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Amon Düül: A Young Person’s Guide 005

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Based on sheer musicality, Wolf City could be the strongest record Amon Düül would ever make. The ensemble’s second record of 1972, released just a couple months after its predecessor, removes theatrics, limits improvisation, and its blistering riffs shake the very foundations of psychedelia. Things get quaking in wavering slink. The entire world begins to reverberate around the serpentine exchange of acoustic and electric guitar interplay. A false chorus ushers in a fiddle led freak-out and synthesizers begin to malfunction before heading into a lull . . .

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Transmissions :: Will Sheff (Okkervil River)

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Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, so glad to have you here once again. Our guest this week is Will Sheff, known for his solo work and years with the indie rock band Okkervil River. In this conversation, Sheff and host Jason P. Woodbury cover a wide stretch, examining how the indie rock landscape has changed and evolved over decades, exploring the spiritual core at the heart of his music, and hearing stories about his interactions with luminaries like Roky Erickson and Jason Molina . . .

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The Tony Williams Lifetime :: Emergency!

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Before the Mahavishnu Orchestra lit the inner mounting flame, before Chick Corea returned to forever, even before Miles Davis ran the voodoo into the great electric beyond, The Tony Williams Lifetime was melting minds and faces with their incendiary double-album debut, Emergency . . .

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Amancio D’Silva :: Konkan Dance

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Amancio D’Silva, a Bombay-born, UK-based jazz guitarist and composer, cut his teeth playing with fellow musicians from the English jazz scene, releasing two albums of his own in the late sixties—Integration and Hum Dono with saxophonist Joe Harriott—leading up to his visionary Dream Sequence album, released in 1972 under the collaborative moniker Cosmic Eye. Imagined as an unofficial sequel to that album, though something tighter and more controlled . . .

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Ruth Garbus :: Alive People

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Ruth Garbus finds the extraordinary in the most mundane objects, the noise of traffic, the feel of a rubber ball in the hand, the comfort of two small squares of dark chocolate and one or two vials of red wine. These quiet songs, sublimely introspective yet recorded with friends in front of a live audience, have a still, luminous power . . .

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No Way Out :: Leaving the Nest

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In this week’s episode, we hear stories of Sunburned Hand of the Man’s earliest jamming and meet more members of the band. We learn that, after jamming namelessly for a year and a half, the band finally started using the Sunburned moniker. Then we tune in to learn about their earliest excursions playing outside the Charlestown loft, including their first show as Sunburned as part of an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. We hear how the interplay between these new locations and contexts provoked new modes of performance and artistic connections . . .

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Lance Bangs on The Elephant 6 Recording Co.

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In 2019, director Chad Stockfleth released a lo-fi, VHS-only documentary A Future History Of: The Elephant 6 Recording Co. Following that limited rollout, documentarian Lange Bangs—whose footage was used extensively in the film—came onboard with the folks behind 2020's Other Music doc, producer Rob Hatch-Miller and editor/producer Greg King, to streamline and expand the documentary. The resulting film, now titled The Elephant 6 Recording Co., sees official release on today. Bangs joins us to reflect on the Elephant 6 scene . . .

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Videodrome :: In Conversation with Kim Morgan on Play It As It Lays (1972)

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For the latest installment of the VIDEODROME column, we sat down with writer and screenwriter, Kim Morgan, to discuss Frank Perry’s Play It As It Lays (1972), Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins, and driving in Los Angeles . . .

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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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Peter Sprague :: Bird Raga

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Summer is the time for fusion. No, not the heady thought-provoking churning jazz skirmishes with psychedelia of Herbie Hancock’s early Headhunters or Miles’ brooding early 70s offerings. This calls for truly catchy grooves, more funk than conventional jazz, and beats per minute that soar as high as the mercury. Jaco-era Weather Report fits the bill, as does the seemingly cocaine-fueled filth funk summoned anytime Miroslav Vitous picks up the electric bass. And lest we forget the odysseys of the craft’s perfectionists--Casiopea.

On Bird Raga, guitarist Peter Sprague dives right into this mode . . .

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Transmissions :: Laura Snapes

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Today's guest is writer Laura Snapes. Her work has been published by the BBC, Pitchfork, and NME, and she's the deputy music editor of The Guardian. We’ve been aiming to have her for Transmissions for some time now, and now we're so glad we’ve got this episode to share with you listeners, covering the psycho-geology of songs, the climate, varied definitions of the term “Americana,” and her recent listening: Julie Byrne, Be Your Own Pet, Róisín Murphy, and Jesse Lanza. Plus, the occult roots of Aphex Twin and what it means to . . .

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Diversions :: Vacant Lots

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With its blasted out drums, scuzzy guitars, and sleek synths, Interiors, the fifth album from Brooklyn synth punk duo The Vacant Lots, cruises into a chrome-plated retro-future. He joins us to discuss Iggy and the Stooges, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Suicide, and other formative influences . . .

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Cotton Jones Basket Ride :: The River Strumming (15th anniversary Reissue)

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15 years ago in 2008, singer and songwriter Michael Nau released his band's debut as Cotton Jones Basket Ride, The River Strumming. Only 300 copies were pressed that immediately sold out, making it an obscure, rare record. Suicide Squeeze has recently reissued the record. This is an atmospheric album that is ready for rediscovery, a southern gothic summer night trip . . .

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No Way Out: Loveletter to Complicated Dreams

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This week, we hear about the origins of Sunburned Hand of the Man. Here’s an amazing and extremely early glimpse of Sunburned playing live in late 1997. You can see many of the musicians described in this episode! You can check out Shit Spangled Banner’s Ass Run release here, and this is the Discogs entry for the “other” version. Click through the images to see the accompanying note from Byron Coley. Also, here’s Byron’s piece remembering Marc Orleans published in The Wire. And this is an album by Marc Orleans’s band Juneau. We were wondering . . .

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Sonic Youth :: Live in Brooklyn 2011

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As artists, we all hope to go out on our shields. Live in Brooklyn 2011 is an infallible testament to the unrivaled power of Sonic Youth’s three-decade career, one that saw countless peers and proteges come and go . . .

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