Daniel Lacksman has pioneered European pop and electronic music for decades. Now Real Gone Music reissues his early work. He joins Robert Ham for a look back at his long and varied career, early synthesizers, and getting to Eurovision by making fun of Eurovision . . .
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Dougie Poole further cements his rep as internet troll-country troubadour with “Toshiba Sky,” his new single and the latest installment in Mexican Summer’s Looking Glass series. With his wry smirk and sardonic wit, Poole croons awash a faded psychedelic choral twang, his deep baritone preaching like a country gospel cover star about a better tomorrow, one safe from the endless human tragedy pouring out into the streets. “Behind the darkness,” Poole promises, “There’s a screen . . .
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Chicago’s Jordan Reyes has become one of the most energizing champions of contemporary experimental music. On his latest album, Sand Like Stardust, he charges into the uncharted territory of ambient country, abstracting elements from the wild frontier while questioning what it means to be a cowboy . . .
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Outré California. 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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As an arranger and composer, Liam Kazar's songs are not "lush" so much as they are precisely plucked—in his small-sample-size-songs, he layers textured pianos and synths, delicately entering and exiting the production. There's a swagger that Kazar has tapped into on both of his solo tracks, but it derives from different places . . .
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Heather Trost's Petrichor is rife with sock hop energy, honied pop, and midcentury quirk. This is a soundtrack for the pensive liminality of modern life, music for our hearts as we pursue our dreamiest, strangest impulses . . .
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Incoming transmission from...Yves Jarvis. The singer/songwriter/producer's latest is called Sundry Rock Song Stock, and it's a blur of soft-focus pop and shimmering melodic mirages. He joined us from the Tree Museum in Ontario to discuss the disparate influences of Joni Mitchell, Bill Bruford, and Kanye. Plus, Vic Berger and Doug Lussenhop of Tim Heidecker's Office Hours join us to discuss their new audio/visual sonic collage, Drop Concert: The Motion Picture . . .
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On Liquid / Devotion & Tongue Street Blue, the new album from Josiah Steinbrick, the composer continues his explorative saga of Fourth world neoclassicism.
Think of a head-on collision between Wally Badarou’s Echoes and Wayne Horvitz’s This New Generation. Or just press play . . .
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The music on How The River Ganges Flows: Sublime Masterpieces of Indian Violin [1933-1952] isn’t just beautiful, it’s often awe-inspiring. Beautiful in a way that verges on the scary, grasping at the divine. The 14 performances here are virtuosic in the technical sense, but also emotionally virtuosic, if that makes sense. The players here are almost surgical in their veil-piercing evocations of loss, longing, joy, sadness—the full spectrum of humanity somehow translated into breathtaking sound . . .
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Freeform transmissions from Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on Dublab. Tune in November 15th for our four-hour broadcast from 4-8 PM Pacific, featuring Topical Malady in the first hour, Range and Basin in the second, Doom and Gloom from the Tomb, and to close, One Kind Favor: Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, our collaboration with the Jerry Garcia Family . . .
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On November 20, Rob Mazurek returns with Exploding Star Orchestra and a new album of sci-fi poetry and avant-jazz, Dimensional Stardust, via Nonesuch and International Anthem.
Aquarium Drunkard's Jason P. Woodbury reached Mazurek to correspond via email over the last few (eventful) weeks to discuss occult science fiction mysteries and the desert . . .
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Two notable Neil Young dates this week — the man’s 75th birthday today and the 45th anniversary of his classic Zuma LP this past Tuesday. To celebrate, dig into a 40-minute live megamix of “Danger Bird,” one of Zuma’s most thoroughly awesome cuts. It’s primarily a Crazy Horse showcase, but there’s also room made for an exceedingly rare solo piano outing. “Danger Bird” is the sound of massive wings flapping, tectonic plates shifting, mountains forming. In a live setting, it’s only grown in stature, as the Horse soars like a shadow in the sky . . .
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Guitarist, producer, and journeyman Josh Kaufman joins Mike Behrends for a talk about hanging with the best record makers in the business—and recording music for Taylor Swift in his closet . . .
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Choose your own adventure. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.
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Late in 2019, when the world was just starting to hear rumors of a new flu in China, Kurt Wagner of Lambchop had an idea. He was short on material and wanted to bring the band together. Why not make a covers LP?
As November wore on, the song titles drifted in—a couple of Motown tunes, a George Jones classic, an A-side from an obscure garage band, an unreleased tune from James McNew (Yo La Tengo/Dump) and finally, the Wilco song “Reservations . . .
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