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Sarah Martin of Belle and Sebastian :: Transmissions

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Welcome back to Transmissions, today on the show we’re joined by Sarah Martin of Glasgow's Belle and Sebastian. The legendary Scottish indie band has a new album out now on Matador, A Bit Of Previous. Martin joined host Jason P. Woodbury to discuss the new record, the band’s history, that infamous scene in High Fidelity, the Belle and Sebastian cruise and much more . . .

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Velly Joonas :: Stopp, Seisku Aeg!

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An enigmatic figure in Estonian music, Velly Joonas is a diverse and prolific audiovisual artist who has worked within many mediums, including painting, poetry, and a surprisingly diverse set of musical genres. “Stopp, Seisku Aeg!” was recorded as a demo for the amateur band Vstretša to support a performance permit application as an example of what they would play. Joonas suggested covering “I See Red!” by Anni-Frid Lyngstad of ABBA, rewriting the lyrics herself in Estonian for Vstretša’s version. The result is a funky, soulful jam, blending synths, strings, and Joonas’s ethereal voice into a . . .

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Alice Coltrane :: Yogaville 1993

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Beautiful Alice Coltrane artifacts keep popping up, whether in official guise (last year’s Turiya Sings collection) or unofficial bootleg situations (the astonishing Berkeley 1972 double LP). Somewhere in between is this recently unearthed video of Coltrane performing at the Yogaville complex in Buckingham, Virginia, in the 1990s . . .

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Lyle Lovett :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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It's been a decade since the last time Lyle Lovett released a new album, and 12th of June works as both an introduction as much as it does to catch up on the ten years passed. "I wanted this to be a proper introduction to me and the Large Band if people haven't heard us, or just something that feels familiar to people that do . . .

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The Staples Jr. Singers :: When Do We Get Paid

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Luaka Bop continues to do the lord’s work: following last month’s release of Pastor Champion’s fervent gospel, they're now reissuing the ultra-rare 1975 record, When Do We Get Paid, by teenage family gospel band the Staple Jr. Singers, who traveled the Delta and the Bible Belt, and pressed their own copies of their sole record to be sold and shows and on their front lawn . . .

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Bob Dylan :: Pretty Good Stuff | Ep. 15 – Live Time Out Of Mind

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Dylan’s Time Out of Mind turns 25 this year. Produced by Daniel Lanois, the album won three Grammy Awards and provided a new batch of songs—meditations on love and loss—that Dylan almost immediately began to work into his Neverending Tour setlists. This episode of Pretty Good Stuff explores those live versions of the songs from Time Out of Mind, with performances stretching from a week after the album’s release to the edge of the pandemic, when Dylan temporarily paused his relentless touring schedule. Rediscover how Dylan turned the studio masterpiece into a killer batch of road . . .

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Sagittaire :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Lovely Music chronicles the early days of Ivan Mairesse’s Sagittaire project, pulling from material written between 2015 and 2017 in San Francisco, where Mairesse recorded the album before moving back to his hometown of Los Angeles. Mairesse takes an introspective approach to songwriting on Lovely Music, juxtaposing dark lyrics with lush pop arrangements, Fripp & Eno-esque guitar tones, and a tender vocal delivery . . .

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Spiritualized :: Everything Was Beautiful

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A bit more than 30 years ago, Jason Pierce shook off the end of Spacemen 3 in a sweeping, cosmic re-imagination of the Troggs “Anyway That You Want Me". Now three decades on, he’s still blowing fragile melodies into sweeping orchestral climaxes, finding a spiritual resonance in maximalist, elaborately arranged pop. Everything Was Beautiful is Pierce’s ninth album as Spiritualized, coming four years after the solitary of And Nothing Hurt and, perhaps more relevantly, in the immediate wake of Fat Possum’s reissue of the first four Spiritualized albums. It's a glorious summation of the Spiritualized . . .

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Pinky Ann Rihal :: The Short-Lived History of South Asian New Wave

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A one-off Hindi-language New Wave project released in 1985, London-based Pinky Ann Rihal’s Tere Liye is a one of those anomalies that is almost too good to be true. Distorted guitars, emphatic synths and electronic drums create a layered backdrop for the dreamy Hindi lyrics of vocalists Pinky, Anne and Harry . . .

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Goodtime John & Bonnie Prince Billy :: New Life

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For the last 20+ years, Irish singer/songwriter J. Cowhie has released music under his own name and the Goodtime John banner. Now he's back with the mighty Will Oldham aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy in the cut with him. On the recently released "New Life," Cowie applies AOR textures to his minimal form, conjuring up a grand but sparse sense of atmosphere that wouldn't feel out of place on a late-era Pink Floyd recording . . .

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Wamono Groove: Shakuhachi & Koto Jazz Funk ’76

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Released earlier this year via the Paris based 180g, the label's Wamono Groove: Shakuhachi & Koto Jazz Funk ’76 compilation does not let up. From ultra-clean drum breaks (there are a lot of them), to its West LA Fadeaway-esque approach to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" on Kiyoshi Yamaya & Kifu Mitsuhashi's "Sōma Nagareyama", the sets mesh of occidental groove with eastern textures is seamless . . .

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Ian Carr :: Belladonna

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Of all the UK acts to tinker with the temperamental alchemy of jazz-rock in the early 70s, none slapped harder Ian Carr and Nucleus. Despite all the aesthetic trappings of an acid-folk gem on the cover, Belladonna lives in the venn between by Miles Davis’ dark, post-Bitches Brew fusion and the heady prog jamming of Soft Machine and Islands-era King Crimson . . .

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Richard Thompson :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Music From Grizzly Man, is full of similarly stunning moments. The music Richard Thompson and his collaborators conjured up was the perfect accompaniment to Werner Herzog’s documentary about the ill-fated environmentalist Timothy Treadwell. But — like Neil Young’s Dead Man or Bruce Langhorne’s Hired Hand — it stands up just fine on its own . . .

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Xisco Rojo :: Oumuamua/Hellmouth

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Two from Madrid-based guitarist and experimental composer Xisco Rojo: "Oumuamua," a potent drone ode to that mysterious interstellar object that appeared back in 2017, and the apocalyptic "Hellmouth," a heavy metal ambient hymn where bliss blends with terror . . .

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

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Everybody Likes Something Good. 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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