Musicasión 4 ½ (50th Anniversary)

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In 1969, Uruguayan musician Eduardo Mateo joined with poet, actor, and theatre director Horacio Buscaglia to create Musicasión—a collection of fourteen performances over four productions, featuring musicians from Mateo’s band El Kinto and other artists from around the country. An album, released in 1971, comprises these performances and this week, thanks to the efforts of Juana Molina and Crammed Discs, sees a slightly belated 50th anniversary reissue, featuring 16 previously unreleased tracks . . .

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Joys Union Group :: Boredom Euphoria

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The debut long-player from Joys Union Group is a marvelous slice of New American Kosmische — absolutely cosmic but somehow still deeply earthy. The Texas-based collective features members of Future Museums, Sungod and Uniform, and they’ve knocked it out of the park on their first at-bat . . .

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Angel Olsen :: Big Time

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On her stunning new album Big Time, Angel Olsen chronicles a complex couple of years and a resulting sense of rebirth. Filled with country-tinged melodies and sparse arrangements, it features some of the songwriter's most engaging work . . .

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Ben Vaughn :: Transmissions

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This week on Transmissions: producer, television music maker, radio host, and overall interesting guy Ben Vaughn. His new album is called The World of Ben Vaughn. Rooted in gentle strums, much of its sweetly traditional songcraft was recorded out in Vaughn’s Relay Shack studio in the Mojave Desert, and it echoes the most rustic of selections he plays on his great radio show The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn. Ben’s produced albums by Arthur Alexander, Nancy Sinatra, Charlie Feathers, and more—as well as collaborating with Alex Chilton and Alan Vega. For this episode, we spoke about the . . .

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Terry Allen :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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A singer-songwriter as acclaimed for his art career, Terry Allen has always done things his own way. From his blood-soaked travelogue debut Juarez, to sculptures that reside in airports⁠, he's devoted his life to staggering bodies of work that move effortlessly between gallery walls, theatrical stages, and public airwaves. And that's barely scratching the surface . . .

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Karen Dalton :: Shuckin’ Sugar

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Shuckin’ Sugar is a terrific time capsule, with a young Karen Dalton sounding already close to fully formed, her unmistakable vocals bolstering a selection of trad tunes. Her partner throughout is Richard Tucker and the duo’s harmonies run deep, finding the raw Appalachian vibes necessary to pull this kind of music off successfully . . .

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Sam Hoffman :: Mull It Over

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Sam Hoffman’s 2018 debut, Fairweather, was a promising collection of lo-fi power pop out of Nashville, TN. His spirited live shows sprang up around the Music City, but then 2020 happened and any momentum seemed to dissipate. Which is why we were excited when he sent us his latest recorded effort, “Mull It Over . . .

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The Whitefield Brothers :: Weiya (Serengeti Beat)

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The Whitefield Brothers In The Raw remains as potent in 2022 as the day it dropped twenty years ago. Originally released in 2002, and later reissued via Now Again, the LP's panglobal brew of ragged psychedelic funk dripped different, defying easy markers of genre, era, and locality . . .

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Albert Ayler :: Revelations – The Complete ORTF 1970 Recordings

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When an artist dies young, we’re often left wondering what could have been and looking for clues among their final records and performances. In the case of Albert Ayler, the search is especially frustrating: his death by suicide in November 1970 cut short an intense and singular career, right as he started moving in a new direction. Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Recordings, a new four-CD/Five-LP set provides a tantalizing glance at some of the saxophonist’s final performances: two full shows finally presented in complete form . . .

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Bill Frisell: “The Searcher” (Excerpt)

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For four and a half decades, guitarist Bill Frisell has folded his beautifully faded melodies into a tapestry that includes work high profile pop singers, raging jazz punk, folk, ballads, country and western. In Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed The Sound of American Music, released this week by Faber books, author Philip Watson presents a sprawling biography of Frisell. Aquarium Drunkard is proud to present an excerpt from the book's first chapter, "The Searcher . . .

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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.

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Kioea :: S/T

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On their debut EP, New England Trio, Kioea (pronounced KEY-O-E-AH) present a fresh take on instrumental, “world-music-inflected”, psychedelia. Informed by a wide spectrum of influences including indie, ambient, as well as artists like Erkin Koray and Sir Victor Uwaifo, Kioea’s sound is simultaneously modern and vintage . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter 16

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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 installment: the roots of the enigmatic Elephant 6 Collective, Sinéad O'Connor, utopianism, a Kim Gordon edited compendium of music essays, and more . . .

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Ben Marc :: Transmissions

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Today on Transmissions, London-based jazz and beat artist Ben Marc. He’s known for his work with Ethiopian jazz legend Mulatu Astatke and with Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead and Shabaka Hutchings of Sons of Kemet. His new album is called Glass Effect and it’s a blend of classical, electronic music, and deeply felt spiritual jazz. He joined us to discuss his work with the Sun Ra Arkestra, Astake, working with Jonny Greenwood and his bandmate Tom Skinner’s work in Radiohead side project The Smile . . .

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Bob Dylan :: Too Many Mornings (Revisited)

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Last year around Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, we celebrated with a megamix of various renditions of "One Too Many Mornings." Since there's no such thing as too many "One Too Many Mornings," here's a sequel of sorts for Bob's 81st — 24 different covers of the classic tune from a wide variety of artists, spanning the decades. Just as Bob never quite settled on a stock arrangement for this one, the interpretations here vary wildly, from gentle folk to raucous garage rock to soaring orchestral pop. Like the song says: "You're right from your side and . . .

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