Proving to be a restless sonic chameleon, Adeline Hotel (the moniker of multi-instrumentalist Dan Knishkowy) never makes the same record twice. Inspired by the likes of Jim O’Rourke’s transmuting discography, Adeline Hotel’s recent records range from fingerpicking guitar, jazz-tinged atmospheric compositions, and orchestral art pop. With nods to the likes of Gillian Welch and John Martyn, his latest, Whodunnit, is a kaleidoscopic autumnal tapestry that brings Knishkowy’s precise lyrical talents to the forefront.
Category: The AD Interview
Catching Up With Sarah Davachi :: 10 Years of Drone
Sarah Davachi builds on the past. Renaissance harmonies, the ghosts of Bach, and The Head As Form’d In The Crier’s Choir, the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. To mark the occasion, she guides us through her back catalog, detailing 10 years of drone.
Josh Johnson :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Saxophonist Josh Johnson’s name pops up in a wealth of interesting places: he’s collaborated with everyone from Meshell Ndegeocello to stadium rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers. He joins us to discuss his jazz fusion epic, Unusual Object and other musical adventures.
Ginger Root :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Ahead of forthcoming record SHINBANGUMI, Ginger Root joins us to discuss the musical and visual world building that went into the endeavor. Drawing on new horizons as well as the pastiche of eighties City Pop and vintage soul, we explore a deep dive into the musician and filmmaker’s meticulously crafted cinematic world. Plus, recording drums in a dusty karaoke bar and the importance of Glen Campbell covers.
Peter Rowan (Old and In The Way) :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Peter Rowan’s brand of bluegrass has always been hard to pin down. He’s always been near the genre but always pushing the form forward, past the forefathers of the genre and into something new. In 1973, he moved out West, returning to his roots of straight bluegrass. Working with Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, John Kahn, and Vassar Clements, they created a short-lived but widely celebrated outlet: Old and In The Way. He joins us to discuss.
Dummy :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
What if Dummy made an electronic album with rock instruments? What exactly would that sound like? The result is Free Energy, a driving blast of dance floor physicality. We caught up with all four members of the band to discuss this sonic transformation and what’s next. Said, guitarist Joe Trainor, “We tapped into some things that I feel like we’re just scratching the surface of, in terms of what we could do in the future.”
Pat Metheny :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Pat Metheny continues to innovate. At the same time, having just turned 70, his work has become more reflective, looking back at absent friends, bygone mentors and old songs, and considering how they shaped — and continue to shape — him. Entering the sixth decade of his career Metheny continues to make boundary-blind music that, though clearly in touch with a wealth of traditions both orthodox and esoteric, is unmistakably his own.
Richard Metzger :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
“Changing reality is a group sport.” Richard Metzger has been documenting the counterculture for decades with projects like Disinformation and the beloved blog Dangerous Minds. Now, he’s launched Magick Show—a survey of modern occultists. He joins us to discuss online media, counterculture, and art and explain how “magick” is a part of it all.
Billy Talbot :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Way back in the 1990s, Neil Young started mentioning Early Daze, a collection of previously unreleased studio recordings he made with Crazy Horse in the late 1960s. As with most everything in Shakeyland, it was a long time coming … but this summer Early Daze finally emerged. Worth the wait? Oh yeah.
For further insight, we went to one of the guys who was there for it all — bassist Billy Talbot.
Anthony Pirog :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Always fearless in his pursuit of sonic fusion, the wizardry of Anthony Pirog continues to invade new melodic landscapes. Hard noise. Ambient. Jazz. Punk. Experimental noise funk. He joins us to discuss collaborations with members of Fugazi, Nels Cline, James Brandon Lewis, Jerry Gilgore, and more.
West of Roan :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
West of Roan is a duo of Annie Schermer and Channing Showalter, two visual and performing artists, who share a love of old folk and myth, close harmonies, shifting drone and puppets. Though grounded in old, ancestral traditions—Celtic and Norse mythology, unadorned singing and the plangent tones of fiddle—the pair have resolutely avoided folk purism. “We’re pretty careful about performing traditional music,” Showalter explains.“ We think it through and we think about what we want to say about the song that we’re singing that’s not ours, and if we don’t feel like we really have much to say about it, we don’t always choose to sing it.”
Ethan Iverson :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Ethan Iverson is a rare bird, a jazz musician who’s just as adept at writing about the form as he is playing it. As a member of The Bad Plus, the recorded a series of adventurous albums with the trio between 2001 and 2016, incorporating covers of artists like Radiohead, Aphex Twin, and Pink Floyd along the way. In 2017, he departed The Bad Plus, turning his focus to albums like his new Blue Note outing, Technically Acceptable.
Thurston Moore & Eva Moore From The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University :: A Conversation
On the occasion of his 66th birthday, Thurston Moore and his wife and creative partner Eva Moore drop in from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University to discuss collaboration and that time Henry Rollins grew out his hair.
Jake Xerxes Fussell :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
The quality of Jake Xerxes Fussell’s output has stayed remarkably consistent over his first five albums, but his confidence in his abilities as an interpreter and the audacity of his song selection continue to grow. The nine songs on his newest, When I’m Called, gather out of the vastness of the past few centuries of sung songs to talk to one another, elaborate on one another, and thread each other through with intertwined meaning.
Danny Paul Grody :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Coming relatively hot on the heels of last year’s Arc Of Day, Danny Paul Grody’s latest LP picks up right where he left off. Arc Of Night (credited to the Danny Paul Grody Duo, thanks to drummer Rich Douthit’s invaluable contributions) sees the Bay Area-based guitarist heading into more nocturnal zones over the course of seven transformative instrumentals. Aquarium Drunkard hopped on Zoom with Danny to get shed a little light on this Night.