Assirem :: Edition Ithren Cassette

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Copped in a thrift store in Austin, TX, this cassette release by Assirem (translated from Corsican as We Assert) defines elusiveness. Google turns up no results, and Translate reveals that nearly every song title is in a different language from the next. Although made in Algeria, it is believed to be a French release from the early to mid 1980s, by the Edition Ithren label.   Due to it’s unknown origins, one could best describe the contents as psychedelic world music featuring knotty guitar licks, tight instrumentation, and memorable melodies. Inside is a handwritten inscription that translates from Danish as Iod’s gift from Vrads (87); trying to figure out this multilingual cassette’s origins is an exercise in futility. Therefore the music will have to speak for itself. Fidelity be damned. words / zb

Assirem :: Cassette / Side A
Assirem :: Cassette / Side B

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Maston guests during hour one of today's programme.

SIRIUS 506:  Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Yo La Tengo - Out Of The Pool ++ Terry Callier - You Don’t Care ++ Keith Mansfield - Morning Broadway ++ Shintaro Sakamoto - Let’s Dance Raw (Instrumental) ++ The Giant Jellybean Copout - Look at the Girls ++ Paul Piot - Un Coolie . . .

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe :: Live in 1960

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe moved in the spaces between binaries. She introduced white audiences to black music. She brought the church to the nightclub, blurring the lines between the sacred and the secular. Some said the guitarist/singer "played like a man," an inarticulate statement meant to evoke the strength and power she possessed, attacking her distorted electric guitar in holy reverie, as if that wildness wasn't something a woman was capable of. Her songs were charged with carnal energy, but infused with spiritual depth. Tharpe's influence on . . .

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Neil Young :: Music Arcade / A Medley (1980-2007)

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Another ride in Neil's dune buggy, another collection of (mostly) low-key NY highlights. The following 26 tracks span the 1980 Hawks & Doves LP to 2007's Chrome Dreams II. Eat a peach.

Neil Young :: Music Arcade / A Medley (1980-2007) (spotify)

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Rob Galbraith :: Nashville Dirt (1970)

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Happy new year, it's 2018. Welcome to future. Having said that, here's something from the other side of the spectrum --   a little 12" dose of blue country funk from 1970, courtesy of Rob Galbraith's Nashville Dirt.

Rob Galbraith :: Corner Of Spit And Whittle

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Boz Metzdorf :: Signs of Seasons

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It's a little late to propose Boz Metzdorf for any year-end lists, maybe 38 years too late, but Metzdorf's Signs of Seasons feels primed to be remembered-for-the-first-time. The LP has been burning an ever-deepening earhole   since our copy arrived after reaching out to Boz directly via his site. As a whole, Signs touches upon a host of (then) contemporary sounds (from Neil Young and the Doobie Brothers, to the Flying Burrito Brothers . . .

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. The annual AD holiday show. To download Christmas Jambree :: A Vintage Jamaican Yuletide Mixtape, go here.

SIRIUS 505:  Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Sun Ra - It’s Christmas Time ++ The Black On White Affair - Auld Lang Syne ++ Binky Griptite - Stone . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard :: 2017 Year In Review

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Here it is. Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2017. Let it blurb . . .

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Alexander :: S/T / dbh :: Mass

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Two highly recommended, late breaking 2017 guitar masterworks ...

First up is Alexander's self-titled/self-released LP – the work of New Haven's David Shapiro (a name heads may recognize from contributions to such bands as Headroom and Nagual). Performing solo on a guitar of his own design, Shapiro makes a meditative sound with deep frequencies and soothing tones . . .

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Los Blue Angels :: Noche Salvajes

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 ¡î“rale! Los Blue Angels step up with the horn-happy cover of Seî±or Morrison. Via the U.S. imprint of Mexico's oldest record company, Peerless, the ever-evolving grupo tackled the Irishman's greatest-hit within weeks of its original release. The spirit, and frantic drive, remains - and the Irish brogue traded for a Chicano-rock spin on a noche salvaje. words / b kramer

Los Blue Angels :: Noche Salvajes

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.

SIRIUS 504:  Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Loudon Wainwright III - Hollywood Hopeful ++ Neil Young - L.A. ++ Crazy Horse - Dance, Dance, Dance ++ Ernie Graham - Don't Want Me Round You ++ Bert Jansch - Open Up the Watergate (Let the Sunshine In) ++ Bob Dylan - When I Paint My Masterpiece ++ Sandy Denny - Crazy Lady Blues ++ Chris Darrow - Wherever You Are ++ The First Edition - Tulsa Turnaround . . .

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Robert Stillman :: Portals

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Watch out for those late in the year surprises. Eclectic composer Robert Stillman sneaks in just under the 2017 wire with Portals, a new lp of Fender Rhodes improvisations. Recorded at his home in Kent during the winter of 2016-2017, right around the time his remarkable album Rainbows was released, the new album drifts into lo-fi ambient territory. Stillman designed it as a headphone album and it excels with a nice pair  on, its layers pulse . . .

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Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree: Vol I & II (A Vintage Holiday Mixtape)

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Ah yes, go ahead and inhale the fecund ether of the season. Lit Up Like A Christmas celebrates the, er, other side of seasonal tidings – holiday esoterica from the far corners of vintage jazz, twang, fuzz, scuzz, r&b, blues, country, garage, lounge and beyond. And by beyond, we mean Sun Ra doing a Christmas song.

Stuff your stockings and have a nip of this nog, below . . .

Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree: The Eggnog Is Spiked (spotify . . .

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The First Edition :: Tulsa Turnaround

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Speaking of 1971, the funky shit Kenny Rogers and The First Edition were laying down in the early 70s continues to maintain a special place in my crate -- especially this one. Yup, that's Mickey Jones on drums.

And for those not looking to track down a copy of the group's Transition . . .

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Joey Gregorash :: Down By The River / North Country Funk

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Check it out, it's 1971. Joey Gregorash, a Manitoban, cuts his lp North Country Funk and pays tribute to fellow Canadian Neil Young via this snowblind cover of "Down By The River". Also, I kinda want that coat.

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