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 with a zen-like cool, backlit […]
Month: June 2018
Transmissions Podcast :: Jim James + Cornelia Murr/Talk Show: Robbie Simon
And we’re back. Welcome to the June edition of the Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions podcast, our monthly series of features, interviews, and audio esoterica. This month, we have two in-depth conversations. Up first, Jim James of My Morning […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (7pm PST, Channel 35)
Get here, now. Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can now be heard every Wednesday at 7pm PST with an encore broadcasts on-demand via the SIRIUS/XM app. SIRIUS 527: Jean-Michel Bernard — […]
Charles Mingus :: Live at Montreux, 1975
These days, when Charles Mingus is remembered, it’s primarily for records like Mingus Ah Um, Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus or The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. All great records, but Mingus kept recording and […]
David Darling :: Cycles
Last year witnessed the opening of the hallowed digital vaults of the ECM label. Long a holdout from digital platforms, the Berlin based ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) was founded in 1969 by Manfred Eicher in […]
Barry Walker Jr :: Diaspora Urkontinent
Given the chance, the sound of any instrument can conjure up the sensation of drifting. But few tools seem as equipped for the job as the pedal steel guitar. On Barry Walker Jr.’s marvelous new […]
Dumb :: Barnyard
Holding down the down-and-dirty post-post-punk line in 2018. More Minutemen than contemporaries, Vancouver’s Dumb aren’t afraid to teeter on the edge of falling apart, or falling into syncopation. The catchiest moments on their new LP, […]
The Lagniappe Sessions :: Michael Rault
Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. On his new album for Daptone Records subsidiary Wick Records, New Day […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (7pm PST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can now be heard every Wednesday at 7pm PST with an encore broadcasts on-demand via the SIRIUS/XM app. SIRIUS 526: Jean-Michel Bernard — Genérique Stéphane ++ […]
Tonight in Los Angeles: Talk Show / Aquarium Drunkard In Conversation With Robbie Simon
Los Angeles: Tonight, June 20th, Aquarium Drunkard presents TALK SHOW, an intimate series of conversations centered around the worlds of music, art, film and beyond. Our second guest in the series is the Los Angeles […]
Gillian Welch :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Few songwriters cut to the core like Gillian Welch. Along with her musical partner David Rawlings, Welch pens songs that feel at once timeless and rooted in the deepest American musical traditions. For the Welch, […]
Kassin :: Relax / Domenico Lancellotti :: Asas
The beat goes on. Alexandre Kassin and Domenico Lancellotti came up in the middle of the last decade as members of the +2s (along with Moreno Veloso, son of Caetano). The trio’s leadership rotated so […]
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Azambuja & Cia :: Baiano & Os Novos Caetanos
As Mychal Denzel Smith recently wrote of Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly, “The worst political music sounds political.” Similarly, the worst comic music sounds comic. All due respect to Weird Al, the exception to every rule of taste and […]
Itsuro Shimoda :: Everybody Anyone (1973)
“Everybody Anyone”, via Itsuro Shimoda’s Love Songs And Lamentations, 1973. After a year of intent listening, framing what I imagined the haunted Japanese lyrical content to be, I did the unimaginable (no, obvious) and Googled it. And up came Youtube with a translation via the comments section. In short, the aural sense of longing/searching was spot on.