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 442: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Sun Blossoms - Return Your Soul ++ Allah-Las - Strange Heat ++ White Fence - King of The Decade ++ Psychic Ills - Another Change ++ Spiritualized - Cool Waves ++ Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms ++ Dirty Beaches - A Hundred Highways ++ Juands - White Waking (Les Rallizes Dénudés . . .

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Social Climbers :: Palm Springs

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“Palm Springs", via Social Climbers’ 1980, self-titled, sole lp - the vehicle of Bloomington’s Mark Bingham. Though existing in the new wave world, the project stands as an outlier, in great thanks to Bingham’s further explorations into jazz, dance, disco, and funk.

In ways, it’s an early example of bedroom pop and a bright forebearer of modern DIY (“See “Chris and Debbie”). Having collaborated with fellow avant-garde musicians Glenn Branca and John Scofield, you . . .

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CAN :: Collected – Live & Beyond (1970-1972)

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Can’s influence cannot be overstated. Highly impacted by the improvisational side of The Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa's Mothers and Sly Stone, the group incorporated repetitive grooves that brought to mind African percussion and American funk. Two eccentric vocalists (first Malcom Mooney, then, famously, Damo Suzuki) and a dash of modern classical music helped create a distinct vision that is often imitated, though never matched.

While Can continued to release records until 1979, it’s their period from 1968-1974 that serves as the foundation of the band’s legacy . . .

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Douala By Night: A Mixtape

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Daniel T. returns with Douala By Night, a grab bag of   pan-African records presently lining his crate and beyond. His last AD import, Skateland, a deeply funky 16-track 70s roller skating compilation, is still alive and available, here.

Ali Bawa - Ki Man Wo
Fela Ransome . . .

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Rhyton :: Redshift

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With a pedigree than includes stints with sonic adventurers like No-Neck Blues Band, Pigeons and Stygian Stride, and an arsenal that includes an array of Greek stringed instruments, you might expect something pretty esoteric from Rhyton. What you probably wouldn't expect is a totally killer Joe Walsh cover. But that's just what you get on the band's newest record, the absorbingly eclectic  become a member or log in.

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Joanna Brouk :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Electronic composer Joanna Brouk takes very little credit for the trailblazing  sound poetry she recorded in the 1970s and '80s. It flowed through her, she says, unbothered by the metaphysical connotations such a  statement implies. She didn't write it so much as transcribe it, transmuting melodies from single repeated notes and from the spaces between them.

"If you want to know where my music came from, it was silence," Brouk says over the phone from her place in San Diego, synthesizer drones buzzing faintly in the background.

Her remarkable recordings can be heard on . . .

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Jenks Miller and Rose Cross N.C. :: Blues From WHAT

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Over the past several years, Jenks Miller has been making a wide variety of noises in such esteemed bands as Mount Moriah and Horseback.  Blues From WHAT  is the first physical release under the Rose Cross N.C. moniker, and though there's a band that plays this stuff live, Miller is almost a one-man band . . .

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Psychic Ills :: Inner Journey Out

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"Goin' through another change," sings Tres Warren on Psychic Ills' latest hazy trip,  Inner Journey Out. And to be sure, the album shakes things up for a band that seems to love shaking things up. Since 2003, they've traveled through a myriad of psychedelic landscapes, from extended drones to scuzzy garage rock. The . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Jet Lag – A Mixtape

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(From 2012. The Jet Lag programme, hosted by Yoon Nam, ceased airing last year after an inspired decade-long run on Atlanta's 88.5 fm.)

Over the past couple of years I’ve been irregularly highlighting some of my favorite voices online (and beyond), inviting them to guest DJ my show on SIRIUS XMU. For those of you sans satellite radio we’ve been turning these sets into mixtapes, with sounds ranging from the blown-out psych bootcut of DJ Turquoise Wisdom, to the international taboo of Ponytone. Today we catch up with the host behind one of my favorite radio programs of the past year, Jet Lag.

Hosted by Yoon Nam, Jet Lag concentrates on vinyl recordings of international psych, prog, outsider folk, vintage soundtracks, library music, and other rare sounds from the 60s and 70s. It airs Sunday nights from 8 -10 pm on WRAS Atlanta, 88.5FM. Founded in 2006, Yoon traverses the globe weekly featuring a diverse mix ranging from PFM and Ejwuusl Wessahqqan, to Jean Le Fennec and Korean masters Jung Hyun Shin and Jung Mi Kim.

After the jump -- two hours of Jet Lag, broken up into two sets.

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Bobby Hutcherson :: NTU

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The spirit was upon the room last night at Little Tokyo's Blue Whale during the LA record release show for Jeff Parker's solo debut, The New Breed. Working out material off the lp, the quintet slid into a take on Bobby Hutcherson's "Visions". Hearing them channel Hutcherson, I was hoping they'd interpret "NTU" later in the night. Maybe next time . . .

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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 441: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Pot Party — Mike Curb & Bob Summers ++ I’m Five Years Ahead of My Time — The Third Bardo ++ Just Let Go — The Seeds ++ Candle Light — Benny Soebardja & Lizard ++ Mr. Moonshine — Fat Mattress ++ Stoned Woman — Ten Years After ++ Hole In His Hand — Doug Jerebine . . .

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The Lounge Lizards :: “Voice of Chunk” Live on Night Music 1989

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Been spending a lot of time diving into the archives of Sunday Night/Night Music on YouTube, NBC's short-lived but excellent showcase of eclectic music, which aired in 1989 and 1990. Hosted at first by Jools Holland and later by David Sanborn, the program featured incredible performances by Sun Ra, Sonic Youth, Lou Reed and John Cale, become a member or log in.

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Deepest Bison :: Six Tiny Strokes

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Deepest Bison, the Minneapolis based one-man recording project of Kyle Imes, returns. Six Tiny Strokes, is another entry into an ongoing meditation on raga/reverb-ed folk.

Deepest Bison :: A Lifetime of Fitness

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Eric Bachmann :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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The name Eric Bachmann is well-known to indie-rock devotees, but not because it has graced the covers of records that often. Chiefly known as a member of Archers of Loaf and the main force behind Crooked Fingers, Bachmann only just released the third album under his own name earlier this year. This latest self-titled album has been met well critically, and following a full-band tour earlier this year, Bachmann is about to set off on a series of living room concerts in support of it. We caught up with Bachmann via phone to discuss the new album, the potential end of the Crooked Fingers name, how one promotes a tour like this, and how giving a 46 year-old-man some dignity is a good thing.

Aquarium Drunkard: The new album has been out since March. How has the response been thus far?

Eric Bachmann: I think, relatively speaking, it's done well. It's had a good response. It hasn't done as well as, say, Kanye West does or anything. [laughs] But I feel good about how it's going. My world isn't going to change or anything. I did a bunch of touring in April, May and June and that all went really well. And I'm going to start doing these living room shows, which is a new thing for me, and I have other things happening this year for me. But as much as I'm happy it went well, I'm always kind of moving forward. I haven't forgotten about it or anything, but I've just kind of let it go.

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On Bowie :: By Rob Sheffield

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Rob Sheffield's On Bowie  begins plainly: "Planet Earth is a lot bluer without David Bowie, the greatest rock star who ever fell to this or any other world."  I read those words early Wednesday morning and turned them over in my head a few times, preparing myself for a book that more or less held that sustained, mournful  note: sad and  undeniable. If anyone . . .

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