Transmissions :: Yasmin Williams

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This week on Transmissions, return guest Yasmin Williams. On October 4th, she releases Acadia via Nonesuch Records. It's her long awaited follow up to 2021's Urban Driftwood, and like that record, it's beautiful—a showcase for a one-of-a-kind artist. Williams first came back on the show way back in the lockdown days, but life has changed greatly for her since then. She discusses some of those changes, and opens up about her desire to create with Acadia something of a refuge from the chaos of the world. Ahead of its release, she joins Jason . . .

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Panda Bear & Sonic Boom :: Reset Mariachi EP

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... the 2022 album Reset has been subject to many playful experimentations, including an expanded edition with remixes and instrumentals and an EP of dub versionings produced by Adrian Sherwood. For this year's own toying with Reset, the goal was making mariachi versions of two of the record's most compelling songs: "Danger" and "Livin in the After . . .

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Videodrome :: Obsession (1976)

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Obsession is Brian De Palma and Paul Schrader at their most deliriously Hitchcockian, their fandom for the revered British director bursting forth from every frame. Obsession functions as a tale of memory and fixations as much as it works as a fanatical, meta-textual analysis of its creators: two young filmmakers obsessed with Vertigo, attempting to recreate their memory of it in their own image . . .

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Bill Callahan :: Resuscitate!

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Last year Bill Callahan brought Jim White along on a series of tour dates to make his intricate songs more visceral, and even just with drums, it worked extremely well. This live recording of a March 2023 show in Chicago takes that augmentation a step further. For this single show, Callahan added not just White but Austin guitarist Matt Kinsey, Chicago free jazz saxophonist Nick Mazzerella, the Congolese singer Pascal Kerong’A, keyboard player Nathaniel Ballinger and the core of Natural Information Society in Joshua Abrams and Lisa Alvarado. The set leans heavily on songs from YTILAER—seven out of . . .

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Niningashi :: Heavy Way

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Branching off their Nippon Acid Folk 1970​-​1980 compilation, Time Capsule’s reissue of Niningashi’s 1974 LP Heavy Way is a gem of private press, outsider psych. Recorded and self-released while in pharmacy school, the young Tokyo-based musician and his six-piece band captured lightning in a bottle here, and sound like they had fun doing it . . .

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Tidiane Thiam :: Africa Yontii

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Tidiane Thiam’s last LP was a gorgeously stripped-down thing, featuring the Senegalese guitarist communing with nocturnal natural sounds. Africa Yontii, by contrast, is relatively lush and full, with beats, electric six-string and subtle electronics complementing Thiam’s intricate fingerpicking. It’s different, but the meditative space and spirit of the music remains . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Bobby Lee

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Cosmic country rambler Bobby Lee takes the controls and sets a course for the heart of the cosmos with these covers of songs by Don Williams, Fred Eaglesmith, and funk legends Cymande . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PDT, 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.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Billy Talbot :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Way back in the 1990s, Neil Young started mentioning Early Daze, a collection of previously unreleased studio recordings he made with Crazy Horse in the late 1960s. As with most everything in Shakeyland, it was a long time coming … but this summer Early Daze finally emerged. Worth the wait? Oh yeah.

For further insight, we went to one of the guys who was there for it all — bassist Billy Talbot . . .

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Transmissions :: La Lom

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Sometimes, background music moves to the foreground. That’s the case with today’s guests, guitarist Zac Sokolow, bassist Jake Faulkner, and drummer Nicholas Baker. Together, they form La Lom—short for the Los Angeles League of Musicians. In 2019, they were hired to bring suitably vibey music to the lobby of the historic Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. Now, they've got a new album coming out on Verve. They join us to discuss . . .

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Luke Temple and The Cascading Moms :: Certain Limitations

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While his nimble, soft guitar phrasings and textured harmonies often evoke experimentalists like Bill Frisell or Egberto Gismonti, in Certain Limitations, Temple has formed a trio with Kosta Galanopoulos and Doug Stuart (who they dub "the Cascading Moms") to throw this recognizable aesthetic on top of contorting, broken rhythms—especially in the second half of the record, with the revolving-effervescent "It's All About Timing" and the compressed-syncopated "Second Half." The result is another gem of effortless pop perfection, that can be idle in form without ever giving up its frenzied steam . . .

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Galaxie 500 :: Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90

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Legendary dream pop and shoegaze pioneers Galaxie 500 just announced their first batch of new music in almost thirty years with the archival compilation Uncollected Noise New York 88-90. A double gatefold LP including a colored special edition inspired by TMOQ bootlegs, the release, scheduled for this September, includes b-sides, outtakes and rare versions of classics like "Blue Thunder" and "Fourth of July . . .

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Dog Days of Aquarium Drunkard

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We were curious what people's summers sounded like. So we asked a clutch of the regular contributors to tell us what they were listening to beat the heat and why. What we heard back made for a weird, wonderful soundtrack for this far stretch of the earth’s revolution around the sun. Here's a slate of recommendations to power you through these dog days of summer . . .

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David Michael Moore :: Lunch Is Having Lunch

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Dubbed a "true American wildass" by his label, septuagenarian woodworker, instrument maker, and composer David Michael Moore lands somewhere between a Southern Moondog, Vince Guaraldi in the Delta, or even JJ Cale on his beatific Lunch Is Having Lunch . . .

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Anthony Pirog :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Always fearless in his pursuit of sonic fusion, the wizardry of Anthony Pirog continues to invade new melodic landscapes. Hard noise. Ambient. Jazz. Punk. Experimental noise funk. He joins us to discuss collaborations with members of Fugazi, Nels Cline, James Brandon Lewis, Jerry Gilgore, and more . . .

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