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Jeff Parker :: Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy

Jeff Parker has had quite a year, but he may have saved the best for last. Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy, released by Eremite Records last month, offers up four sidelong pieces recorded live in Los Angeles over the past few years. Here, we get to eavesdrop on Parker, bassist Anna Buttterss, drummer Jay Bellerose and saxophonist Josh Johnson in full freedom flight. It’s an uncommonly intimate live recording — the players seem to be extremely at ease in this small club setting . . .

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Horse Lords :: Comradely Objects

Horse Lords’ previous record The Common Task appeared on March 13, 2020. Two days later, the whole world began to close. The erstwhile Baltimore quartet (three of the members now live in Germany) returned this month to a world changed, but certainly not changed enough. The radical music on Comradely Objects speaks directly to our historical predicament: Horse Lords erect seemingly stable musical systems which they force to undergo transformation in spite of themselves . . .

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Robyn Hitchcock :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

“My songs are my true autobiography—it’s all in there, if you know where to look.” If that’s the case, the latest chapter in Robyn Hitchcock’s story is the brand-new SHUFFLEMANIA!, the songwriter’s first full-length LP since 2017. Released on his own Tiny Ghost Records label, it’s a star-studded affair, with guest appearances from Emma Swift, Kimberley Rew, Johnny Marr, Brendan Benson, Pat Sansone, Eric Slick, Sean Ono Lennon, Morris Windsor and more, all adding their skills to a very strong collection of new Hitchcock tunes. To get the scoop, Aquarium Drunkard . . .

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Kraus :: Fire! Water! Air! Kraus!

Fire! Water! Air! Kraus! is the Auckland outsider musician's 19th album, and of the nine we've heard, the most fully realized rhythmically and melodically. Here, Kraus mostly abandons the guitar and emphasizes electronics, tipping his hat toward Mort Garson's occult Moog classic (as Ataraxia), The Unexplained . . .

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Pneumatic Tubes :: A Letter from TreeTops

Released by Ghost Box, known for library music and esoterica-informed releases by Broadcast, The Focus Group, and more, Pneumatic Tubes' A Letter From TreeTops finds Mercury Rev and Midlake contributor Jesse Chandler pulling together strands of impressionistic Vince Guaraldi jazz, public information film soundtrack zones built on reeds, flutes and synths, and hazy cosmic Americana . . .

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Ferkat Al Ard :: Oghneya

Oghneya is one of the most interesting recent additions to the impressive catalog of Habibi Funk, a label that aims to circulate Arab funk and soul records from the 1960-80s to a global audience. Originally released in 1978 by the Issam Hajali-lead Lebanese trio Ferkat Al Ard, the record maintains the modes and melismas so associated with Arabic music while entertaining cinematic orchestral arrangements within a pop psych-folk compositional framework . . .

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Bandcamping :: Autumn 2022

With a welcome chill in the air and a fresh Bandcamp Friday hitting on November 4, it’s time for one more 2022 edition of AD’s Bandcamping, filled with recent & recommended sounds. Fill up that cart and find some new favorites . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Scott Hirsch

Scott Hirsch dons a number of hats: singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer. Based in Ojai, CA, where he mans Echo Magic studios, the multi-hyphenate artist joins us for his second Lagniappe rodeo following up his 2019 session. While that installment found Hirsch reconfiguring the likes of Dire Straits, Dylan and Commander Cody, the following focuses solely on the sonic wizardry of one space cowboy, Steve Miller . . .

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Little Mazarn & Lou Turner :: In Conversation

Lindsey Verrill of Little Mazarn and Lou Turner connect to discuss their new records, Dairy Queen, and creating "enough wiggle room for the slipper to fit someone else who might want to be the protagonist . . .

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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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John Zorn :: The Gift

The genre known as exotica stands just next door to a number of considerably better respected musical forms. Speed up that reverbed guitar and you’ve got surf. Slow it down and you’re in the spaghetti western territory of Ennio Morricone. With a good deal more distortion and chops, you’ll be at spitting distance from acid rock. With a fleshed out jazz instrumentation and an expanded improvisational element and you’re not too far from the early Sun Ra. Perhaps this is what drew the American avant-garde saxophonist, composer and impresario John Zorn to it . . .

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Transmissions :: Sam Cohen

On Slow Fawn, Sam Cohen, a producer, songwriter, and musician known for his work with Apollo Sunshine, Yellowbirds, Kevin Morby, Danger Mouse and Karen O, creates a glowing, meditative space. Inspired by Terry Riley and drawing from long jam sessions with his collaborators, it reflects Sam's desire to "create a world without friction, where you could float and feel joy . . .

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Gold Dust :: The Late Great Gold Dust

Gold Dust spins out gossamer trails of folk rock, a whipped cream daydream of cosmic cowboy reveries that may remind you of the Beachwood Sparks or Garcia Peoples, depending how hard Stephen Pierce happens to be knocking it out just then. A veteran of the Western Mass musical universe, these are wistful, effervescent clouds of misty sunshine, pierced at times by Beatles-psych twang (not a sitar, but maybe wishes it were) and grounded, often, by surprisingly heavy, dirge-y thwacks on the fours . . .

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FX :: Things Are Not What They Seem

We’re digging the America Dream Reserve compilation, recently released via the Santa-Cruz based reissue label and archival project, Smiling C. Compiled by record collector Charles Bas, it comprises sixteen tracks of private press, home-recorded American country, folk, soul, lounge, disco, and beyond, all dripping with drum machine, synths, and lonesome bedroom pop vestiges. FX’s “Things Are Not What They Seem” has been a particularly choice cut of late . . .

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John Cale :: Rond Point, Marseilles, France, April 12, 1975

The mighty John Cale has re-emerged — he's touring Europe as we speak and has a new LP coming out early next year (You can check out the Weyes Blood-assisted "Story of Blood" now). In the meantime, let's go back to the mid-1970s when John was just getting going as a touring act. He’d obviously played live plenty before, but following the release of 1975's Slow Dazzle, he really leaned into being a traveling musician . . .

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