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The Aquarium Drunkard Interview :: Oren Ambarchi

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Experimental guitarist Oren Ambarchi is one of music’s most prolific and inventive collaborators, working with everyone from Keith Rowe and Keiji Haino to Jim O’Rourke and Merzbow in largely improvised sessions, then layering the results into intricate constructed pieces that blur the boundaries between jazz, noise, rock, minimalism, drone and electronics . . .

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Lou Reed :: Transformer | Transformed

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To celebrate a half-century of Transformer, here’s an alternate version of the album, cobbled together from live performances, NYC apartment demos and internet sessions, stretching from the early 1970s to the 21st century. Some of these tunes would become setlist mainstays; others didn’t make it past 1973. The reinventions here are sometimes radical, veering from buoyant glam-funk to shameless Michelob Lite-rock, from austere and solemn readings to goofy garage pop. The one constant? Lou himself, of course. Even as his voice and vibes shift from year to year, Reed’s intense, one-of-a-kind . . .

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Ole Knudsen: Det Handler Om Kærlighed / Karin Liungman: I Denna Magiska Tid

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Founded in New York by Danish video journalist Andreas Vingaard, Frederiksberg Records is responsible for one of our favorite jazz reissues of 2015, Carsten Meinert's 1969 LP, To You. As such, we make a point to check in on the label's doings from time to time. Stylistically varied, yet always consistent in their output and approach, our latest pass yielded a pair of digital only reissues released earlier this summer, Karin Liungman's I Denna Magiska Tid, and Ole Knudsen's Det Handler Om Kærlighed . . .

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Batsumi :: Lishonile

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South African spiritual jazz. Out of print since its initial release, Batsumi's self-titled 1974 LP was unearthed in 2016 via the UK based Matsuli Music. A heady fusion, the album's first track, the eleven and half minute "Lishonile", immediately sets the scene as hypnotic grooves reverberate amid propulsive polyrhythms, flute, sax, jew's harp and vocal chants. Press play, wait for the shaker, and dig the brief respite around the seven minute mark before sliding back into the stew . . .

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Gabriel da Rosa :: Jasmim Parte 1

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“Jasmim Parte 1” is the debut single from Gabriel da Rosa. Raised in rural southern Brazil with a radio DJ father, Gabriel was exposed to all manner of sounds from his native country, but it wasn't until he moved to Los Angeles that he began to truly explore the music, collecting Brazilian records. It was through this exploration that he bonded with Stones Throw Records' founder Peanut Butter Wolf over their shared love of Brazilian music, and began writing his own bossa with collaborator Pedro Dom (Seu Jorge, Rodrigo Amarante and Latin Grammy Award winner Ian Ramil . . .

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Non Plus Temps :: Continuous Hinge

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Fresh post-punk / dub sounds the Oakland-based sextet Non Plus Temps. Drifting in and out of an ESG-inspired groove, “Continuous Hinge”—the first track off the group’s forthcoming debut, Desire Choir—wanders out to unknown terrains where stringent borders slyly make themselves known . . .

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Bandcamping :: Late Summer 2022

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Happy Bandcamp Friday! As we roll into summer’s latter days, beat the heat with a refreshing selection of diverse sounds, ranging from mutant post-jazz to guitar reveries, from blown-out drone to slick sophisto-pop. And a reminder—the platform's waiving its usual fees today, September 2, 2022. Fill up your cart and hit that “Buy Now” button . . .

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Jairus Sharif :: Surfacing

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On “Surfacing,” the first taste from Jairus Sharif’s forthcoming album, Water & Tools, the Calgary-based saxophonist just dares you to catch up. Menacing and droned-out from the jump, Sharif leaps into four-and-a-half indelible minutes of free jazz consumed with ambient electronics, dubbed out atmospherics, and pulsating percussion. Landing somewhere between Sons of Kemet and Fred Madison’s fateful Luna Lounge gig, this thing takes absolutely no prisoners . . .

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Kyle Hamlett Duo :: Tape Diamonds

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Homespun mysticism, where the plainest of elements combine into woozy revelation. Pedal steel, just by its nature, has an otherworldly vibe, but there’s a glow of alternate reality in the guitar picking, too, and a hint of the supernatural in the echo-sheathed vocals . . .

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Psychic Temple :: Plays Planet Caravan

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Black Sabbath's “Planet Caravan” is one of those songs that feels like you can move in like an apartment, rearrange the furniture, and make it your own. Expanding upon his 2016 Eno project, Plays Music For Airports, guitarist Chris Schlarb assembled an improvising ensemble to reconstruct a canonized song and write an original piece for its b-side . . .

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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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Surprise Chef :: Education & Recreation

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On Education & Recreation, the Australian quintet digs into the laidback ethos of breezy coastal funk. Like a 70s surf soundtrack with drum breaks, the twelve pieces assembled for their third record finds Surprise Chef charting the ebb and flow of tidal groove with an added emphasis on the need to get up and move . . .

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Cass McCombs :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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His tenth full-length, Heartmind at times feels like a representation of Cass McCombs’ own wandering mindset. While the album’s eight songs vary in tone and style, they all seem to hold a common thread, whether lyrically or musically. It’s an album that McCombs couldn’t have intended to make precisely, as to direct himself toward it, would’ve been to betray his own ambitions . . .

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Transmissions :: Chris Forsyth

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This week on Transmissions, Chris Forsyth returns to discuss the gleaming power pop and avant-rock of his latest, Evolution Here We Come. Featuring members of Tortoise, Garcia Peoples, the Sun Ra Arkestra, and The Dream Syndicate, it bounds forward with guitar-driven exuberance and sparkle . . .

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Mike Cooper :: Forbidden Delta Planet Blues

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The king of the universal delta returns. In the world of Open music there is no greater force than Mike Cooper. Stepping back from the free-folk jazz that made him an icon in the seventies, Cooper has spent the second half of his career exploring the near infinite routes his National Tri-Cone Resonator can conjure. Forbidden Delta Planet Blues presents yet another exemplary expedition into the labyrinthine pockets of improvised sound that Cooper navigates so well . . .

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