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Nico Georis :: Cloud Suites

“Get your head out of the clouds.” It’s an idiom often associated with parents, teachers, authority figures, or any sort of ‘straight folk.’ Ascribe to the mundanity of life, the endless rat race, the wheel of productivity. On Cloud Suites, California pianist and experimental composer Nico Georis offers a gentle rebuke of this sentiment with a dizzying array of stratospheric keyboard arrangements . . .

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Graves :: Gary Owens: I Have Some Thoughts

Now taking on the mysterious role of "Gary Owens" (the young lap steel guitar player on the LP cover), Graves is the moniker of veteran indie singer-songwriter Greg Olin. While spending many years collaborating with fellow Northern California outsider musicians like Lee Baggett and Little Wings, Graves has very quietly released a steady stream of solo material dating back to the early aughts; the music's subdued folk touch accurately described as "a calmness that can't be faked" the last cycle around . . .

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Transmissions :: The Modern Folk

Writing about The Modern Folk’s Modern Folk One in our AD 2022 Year in Review, we called it, “A blend of field recordings, astral zones, freak outs, leisurely jams, and rustique concrète from the ever-prolific Josh Moss.” That gives you a little sense of the kind of music Moss creates with his ultra-prolific recording project. Head over to his Bandcamp and you'll find dozens and dozens of releases . . .

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Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders :: Spacious Minds

Freak lifer Jeffrey Alexander recently dropped Spacious Minds, a five track "EP" featuring a thirty six minute "Dark Star". Plug in and space your face . . .

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Rogê :: Curyman

Cinematic samba-funk tinged with warm psychedelia and plenty of saudade, Curyman is a beacon of modern Brasiliana and an instant summer session staple. While Rogê would be easily at home alongside contemporaries like Sessa and Tim Bernardes on our Atençao! comp from last year, there’s a lush charm to Curyman that harkens back to the golden era of 70s MPB . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Sam Blasucci

If you've followed AD for a minute you're likely aware of Sam Blasucci's role as one half of the Los Angeles based Mapache. Whereas that project hones in on the sunny sonic alchemy of LA's coast and canyons, Blasucci's recent solo material works a slightly different thread, influenced both by his move from guitar to piano, and time spent in New Orleans over the pandemic. On heels of his debut long-player, Off My Stars, Blasucci's Lagniappe Session digs into the work of Mexico's Marco Antonio Solís Sosa, an old standard made . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter 24

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: a pictorial guide to the Steely Dan extended universe, conversations with the musicians who've backed up Bob Dylan, John Higgs alternative history of the 20th century, On Minimalism, and a road map to the shadow worlds of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska . . .

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Sessão de Verão 3: Porta – The Old Man

Before the São Paulo bar and performance space Porta ever opened its doors to the public, Paula Rebellato, the co-owner, had a dream one night that she was visited by an old man. It was during the height of the pandemic and she was at a crossroads in her career, but in her dream an old man looked around the bar with approval, laughed, then exclaimed “Yeah, it’s going to be psychedelic . . .

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Grateful Dead :: Dick’s Picks Volume One

In celebration of its 30th anniversary, Volume One was recently reissued as a 4-LP set via Real Gone Music. For vinyl pundits this is notable as it marks the first time the set's contents have been remastered for the format via the original analog tapes . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: June 18, 2023

It’s time for Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard. This month, resident DJ Chad DePasquale opens up with New Happy Gathering, an hour of psychedelic sunshine pop, gauzy summer folk, and experimental outsider blues. Next, Jason Woodbury’s Range and Basin offers private press synth hymns, fried jammers, and future soul. Then, Doom and Gloom from the Tomb with Tyler Wilcox with sunbaked solar summer jazz from the '60s and '70s. And to close Aquarium Drunkard animator Mark Neeley presents Patchwork Radiant, an hour of music spanning jazz, symphony pop, mellow heat and more. Airs on dublab, Sunday, June 18, from . . .

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Elysian Spring :: Glass Flowers

Here is a driving, soul-jazz tour de force from a mysterious Northampton, MA quartet circa 1969. The original rarity limited to five hundred copies, the repress comes courtesy of Paris-based reissue label Le Très Jazz Club, whose catalogue includes sought after Japanese jazz releases from the likes of Kosuke Mine and Masaru Imada Trio +2's essential Green Caterpillar . . .

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

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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Legion Of Mary :: Oriental Theatre | Milwaukee, WI, 1975 WZMF

Summer approaches and we're once again under the spell of Legion of Mary, the short-lived bay area live outfit that was home to players Jerry Garcia, Merle Saunders, John Kahn, Martin Fierro and Ron Tutt. Performing around 60 shows between July 1974 to July 1975, the band's spirited performance at Milwaukee's Oriental Theatre in April of '75 is one of their best in circulation, and one that, thus far, has yet to see an official release . . .

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Bush Tetras :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

We recently caught up with both Cynthia Sley and Pat Place, in the first smoky days of summer, about Bush Tetras history and evolution, the new album and the legacy they’d like to leave. Said Place, “Girls come up to us after shows, and say that changed my life. We feel like, okay, wow, this is all worthwhile then . . .

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Transmissions :: Bruce Licher (Independent Project)

Bruce Licher of Independent Project Press and Records joins host Jason P. Woodbury to discuss his album art creations, his time in the Mojave Desert, the Southwestern dream-pop scene of the ‘90s, his letterpress origins, his work with R.E.M. and much more . . .

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