Turner Williams Jr. :: Briars On A Dewdrop

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Turner Williams’s instrument of choice is the shahi baaja— a kind of amplified typewriter zither, which uses metal keys to alter the pitches of its strings, already a collision of east and west, archaic and industrial. Run through a vast arsenal of effects pedals, the entire rig gets downright cybernetic . . .

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Yves Simon :: Au Pays Des Merveilles De Juliet

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It's 1973 and with Au pays des merveilles de Juliet French singer-songwriter Yves Simon decides to change things up. Syncopated, the title track finds Simon's sing-speak vocal floating above two and half minutes of folk-funk. Listen up, tout suite . . .

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Transmissions :: Andy Shauf

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Today on Transmissions, we're joined by Saskatchewan-born songwriter Andy Shauf to discuss getting sober, God, and how these big topics relate to his latest album of introspective folk pop, Norm. Fans of his ‘70s-styled songcraft will still find lots to love here, but as we discuss, the production is deeply rooted in modern experimentation and the anything goes sonic possibilities of digital recording . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard :: SXSW 2023

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We're heading back to Austin this week, presenting not one, but two showcases. First up is Friday night's AD x Gold Diggers shindig at Lucille (on Rainey Street) with Orions Belte, Fruit Bats, Bonny Doon, Pearl & The Oysters, Aoife Nessa Frances and The Golden Dregs. Still upright? If so, come by our unofficial day party on Saturday with Hippie Scum at Lolo Wine (E. 6th Street) at noon and catch Peter One, Cactus Lee, Sean Thompson's Weird Ears, Rogé, Peel Dream Magazine, Future Museums and Skyway Man . . .

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Gabriel da Rosa :: É O Que A Casa Oferece

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Gabriel da Rosa’s debut album, É o que a casa oferece, arrives at an auspicious time as Brazilian music is becoming more ubiquitous, cresting a wave of popularity that has been building over the better part of a century. The last 90 years have seen Carmen Miranda’s polyrhythmic schtick in the thirties and forties, the smooth and sophisticated bossa nova craze of the early sixties, and in the seventies Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, and Milton Nascimento championed an adventurous style of Brazilian jazz. Now, a new Brazilian tide is rising, building off the previous waves’ continued relevance, and it . . .

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First & Last: Japanese Private Press, Vol. 8

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Welcome to the eighth installment of First & Last, a series of mixes providing a glimpse into the world of Japanese private press, or 自主盤, pronounced “jishuban”, which loosely translates to “independent board . . .

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Bob Martin :: Seabrook

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Stay Awhile Sunshine is the final album by Midwest Farm Disaster troubadour Bob Martin. Produced by Jerry David DeCicca, it presents Martin's uncanny voice at its vivid center. Presented here: the album's title recording and a new short documentary about Martin . . .

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The Pastels :: The Last Great Wilderness

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Over forty years have passed since the debut single from guitar pop legends the Pastels. The epitome of underground cult status, counterculture archivist Sam Knee summarized the band as "bridging the gap from post-punk into the new '80s indie era" in his book A Scene In Between, a visual encyclopedia of the era. Emerging from the era of the C86 cassette and hometown Orange Juice, the group is equally synonymous with the Glasgow-based music institutions they helped foster . . .

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Videodrome :: True Stories (1986)

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Is True Stories a musical, a comedy, a documentary, or another Talking Heads film? In retrospect, it's all of these things and more. True Stories is an oracular film, predicting the changing landscape of Texas while simultaneously capturing America in all its peculiarities circa the mid-eighties . . .

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

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

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Transmissions :: Dorothy Moskowitz (The United States of America)

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Psych pioneer Dorothy Moskowitz of The United States of America joins us on the Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions podcast to discuss her new collaboration The United States of Alchemy and new album Under An Endless Sky . . .

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Kate Fagan :: I Don’t Want To Be Too Cool

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In her essential new book Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983, author Jen B. Larson writes that new wave singer Kate Fagan "never wanted to fit in, but to find herself." That much is clear listening to Captured Track's new compilation I Don't Want To Be Too Cool, which collects Fagan's early '80s singles and outtakes. She joins us from New Orleans to discuss the comp, her roots, working with reggae legend Peter Tosh, and share a series of photos from her archives . . .

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Spirit of France

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Spiritmuse Records is one of several modern record labels dedicated to reissuing jazz and jazz-inspired music from around the globe. The London-based label’s recent Spirit of France compilation showcases “obscure, rare spiritual jazz, deep folk and psychedelia sounds from the French ‘70s-‘80s underground” and is everything that tantalizing description promises . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter 22

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Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. In this month’s stack: author Ben Wardle's biography of Talk Talk's Mark Hollis, a look at why Sinéad O’Connor matters, future music from Germany, and critic, musician and media theorist DeForrest Brown Jr’s Assembling A Black Counter Culture . . .

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