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Linda Thompson :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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On her new album, Linda Thompson doesn't sing. But her ever-vibrant personality is on full display on the aptly named Proxy Music. Joined by vocalists like Rufus and Martha Wainwright, John Grant, Eliza Carthy and Dori Freeman, the record captures the melancholic spirit of her classic albums with Richard–who shows up here, too . . .

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Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd :: The Moon and the Melodies

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First released in 1986, the collaborative record of dream pop deities Cocteau Twins and minimalist giant Harold Budd is still among the most interesting crossbreeds between so-called pop and so-called art music. By the time of its release, The Moon and the Melodies‘ mix of cerebral drone experimentation and crystalline emotional delivery was at least on par with those at the frontier of pop’s absorption of the avant-garde: John Cale, Laurie Anderson, Arthur Russell, and the like . . .

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Master Planners: Interpretations of Pharoah Sanders’s Magnum Opus

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Pharoah Sanders and Leon Thomas's thirty-minute magnum opus, 'The Creator Has a Master Plan' is arguably the paradigmatic work of spiritual jazz, setting the template of deep groove, free blowing and global rhythms that has long characterized the form. But it has also become, improbably enough, something of a standard, covered dozens upon dozens of times--both within the bounds of jazz and beyond them. We scoured a half century of covers and rounded up a handful of our absolute favorite incarnations . . .

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

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Selects from the AD mid-year review. 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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Videodrome :: Stop Making Sense (1984)

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Stop Making Sense is unabashedly effervescent, like a jolt of straight dopamine. For being a concert film about a famous band at the height of their success, there's nothing about Stop Making Sense that's trying to be cool or sexy, flashy or pedantic — it's just trying to have a good time . . .

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Transmissions :: Joe Pernice

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Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. This week on the show, Joe Pernice of The Pernice Brothers, Scud Mountain Boys, and Chappaquiddick Skyline—as well as books, records, and other projects under his own name. The Bros are back with Who Will You Believe. Pernice joins us to discuss . . .

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Alejandro Escovedo :: On Echo Dancing and His Counterculture Roots

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On paper, journeyman songwriter Alejandro Escovedo's latest album Echo Dancing is a career-spanning look back at his song catalog. In actuality, the record is something more radical—a reimagining that embraces scuzzy electronics, minimalist electric blues, and dubby vocal effects. He joins us to discuss it, dig into his counterculture roots, and share which member of the Velvet Underground "scared the shit" out of him . . .

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Shackleton and Six Organs of Admittance :: Jinxed By Being

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Opposites attract in this unexpected collaboration between dubstep pioneer Sam Shackleton and out-folk innovator Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance. Yet the oddity itself is very beautiful. Shackleton’s music has never sounded so warm and present. Chasny’s work has never seemed visionary and forward looking. They meet somehow in a middle that no one foresaw, and it is a strange and lovely place . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard :: 2024 Mid-Year Review

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Time flies. As we're halfway through 2024, enter our first-ever midyear review to accompany our annual favorites list. As always, our list is unranked and unruly—not "complete" but featuring more than enough to get you started. Let it blurb . . .

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Rich Ruth :: Water Still Flows

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Like his previous album, the COVID-era 2022 masterpiece I Survived, It's Over, Nashville multi-instrumentalist Rich Ruth's new album Water Still Flows is absolutely audacious in its musical fusions and amalgamations. This one is a woozy kaleidoscope of spiritual jazz, post-rock, chiming minimalism, Berlin school synth sequencers, metal and drone. It is entirely possible that it shouldn't work, but somehow it does . . .

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Suzanne Ciani :: Buchla Concert At Galeria Bonino New York, April 1974

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With this recording of Suzanne Ciani's 1974 live Buchla concert at Galeria Bonino in New York, Finders Keepers adds a new touchstone to the obscure history of modular synth music (and to the crucial part female artists have played in it). It also throws light into the deep connection between experimental sound design and the new age music that Ciani later represented, a connection that is not at all restricted to Pauline Oliveros or, later, Laraaji and Eno. In this release, the complex drones of electric sequencers form soft, shapeless tapestries with an almost religious ease . . .

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Blue Eyed Soul :: You Ain’t No Weight

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Originating as a lounge duo in Brooklyn, organist and arranger Norman Marcelle and vocalist Lynn Marshall recruited Lynn’s sister Deedee on drums to lay down You Ain't No Weight in 1980, calling themselves Blue Eyed Soul and casting a lo-fi blaze of private-press, left-of-center soul, gospel, and r&b. While reissued digitally in 2019 via Numero Group’s From the Stacks series, much more detail about the album or group appears scant, its relative quiet existence belying its odd and awesome singularity . . .

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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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Zachary Cale :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Like most of us during the dog days of the pandemic, Brooklyn singer-songwriter Zachary Cale found himself adrift, searching for inspiration in thoroughly weird times. He found it in a Red Hook art studio, where a piano sat, mostly unused. Cale’s primary instrument is the guitar — you can hear his expert playing all over his previous records. Composing on piano wasn’t his usual mode. But during those long nights in Red Hook, songs started to come . . .

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Transmissions :: Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music)

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This week on Transmissions, guitarist Phil Manzanera, who joins us to discuss his latest project, a memoir called Revolución to Roxy. Writing about his childhood in revolutionary Cuba, his lifelong fascination with music, and his collaborations and run-ins with people like Brian Eno, David Gilmour, Robert Wyatt, and more, Manzera reveals his Zelig-like status as one of art-rock’s most creatively pivotal figures. He joins us to discuss it all . . .

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