After wandering deep into the "devotional" tag results on Bandcamp, Daniel Chamberlin brings forth a look at the music of Timber Rattle, and the value of letting go what you're thinking . . .
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Dub The Millennium. First released in 1993, Manasseh's swirling medley of dub, reggae, electronic, ambient and UK indie. The original vinyl edition of the lp is home to ten tracks, the CD twelve. This matters as the eleventh track, "Souljah", is a high watermark of the album-long exercise in disparate fusion . . .
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A low-key highlight off 1967's Safe As Milk, the soulful doo-wop of Captain Beefheart's "I’m Glad" as transmuted in the hands of U.K. outfit, Swallow Cave. Steadily sedate, the four piece stays true to the original, yet imbue the material with a gloaming air of haunted, lovelorn reminiscence. Gauzy in approach, the captain's plaintive delivery finds itself supplanted by woozy production, languid vox and an atmosphere not unlike a lo-fi Julee Cruise . . .
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As a guitarist and improviser, Bill MacKay specializes in collaboration and openness. He's that way as a listener too. Today he joins us for an essay about Laura Nyro's third album, 1969's New York Tendaberry . . .
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Released last month via We Are Time, the Toronto vocalist and producer is surfing the crest of her own sonic waters, crafting hypnotic, self-echoed spoken word and r&b tone poems across polyrhythms of industrial dub, playful synths, atmospheric house, and, at times, almost brutalist noise . . .
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On Lost Futures, Marisa Anderson and William Tyler arrive on the scene with resplendent "News About Heaven." On the more ambient Understand, Tyler teams with pedal steeliest Luke Schneider to offer a brief sonic storybook . . .
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Lawrence English is a composer, an artist, and a “philosopher of listening.” He joins us today to discuss a field recording trip to a remote Amazonian jungle that led to his latest album, A Mirror Holds the Sky . . .
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Ease Yourself And Glide. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.
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CTI occupies a liminal space in the world of jazz - funky enough for the listener who may see straight-ahead as unapproachable, yet refined and technical enough to earn a nod of respect from world-class jazz musicians. Few labels with as consistent and signature a sound have been able to bridge generational gaps with such ease, attracting both wizened jazz hipsters and sample-heads alike.
Julien Lourau’s new lp, Power of Soul, treats these selections from CTI’s catalogue in a similar, straddling manner . . .
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Released in 2016, and followed with a second volume in 2018, Soul Jazz’s Venezuela 70: (Cosmic Visions of a Latin American Earth: Venezuelan Experimental Rock in the 1970's) is a heady brew and one hot stew of a melting pot, blending Latin rhythms and Venezuelan roots with krautrock, baroque pop, intergalactic jazz, spaced-out garage rock, exotica lounge, and technicolor psych-pop . . .
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This week on Transmissions, a conversation with author and label head Bela Koe-Krompecher on the rock & roll underground of Ohio and his new book, Love, Death & Photosynthesis . . .
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Another Bandcamp Friday hits on September 3, 2021 — which means that the platform is waiving its usual fees for 24 hours and you can put some much-needed cash directly into the pockets of deserving labels and artists. As usual, we’ve got a bunch of highly recommended records in case you need ‘em . . .
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The vaults have been emptied for Capitol's oft-rumored Feel Flows box set: the Sunflower and Surf's Up sessions. While the previous archival project's sets were impressive, this is the mother lode. A sprawling collection including 100+ previously unreleased cuts, the scattered formula rounds up unreleased tracks, alternative endings, studio highlights (instrumental and A capella vocal takes), live recordings from various eras, and fresh outtakes . . .
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When we learn something bad has happened to someone who has dedicated their life to performing, there is an extra weight that accompanies the sadness that strikes our hearts. Singer-songwriter Greta Morgan was diagnosed with Spasmodic Dysphonia last fall, a disorder that affects the voice, and ever since, she has not been able to sing the way she used to -- sometimes not at all . . .
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(Welcome to Videodrome. A recurring column plumbing the depths of vintage and contemporary cinema – from cult, exploitation, trash and grindhouse to sci-fi, horror, noir, documentary and beyond.)
In 1980, German-Australian photographer, Helmut Newton, partnered with Japanese fashion brand Jun Ropé to direct Cold Eye...offering a rare glimpse into an alternative reality where Newton transitions from photographer to director, producing orphic films that straddle the line between the worlds of Alain Resnais and Peter Greenaway . . .
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