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Modern Nature :: Supernature

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Following the sudden disbandment of Ultimate Painting, Jack Cooper returns with a new, three-song EP under the name Modern Nature. Joined by keyboardist Will Young, drummer Aaron Neveu (Woods), cellist Ruper Gillett, and saxophonist Jeff Tobias (Sunwatchers), Cooper tell us: “The band is so new, it's hard to say who's in and who isn't. Every song we record or musician we gain, another door seems to open on a route that's . . .

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Unearthed, Vol. 4 :: Jerry Garcia & Friends at the Matrix, 1966-71

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The array of sounds Garcia made at the Matrix is dizzying, from garage rock to jazz fusion to bluegrass to cosmic funk…and beyond. Download and enjoy . . .

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Jay Bolotin :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Listening to Jay Bolotin's mysterious songs, it's easy to hear why people like Mickey Newbury, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, and other Music City luminaries lauded the Kentucky native's work . . .

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Crème De Menthe // A Sound Collage

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If you've been around a minute, you'll remember the original iteration of the AD Transmissions podcast, a format we phased into our present (more "traditional") model in 2016. But this? It's a return to the sound collage framework . . .

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