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Someone I Know :: Margo Guryan

Who was Margo Guryan? Words and Music is a definitive attempt at answering that question: a 3-LP box set collecting Guryan’s recorded work–early, jazz-leaning songs, Take a Picture, and the demos released in the early aughts. It traces Guryan’s musical career from precocious jazz composer to successful songwriter, from her conversion into a pop artist in the late '60s to her unlikely career revival beginning in the 1990s and continuing into the TikTok age . . .

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At Ease With Coleman Hawkins (1960)

At Ease With Coleman Hawkins is jazz for way past midnight, when ties are loosened and heels are kicked off; when the twilight glow of last night and tomorrow morning ooze into a hazy, pastel hue of here and now . . .

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Luka Kuplowsky :: How Can I Possibly Sleep When There Is Music

Combining chamber pop, jazz, and folk with Buddhist poetry, Toronto's Luka Kuplowsky has created a contemplative space with his latest album, the beatifically titled How Can I Possibly Sleep When There Is Music . . .

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Bonnie “Prince” Billy :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

Will Oldham has known Daniel Higgs for decades, first in Baltimore in the late 1990s, later putting up the Lungfish auteur whenever he passed through Louisville. So when his friend, musical collaborator and Louisville neighbor Nathan Salsburg suggested covering a Lungfish song that he’d been singing to his infant daughter, it made perfect sense to Oldham . . .

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

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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The Curtains :: Calamity

Though it was released six years prior to Overgrown Path, Chris Cohen has retrospectively called Calamity "essentially his first solo record", featuring minor contributions from consummate collaborator Nedelle Torrisi. Both a mid-aughts indie relic and another of Cohen's signature timeless touch, it shouldn't be difficult for fans of his excellent solo albums to dive into the pool headfirst . . .

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Transmissions :: Julian Lage

Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, our weekly series of illuminating interviews and contextual conversations. This week on the show, guitarist and composer Julian Lage. On his latest album, the Blue Note release Speak To Me, Lage often presents himself as something of a singer/songwriter—minus the singing, that is. Joined by a five-piece band and producer Joe Henry, Lage careens from jittery free jazz to classic West Coast pop, maintaining a careful flow that feels generous but considered, diverse but not haphazard . . .

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Little Wings :: High On The Glade

If Bob Dylan is the great American artist—the single solitary figure whose body of work speaks to the entirety of the American experience, from sea to shining sea—then Kyle Field is the great Californian artist. The music Field makes as Little Wings encompasses the Golden State from tip to tail, the aural equivalent of a days-long crawl along the 101, from Crescent City to Tijuana. High On The Glade, Field’s latest, suggests a certain shade of Malibu, particularly its northern end, far from oceanfront estates and Chautauqua Boulevard traffic jams. Older, wilder, weirder; less Nobu, more . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Sam Moss

In the midst of a northeast tour Sam Moss stopped in to Pale Moon Services in Cambridge, NY for an afternoon where he spent some time meeting, working with, and being guided by studio proprietor Jared Samuel and assistant engineer Victor Pacek. The day culminated in the following four covers, including Townes Van Zandt's anthropomorphizing a window, 1979 Leonard Cohen, a Willie Nelson chestnut, and Jenn Wasner’s Flock of Dimes . . .

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Emahoy’s Parting Gift :: Cyrus Moussavi on Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru’s Souvenirs

Souvenirs shares an otherworldly beauty with the late Ethiopian nun Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru's other words of piano and organ. But the presence of her singing voice—warm, lonesome, and seeking—makes for an intimate and spiritually profound listening experience. Producer Cyrus Moussavi joins us to dive deeper . . .

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Emergency Group at the Milwaukee Psych Fest

The overwhelming theme of the Milwaukee Psych Fest earlier this month was the disappearing line between psychedelic rock and electric jazz. Right at the point intersection sat the ferocious Emergency Group, who meld diamond-cutter funk grooves, jazzy keyboard cascades and electric guitar squall. Thanks to a pristine soundboard from Milwaukee Taper, you can now hear the Brooklyn quartet rip apart the upper midwest . . .

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

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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Shabason, Krgovich, Sage :: Shabason, Krgovich, Sage

Since 2019, Nicholas Krgovich and Joseph Shabason have settled into a groove of serenity. As its title implies, the third entry in pair's loose LP trilogy introduces the mystical touches of sound artist Matthew Sage, who recently released the gorgeous cozy eco-ambient album, Paradise Crick, with RVNG Intl . . .

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Transmissions :: Leyla McCalla

Incoming transmission. On this episode of our weekly podcast, singer/songwriter Leyla McCalla joins us to discuss the new sonic terrain of her latest album, Sun Without The Heat . . .

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King Hannah :: Big Swimmer

King Hannah juxtaposes the cool, poised narratives of singer Hannah Merrick with the guitar storms of her partner Craig Whittle, a volatile mix that can sound like Dry Cleaning in one track, PJ Harvey the next. The duo, out of Liverpool, have one previous album, an EP and a slew of singles to their credit before Big Swimmer, but this album ups the stakes considerably . . .

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