Eli Winter :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Appearing here at Aquarium Drunkard in 2022 for a Lagniappe Session, Chicago guitarist Eli Winter described one of his cover selections as "Arabian Nightingale" as "arresting, cool, and strange." The three words come to mind regarding his latest LP, A Trick of the Light. Another full-band outing following his self-titled 20202 LP, the recording drifts even deeper into jazz rock territory, pairing Winter's snarling electric guitar lines with drifting pedal steel and sax. Aquarium Drunkard caught up with Winter to discuss the record's genesis and what inspired him to spoof Hot Ones in a music video . . .

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

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

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Videodrome :: SLC Punk! (1998)

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In many ways, SLC Punk (1998) is a love letter to the punk movement as it existed in the mid-1980s. But it’s also a salient example of “quarter-life crisis cinema,” tackling themes such as identity, disillusionment, and the fear of adulthood during that liminal moment of life when youthful idealism begins to clash with reality . . .

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Transmissions :: Damien Jurado

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This week on the show, something different: an extra-sized Transmission that’s been locked in the vault for years, a two-hour talk with singer/songwriter Damien Jurado. Jurado’s songs are worlds meant to be lived in, full of strange characters in dream states, caught between the static on flickering TV channels, and with this episode, the penultimate, which is a fancy word for “second to last” of our 10th season, we explore those worlds with the man himself . . .

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Sketch Show :: Audio Sponge

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Even for Yellow Magic Orchestra loyalists, the new millennium timing of the short-lived Sketch Show made the project easy to fly under the radar. Audio Sponge is the 2002 debut from duo Hauromi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi. While veering back at seminal influences like Brian Wilson, the mellowness of the compositions here are downright hypnotically restrained; a canopy of soft glitch samples, acousto-electric rhythms and relaxed vocals that simply evaporate as soon as they're uttered . . .

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Jess Sah Bi :: Jesus-Christ Ne Déçoit Pas

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Several years after recording the 1985 cult classic Our Garden Needs Its Flowers with Peter One, Ivorian folk musician Jess Sah Bi had a brush with death, falling severely ill with an unknown ailment that mystified doctors and religious healers alike.  Jesus-Christ Ne Deçoit Pas was released in 1991 and sold around 3000 cassettes in the Ivory Coast before the master tapes were lost. Now, the great Awesome Tapes From Africa, which also brought the aforementioned Our Garden Needs Its Flowers to a whole new generation of listeners across the world, has resurrected Sah Bi’s document of . . .

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Nicole McCabe :: A Song to Sing

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On A Song to Sing, Nicole McCabe’s fourth album as a bandleader and first for Colorfield Records, the LA-based saxophonist guides us into a world of warped, futurist jazz, looping improvised sounds on synthesizer, piano, percussion, and clarinet into the principal grooves of her horn. With some additional flourishes from pianist Paul Cornish, bassist Logan Kane, and drummer Justin Brown, the music exudes a moody and noirish nocturnal energy, complicated by a cacophony of layered and processed noise that takes the moonlit jazz club vibe into a stranger and more unknowable terrain . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: May 2025

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This month, Tyler and Chad are joining forces to pay tribute to Bob Dylan, in honor of the man's birthday coming up on May 24. Tyler is zoning in on Dylan's miracle year of 1965, playing some rarities, oddities and live performances, while Chad is taking a wider view with an hour's worth of demos, outtakes, live cuts and album tracks from 1970-1993. Sunday, 4-6pm PT . . .

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Joe Harvey-Whyte & Bobby Lee :: Last Ride

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Last Ride journeys out toward that stoned and immaculate perimeter where reality blurs between the future and now, where truth and fantasy meld and the desert expanse of the mind begins to resemble the great celestial horizon. It’s here we find pedal steel maestro Joe Harvey-Whyte and psych-country vibe lord Bobby Lee, scouring these far reaches for the purest elements of their cosmic choogle—two sonic cartographers conjuring a landscape straight outta the technicolor acid western playing perpetually on the back of your eyelids, where nothing is as it seems, and everything’s right where it needs . . .

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Scott Hirsch :: Hey Perdido

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Via Ojai, CA, Scott Hirsch returns this spring via his latest full-length, Lost Padres, officially out today on Echo Magic. Hirsch describes the record as a roadmap, “a sonic strategy to get back home. A touchstone test to hold what you value as truth to see if it’s real or fool’s gold . . .

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Bennie Maupin :: The Jewel In The Lotus

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Out of print on vinyl since 1977, Bennie Maupin’s solo debut, The Jewel in the Lotus, makes its welcome return to the format this month via ECM’s Luminessence reissue series. A counterpoint to the playful funk of Hancock’s Headhunters, The Jewel in the Lotus swings the pendulum well beyond Mwansishi’s heady explorations into more earthy, deeply spiritual turf.

A true headphone journey and an aural balm for a world that’s spinning a bit too fast . . .

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Punch-Drunk Sounds :: The Imagined Music of Jeremy Blake

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In his delightful, dizzying, and surrealist take on the romantic comedy—2002’s Punch-Drunk Love—the writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson infuses a number of elements that both support and subvert the audience’s expectations around the love story at the center of the film. These include the repeated and persistent use of the color blue and the idiosyncratic score by Jon Brion. Another such component is a series of so-called “time-based paintings” by visual and digital artist Jeremy Blake, which are deployed as interstitial moments throughout the film as well as a backdrop for the . . .

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

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

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Smith Perkins Smith :: S/T (1972)

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Via their 1972 self-titled debut, Smith Perkins Smith’s “Say No More” was highlighted by Board Of Canada’s Marcus Eoin as part of his Campfire Mixtape. Spanning John Denver to Joni MItchell, the 10 selections that constitute Eoin’s imaginary cassette were intended to serve as a rough guide of aesthetic touchstones that informed the vibe of their forthcoming record. As a song cycle it works, with the inclusion of the Perkins tune being both the highlight and most enigmatic of the bunch . . .

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Keith Hudson :: Pick A Dub

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2024 heralded the 50th anniversary of this seminal dub record – one of the first of its kind – and it's no exaggeration to say this release from Jamaican producer Keith Hudson remains one of the genre's high-water marks. Recorded in a nascent scene, Pick A Dub's edges are rough, but the riddims are pure and shot straight from the heart boasting a simplicity and honesty that is nothing short of enchanting . . .

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