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Six Organs of Admittance / William Tyler :: Parallelogram

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For a decade-and-a-half, Cory Rayborn's Three Lobed label has been a reliable trademark of quality when it comes to adventurous underground sounds. From the blown speaker glory of Bardo Pond to the Takoma School stylings of Daniel Bachman, from the amazing Gunn-Truscinski Duo LPs to the stoney grooves of Matt Valentine & Erika Elder ... if it has that Three Lobed insignia emblazoned on it, you know you're in very trusted hands.

To celebrate 15 years in the biz, Rayborn has somehow outdone himself. The Parallelogram series of split LPs brings together some of the leading lights of today's scene: we're talking about (deep breath) Kurt Vile, Steve Gunn, Six Organs of Admittance, William Tyler, Bardo Pond, Yo La Tengo, Thurston Moore/John Maloney, Bill Orcutt/Chris Corsano/Alan Bishop, Hiss Golden Messenger, Michael Chapman ... an embarrassment of riches, to say the least. While it's impossible to pick a favorite, the William Tyler / Six Organs of Admittance disc is a good place to start exploring Parallelogram's angles. We asked Tyler and Six Organs mastermind Ben Chasny to give us the scoop ...

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The City :: Now That Everything’s Been Said

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Following her stint as one of the most successful pop songwriters of the ‘60s but before her emergence as a defining singer/songwriter in the ‘70s, Carole King briefly fronted a folk rock outfit, The City, and issued one album with the group, 1968’s Now That Everything’s Been Said. Long out-of-print and reduced to a something of a footnote in her career, the album sees re-release this week by Light in the Attic.

In the late ‘60s, King’s marriage to . . .

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Benny Joy :: Nowhere

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Rarely does Tampa appear in the annals of early rock history. It was there bluesman Hudson Whittaker, aka Tampa Red, worked up his slide chops before making his career in Chicago, and Ray Charles lived in town for a while, playing with Charlie Brantley’s Honey Dippers and cutting some of his own early sides. But Benny Joy was the Bay Area’s first homegrown rocker. Throughout the late ‘50s, young Joy was the prince of the dancehall circuit in central Florida. He had a raw sound that combined country & western with rhythm & blues -- one that he claimed to have developed before ever hearing Elvis. Plus, he wrote most of his own material: hormonal boppers with titles like “Spin the Bottle” and “Crash the Party.” Accompanied by Big John Taylor’s raunchy electric guitar, Joy’s peninsular gestation begat an uninhibited, youthful style that led to an audition with Sam Phillips and Jack Clement at Sun Records.

Benny Joy :: Nowhere

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SK Kakraba :: Songs of Paapieye

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Awesome Tapes From Africa has been a prolific source for reissued African sounds for a few years now, but the label’s not devoted exclusively to the past. October 2nd sees the release of a brand new album, Songs of Paapieye by SK Kakraba. Currently located in Highland Park in Los Angeles, Kakraba hails from Lobi country in the Upper West Region, Ghana. He plays the gyil, a wooden xylophone suspended over spider-webbed gourds, which resonate and buzz back a deep, rattling sound. Kakraba is singularly devoted to the instrument; when not . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard: A Decade Floating In The Ether / The Shirt

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Time flies. Ten years of genre-bending, freeform interstitial airwave debris - black sand blues, green swamp fuzz, psych, soul, garage, funk, jazz and beyond. 2005-2015.

Decade — Celebrating Ten Years Floating In The Ether

Transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles, this is the t-shirt. Get yours. here.

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K. Leimer :: Savant

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In the Pacific Northwest of the late ‘70s, electronic composer K. Leimer dedicated himself to enveloping, minimal soundscapes, but in the early ‘80s, he launched Savant, an ambitious studio project involving a large cast of players – including Marc Barreca, Op Magazine publisher John Foster, and members of Seattle power pop band the New Flamingos – to explore a new jittery, stitched-together sound featuring elements of post-punk, industrial, progressive rock, and funk. “Some guys I knew, some I didn’t know. [They] seemed to be willing to give some time to it and work in a non-traditional way,” Leimer says, reflecting on the release of Artificial Dance, a newly released collection of music drawing from Savant’s 1983 album The Neo Realist (At Rest), 12” singles, and unreleased tracks.

The compilation is his second archival release for RVNG Intl., following the sublime ambient collection A Period Review: Original Recordings: 1975 — 1983. Leimer has continued making music, running the Palace of Lights imprint, and developing new approaches to art and sound. He discussed the Savant era with Aquarium Drunkard via phone from Hawaii, where he now resides.

Aquarium Drunkard: What inspired you to start working in this unique fashion, bringing in musicians to play and editing those performances together into new things?

K. Leimer: In a way, it was a lot easier. There’s something about sitting in a studio at that time with a click track and a couple of instruments and working your way through things…it can be very tedious and frustrating. The stuff I did for [RVNG Intl. collection] A Period of Review when I was first starting obviously wasn’t interested in rock or any kind of beat [driven] stuff really, but that’s also kind of fun. It’s such a saturated presence in culture, then and now, that it seemed like it would be interesting to take the ideas that I had been exploring on my own and apply them to a different set of circumstances.

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Ought :: Sun Coming Down

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Montreal post-punkers Ought returned last week with Sun Coming Down, their second full length following several eps beginning in 2012. And while shades of Talking Heads, Television, the Fall and the Feelies still abound, here, that potent, frenetic, cabal of influence is even headier. The four piece (once again in cahoots with Constellation Records) use/access the aforementioned influence, yet never devolve into undue pastiche. This is here, this music is now.

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.

SIRIUS 405: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - My War (Black Flag) ++ Pylon - Cool ++ Deerhunter - Snakeskin ++ Deerhunter - Dr. Glass ++ Beach House - Sparks ++ The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms ++ Josef K - 16 Years ++ Fire Engines - Meat Whiplash ++ Ought - Men For Miles ++ The Fall - What You Need ++ The Clash - The Call . . .

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Bob Dylan w/ Robbie Robertson: I Can’t Leave Her Behind

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Rumors were flying all summer about a massive Bootleg Series covering Bob Dylan's unbelievable, earth-shaking 1965-66 period. And hey, the rumors were true. The Cutting Edge (available in 2-, 6- and 18-(!!!) disc versions) draws back the curtain on Dylan's studio sessions for Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde, three of the best albums made by anyone, ever.

I know what you're thinking -- "Do I really need 18 discs of false starts . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Calvin Love

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Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus.

The record is entitled Super Future -- Calvin Love's follow-up to 2012's New Radar. Like Radar -- a record whose focused, slender arrangements were populated by thin guitars, electronic drums . . .

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Miles Davis w/ John Coltrane: “Walkin'” / Cafe Bohemia, 1958

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John Coltrane would've turned 89 today. While it's a fun parlor game to imagine the twists and turns the saxophonist's music might've taken if he'd lived just another decade longer, in the end we're lucky to have had him as long we did -- and that he left behind such a wealth of sounds to explore. WKCR's annual, all-day Coltrane birthday tribute

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Swan Silvertones :: If You Believe Your God Is Dead (Try Mine)

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There’s not much that needs to be said about this Swan Silvertones cut. A far cry from the hall of fame gospel group’s early (and heavenly) A Capella arrangements, “If You Believe Your God Is Dead” delivers the word via three minutes and twelve seconds of raw, electrifying funk. Lord knows I wouldn’t have been crawling under pews and drawing pictures in the bulletin during Sunday service if the Silvertones had . . .

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Bobby Brown :: Hawaii

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Hawaii’s Bobby Brown redefines private press psych-folk, with his floating echo, homegrown instrumentation (pictured above) and atmospheric blend of tropical surf vibes, Indian raga music and new age spaciousness. Brown cut three records, including the “live” album from which this track is culled. As the story goes, the album was performed to an audience of one: Brown’s dog, inside his van. Eccentricities aside, “Hawaii” is an undeniably beautiful peace of music. At once earthy, aquatic and cosmic, it transcends space, time and most definitely genre. It’s weightless and it’s infinite, so go ahead . . .

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Maurice & Mac :: Why Don’t You Try Me

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Maurice McAlister and Green "Mac" McLauren were part of the Chicago-based doo-wop group The Radiants, recording on Chess Records in the 1960s. In the latter half of the decade, they parted ways with that group and headed down to Muscle Shoals, Alabama where they recorded a number of songs at the legendary Fame Studios, including the incendiary 1968 cut “Why Don’t You Try Me,” recently found infusing the soul into our recent Late August Light . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: No Jacket Required — CMJ 2015 — October 16th — Rough Trade, NYC

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AD / NYC. Aquarium Drunkard — CMJ 2015 — No Jacket Required. October 16th at Rough Trade in Brooklyn. Tickets available, here. More details next month. . .

Protomartyr ~ Drinks ~ Omni ~

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