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Chu Kosaka :: Arigato

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Chu Kosaka’s Arigato is wide-open pastoral bliss. The natural extension of Happy End with a bit more of a singer-songwriter orientation, Kosaka pieces together what could be the finest example of American country rock through the lens of a Japanese perfectionism. Don’t let that fool you. The tunes are loose . . .

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Adele Sebastian :: Desert Fairy Princess

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The lone album from Adele Sebastian, a member of Horace Tapscott’s Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra who died way to young, Desert Fairy Princess looks back at the fundamentals of spiritual jazz even as it blazes its own path. Sebastian, a flutist and occasional singer, cedes the spotlight to other composers and her band on her debut as a leader, showcasing her belief in community, conversation and group interplay. The result is a small masterpiece of open-hearted introspection and playful challenge, a declaration of faith and a question left unanswered. Like Tapscott’s Ark, it carries a message . . .

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Office Culture :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Inspired by a dream in which he produced a CD called Enough, the latest from Office Culture signals a shift in songwriter/producer Winston Cook-Wilson's whip smart songcraft: employing a wide cast of collaborators, including guest appearances by Alena Spanger, Sam Sodomsky's The Bird Calls, and Jackie West, he turns his attention to rhythms, textures, and mood, creating mini-movies with each of the album's 16 songs. From clanking, layered polyrhythms, to melodious fretless bass, to pensive piano ballads, it's a dynamic listen that feels as personal as it does ambitious . . .

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Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)

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The late 1970s were a good time for Joni Mitchell’s music. The latest volume of the Joni Mitchell Archives series focuses on this period through demos, outtakes, and live recordings. It’s not a complete picture, but it’s one that helps explain how a folk singer from the Canadian prairies came to work with jazz heavyweights and write lyrics for a Charles Mingus standard . . .

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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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Styrofoam Winos :: Real Time

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Styrofoam Winos—the Nashville-based trio of Lou Turner, Trevor Nikrant, and Joe Kenkel—follow up their 2021 self-titled debut with Real Time, an endearing and invigorating collection of shaggy southern rock and dusty, woolen folk. With a lo-fi, ambling ease, they cruise through road-weary choogles; swampy, faded funkers; harmonica swept confessionals; and meditative, noodling jaunts through the passage of time . . .

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Thine Retail Simps :: Strike Gold, Strike Back, Strike Out

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While the future is uncertain, the present is most decidedly not. In Strike Gold, Strike Back, Strike Out Thine Retail Simps have made one of the weirdest, most discontinuous, jokiest rock and roll records of the year—and one of the best . . .

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Transmissions :: Frosty and Hermanos Gutiérrez

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This week on the show, we're joined by three guests—though, not all at once. In the first half of the show: Mark “Frosty” McNeill of dublab and the LA Phil to discuss a new compilation he helped produce, Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971​-​1996; in the second-half of the show, Estevan and Alejandro Gutierrez, better known as Hermanos Gutiérrez just us to discuss their latest album of spacey guitar instrumentals, Sonido Cosmico . . .

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Sun Araw :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Sun Araw's Cameron Stallones doesn't stick to one mode. Since 2007, he's exercised extreme artistic freedom, creating tapestries of experimental pop, zoned-out soundscapes, MIDI-symphonies, and dub-inflected synthscapes. On his 10th album, Lifetime, he spent years manipulating his bandmates' contributions digitally, blending improv and post-production, resulting in a florid space of clapping drums, guitar scrawls, and oozy synths, all aided by sunny, yacht rock ready melodies. He joins us to discuss the record, as well as his collaborations with legends like Laraaji and The Congos . . .

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Oscar Peterson :: Romance (1954)

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Our 'Midnite Jazz' series continues with an often overlooked release from Oscar Peterson's mid-fifties output. Romance features the decorated jazz pianist stepping in front of the microphone for his vocal debut, softly crooning his way through standards and ballads with pure class and cozy intimacy . . .

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Christopher Owens :: I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair

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It’s been long enough. There’s no need to play coy, no sense in waiting any longer than we already have. I’ll state it plainly here at the top: this is the album we’ve been waiting for Christopher Owens to make for over a decade. I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair is an extraordinary, wholly unexpected achievement, as bold and beautiful and great as any one of the immortal Girls records.

It may, in fact, be better . . .

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Videodrome :: In Conversation with Sara Gran on The Legacy (1978)

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For a special "Halloween edition" of the VIDEODROME column, we sat down with author and screenwriter Sara Gran to discuss The Legacy (1978). It's a rollicking conversation about the film's impact on Gran's life and work, satanic cabals, psychoanalysis, and much more . . .

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Osees :: SORCS 80

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No guitars! For his 28th album at the helm of the Osees, John Dwyer and a crew of art punk instigators switch to synths, samplers, drum machines and two saxophones. That’s a radical change, but it makes surprisingly little difference. If you know the Osees at all, you’ll recognize the sound immediately . . .

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Cass McCombs :: Seed Cake On Leap Year

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For an artist who ordinarily focuses on what’s next, Cass McCombs has been doing quite a lot of rummaging through the vaults lately. This collection of early, unreleased material comes out at the same time as the backwards looking 2000​-​2004 Demos, Live and Radio, which is to say the very beginning of McCombs emergence as an artist . . .

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Anaïs Mitchell :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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There seems to be something downright mystical about everything Anaïs Mitchell does. With Bonny Light Horseman's Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free, a double album and their third release to date, blends conversational songwriting and a cast of characters culled from our collective mythology to expand upon their already rich brand of storytelling and music-making. Anaïs joined us via Zoom from her family farm in Vermont . . .

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