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Don Cherry :: It Is Not My Music (Swedish TV Documentary, 1978)

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As a followup to last year's phenomenal Don Cherry archival releases and book via Blank Forms, check out Det Är Inte Min Music (It Is Not My Music), a remarkable 1978 doc on the musician made by Swedish filmmaker Urban Lasson. Over the course of about an hour, we follow Don, his partner Moki and their kids from the pastoral Swedish countryside to the decidedly un-pastoral urban landscape of late-seventies NYC . . .

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Agitation Free :: ORTF Studio, Paris 1973

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Rare footage of experimental krautrock travelers Agitation Free, captured via the French television program Rock en Stock in the summer of 1973. Shot in black & white, sixteen minutes of sweaty, glassy-eyed improvisation riffing on the track “Laila II” off the band’s sophomore album, 2nd . . .

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

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East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon). 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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Alabaster DePlume :: GOLD

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Alabaster DePlume’s To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 was our de facto audio balm in the cursed year of our lord 2020—a sonorous tapestry of strings, flutes, guitars, piano, and gentle percussion, they were largely instrumentals of songs from Gus Fairbairn (DePlume’s) earlier albums. On his ambitious, sprawling, and, ultimately, glorious new double album, GOLD, DePlume returns to us the original gift of those earlier works—his voice . . .

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Cate Le Bon :: Transmissions

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Today on Transmissions: Cate Le Bon, who, for the last decade plus, has made some of our favorite modern records, as well as producing great work for other artists, like Deerhunter and John Grant, who joined us last year on the podcast to talk about their collaboration The Boy From Michigan. Her new album is called Pompeii, an art pop gem out this week on Mexican Summer records. "I think the underlying theme of the record is we will forever be connected to everything," she says, joining host Jason P. Woodbury to discuss the album's genesis, the religious quality . . .

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Placebo :: Phalène II (Seven-Inch Box)

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Formed and led by pianist/composer Marc Moulin, Placebo were a mellower, funkier, Belgian counterpart to the progressive fusion being cooked up elsewhere across the pond by Nucleus and post-Wyatt/pre-Bundles Soft Machine . . .

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Lonnie Holley :: I Went a Little Too Far (Mistreating Love)

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Taking the form of a cosmic lament, Lonnie Holley's "I Went a Little Too Far (Mistreating Love)" aches with Anthropocene remorse, and like all of the Atlanta-based artists's best work, is imbued with an emotional resonance that's as mournful as it is beautiful. "In this video I fell in love with the image of him as a sort of prophet, wandering the planet, warning the inhabitants to change our ways," says director Ethan Payne. "To 'repent' of how we harm each other and the earth . . .

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Group Listening :: Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works, Vol. 2

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Group Listening—the UK duo of clarinetist Stephen Black and pianist Paul Jones—returns with Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works, Vol. 2. The follow-up to their 2018 debut is a wintry gift, finding the enterprising instrumentalists again interpreting tunes with a tastefully minimalist approach— adding light touches of field recordings, tape manipulation, and drum machines onto their winds and keys covers of works by Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Robbie Basho, Laraaji, Syrinx, and more . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Picture Show

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Transmitting from the hills of Glassell Park, California, welcome to episode ten of the Aquarium Drunkard Picture Show. Weird times, strange signals.

Feat: Tex Crick / Kikagaku Moyo / Michael Kiwanuka / Shintaro Sakamoto / Babe Rainbow / Jon Mckiel / Allah-Las . . .

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Thai? Dai! (The Heavier Side Of The Luk Thung Underground)

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Show up for Sroeng Santi's mutant rip of Sabbath's "Iron Man" riff, stick around for the sideways garage-funk that is "Dub Fai Kui Gun". A sepia snapshot of a vanished era, Finder's Keepers' Thai? Dai! (The Heavier Side Of The Luk Thung Underground) is proof in advertising. Over the course of its fourteen tracks, the compilation goes heavy on the fuzz/scuzz providing an animated glimpse of assimilated western sounds as infused into the country's regional, sonic vernacular . . .

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Cleveland Francis :: The Willow Tree

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There’s something instantaneously familiar about “The Willow Tree,” a loner-folk gem by singer-songwriter Cleveland Francis. It the kind of song Donny Hathaway, Fred Neil, Judy Collins, or Nina Simone could’ve given hell. Delivered in Francis’ pleading, wistful tenor against subtle acoustic strumming, “The Willow Tree” reflects a world intent on injustice and misunderstanding, where the roads to peace are traveled alone and shown to others along the way who wish to find solace. Uncovered by the diggers at Forager Records, the song serves as a teaser for Beyond the Willow Tree, a comprehensive anthology of Cleveland . . .

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The Scorpions & Saif Abu Bakr :: Nile Waves

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Slithering and dangerously funky, "Nile Waves" is a sinister slice of instrumental cool. Chugging drums and woozy saxophone follow lead guitar as the band locks into a humid groove. The steadiness is hypnotizing, the playing unapologetic in its minimalism . . .

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Modern Nature :: Island of Noise (Film)

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Jack Cooper's Modern Nature returns this week with Island of Noise. Since its 2019 inception, the album marks the project's second official long-player in addition to a string of live recordings, mini-albums and an ep. To accompany the release, Cooper teamed with filmmaker Conan Roberts on an eponymous, 39 minute film. Shot around a small village near Cambridge, the film's original impetus stemmed from Cooper's explorations of the area's surrounding forests and fields. Cooper notes, "one morning in . . .

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Zachary Cale :: Bigger Picture

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It may be the dead of winter, but Zachary Cale's latest offering is a welcome dose of sonic sunshine. The first taste of the songwriter's forthcoming Skywriting LP, "Bigger Picture" is anchored by an irresistible guitar hook and a buoyant rhythmic groove from by Peter Kerlin (Sunwatchers, Chris Forsyth and The Solar Motel Band) and Charles Burst (A.C. Newman, Psychic Ills . . .

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Jake Xerxes Fussell :: Good and Green Again

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Fusell’s latest, Good and Green Again, doesn’t signal a major shift in the singer-guitarist’s approach, but it might be his best effort yet. His elegant and earth fingerpicking has always been a highlight, but here it’s Jake’s vocals that really capture (and keep) your attention. He’s singing a bit sweeter, a bit softer, this time around, taking us deeper into these ancient, elemental tunes, as well as a handful of originals . . .

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