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Bandcamping :: Summer 2024

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We’re back in the thick of another wild summer — political unrest, insanely high temperatures, shark attacks, etc. For some aural AC, dig into a selection of highly recommended recent releases that run the gamut: private press folk from the 1980s to acoustic guitar Kraftwerk to sweet sounds from Senegal . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: July 2024

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Freeform transmissions from Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab. Airing every third Sunday of the month, RFAD on dublab features the pairing of Tyler Wilcox’s Doom and Gloom from the Tomb and Chad DePasquale’s New Happy Gathering. This month features DePasquale’s sweet mix of psychedelic rock, samba, MPB, and highlife, followed by Wilcox's selection of rarities / demos / outtakes / faves by the legendary Linda Thompson. Sunday, 4-6pm PT . . .

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Videodrome :: The Last Party (1993)

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Shot during the contested 1992 presidential election between George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, The Last Party is both an American time capsule and a disheartening case of déjà vu . . .

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Jake Xerxes Fussell :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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The quality of Jake Xerxes Fussell’s output has stayed remarkably consistent over his first five albums, but his confidence in his abilities as an interpreter and the audacity of his song selection continue to grow. The nine songs on his newest, When I’m Called, gather out of the vastness of the past few centuries of sung songs to talk to one another, elaborate on one another, and thread each other through with intertwined meaning . . .

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Herbie Hancock :: Fat Albert Rotunda

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A pivotal transitional piece for Herbie Hancock, there are some crucial factors that have kept Fat Albert Rotunda perpetually under the radar. And while Head Hunters this is not, Fat Albert Rotunda is more of a prophetic, transitional piece in the keyboardist's storied jazz-funk evolution than most realize on the surface. There's no mistaking that these arrangements are decisively more R&B than the electric, synthesizer-laced fusion sounds that would soon follow, making the record a peculiar bridge gap . . .

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Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention :: Whisky A Go Go 1968

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Have you heard from your Mothers lately? Not far into the unmitigated archival audacity of Whisky A Go Go 1968, Frank Zappa pauses to lay out the evening’s agenda: “The purpose of this evening is supposedly to make some recordings of The Mothers live, in person…It’s pretty hard to record what we do because it gets so loud and ugly.” Originally conceived as the basis of their first live album, Whisky A Go Go 1968 presents nearly three hours of unreleased recordings of the classic Mothers lineup offering a bizarre sonic smorgasbord to a hungry throng of . . .

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

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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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Anne Phillips :: Born To Be Blue (1959)

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Released in 1959, Anne Phillips' debut album takes listeners on a journey through the melancholic twilights of a bygone New York City, one that you can only find in bar-stool memories of young love and innocence lost. If there ever was an album for the wee small hours of the morning, it's Phillips’ Born To Be Blue . . .

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Transmissions :: Chris Cohen

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In this wide-ranging chat, guest host Zara Hedderman and Chris Cohen discuss Paint a Room, working record stores, Transcendental Meditation, the Grateful Dead, and much more. It’s an open and tender conversation, full of funny moments and deep insight . . .

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Color Green :: Fool’s Parade

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Rusty, dusty, good ‘n’ trusty, Color Green are back at it with Fool’s Parade, their second long-player which furthers the band’s evolution from songwriting/studio project to full-fledged rock’n’roll road dogs . . .

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Danny Paul Grody :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Coming relatively hot on the heels of last year’s Arc Of Day, Danny Paul Grody’s latest LP picks up right where he left off. Arc Of Night (credited to the Danny Paul Grody Duo, thanks to drummer Rich Douthit’s invaluable contributions) sees the Bay Area-based guitarist heading into more nocturnal zones over the course of seven transformative instrumentals. Aquarium Drunkard hopped on Zoom with Danny to get shed a little light on this Night . . .

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Cassandra Jenkins :: My Light, My Destroyer

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This is a larger, more polished piece of work than Overview, with cleaner, more enveloping production and one or two blow-out rock songs. Yet, as is her custom, Jenkins slips thoughtful social commentary into even the most hedonistic tracks . . .

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Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra :: Le Musichien

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French jazz pianist François Tusques formed the Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra in 1971 in search of something new. With 1983’s Le Musichien, he's created a spiritual jazz document that emits an urgent sense of peace . . .

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Lijadu Sisters :: Horizon Unlimited

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Numero Group has just announced a high fidelity release of the Lijadu Sisters' beloved 1979 album Horizon Unlimited, This is the first in a multi-year series of records (including unreleased material!) in a campaign to bring the pioneers of Nigerian afro-pop to a wider audience, a project that the label calls "equal parts reissue and reparation . . .

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Lower East Side Art Lab :: Inside The Pyramid Cocktail Lounge with Matthew Shipp 

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Imagine a young and unknown future free jazz icon, cutting a rug on a crowded, carefree dance floor in a rundown part of the Lower East Side next to a hedonistic crew of marauding drag queens, experimental theater pioneers, hardcore punks, old Ukrainian neighborhood patriarchs, painters, poets, and other East Village outcasts and weirdos. Matthew Shipp joins us to discuss the legendary Pyramid Cocktail Lounge, its kaleidoscopic clientele, and the anarchic freedom of early '80s NYC . . .

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