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Rei Harakami :: Wide World And Narrow World

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The Hiroshima-born electronic music producer Rei Harakami recorded six albums of long-form, abstract ambience between 1998 and 2011, before passing away suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of forty. He left behind a singular body of work—a submerged sound of delayed, downtempo techno and reverb-laden, leftfield electronic dance music—and even a handful of records with Akiko Yano. Immersed in film and animation as well, Harakami’s creative pursuits proved boundless, as seen via a recent survey of some early homemade recordings, which encapsulate a sojourner of sound at play with the infinite . . .

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Neil Young :: Honey Slides 2024

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Neil Young kept promising us that Archives Vol. 3 was coming in 2023 ... but guess what? It was delayed. That's OK, any Neil fan worth his/her/their salt is accustomed to the waiting game. And anyway, there was plenty to keep us occupied last year in Shakeyland — a return to touring (and subsequent live album); several"officialbootleg" releases; and ongoing shenanigans on the wild/wooly Archives website. This fourth annual Honey Slides mix gathers up some choice rarities that Neil has sprinkled throughout his site, alongside several cuts that have yet to see the official light of day . . .

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Videodrome :: Rollerball (1975)

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Rollerball’s current reevaluation is mainly due to its prophetic look at the future — a future that doesn't seem too far off from where we may be headed, sans roller-skates and leather pants . . .

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Gerycz Powers Rolin :: Activator

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Whether Gerycz Powers Rolin are a band or simply a semi-annual happening, they have already staked a claim to the legacy of the great free rock ensembles of the turn of the millennium: Pelt and Jackie-O Motherfucker—or even their Aussie cousins in the Dirty Three. Three albums in, and they continue to make works that fuse folk forms with new age revery and minimalist heft. Whenever you find yourself down on the United States, just remember they are still making ecstatic music in Ohio . . .

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Omni :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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On their fourth album, Souvenir, Atlanta’s Omni continue to find variations within a spartan approach to Southern U.S. post-punk. Recruiting drummer Chris Yonker (Hello Ocho), guest vocalist Izzy Glaudini (Automatic), and first-time producer Kristofer Sampson (The B-52s, Nashville Pussy), the trio’s hooky, minimalist songs are sharper than ever . . .

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Brian Harnetty :: The Workbench

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Objects and humans in conversations, mystic reflections on the every day. These notion shape Ohio composer Brian Harnetty's The Workbench, a work combining recordings of his late father with music and the sounds of items the elder Harnetty repaired . . .

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First & Last: Japanese Private Press, Vol. 13

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Embrace the dawn of a new year with the thirteenth installment of First & Last, a series of mixes providing a glimpse into the world of Japanese private press, or 自主盤, pronounced “jishuban”, which loosely translates to “independent board . . .

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Floral Portrait :: S/T

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From the cover's weathered look of a vintage postcard to the winding of a music box in the introductory piece, the self-titled debut from Floral Portrait is a rich tapestry of cozy psychedelic pop. The project is a collaboration of Athens, Georgia-based duo Jason Bronson and Jacob Chisenhall, as well as a substantial number of collaborators and session musicians. Recorded over four years at his Athens studio The Glow, producer Jesse Mangum lauds the project as "the most ambitious record I've ever worked on . . .

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Astral Loitering: Excursions In New Age, 1970-1989

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New age was, in many ways, a confluence of developments across genres: prog and krautrock, electronic and space music, ambient and fourth world, modern classical, spacious ECM-style Euro-jazz. All of them were cultivating their own approaches to paradise music. What tips any of these experiments into new age may have been, more than anything else, a vibe—an earnestness about the spiritual potential of the music being made . . .

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

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Télégraphie sans fil. 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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William Eaton :: Music By

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Even now – after some 60 years of concept albums, ambient soundscapes, and post-modern sonic collage – the idea of aural spaces existing in the same realm as their written and visual counterparts comes across as novel.

On William Eaton’s aptly titled Music by William Eaton, listeners are granted the rare opportunity for holistic interpretation. The textured yellow sleeve bears no words other than the album’s title. No song names, no demarcation of tracks, no listed instruments or accompanying musicians. In keeping with this principle, the music is without words. Within these grooves lies Guitar Soli of a New . . .

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The Majazz Project :: Al Fajer (The Dawn) فرقة الفجر الفلسطينية

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Can you hear the urgent call of Palestine? That’s the question the London based Majazz Project is asking. Launched in 2022 by filmmaker and DJ Mo’min Swaitat, the Palestinian label has released compilations of bedouin tapes, field recordings, rare singles, and two proper albums.

The second full length dropped by the Majazz Project is The Dawn by Al Fajer Group. This second album by the Kuwait-based band was completed in 1990, but never released due to the US invasion. Acoustic oud, guitar, and percussion intertwine beneath the Dal’ona-style vocals of Sima Kanaan. Soft as a . . .

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Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band :: Dancing on the Edge

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Ryan Davis is tipping his beer to a world in moral and constitutional decline. Ruminating shortcomings, both inward and out, that seem to have settled into the standard, the Louisville-based journeyman defiantly declares he and his crew “the new vigilantes of the two-drink minimum” on “Free from the Guillotine,” the dryly pugnacious opener to Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band’s Dancing on the Edge, the latest and perhaps greatest notch in the storied songwriter’s belt . . .

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Retep Folo & Dorothy Moskowitz :: Moon

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When we hosted counter cultural hero Dorothy Moskowitz on our Transmissions podcast, she reflected on the influence her pioneering psychedelic group The United States of America had on forward looking artists that followed in their wake, namely Trish Keenan of Broadcast. "I should have told her how wonderful she was," Moskowitz said. "Moon," from Moskowitz's The Afterlife, a recent collaboration with Retep Folo (Peter Olof Fransson of The Owl Report), brings to mind what that imagined exchange with Keenan might have sounded like . . .

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Spencer Zahn :: Statues I & II

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Multi-instrumentalist Spencer Zahn’s latest is a minimalist marvel. Statues I features Zahn alone at the piano, dreaming up a series of Harold Budd-esque reveries. The melodies and playing are meditative and inviting, but not without a certain restlessness that holds your attention. Statues II is one of the best so-called “ambient jazz” recordings of the year, with Spencer adding synths, saxes and woodwinds to the mix. While some of it has a Jon Hassell / Fourth World flavor, it drifts very nicely into its own unique zones. In spite of the title, these pieces are anything but . . .

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