It’s a little late to propose Boz Metzdorf for any year-end lists, maybe 38 years too late, but Metzdorf’s Signs of Seasons feels primed to be remembered-for-the-first-time. The LP has been burning an ever-deepening earhole […]
Month: December 2017
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. The annual AD holiday show. To download Christmas Jambree :: […]
Aquarium Drunkard :: 2017 Year In Review
Here it is. Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2017. Let it blurb
Alexander :: S/T / dbh :: Mass
Two highly recommended, late breaking 2017 guitar masterworks … First up is Alexander’s self-titled/self-released LP – the work of New Haven’s David Shapiro (a name heads may recognize from contributions to such bands as Headroom and Nagual). Performing […]
Los Blue Angels :: Noche Salvajes
¡î“rale! Los Blue Angels step up with the horn-happy cover of Seî±or Morrison. Via the U.S. imprint of Mexico’s oldest record company, Peerless, the ever-evolving grupo tackled the Irishman’s greatest-hit within weeks of its original […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 504: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Loudon Wainwright […]
Robert Stillman :: Portals
Watch out for those late in the year surprises. Eclectic composer Robert Stillman sneaks in just under the 2017 wire with Portals, a new lp of Fender Rhodes improvisations. Recorded at his home in Kent […]
Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree: Vol I & II (A Vintage Holiday Mixtape)
Ah yes, go ahead and inhale the fecund ether of the season. Lit Up Like A Christmas celebrates the, er, other side of seasonal tidings – holiday esoterica from the far corners of vintage jazz, twang, fuzz, scuzz, r&b, blues, country, garage, lounge and beyond. And by beyond, we mean Sun Ra doing a Christmas song.
The First Edition :: Tulsa Turnaround
Speaking of 1971 , the funky shit Kenny Rogers and The First Edition were laying down in the early 70s continues to maintain a special place in my crate — especially this one. Yup, that’s Mickey Jones […]
Joey Gregorash :: Down By The River / North Country Funk
Check it out, it’s 1971. Joey Gregorash , a Manitoban, cuts his lp North Country Funk and pays tribute to fellow Canadian Neil Young via this snowblind cover of “Down By The River”. Also, I kinda want […]
Christmas Jambree :: A Vintage Jamaican Yuletide Mixtape
Yuletide in Jamaica glides in each December on what the locals call the Christmas Breeze, a slightly crisper air that tends to waft through the island this time of year. The other seasonal harbinger is […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 503: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Circuit des […]
Zazou / Bikaye / Cy1 :: Noir et Blanc
It’s 1983. A chance encounter between Congolese musician Bony Bikaye, Algerian-born French composer / producer Hector Zazou & electronic duo Cy 1, resulted in this visionary (and until recently, rare) future-seeking treasure, Noir Et Blanc . An expression […]
Pauline Anna Strom :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
There is an ever-slight hint of a Southern accent in Pauline Anna Strom’s voice, a remnant of the place she left behind forty or so years ago when she moved to the Bay Area with her serviceman husband, […]
Tom Waits: Weird Tales From A Cracked Jukebox (Documentary)
Once described by Elton John as “the Jackson Pollock of song,” Tom Waits is an inherently American artist. Over the past four decades, Waits’ eccentric boho brew of junkyard scat, jazz, gutter blues, tin-pan alley […]