Frank Maston’s Tulips is a ‘70s film score on a hit of acid, Elmer Bernstein sweating through a bad trip only to arrive at an ecstatic come up. Maston’s brilliance lies in his ability to create […]
Month: December 2017
Hans Chew :: Open Sea
While digging into Open Sea , Hans Chew’s latest/greatest LP, your imagination may conjure up some dream rock combos. Leon Russell hiring Television to be his backing band in ’77? Joe Boyd producing the Allmans? JJ Cale […]
Torres :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
In the process of building her third album under the name Torres, Mackenzie Scott found herself drawn to hypnotic music — music that physically affected the body. Tellingly, traces of kosmische musik run throughout the […]
Catching Up With Ronnie Spector
The Ronettes blasted into the world and the zeitgeist of the 1960s with a thunderclap as mercilessly powerful as the Bum-ba-bum-BOOM that opens their iconic “Be My Baby”. After the thunder, come the castanets — […]
A Reflection: Vince Guaraldi Trio — A Charlie Brown Christmas
There’s loneliness and companionship, joy and despair, truth-seeking and blithe celebration, all during what’s marketed to be the most wonderful time of the year. Your interpretation of the season begets your holiday spirit, whatever version it may be — bah humbug and good tidings. It’s little surprise then that Charlie Brown’s soundtrack, as well as our own, is something just as introspective and shifting. Something like jazz.
The Lagniappe Sessions :: Springtime Carnivore
Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. Greta Morgan is Springtime Carnivore — multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and purveyor of technicolor daydream music. […]
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 502: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ The Superimposers […]