Horsegirl :: Transmissions

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This week on the show, we're joined by Chicago indie trio Horsegirl—Penelope Lowenstein, Nora Cheng and Gigi Reece. Their new album, Versions of Modern Performance, echoes classic indie rock and features members of Sonic Youth. They join us to discuss it all: high school, Chicago's all-ages scene, recording at Electrical Audio, and more . . .

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Miles Davis Septet :: Chateau Neuf, Oslo Norway | November 9, 1971

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Funky tonk, indeed. In the fall of 1971 the Miles Davis septet embarked on a 21 date tour of Europe. Captured for broadcast on Norwegian television was the ensemble's ascendant set at Chateau Neuf in Oslo, Norway. A high water mark of this iteration of Davis' band, the incendiary hour-plus set runs the voodoo down and back again, with untethered performances from all involved. Edging into the beyond, Keith Jarrett appears especially possessed . . .

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Dealer’s Choice :: A Chance Meeting With Ras Tayo (Roots Reggae & Beyond)

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By chance I met Ras Tayo at Deadly Dragon Sound a decade ago. He invited me to bring some tunes out to The Den in Brooklyn, and soon I began spinning with a serious group of selectors every Sunday night. All the DJs had their big tunes and favorites that I'd look forward to hearing. These songs are ones they played often . . .

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Videodrome :: Candy Mountain, A Roadtrip From Waits To Redbone

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Candy Mountain is in many ways a strange film, but it makes perfect sense in the context of Robert Frank’s life. Perhaps the strangest thing about the movie is that it was made in 1987, and not ten or twenty years earlier . . .

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Flanger Magazine :: After the Bend

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Louisville musician Chris Bush’s Flanger Magazine creates relaxed and intimate improvisations. Embracing analog synth and folk sounds alike, it’s light experimental music that recalls the twisted folk of contemporaries Brannten Schnüre, the less structured explorations of the Advisory Circle, and even Graeme Miller and Steve Shill's warm and inviting Moomins music . . .

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Carson McHone :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Carson McHone has been singing on the barroom stages of Austin, Texas since she was 16 years old. She’s a rare contemporary country artist who was born and raised in the Lone Star State, rather than moving to the rootsy music mecca to try and make it. Her latest is Still Life, produced in collaboration with Daniel Romano, her husband . . .

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Abstract Truths: An Evolving Jazz Compendium – Volume 8

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The return of Abstract Truths. This series began in 2016 as a way to highlight jazz in all its many forms. The selector for this installment's dig finds musician and collage artist Ilyas Ahmed weaving a two-plus hour tapestry of sound, spanning 1964-2021 . . .

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Pierre Barouh :: Le Pollen

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As a composer, singer, and producer, Pierre Barouh’s wanderlust was matched only by his musical curiosity. With Le Pollen Barouh pushed the boundaries of French chanson ever further into his own borderless musical universe, reaching beyond language, style, and culture toward a commonality of song and sound . . .

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Maria de Fátima :: Toda Menina Baiana

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Born in Rio de Janeiro, musician Maria de Fátima worked with artists such as Milton Nascimento, Gilberto Gil, Arthur Verocai, Flora Purim, and others, but it wasn’t until she and her husband relocated to Uruguay that she recorded her sole release, 1981’s Bahia com H. Teaming up with local synth legend Hugo Fattoruso and a cast of Uruguayan players, Fátima crafts a record that is Música popular brasileira at its finest—breezing boldly through jazz, folk, Candombe, and exotica-inflected takes . . .

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Dylan Moon :: Option Explore

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Fifteen short songs fly by quickly as Moon cycles between settings like a frenzied keyboard demo: synthy Shakedown Street vibes (“Plot Points”), slow-mo shoegaze (“I-80”), oxygen bar melancholy (“10 Apples”), or full blown aquatic junglist bliss (“Deep Time . . .

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Chrome :: 3rd From The Sun

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Led by guitarist/vocalist Helios Creed and Moog master/vocalist Damon Edge, Chrome often got dubbed as “industrial psychedelia.” And while that term's fairly accurate, it's too generic to capture the apocalyptic terror vibes heard on these Bay Area sci-fi obsessives' releases from 1977-1982. 3rd From The Sun represents the zenith of Chrome's foreboding worldview . . .

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Denis Mpunga & Paul K. :: Criola

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Early 80s industrial beats synthesized with traditional African rhythms make for a deep zone experience on Criola, a collection of collaborative tracks between Belgian/Congolese duo Denis Mpunga and Paul K. Released on Music from Memory in 2017, Criola includes scattered and unreleased material which finds the Congolese-born Mpunga pairing guitar, bass, thumb piano, zither, vibes, and vocals with Belgian-born electronic luminary Paul Stas aka Paul K.’s brigade of synths and drum machines . . .

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Howard Wales :: Rendezvous With The Sun

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Howard Wales 1976 fusion of jazz/funk, Rendezvous With The Sun, received a proper a vinyl reissue last month via Ubiquity Records. While traces of the space-funk previously explored via his collaborations with Jerry Garcia exist, Rendezvous finds itself more in a space alternating between various forms of keyboard vamp and groove reminiscent of the contemporaneous work of fellow player, Jan Hammer . . .

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Mark Mothersbaugh’s Insomniak Flora (A Mixtape)

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A one hour compilation of assorted Mothersbaugh muzak, from Insomniaks cuts to highlights from 2017's 45 RPM box set Mutant Flora. Sprinkled in are other rarities, musical pieces composed for some of the musician's visual art exhibitions. The weirder the better . . .

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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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