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An oddity on just about every front, 1995's Doopee Time is a fictional universe crafted by Japanese composer and steelpan drum maestro Yann Tomita. From the depths of Tomita's Audio Science Laboratory, the narrative-based concept album (featuring vocals and spoken vignettes by Buffalo Daughter's Yumiko Ohno) straddles a retro-futuristic line of sparkling art pop originals and innovative, genre-bending covers from the likes of The Ronettes to Pet Sounds closer "Caroline, No". Touching on that Spector production, musique concrète, cosmic jazz and a healthy dose of John Cage composition, Yann Tomita's conceptual vision . . .
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With the latest Bandcamp Friday hitting on Feb. 6, the time is right to melt the ice of winter 2026 with some fresh and far out sounds. Discover some recent/recommended tunes below.
Shintaro Noguchi & The Roadhouse Band. Nailah Hunter & Alia. Zander Raymond. Hans Chew, Old Saw. Jessica Williams. Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington. The Far Sound. Malombo. Joe Harvey-Whyte & Paul Cousins . . .
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On a four-track double album, Austrian saxophonist Muriel Grossmann pays tribute to the music of two American visionaries: McCoy Tyner and Bob Weir. Though the music of the jazz pianist and Grateful Dead guitarist would not seem to have much in common, Grossmann’s festive, idiosyncratic renditions suggest some intriguing links. With an ear for robust melody and an open-ended approach, Grossmann has created a moving tribute that suggests the only true way to carry on is to transform . . .
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Released just before Christmas by London’s Death is Not the End label, Have You Heard About the World Coming to an End? is a most welcome compilation of gospel choirs and harmony groups recorded between the late 1920s and mid 1950s. It’s marvelous stuff—raw and scruffy and spirited and cool . . .
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While consistency was always a calling card for legendary New Zealand band The Clean, their final record Mister Pop deserves a spot in the pantheon of all-time excellent swan song records. While never feeling a departure from the band's signature guitar pop sound, the record plays out like a swirling homage to the titan influences of the past: from the pure jangly nod to Rubber Soul and Ray Davies playbook to Velvets guitar drones and a pure krautrock experiment. On the eve of a recently announced definitive book on the band and following the tragic passing of the . . .
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Adam Bhala Lough has made films about capricious characters. See his 2008 film The Upsetter: The Life & Music of “Lee” Scratch Perry, or his 2009 film about Lil Wayne, The Carter, or his 2023 HBO series Telemarketers, about the underbelly of the telemarketing industry. But his new film, Deepfaking Sam Altman, is his most experimental and unusual project yet. Aquarium Drunkard caught up with Bhala Lough to discuss the movie, AI's potential and drawbacks, and why at the end of the day, we replace our humanity with efficient machinery at our own peril . . .
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We are heading to Missoula, MT next month. Excited to announce that Aquarium Drunkard has curated the music portion of the 2026 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival happening between February 13-22. Seven music docs, new and vintage. Justin will be on site first weekend.
Featuring: Sun Ra: Do the Impossible. Speed Racer: Welcome to the World of Vic Chesnutt. Little Feat: The Documentary. Summer Tour. Chet Baker: Let's Get Lost. Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together. Benjamin Smoke . . .
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After a decade under Van Gelder’s roof, Donald Byrd decamps for sun-kissed LA to record Ethiopian Knights, an album that rests comfortably in the improvisational sweet spot where Mwandishi and Peter Green’s End of the Game converge; acknowledging the gravitational pull of early 70s jazz funk but reveling in the turf that lies at its edge . . .
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Vila, the new symphonic samba jazz album by prolific Brazilian guitarist Fabiano do Nascimento, feels like both his most intimate and his most grandiose, as he tries to keep the idyllic minimalism of his style of acoustic guitar while striving for the expressive radiance of 1960s noir film scores. Nascimento, now a fixture of the Los Angeles jazz scene, wanted the record to pay tribute to the street he grew up in Rio, an enclosed alleyway in the old neighborhood of Catete . . .
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The recently reissued Oracle, a collaboration between bassist Gary Peacock and recently deceased guitarist Ralph Towner gives us a look at two legends in deep midcareer. Originally released in 1995, it shows two restless musicians, each with their own highly developed, distinct musical language, looking to mix things up. Though more
Peacock-forward, its seamless mix of carefully spontaneous playing and freewheeling composition serves as a fitting farewell to Towner, and reminds us that the great ones never stop evolving, long after their so-called “classic” eras have ended . . .
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From the mysterious expanses of southern California’s Inland Empire emerges … The Disassociation! This new group is a powerful joining of forces, an impressive melding of minds, bringing together long-running lo-fi indie pioneers Refrigerator (a band that today continues to be underrated, even by the cognoscenti), Amy Maloof of Falcon Eddy, artist/musician/DJ Sam Sousa, and the brilliant author Jonathan Lethem . . .
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Winged Wheel’s third LP, Desert So Green, shows off this imaginative and evolving approach with terrific results. Though certain elements remain in place, the dream team sextet (Whitney Johnson, Cory Plump, Matthew J. Rolin, Steve Shelley, Lonnie Slack and Fred Thomas) seem intent on not making the same record twice . . .
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This third album from the ambient folk-blues supergroup Pullman explores the connection between memory and physical frailty, finding musical communion amid loss. It’s a quiet, emotionally charged gift, letting long-time member and early onset Alzheimers sufferer Tim Barnes make the most of his limited remaining time on earth . . .
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