John Fahey: resurrected once again. This 1967 soundboard recording, discovered among lost readings by beatnik poets Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, is the oldest recorded solo concert from the acoustic guitar innovator . . .
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Our guest this week on Transmissions is Martin Courtney of Real Estate. On March 26th, the long-running New Jersey group releases a new EP, Half a Human, which embraces the jammier side of the band and continues the stylistic explorations of 2020's The Main Thing. We discussed record stores, adjusting to life without live music, Twin Peaks, and Courtney's 2015 solo album Many Moons—and its forthcoming follow up . . .
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A weird beast twisted in the very best sense, the hypnagogic assemblage finds its curator (Belgian dj, soFa) mining a disparate trove of curios from around the globe. Aesthetically eclectic, the set maintains a loosely connected through-line, one that equally embraces a German children's choir, dumpster synths, nascent drum machines, and 8-bit madness . . .
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Banging gongs and setting the controls for the heart of the sun. Captured on a very nice audience tape, this is the Floyd at their most epic and spacey: six songs in just under 90 minutes. Lumbering jams, funereal keyboards, searing lead guitar, harrowing screeches. The good stuff . . .
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Last year sorta got away from us. You too? How weird. Well, we’re back with more Elevated Rail.
Turn on, tune in, space out . . .
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Formed in 1968, Taste of Blues is a psych-prog-blues-rock amalgam fronted by Claes Ericsson, who later founded the '70s jazz/fusion outfit, Lotus. As a project, the group first crossed our radar via a motorik mix a pal used to spin comprised of what he deemed proto-CAN. Curious? Whet your appetite via the multifarious "Schizofrenia" clocking in at a cool 17 minutes. Headphones recommended . . .
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Cool Swede Pugh Rogefeldt dropped his debut full-length Ja, Dä Ä Dä! in 1969.
Kicking off with an absolutely filthy drum break ("Love, Love, Love"), the record finds Rogefeldt transmuting all manner of rock, pop, raga, folk and soul. Sung in his native Swedish, the 10 track record is seamlessly duct taped together by Rogefeldt's percussive vocals and syncopated howls, grunts and exaltations . . .
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Daniel Lanois joins us to discuss the space gospel of his latest, Heavy Sun, and his long history of seeking the spirit in the music of collaborators like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Brian Eno, and Harold Budd . . .
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For this Unearthed bootleg mix we're digging into our decades-spanning stash of unreleased demo tapes. Some of them are exceedingly rough, still searching for the song. Others are fully formed, the finish line in view. Some are recorded straight to a boom box at home, others in a tricked out Hollywood studio . . .
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There’s something so quintessentially, bone deep Californian about the music of Cool Ghouls. That was the case back in 2012 when the Bay Area group released a self-titled debut rife with baggy garage pop and jangly soul rock. Their Golden State-ness has only grown more acute in the years leading up to their latest album At George’s Zoo . . .
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Freeform transmissions from Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab. Airing as a four-hour block every third Sunday of the month, RFAD features regular shows, friends, and collaborators. The March broadcast features new episodes of your regular programming Range and Basin and Doom and Gloom from the Tomb, and special guests Ana Gavrilovska of Maggot Brain from Third Man Records and Kaley Evans. Airing March 21st on Dublab from 4—8 PM Pacific . . .
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Donavan Quinn and Ben Chasny return as New Bums with Last Time I Saw Grace, a masterful collection of balladry, surreal wordplay, and sharp observations . . .
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Softly crashing into 2021. Welcome to Dawn Patrol. Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes joins us for a discussion about Shore and surf—and the relationship between the two . . .
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The lathe of heaven. 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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Our guest this week on the show is Shahzad Ismaily, whose recorded with, well, he’s recorded with a lot of people, from Moses Sumney and Sam Amidon to Beth Orton, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Martha Wainwright, Yoko Ono, Bonnie Prince Billy, Jolie Holland, and many, many more. With his buddies Ches Smith and Marc Ribot, he’s a member of the punk jazz outfit Ceramic Dog, and last year he released Visitations with Leo Abrahams on his own label, Figureight Records . . .
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