Alberto Continentino :: Tudo

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Born into a family of musicians, Alberto Continentino made a name for himself playing in backup bands for legendary Brazilian artists like Milton Nascimento, Caetano Veloso and Marcos Valle. His solo work, however, isn't far below. While 2018's Ultraleve delves deep into the Brazilian jazz tradition of Azymuth, 2015' Ao Som Dos Planetas delivers a modern synthesis of bossa nova and indie pop that sounds like a more grounded version of Stereolab, The High Llamas or Giorgio Tuma . . .

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Move Right In: The Velvet Underground At The Boston Tea Party, 1968-1969

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Dig into a homemade comp of choice Velvet Underground performances at the Boston Tea Party, the club that served as the band's home away from home in the late 1960s. These so-called “Professor Tapes” have circulated for years, but the master reels were made available a while back, and – though they’re still far from an audiophile experience – they’re much more listenable now. And the music here more than makes up for the 50+ year old tape hiss . . .

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Les Rallizes Dénudés :: The OZ Tapes

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Major on every possible level. Not only do The OZ Tapes present one of the earliest sonic portraits of Les Rallizes Dénudés, it serves as an instant de-facto entry point into the band’s vast, unwieldy catalog. It also marks the first release sanctioned by The Last One Musique, an organization formed by band alumni and family in the wake of Mizutani’s passing in 2019 to oversee the issuing of all future archival material . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Erin Rae

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Following up the set she laid down in 2019, Erin Rae returns this month with her second Lagniappe Session. Comprised of live, single mic takes cut at a rehearsal before performing at the Newport Folk Festival, the following four recordings find Rae reflecting on the music of her childhood, the wisdom of a young Kathy Heideman, and the aching blues of Karen Dalton . . .

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

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Dropout Boogie. 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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Floating Action :: Reddingsbaadjie

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Floating Action, the ongoing musical masterwork of North Carolina’s Seth Kauffman, defies easy categorization. Kauffman’s heady lo-fi synthesis of folk, surf, blues, funk, and other world (or otherworldly) influences, has yielded a rich back catalog, one worthy of far more attention than it typically garners. Dig in almost anywhere in his 16 years or so of releases and you'll find sturdy gems that are diverse in genre and yet somehow unified by that Floating Action sound . . .

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Pastor Champion :: I Just Want To Be A Good Man

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Pastor Wylie Champion walked a path tough traveled—he grew up in the Deep South, spending some time on the wrong side of the tracks, before heading west to California. Later on, a saved man, he worked as a carpenter and raised four children. He also took the good word, now equipped with his electric guitar, on the road, visiting congregations and homes from the West Coast to the Gulf . . .

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Liz Lamere and Jared Artaud on Alan Vega :: Transmissions

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Liz Lamere and Jared Artuad join us this week on Aquarium Drunkard's weekly talk show podcast Transmissions to discuss the life, work, and creative philosophies of the late Alan Vega . . .

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Schizo :: Paraphrenia Praecox (1972)

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Sporting dead on Lemmy Kilmister doppelgänger-vox, the Paris based Schizo dropped “Paraphrenia Praecox” in 1972. Clocking in just under four minutes, it’s a slab of chugging, ruffian, maximum rocknroll that more than doubles down on the wah pedal . . .

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Pink Mountaintops :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Next month sees the release of the fifth Pink Mountaintops full-length, Peacock Pools -- an eclectic, ruminative album, that reflects Stephen McBean’s long fascination with punk rock, his newer interest in free jazz and the creative ferment that can happen when talented people have time and space to experiment. “I really like this group of songs as far as an album, even though the songs are all over the place. For some reason, in my heart, it feels very cohesive . . .

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Cactus Lee :: Perfect Middle Hall

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Cactus Lee’s Kevin Dehan continues to release music at a relentless pace, with his new lp, Perfect Middle Hall, on the way. He’s released the title track, a piece that finds Dehan at perhaps his most stark and solemn. A picturesque snapshot born into nostalgia and a yearning for something not yet passed. Dehan strives to keep the light aglow, whisking us away to help keep watch for the gale . . .

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Mondrongo :: Acidente Feliz

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As Mondrongo, Julio Santa Cecilia creates soothing tape music for the 21st century. Even when the textures sound digital, the structure of the tracks are tangible, organic and telluric, as if they somehow had been hand cut and glued together again within the DAW. Loops with ghostly bits of piano find loose, broken snares that are quiet and nebulous enough not to disturb the harmonic core of the songs, until they suddenly become the very center of those songs . . .

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Akira Ishikawa & His Count Buffalos :: African Rock

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Cop the groove. Unleashed back into the wild, Japanese drummer Akira Ishikawa's 1971 lp, African Rock. Working under the guise of a funky jazz excursion, its eclectic forty minute runtime is full of surprises. Expect a torrid medley of percussion, fat blasts of brass, inspired vocal weirdness, and searing electric guitar courtesy of MVP, Kimio Mizutani . . .

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