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Jonathan Kirby :: Safe To Disconnect II

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A dedicated crate-digger, Jonathan Kirby co-hosts Dogpatch, one of the greatest music podcasts going, with fellow traveler Dante Carfagna. Kirby’s music occasionally sounds like something the duo might share on Dogpatch — some well-nigh unbelievable slice of homemade sonic alchemy, with warm vintage keys and drum machines, gentle (if not exactly mellow) oscillations and rippling melodies. Fans of the essential Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984 comp — which Carfagna compiled, not-so-coincidentally — will fall in love with the Safe To Disconnect series at first spin . . .

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Andrew Savage :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Andrew Savage joins Aquarium Drunkard to discuss his new record, Several Songs about Fire, moving to Paris, poetry, and touring with Cate Le Bon . . .

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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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Alex Sadnik :: Flight

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One of this year’s best straight-ahead jazz sessions…though maybe most straight-ahead jazz sessions don’t prominently feature pedal steel guitar. Alex Sadnik’s Flight takes on the work of Charlie Parker—every alto saxophonist’s white whale—and manages to make it all sound fresh again . . .

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Knoel Scott (feat Marshall Allen) :: Celestial

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Celestial finds the Sun Ra Arkestra's Knoel Scott and Marshall Allen joined by Arkestra alum Chris Henderson on drums, and Scott collaborators Mikele Montolli and Charlie Stacey on bass and piano, respectively. Recorded live in a sweltering heatwave in the Netherlands in the summer of 2022, in just two days, the results are magical . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions :: Mitch Horowitz

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This week on our weekly podcast, we’re chatting once again with Mitch Horowitz, occult scholar, practitioner, and historian. We’ve had Mitch on a number of times—once a year or so for the last few years. What can we say? We just love listening to the guy riff. His latest is book is Modern Occultism: History, Theory, and Practice. Our talk? Well, it’s all over the place, covering many of the figures who appear in the book, like Jack Parsons, the pioneering father of modern rocketry—who was also a practicing magician, one-time Marxist, and famously . . .

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The Air Music International :: Pass The Santa-Lucia Gate In Manila

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Mid-80s Osaka, mutated, experimental pop. Self-pressed at 100 copies, The Air Music International's 1984 lp, Pass The Santa-Lucia Gate In Manila, is as mysterious as their members, whose credits show up nowhere else save for their only other release, “I’ve Never Had it So Good,” a 7” credited to slightly altered The Air Music International Reggae System. The project is the brainchild of horn-player, vocalist, and sound manipulator Tetsuji Kakuni, whose saxophone, suona, distorted vocals, and tape operation lurk across the record mischievously . . .

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Herbie Hancock :: Ultrasonic Recording Studios, Hempstead, NY , October 1, 1973

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Herbie Hancock’s Head Hunters was released a half-century ago this month — and the funk has never been the same. Oddly enough, there doesn’t seem to be any kind of massive 50th anniversary boxed set celebrating this classic crossover LP. But a compiler looking to expand Head Hunters could certainly consider this well-traveled live broadcast from right around the time the album came out. The grooves are ridiculous, whether Herbie and co. are sliding through a scintillating “Butterfly” or finding electrifying new directions in “Chameleon . . .

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“To Actually Tell A Story, It Feels Very Risky.” An Interview With John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats

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Mountain Goats latest album, Jenny from Thebes, draws on that love of theater, as well as a cast of characters first brought to life two decades ago. It builds a rock opera out of the story of Jenny from All Hail West Texas, continuing her trajectory from safe house proprietor to murderer on the loose. The album is also loosely based on the Greek tragedy Seven from Thebes and sonically overstuffed enough to keep your average Broadway pit orchestra challenged and happy . . .

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Golden Feelings :: Better Weather

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One of the best capital-A Ambient records I’ve heard in a while, Golden Feelings’ Better Weather clocks in at just under a half-hour. But it seems like it contains entire universes in its enveloping soundwaves. Throughout, Dustin Krcatovich mixes and matches an array of loops, field recordings and live instruments, coming up with a vibe that occasionally makes me think of a (much less doomy) spin on Popol Vuh’s Aguirre OST. Luminous and lovely, getting Better all the time . . .

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Van Dyke Parks :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Ahead of planning an upcoming concert at the Getty Museum, Van Dyke Parks caught up with AD from his home in Los Angeles. In addition to his philosophies on arranging and composition, we discuss some of the more understated (yet fascinating) parts of his prolific career: the audio/visual unit he created at Warner Brothers, relationship with Haruomi Hosono, fascination with steel drums and tuneful percussion, the moment he was embraced by psychedelia, and much more . . .

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Lori Vambe :: Space​-​Time Dreamtime

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Do drummers dream of playing stringed umbilical cords? One definitely did, and that’s the Zimbabwe-born, London-raised Lori Vambe. A self-taught drummer, inventor, and sonic experimentalist, Vambe released two private-press albums featuring the hypnotic, trance-inducing playing of the drumgita, an instrument of Vambe’s own creation, conceived in a “dream-vision” where he played an unknown instrument that extended from his own umbilical cord. The works, now reissued for the first time via Strut as the merged Space-Time Dreamtime, share the lost treasures of this dimension-shifting sonic explorer . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: October 15, 2023

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The veil between worlds is practically see through, it’s Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab. This month, Chad DePasquale drops in with New Happy Gathering, with a host of avant-autumn drone & spiritual jazz-soul numbers. Then, Jason P. Woodbury’s Range and Basin, featuring soul, jazz rock, synth epics, and vibes. Then Tyler Wilcox arrives with Doom & Gloom from the Tomb, featuring autumnal ambient sounds—mostly from 2023. And to close, Rob Jones of Be With Records shares Telemix, Vol 1 . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter 26

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Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. In this month’s stack: '60s girl groups, glitching realities and mirror world doubles, poetry from Richard Hell, modern occultism, and the indie rock fashions of the '80s . . .

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Searchlight Moonbeam :: A Compilation

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A self-described “narrative compilation”, if Searchlight Moonbeam was meticulously designed for autumnal listening, it goes beyond reaching that intention. Coming from Australian label Efficient Space (responsible for other excellent compilations like Sky Girl and Ghost Riders), this multi-faceted offering reaches from the archival depths of somber instrumentals, spoken word vignettes, glistening avant-proq, and dusty orchestral transmissions . . .

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