Freeform transmissions from Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on Dublab. Tune in November 15th for our four-hour broadcast from 4-8 PM Pacific, featuring Topical Malady in the first hour, Range and Basin in the second, Doom and Gloom from the Tomb, and to close, One Kind Favor: Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, our collaboration with the Jerry Garcia Family.
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Horse Lords :: The Common Task
Horse Lords have a way of infusing radical ideas with rational approaches. Over four studio albums, the Baltimore quartet has developed a sharp line of inquiry around systems that organize not only music-making but also society, philosophy, and belief. The ensemble gives the folksy appearance of a rock band–bass, drums, guitar, and saxophone–yet they regularly employ dense weaves of polyrhythms and explore mathematically derived tuning systems with modified instruments and electronic processing.
Aquarium Drunkard :: 2019 Year In Review
Once again, our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2019.
Aquarium Drunkard :: Decade / 2010-19
Well, that was fast. Decade is just about over, and as it draws to a close, its highs look awfully high in the rearview. Presented here, an unranked sprawl of 100 records that stuck with us, managing to break through the noise of an increasingly distracting age, and stick around in our heads.
Open Door To The Galaxy: The Radio Plays of Jo Harvey and Terry Allen
With a series of radio plays recorded between 1986-1992, Terry Allen and Jo Harvey presented the mythic Southwest, a wide open imaginary landscape haunted by denizens Allen describes as “climates” rather than characters. A handful of these fated souls are profiled in Pedal Steal + Four Corners, a handsome collection of Terry’s longform audio works by Paradise of Bachelors that spans an LP, CDs, and a book rich in lore and photographic documentation.
Billy Swan :: Don’t Be Cruel (Slow Version)
Billy Swan’s cover of the King’s “Don’t Be Cruel,” the Missouri native takes the fuzzed-out swing of Elvis’ original. Turning it upside through a lounged and syrupy lens. Doubling the song’s length to over four minutes, Swan takes his time with the lovelorn piece – letting the groove guide the way.
Aquarium Drunkard Guide To ECM Records: Second Installment
Welcome to the second installment of the Aquarium Drunkard guide to ECM Records . Marked by an attention to sonic space and a distinct visual aesthetic, since 1969 ECM has released a […]
The Aquarium Drunkard Guide To ECM Records
Founded by Manfred Eicher in Germany in 1969, ECM Records (Editions of Contemporary Music) has spent nearly 50 years assembling one of the strongest catalogs in musical history. Marked by […]
Mamman Sani Abdoulaye :: Kok Kok Kok
A delightful, hypnotic video clip of Saharan keyboardist Mamman Sani Abdoulaye has surfaced via Sahel Sounds’ YouTube Channel. An extract from a 2016 DVD, Sani presides over his double-decker setup […]
Sam Amidon :: The Following Mountain
Sam Amidon possesses the traits of an archetypal American songster: fiddle and banjo mastery, as well as a lifetime spent among his repertoire of deeply rooted folksongs. His interpretations of traditional tunes […]
Transmissions Podcast :: Lonnie Holley
Welcome to Aquarium Drunkard’s recurring Transmissions podcast. Today, we finish our mini-series in collaboration with the folks at Mexican Summer . In March, AD’s Jason P. Woodbury headed out to Marfa Texas to attend Mexican Summer’s […]
Tonstartssbandht :: Sorcerer // Eola :: Dang
Tonstartssbandht , the Orlando-based duo of brothers Andy and Edwin White, return with a new studio lp, Sorcerer, due next month via the ever-evolving Mexican Summer label. Having cultivated a strong […]
Ty Segall :: S/T 2017
Always on a tear, Ty Segall has a new self-titled record out. Segall’s tireless stream of releases means he and his rotating gaggle of shred-heads never linger too long on […]
Cate Le Bon :: Rock Pool
Cass McCombs :: Mangy Love
“Oh, please tell me you academics, how do you wake up from a non-dream?” That impossible question is one of many loosed by Cass McCombs on his latest album, Mangy Love […]
