Jon Hassell / Brian Eno :: Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics

The music winds sinuously, like a river in deep, humid tropics. In six tracks which blend seamlessly into one musical entity, this pivotal collaboration from Brian Eno and Jon Hassell explores a mystical, minimalist music, tinted by Southern Hemisphere sounds but also incorporating 20th century electronics. The cuts move slowly but insistently, a sensuous wiggle in their syncopation . . .

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Jamie Lidell & Luke Schneider :: A Companion For the Spaces Between Dreams

With A Companion For the Spaces Between Dreams, the first collaboration as a duo from Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider, the pair embrace the "psychedelic" label. At first consideration, a retro-soul singer and country rock sideman may seem like an unlikely match to produce mind-expanding music—but their collaboration makes more and more sense as you listen . . .

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

Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

SIRIUS 867: Intro ++ 13th Floor Elevators – Moon Song (Take 1) ++ Gene Clark – Tears of Rage ++ Crazy Horse – I Don’t Want To Talk About It ++ Sir Douglas Quintet – At The Crossroads (Alternate mix) ++ Karen Dalton – In My Own Dream ++ Matthews’ Southern Comfort – Sylvie ++ Goose Creek Symphony – A Satisfied Mind ++ The Band – Whispering Pines ++ Warren Zevon – Steady Rain ++ Ian Matthews – These Days ++ Link Wray – All Cried Out ++ Bob Dylan – Wigwam ++ Duane Allman/Gregg Allman – God Rest His Soul ++ Lynyrd Skynyrd – If I’m Wrong (Shade Tree demo) ++ F.J. McMahon – Black Night Woman ++ Little Feat – Willin’ ++ Clover – Mr. Moon ++ Marc Benno – Speak Your Mind ++ Cowboy – Please Be With Me ++ J.J. Cale – Magnolia ++ Dillard & Clark – Don’t Let Me Down ++ Bill Fay – Omega Day ++ John Martin – Over The Hill ++ Alexander “Skip” Spence – All Come To Meet Her ++ Moby Grape – I Am Not Willing ++ The Byrds – Truck Stop Girl ++ Mapache – Lonesome LA Cowboy ++ Sandy Denny – Crazy Lady Blues ++ Nick Drake – Road ++ Jimmy Spheeris – Come Back ++ Terry Reid – River

Transmissions :: DM Hotep (Sun Ra Arkestra)

This week on the show, we sit down with Sun Ra Arkestra guitarist DM Hotep, who, under the leadership of 101-year-old saxophonist Marshall Allen, continues the work of Ra . . .

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Terry Riley :: Shri Camel (Holland Festival, 1977)

The Netherlands, 1977. American iconoclast composer and musician Terry Riley touches down in Holland to appear on Dutch television. The near hour-long performance (buttressed by an introductory contextual primer) finds Riley performing "Shri Camel," a piece that would not appear in an official capacity until 1980 . . .

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Hüsker Dü :: 1985: The Miracle Year    

Hüsker Dü’s miracle year came at the mid-point of the 1980s when, in the span of 12 months, the band released three monumental albums: Zen Arcade in the summer of 1984, New Day Rising at the very beginning of 1985 and Flip Your Wig in September of the same year. This box set from Numero documents the power and fury of that pivotal period with 43 paint-stripping live performances, 24 from an album release show in Minneapolis on January 30, 1985, the remainder from various stops in America and overseas on their unrelenting tour . . .

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Pink Floyd at the LA Sports Arena (4.26.75): The Millard Master

It’s taken a half century for a Mike Millard recording to be officially sanctioned and released, though fittingly, his professional debut is a jewel: Pink Floyd at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, 4.26.75. Included in the band’s forthcoming Wish You Were Here 50th Anniversary Deluxe Set, Millard’s tape captures Floyd at its most gigantic: included in its 2.5-hour runtime is a complete runthrough of Dark Side of the Moon, the then-unreleased Wish You Were Here previewed in full (oddly, minus its FM rock staple title cut), a healthy slice of the . . .

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SML :: How You Been

SML rattles and clatters, following slap-dash, stutter-and-roll rhythms through rave-glowing forests of incandescent synths. The personnel comes from jazz, more or less, but you can hear bits of ambient chill-out, early aughts EDM, hip hop, house and free improvisation. Slashing, bumping, “Take Out the Trash” runs on a noir-ish bassline, a bit of David Axelrod's cinematics or Death in Vegas’ ominous dance grooves in its cowbell clanging, horn-bursting swagger . . .

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Ram On LA: A Los Angeles Music Sampler (2009 Redux)

Originally released in 2009, the AD-curated Ram On LA compilation brought together a dozen Los Angeles artists paying homage to Paul & Linda McCartney's 1971 masterpiece Ram. Having recently witnessed retrospective publications and documentaries dissecting bgone '90s and 2000s-era music scenes in cities like NYC and Athens, Georgia, the comp represents a snapshot of a particular LA indie scene (one in which no defining sound represented the overall zeitgeist). Retrospectively, a look back on those halcyon days of both the music scene and that era's internet musical landscape make the compilation well worth a reappraisal and a . . .

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Sean Pratt :: Prairie Whistle Call

The unbroken horizon of the American steppe reigns over Sean Pratt’s Prairie Whistle Call. Over the course of its nine cuts, the songwriter distills desolation and grandiose into a deeply personal and downright gorgeous ode to the golden roads and rolling fields he sings of. We’re presented with an Americana that stands on its own; a far cry from the derivative indie-folk that the moniker tends to carry today. In hushed tones imbued with hues of melancholy and self-discovery, Pratt brings us into his corner, commanding a restrained attention . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show (The Halloween Edition)

Trick or treat. Broadcasting from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery … the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

SIRIUS 866: Eartha Kitt – I Want To Be Evil (AD Halloween Version) ++ The Munsters – Munster Creep ++ Bob McFadden & Dor – The Mummy ++ Danny Ware – The Zombie Stomp ++ The Sound Offs – The Angry Desert ++ The Blue Echoes – It’s Witchcraft ++ The Tomko’s – The Spook ++ Scotty Macgregor And His Spooks – I’m A Monster ++ Screaming Lord Sutch – She’s Fallen In Love With A Monster Man ++ The Gories – Casting My Spell ++ Baron Daemon & Vampires – Ghost Guitars ++ Elvira – End of Side One ++ The Five Blobs – The Blob ++ Vincent Price – A Hornbook For Witches (AD Halloween Version) ++ The One Way Streets – Jack The Ripper ++ The Swamp Rats – Louie Louie ++ Oma Liddie – J. J. Jackson and the Jackals ++ Bill Buchanan – Beware ++ Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads – Goo Goo Muck ++ Frankenstein – This Is The Fiend ++ Donovan – Wild Witch Lady ++ The Frantics – Werewolf ++ Radio Spot – I Was A Teenage Werewolf ++ The Cramps – I Was A Teenage Werewolf ++ Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man ++ Evariste – Connais Tu L’animal Qui Inventa Le Calcul Intégral ++ The Frantics – The Whip ++ Charles Bernstein – Jail Cell ++ The Vault of Horror ++ Lee Kristofferson – Night of The Werewolf ++ Steve King – Satan Is Her Name ++ Kip Tyler – She’s My Witch ++ The Madmen – Haunted ++ Don Hinson & The Rigamorticians – Riboflavin-Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Polyunsaturated Blood ++ Bobby “Boris” Pickett – Monster Mash (AD edit) ++ Billy Lee Riley – Nightmare Mash ++ Wade Denning & Kay Lande – Halloween ++ Los Holys – Campo de Vampiros ++ Otis Redding – Trick or Treat ++ Monsters Crash The Pajama Party ++ Bobby Bare – Vampira ++ The Sonics – Strychnine ++ Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages – All Black & Hairy ++ Chance Halladay – Deep Sleep ++ The Weirdos – E.S.P. ++ Leroy Bowman – Graveyard ++ The Frantics – Werewolf ++ The Dynamic Kapers – Alligator Wine ++ The Surfmen – Ghost Hop ++ The Connoisseurs – Count Macabre ++ The Poets – Dead

All Hallows’ Aquarium Drunkard II

Check your candy bars for razor blades, kids, it's once again time for All Hallows' Aquarium Drunkard. The damned souls around here are coming to take possession of your sound system and there aren't enough exorcisms in the world to get them out of your house. Might as well enjoy the monster mash dub, spectral free jazz, pagan folk, creature-feature punk, and cult TV soundtrack grooves they are spewing up for the spooky season. It's like Shakespeare said, Hell is empty and all the devils are here . . .

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Transmissions :: Emmylou Harris

Welcome back to Transmissions, a weekly interview podcast created and curated by Los Angeles online music magazine Aquarium Drunkard. This week on the show, host Jason P. Woodbury speaks with a living legend, and one of our all-time favorite vocalists and songsmiths: Emmylou Harris . . .

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Nicola Alesini & Pier Luigi Andreoni :: Marco Polo

Nicola Alesini & Pier Luigi Andreoni's 1996 'ambient-word record' Marco Polo. Vine-like, lush and minimal, layered and discreet, with assists from Japan's David Sylvian (vocals), Pierrot Lunaire's Arturo Stalteri (bouzouki, harmonium), Roger Eno (keyboards, percussion, vocals), David Torn (guitar), and Harold Budd (percussion). Fourth world, indeed . . .

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Makaya McCraven :: Off the Record

On his first proper offering since 2022's career highlight In These Times, jazz drummer and composer Makaya McCraven compiles a set of four new EPs into one for Off the Record. Hence the package's namesake, each set of songs takes the organic improvisation from various previous live recordings. There's an aural alchemy in McCraven's post-production wizardry, the fervent compositions feeling like fresh studio iterations as much as previous live experiences culled from the archives; each set uniquely featuring a different live lineup with plenty of the musician's collaborators and International Anthem labelmates . . .

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