Name checking Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane, The Circling Sun is collective murderer's row of New Zealand jazz luminaries crafting modal/spiritual jazz. Spirits, released later this month via Soundway Records, is their debut . . .
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Thiago França may just be the busiest musician in Brazil. His typical performance and recording schedule is often filled up 6-7 days a week, sometimes with more than one performance a day. That’s in addition to his recording schedule, which has borne a small mountain of albums and appearances. Even with a shallow dive into contemporary music from Brazil you’re likely to encounter his name in album credits. He . . .
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Get lost in this, the self-contained world of the London based jazz outfit Ill Considered. Formed in 2017 by Emre Ramazanoglu and Idris Rahman, the project began as an experiment in improvisation utilizing drums, bass, saxophone and percussion. Now boasting over a dozen releases, for a taste, dig into the group's 2018 full-length, Ill Considered 3. While no longer a strictly improvised excursion, the sentiment most definitely remains over the course of the LP's eight tracks, culminating in a heady 35 minute brew . . .
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Fresh off the release of the live album rock out Secret Stratosphere, William Tyler joins us to discuss his full band vision, discuss the last decade or so in film, and detail his fears about AI and the digital landscape . . .
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The new album from Brian Christinzo, known professionally as BC Camplight, begins with a joke and ends with a wordless two-minute outro track, “The Mourning." This is the kind of emotionally discordant record Christinzo has given us with The Last Rotation Of Earth, one where gallows humor sits next to genuine vulnerability and devastation . . .
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Fresh off the road from showcasing his calculated brand of Celtic Soul, Van returned to the studio in 1984 to record his most overlooked work of his 1980’s oeuvre. From the opening licks of “Tore Down a la Rimbaud” we’re greeted with familiarity: a tight groove, a muted edge, and Van drawing inspiration from his literary heroes. The studio craftsmanship of Morrison’s prior works of the decade remains, and he runs a tight ship keeping the layers of arrangements and backing singers right on time . . .
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Erin Rae returns to AD with her third Lagniappe Session, this time as a duo with Taylor Zachry. A callback of sorts to her initial session from 2019, this installment once again finds the Nashville based singer-songwriter paying tribute to the enduring work of the late Gene Clark, covering "Out On The Side" and "Polly" - both tunes via Clark's own late sixties collaboration with banjo player Doug Dillard . . .
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Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.
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With the remarkable On The Whole Universe In All Directions, Elkhorn continues its constant state of growth and mutation. Built on a solid foundation of drums, vibraphone, and booming 12-string guitar, it charts a path from American primitive folk-isms toward galactic, psychedelic cosmic vistas. The duo's first Lagniappe Session offered a grab bag of interpretations of songs by the Dead, Sonic Youth, and Robbie Basho, but this one devotes itself fully to just one, epic-length composition: a cover of David Crosby's "Guinnevere," as played by Miles Davis . . .
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This week on Transmissions, Jesse Sheppard and Drew Gardner, the psychedelic folk duo Elkhorn. Their new album, On the Universe In All Directions, finds Jesse once again at his familiar 12-string acoustic guitar, but instead of Drew joining with his trademark Telecaster, he’s moved over to vibraphone and drums for this outing. From Buddhism to John Fahey, from time slips to Aquarium Drunkard itself, this conversation unfolds and wanders, we hope you enjoy it . . .
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Gardner picks up his guitar again for the amiably shaggy Flowers in Space, an album of four low-key liquid jams that all stretch out around the ten-minute mark. Recorded at the same 2019 Black Dirt sessions featured on Gardner’s excellent 2021 self-titled solo cassette, Flowers in Space further demonstrates the guitarist’s virtual telepathy with bassist Andy Cush (of Garcia Peoples) and drummer Ryan Jewell (of pretty much everything). It was unexpected treat to get another slab of sympathetic magic from what amounts to a veritable dad psych supergroup . . .
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Breathe deep the sonorous vapor that riseth from Green Ark, the latest from everyone’s favorite wooly, woodland wielders of the vibe eternal, MV & EE. After a brief (and prolific) detour with Wet Tuna, Green Ark synthesizes the last two decades of MV & EE’s various guises and iterations into a singular philosophy of sound, launching them on a new course to the far flung reaches of their Spectrasound universe . . .
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Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan's SQÜRL has been around for 14 years, but Silver Haze marks the duo's long-player debut. They join us to discuss working with producer Randall Dunn, guests Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anika, and Marc Ribot, and the influence of poet John Ashbery . . .
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Via Asheville, NC, the pensive piano jazz stylings of Steve Okonski. File under nocturne. Released earlier this year, Magnolia's atmospheric impetus initially stemmed from a late night session in the winter of 2020 followed up by a second week of sessions the following summer. All improvised and recorded live to a Tascam 388, the trio's (pianist Okonski, double bassist Michael Isvara Montgomery and drummer Aaron Frazer) interplay feels both intuitive and effortless . . .
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Released last year, Healing Potpourri’s Paradise came across like an introspective deep dive, drawing upon all that inspired the band’s orchestral brew of infectious chamber pop. The recording project of Bay Area multi-instrumentalist Simi Sohota and collaborators, the group’s inaugural Lagniappe Session dives head first into these avant-pop sensibilities . . .
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