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For this episode of Transmissions, Beauty Pill join host Jason P. Woodbury to discuss Instant Night and Please Advise, the influence of Miles Davis, William Eggleston, and collaborations with the Taffety Punk Theatre Company . . .
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With a framework now shaped around the loosely defined Jesus People Music (and adjacent sounds), it’s fascinating to dig into similar relics from around the globe such as the remarkable new compilation, FRÄLST! – A Selection of Swedish Christian Grooves 1969-1979. A deep, heady dive into the sounds produced from Swedish Christian communities of the era, like many of its North American counterparts, the bulk of the material is sourced from the rarest archival, private press digging . . .
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A little over four years ago, the underground drumming titan John Colpitts was in a cab heading to the Los Angeles airport, when a drunk driver behind him smashed into the car and sent a carefully arranged, overscheduled life into chaos. Music from the Accident tracks the slow, uncertain progress that starts with a brush with death and ends in a free-squalling avant-garde celebration of life and music and recovery . . .
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Hardly a stranger to this exercise, in 2008 Vetiver's Andy Cabic released Thing of The Past, a lovingly curated collection of covers paying tribute to a grip of his favorite songs. For this installment of the Lagniappe Sessions, Cabic takes on a favorite from Scottish folk iconoclast Bert Jansch, along with the first track off Pete Dello & Friends' 1971 long-player, Into Your Ears . . .
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There are very few who can be (consensus) legends--those who not only command a genre, but redefine it and make it their own, while also making it for everyone. You may not know Abdel Karim al Kabli, but you should know that he was a legend for many people for many, many years . . .
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NYC-based label Palto Flats continues its Yasuaki Shimizu reissue series with Kiren—the Japanese saxophonist and composer’s previously unreleased 1984 “work for experimental dance music.” It follows his previous art-rock ascents on 1982’s Kakashi and 1983’s Utakata No Hibi (his last under the Mariah moniker), and finds him boldly moving forward in ambient-techno-fusion excursions . . .
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Coming together in an unlikely but harmonious collaboration under their recently bestowed Sanskrit names, Turiya Alice Coltrane and Devadip Carlos Santana recorded Illuminations as a reflection of their newfound spiritual awakening. Released in 1974, the album embodies a deliberate shift for both artists, who had edged closer to explicitly devotional compositions throughout the early seventies . . .
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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. This month: underground venues, psychedelic comics, jazz, border towns, and U2 . . .
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Blending modular synth, piano and viola with richly textured field recordings, Chiu and Honer have crafted something exceptional — an immersive sonic environment that harkens back at times to the work of Brian Eno and Terry Riley without bowing at those particular altars. You could call it ambient music, but that genre tag doesn’t quite fit. This is human music — it lives and breathes, filling the air with strangely slanting light and luminous improv . . .
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Floating in the ether. Transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.
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Welcome to the second installment of First & Last, a series of mixes providing a glimpse into the world of Japanese private press, or 自主盤, pronounced “jishuban”, which loosely translates to “independent board.” This second entry picks up where volume one left off, including a live recording from a concert compilation (track one), and music from the incredibly rare First Album, by Elf, of which only fifteen copies were manufactured . . .
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Ahead of the release of the instrumental freak out collection In/Out/In, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth join us to discuss The Simpsons, the Geffen years, stolen (and recovered) guitars, the science fiction of William Gibson and Philip K. Dick, and much more on this episode of Transmissions, Aquarium Drunkard's weekly podcast . . .
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On the heels of his sophomore lp, Thorpe's session comes off like an extension of that collection via a pair of seemingly disparate covers. First up is an aching take on George Michael's 1996 pop ballad, "Jesus To A Child", buttressed by a minimalist reinterpretation of Bill Withers' 1972 folk-funk anthem, "Use Me . . .
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Bernard Estardy: musician, arranger, producer and co-founder of CBE studio, Paris. When not flexing behind the boards for Françoise Hardy, Nino Ferrer, and Gérard Manset, Estardy was subtly laying down his own brand of cool, recording 100+ instrumentals, including a lone LP--1971's La Formule Du Baron. It's from here that we find the slightly twisted "Cha Tatch Ka", a two and half minute sample-ready mashup of percussive funk, playful whimsy, and scat-damaged vox . . .
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