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Hugo Largo :: Drum

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Two bass guitars, a violin and the ethereal vox of Mimi Goese. Released in 1988,on Brian Eno’s label, Opal Records, and produced by Michael Stipe, Drum succeeds in sounding out of time. Autumnal, haunted, and more akin to incantation than album, its nine tracks exist on a plane of twilight ambience. Restraint and minimalism as aesthetic . . .

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산울림 [Sanullim] :: 가지마 [Don’t Go]

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Removed from the psychedelic rock and baroque pop that helped Sanullim take Korea by storm in the late 70s, “Don’t Go" is all astral-funk and disco spunk.

Landing somewhere between the Stones’ “Emotional Rescue” and the Buckaroo Banzai theme song, it’s an intergalactic boogie serving dance floors and rocket ships alike . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter 18

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Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. This month: false prophets, monsters of various mental planes, and bad trips. Reports from the frontlines of the late 1960s jazz avant-garde. The ritual zen of fly fishing. A slice of alternate history, and one cursed bunny . . .

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Videodrome :: Tokyo Drifter (1966)

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Tokyo Drifter is undoubtedly a pop film, and like the greatest pop songs, its limitations birthed its originality. Despite a muddled script adapted from pop-song lyrics, a meager budget, and a draconian studio system, Suzuki managed to outmaneuver his dire circumstances, producing a film that was even more glossy and fashionable than if he had twice or triple the budget and time. It's pure spectacle for the sake of spectacle, an idiom of sixties pop culture that - like any great pop chorus - invites you to sing along with it . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab :: August 2022

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard is floating in through the window every third Sunday on dublab. It’s late summer and we’re swimming in it. Up first on our four-hour broadcast, Chad DePasquale’s New Happy Gathering, with torrid August tides of psychedelic rock, post-punk & DIY pop. Then, Jason P. Woodbury takes over with Range and Basin, dropping synth minimalism alongside sophisti-pop and spiritual epics. Then, Tyler Wilcox pops in Doom and Gloom from the Tomb, offering a selection of sweet new sounds from 2022. To close, Jarrod Annis with Ephemeral Frequencies, a hazy hour of dubbed . . .

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While We Wait: A Conversation With Kevin Morby

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On the heels of his latest and seventh long-player, This Is A Photograph, we caught up with Kevin Morby to discuss Memphis, Butterflies, and his appreciation for someone who died 25 years ago. Hallelujah! Hallelujah . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Eli Winter

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For his debut Lagniappe Session, Eli Winter applies his solo guitar to a set of songs by Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell, Maria BC, Judee Sill, and Karen Dalton . . .

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

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Outré California. 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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The Aquarium Drunkard Interview :: OSEES’ John Dwyer

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For his most recent OSEES album, A Foul Form, John Dwyer shifts again, this time revisiting the punk and hardcore that shaped his Rhode Island adolescence. And since he’s looking back, it seemed like a good time for us to look back, too, in an interview that spans the Dwyer career so far, from Providence skate punk to SF garage rock to Castle Face honcho to free improv experimenter . . .

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Transmissions :: Panda Bear and Sonic Boom

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Built on loops culled from doo wop, psychedelic pop, and early rock & roll records, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom's new album Reset is an exuberant and oracular listen. In this all-new episode of our weekly interview podcast Transmissions, Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) and Peter Kember (Sonic Boom) sit down with host Jason P. Woodbury to discuss their collaborative partnership, the influence of far out futurist Buckminster Fuller, memory and musical optimism . . .

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Nico Georis :: A Rainbow In Curved Air

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Terry Riley’s “A Rainbow In Curved Air” is a piece of music that, in certain registers, has the lasting power of a proverb. Released on David Behrman’s Music Of Our Time series through CBS, it’s a supple composition which defines just as easily defies minimalism, an open work that extrapolates jazz, improvisation, raga, tape manipulation, and classical motifs. Nico Georis, an FM synthesis aficionado and head of his own experimental radio station, approaches Riley’s mythical work with a fluid and unintimidated approach . . .

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Amon Düül: A Young Person’s Guide 001

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At three in the afternoon on Thursday, September 28, Amon Düül II took the stage of the Aula der Pädagogischen Hochschule. Freshly split from the ‘nonmusical’ portion of their Munich commune, the eight-piece ensemble intended to make waves, not as a leftist collective, but as a strict musical unit . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: of Montreal (Second Session)

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Last month saw the release of Of Montreal’s 18th long-player, the seven track Freewave Lucifer fck, and with it the perennial project’s second set of covers for AD, this time paying tribute to a pair of British iconoclasts and longtime influences. First up is Barnes’ rendering of Syd Barret’s “Dark Globe, off The Madcap Laughs, the singer-songwriter’s 1970 debut following his departure from Pink Floyd. Up next, the majesty of Marc Bolan circa ’71, courtesy of an acoustic take on “Cosmic Dancer”, via T. Rex’s Electric Warrior . . .

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Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears :: S/T

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Going from country to cosmic in the blink of an eye, the debut long-player from Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears will put a smile on your face and a spring in your step—guaranteed. The Nashville-based guitarist has established himself as a valued sideman over the years (you’ve heard him with Erin Rae, Eve Maret and Spencer Cullum as well as with the late/lamented Promised Land Sound), thanks to his tasty/tasteful six-string mastery . . .

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Eddie Chacon :: Holy Hell

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Electronic soul singer Eddie Chacon returns with "Holy Hell," and a new label in Stones Throw Records. In a new Sissy Chacon-directed video, Eddie and producer John Carroll Kirby go cruising in a message scrawled 1986 Lincoln Mach 7, cooing a message of redemption like Curtis Mayfield over G-Funk fusion synths and reeds . . .

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