Unearthed, Vol. 19 :: Valentine’s Day

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It’s been a few years, but we’re rebooting the Unearthed mix series in 2025 — further trips into the murky bootleg world! To get things going, a mix made up entirely of live recordings from various Valentines Days from over the decades. It’d certainly be a stretch to call everything included here a love song, but hey, we’re all mature enough to recognize that the emotions of February 14 run the gamut, right? The moony, swoony vibes of the holiday can just as easily slip into feelings of loneliness, regret and heartbreak. Or just plain weirdness! All . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter 32

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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: a brief but powerful chronicle of the spiritual awakening, initiation, and transformation Alice Coltrane underwent between 1968 and 1970, the 1923 book that forever changed the course of David Lynch's artistic life, Rosecrans Baldwin’s meditation on Los Angeles, from self-help cults and psychics to migrant workers and Octavia Butler, and Mark Swartz's "what if" exploration of artists who died before their time . . .

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Barbara Keith :: S/T

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Barbara Keith’s 1970 self-titled record began making its rounds of the archival labels (both legitimate and not) at the turn of the century. It was hailed – like so many of the now-resurfaced formerly-shelved records of the seventies – as a lost masterpiece du jour. Perhaps it was the studio lineup which included the likes of Lowell George and Spooner Oldham, or maybe Keith’s retreat from the limelight following its release, or the fact that the material ended up being covered by Patty Loveless, Delaney & Bonnie, Barbara Streisand, and Melanie. Whatever the reason, it was this record . . .

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Greg Foat :: The Rituals of Infinity

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Prolific UK keyboard impresario and composer Greg Foat is back to nicking his album titles from classic English sci-fi paperbacks. This time, he's borrowing from Michael Moorcock's 1971 novel, The Rituals of Infinity. Foat likes to mine sci-fi not so much for its brooding cosmology as for its air of zippy, intergalactic pulpiness. And here, once again teaming up with British jazz legend Art Themen on saxophones, Foat and company lay down another funky, lush album of library grooves and jazz futurism . . .

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Jairus Sharif :: Mawu

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The Calgary-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Jairus Sharif returns with Basis of Unity, his third album under his own name, later this month via Telephone Explosion Records. With the one exception of some freestyle spoken word courtesy of original CAN vocalist Malcolm Mooney on the track “We Be,” Sharif handles all the instrumentation and production himself on this droning symphony of ambient noise and free jazz – armed with a cadre that includes alto saxophone, electronics, percussion, drums, bass, keyboard, samplers, and “small instruments . . .

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Freckle :: S/T

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Blink and you’ll miss another one of Ty Segall’s bands. The LA-psych-rock linchpin fronts an eponymous guitar army, the even louder Fuzz, an ongoing collaboration with Tim Presley, the unhinged Wasted Shirt with the Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale, C.I.A. with his wife Denée and likely another dozen that escape me just now. This one, Freckle, pairs the fuzz king of Topanga Canyon with Corey Madden of Color Green, a cosmic-country slanted psychedelic outfit that might remind you of the Sadies at their most lysergic . . .

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Yatha Sidhra :: A Meditation Mass

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Yatha Sidhra only recorded a single record, but A Meditation Mass is often spoken of in hushed tones as a secret gem in the canon of 1970s krautrock. Its ritualistic sound and Buddhist iconography (not to mention the eye-watering prices it fetches) have turned into something of a holy relic. It may not quite be that, but it is still a stupendous piece of German psychedelia. If you don't know it, we invite you to get initiated . . .

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Ofir Ganon :: Same Air

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Sometimes an instrument is played exactly as it should be played. And for the last 20 years, Ofir Ganon seems to have been building toward the crux of the electric guitar. His Same Air acts as a snapshot of his current trajectory—simultaneously reflective and flourishing . . .

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Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears :: Head In The Sand

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Not unlike many sophomore efforts, Head In The Sand conjures a level of lyrical maturity and focus that differentiates it from its predecessor, almost confidently so. Make no mistake, however: a frantic ripper like "Storm's Comin' Tonight" reminds the listener to embrace the Dead-inspired choogle once again . . .

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44th Move :: The Move

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44th Move infuses London's turntablist scene with a modal jazz edge on "The Move," featuring indie rap lyricist and producer Quelle Chris. Since 2020, the duo has mixed Alfa Mist's club-oriented jazz piano improvisations with Richard Spaven's downtempo, broken beat, and circular rhythms, for what the two have called "R&D"—in the entanglement between R&B and dance music . . .

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Fugazi :: Gainesville, FL 3/16/1990

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1990: the reunification of East and Western Germany, the release of Nelson Mandela, the beginnings of the Gulf War / Desert Storm.

1990: Fugazi drop Repeater with the video posted here taking place a few months before the album’s release.

A band in a room along with people in that room, together. A document of this music from another place, misted over, hallucinatory and mysterious. Vibrating and alive . . .

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Muriel Grossmann :: The Light Of The Mind

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Muriel Grossmann's The Light Of The Mind is almost certainly her most “good time” record to date, with her trademark spiritual jazz blended with no small measure of funky rhythms and transcendental hooks, as she completes a saxophone hat-trick, playing soprano, alto and tenor. The title track alone showcases her prowess and Coltrane study on tenor, as well as her knack for penning a melody so infectious that it lingers in the subconscious mind long after the needle returns home . . .

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

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No static at all. 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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Numün :: Opening

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New York's numün never quite fit into the ambient country mold associated with founder Bob Holmes's other group SUSS. The team-up with Joel Mellin and Christopher Romero of Balinese music ensemble Gamelan Dharma Swara meant numün was always going to be about finding the common ground between big sky drift and eastern drone. Their third album Opening positions them somewhere between Bruce Langhorne and Popol Vuh. But it also shows them capable of whipping up a slow-motion psychedelic boogie whenever the mood hits . . .

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Pangaea Deluxe: Live Miles in Japan, 1975 (Mixtape)

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Drifting from spiraling psychedelia into frightening soundscapes and ecstatic funk, the Miles Davis septet built a universe unto itself across its 1975 tour of Japan. This tour-spanning mix gathers some of the choicest cuts and most experimental moments from the unissued tapes . . .

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