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Cereus Bright :: Seven Wonders

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Tyler Anthony's Cereus Bright project has always been personal, but with "Seven Wonders," the opening selection from his latest LP Anything, he sets a course for the cosmic. Inspired by readings of Polish philosopher Zygmunt Bauman, who described modernity as a liquid-like state in which constant change makes it's impossible to maintain a frame of reference, the song utilizes simple phrases that nonetheless carry profound weight: "Everything we know/melts away, there is/nothing left but a/face without a frame . . .

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Dummy :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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What if Dummy made an electronic album with rock instruments? What exactly would that sound like? The result is Free Energy, a driving blast of dance floor physicality. We caught up with all four members of the band to discuss this sonic transformation and what's next. Said, guitarist Joe Trainor, “We tapped into some things that I feel like we’re just scratching the surface of, in terms of what we could do in the future . . .

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Jon Hopkins :: Ritual

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Jon Hopkins builds shimmering, subtle shifting textures in this extended ambient symphony. Ritual comes in eight parts, though the divisions seem arbitrary, and you’ll miss them if you’re not watching track titles. This is one composition which develops almost imperceptibly over time, as layered cadences of percussion, synths and altered vocals pulse and repeat . . .

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Krononaut :: Krononaut II

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While their 2020 debut featured a clutch of out jazz ringers from both Europe and the US on a set of fourth world excursions, the new Krononaut album pares down to the core duo of guitarist Leo Abrahams and drummer Martin France. The results, a series of evolving conversations between Abrahams's chiming guitar peals and France's restless free jazz rustle, are nothing short of sublime . . .

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Maxton Hunter :: Dhara / Jaya

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In need of some sitar radiance as the crispness of the weather slowly begins to turn? Single “Dhara / Jaya” comes via California-based musician and studio maestro Maxton Hunter, a lifting mini-suite that floats into the ether with a hovering quality of west coast ambiance . . .

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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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Misha Panfilov Septet :: To The Mesosphere And Beyond

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From the aeronautical title to the space chants and exotica flourishes, the irrepressible Estonia-born, Portugal-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Misha Panfilov has made To The Mesosphere and Beyond a winning and winding homage to early Sun Ra . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter 30

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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 PSA regarding the free audiobook app, Libby, John Higgs' recently reissued tome on iconoclasts The KLF, Robyn Hitchcock's recent coming-of-age memoir, and Chuco Punk, a look into the El Paso, TX DIY punk scene . . .

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Transmissions :: Six Organs of Admittance (2024)

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Ben Chasny's Six Organs of Admittance project has never settled into an easy, definable zone. But 2024 sees the Six Organs sonic universe expanding kaleidoscopically, even by his prodigious standards. For this return visit to Transmissions, Chasny discusses his trio of 2024 releases, working with ambient dub master Shackleton and noise experimenter Twig Harper, his experiences playing with David Tibet's apocalyptic avant-garde collective Current 93, and cultivating online community through the Six Organs Patreon. Plus: Mark Neeley on Pure Animation for Now People, a collaboration with Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo . . .

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Aerial M :: The Peel Sessions

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From the netherworld of Drag City comes Aerial M: The Peel Sessions, a monumental slab transmitted by David Pajo and recorded for Peely & Co back in 1998. It’s an unlikely and essential document of a previously undisclosed chapter of Pajo’s musical history. For those who ransack the guitarist’s catalog seeking that elusive post-Slint high – a full band treatment of ominous, thundering post-rock – here’s your fix . . .

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Sandy Bull :: Still Valentine’s Day 1969

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Nowhere is Bull’s stage prowess on better display than Still Valentine’s Day 1969, one of scant live recordings of Bull in full flight, finally available on vinyl from No Quarter almost 20 years after it was first unearthed. Recorded before a small crowd at The Matrix—a regular haunt of Jerry Garcia, Jefferson Airplane, Hunter S. Thompson, and even the Velvet Underground— Still Valentine’s Day 1969 plunges listeners into the echoing caverns of Bull’s imagination . . .

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Nala Sinephro :: Endlessness

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Nala Sinephro is back with a new album on Warp Records, following her acclaimed ambient jazz debut Space 1.8, from 2021. A multi-instrumentalist virtuoso, Sinephro composed, produced, arranged and engineered the whole record from scratch evoking Pharoah Sanders' spiritual jazz and Jon Hassell's hypnotic electronica . . .

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Slippers :: So You Like Slippers?

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Like the moving frames in one of the artist's films, So You Like Slippers? comes at you in cozy slices of guitar pop that rarely exceed two minutes. Slippers is the solo project of Los Angeles-based musician Madeline Babuka Black, also the drummer in French pop outfit Le Pain . . .

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Ryuichi Sakamoto :: Coda (1983)

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Reissue label Wewantsounds just announced a remastered, worldwide release of Ryuichi Sakamoto's Coda, also known as the solo piano version of the 1983 soundtrack to Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence plus two bonus tracks based on atmospheric synth pad lines. Acoustically reinterpreted, the multi-award winning and seemingly-grand compositions from the soundtrack are undressed, showcasing Sakamoto's fundamental skills as an instrumentalist and arranger . . .

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Ween :: Chocolate And Cheese (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

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With the release of the Chocolate and Cheese (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) earlier this month, the inimitable duo of Gene and Dean dug deep into their archives (i.e. a contractor bag of old cassette tapes and DATs) to share “fifteen previously unreleased demos of classic and soon-to-be classic tracks,” alongside a remaster of the original C&C. The remasters are fine, as clear and crisp as one would expect – but the headline here is the new tunes . . .

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