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Diversions: Evan Cheadle / Beyond ‘Fault Line Serenade’

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Evan Cheadle’s debut full-length is a staggering collection of hazy and fragile songs, adorned with the finest of baroque and psychedelic flourishes. Written between several years of touring as a member of Canadian stalwarts The Deep Dark Woods, Fault Line Serenade builds upon Cheadle’s 2018 EP, and recalls greats like Bill Fay or Gene Clark and more contemporary earthy travellers like Josephine Foster or Jacco Gardner . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard: ECM Night { June 24, Los Angeles @ In Sheep’s Clothing

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Next Thursday, June 24, we are hosting our third night of dedicated listening to the perennial ECM Records catalog. Free to attend with RSVP, the event is in conjunction with In Sheep's Clothing hi-fi, at Neuhouse in Los Angeles. 7pm-midnight. Expect full sides from Eberhard Weber, Codona, Steve Reich, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Terje Rypdal, David Darling, Don Cherry, Shinya Fukumori Trio and . . .

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Bandcamping :: Summer 2021

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A good thing: in celebration of Juneteenth this year, Bandcamp is donating 100 percent of their fee share of sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on Friday, June 18. So, you’ll get some new music, support artists, and help a great cause. A win-win-win. In need of a few recommendations? Here are a few recent releases that are worth your time and money . . .

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Serge Gainsbourg :: Panpan Cucul

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Here we find a funky Gainsbourg, back from the near-dead, with Alan Parker on chicken scratch, wah-wah guitar, KPM's Alan Hawkshaw on keys, Chris Karan on percussion and a rhythm section on lock . . .

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Les Filles de Illighadad :: At Pioneer Works

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Recorded live in the fall of 2019 in Brooklyn, At Pioneer Works has a calmness and serenity about it. Melodically, there is plenty of room to breathe. Each instrument – vocals, guitar, hand claps, percussion -- fills in what it needs to organically. Nothing is overworked, just enhanced . . .

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Roscoe Mitchell Sextet :: Sound (1966)

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Sound’s impact can be felt along a wide spectrum of contemporary sonic explorers: The saxophonists Chris Pitsiokos, Sam Gendel and Aaron Burnett, for instance; as well as in the works of the drummer/composer Tyshawn Sorey and his iconoclastic contemporaries Mary Halvorson and Jeremiah Cymerman; and not to mention the Folk-Jazz experimentalist Sam Amidon . . .

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Improvisational Sphere :: A Roy Brooks Mixtape

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The following mix is a tribute to the brilliant--sometimes misunderstood--artist, featuring a selection of albums under Brooks' own name, as well as crucial collaborations. It ends with a blistering version of Woody Shaw’s composition, “Zoltan,” taken from the exceptional new collection, Understanding . . .

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

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Tropical orientation. The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm Pacific, Wednesdays. No static at all.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Wire :: The AD Interview

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Wire singer/guitarist Colin Newman and former guitarist Bruce Gilbert join us for a conversation about PF456 Deluxe, released June 12 for Record Store Day, which documents the band's transitory turn at the start of a new century . . .

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Colleen :: Transmissions

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Our guest is electronic composer Cécile Schott, who records as Colleen. Her latest album of spacey synths and vintage drum machines is called The Tunnel and the Clearing and she joined us for a talk about its roots in heartbreak and personal rebirth . . .

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Jenn Wasner (Flock of Dimes/Wye Oak) and Tōth :: In Conversation

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"It’s all human, baby, and we're all just trying to figure it out." Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak and Flock of Dimes joins collaborator Alex Toth of Tōth for a conversation about creative health, meditation, and personal acceptance . . .

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Habibi Funk 015: An Eclectic Selection of Music From The Arab World, Part 2

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Eschewing mainstream sounds from the musical spectrum of North Africa and the middle east, this niche collection highlights largely overlooked artists riffing on Egyptian organ funk, Moroccan disco, Lebanese protest music, Libyan reggae, Algerian library music and beyond . . .

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The Same :: Sync or Swim

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In their ongoing excavation of all things Robert Cox, RVNG Intl. has released Sync or Swim, the sole album from The Same, a document from 1981 which finds Cox and fellow DIY enthusiasts exploring their own version of British psychedelia, or as Cox called it: “folk music meeting technology and going bonkers . . .

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Monster Rally :: Volume III (A Mixtape)

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Imminent summer approaches as we check in with with Monster Rally, whose "Imaginary Palms" drops later this week -- a balmy dreamscape framed by harps, water, live drums, air and maracas.

This, our third mix collaboration [following Volume I (2012), and Volume II (2013)], finds Monster Rally's Ted Feighan pulling from an appropriately humid crate. Press play, get lifted . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Sugar Candy Mountain

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Bay area duo Sugar Candy Mountain returned late last month with the release of their fourth long-player, the 13 track psych-pop that is Impression. Recorded with Papercuts' Jason Quever, the record maintains the aesthetic touchstones of previous work, yet organically expands their sonic palette. For this installment of the Lagniappe Sessions, the group take on the nonpareil oeuvre of Serge Gainsbourg . . .

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