An Aquarium Drunkard Guide to Jewelled Antler

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The name Loren Chasse and Glenn Donaldson bestowed on their fledgling CD-R label was intentionally totemic. Jewelled Antler. It sounded like something worshipped, an icon from some long-forgotten religion. The block print logo they emblazoned on their small batch releases all but confirmed it: an illuminated stag horn enshrined upon an altar. It might have been cribbed from ice age wall paintings in the caves of Lascaux. And inside was a music strange and wonderful. Sunkissed jangle-pop and caustic drone, Balkan melodies and lysergic folk songs, deep forest field recordings and lo-fi free improv. It was . . .

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Myriam Gendron :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Myriam Gendron has returned with the double album Ma délire - Songs of love, lost & found, an even more ambitious affair than her lauded debut. In a rare email interview, she discussed the record's genesis with Aquarium Drunkard . . .

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Elevated Rail 5: 2016 Was A Million Years Ago (Pt. 3)

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Mary Lattimore uses her harp to bend space/time in a rock club, easing into a Highly Rare (terrible pun definitely intended) unedited excerpt of the set that spawned Makaya McCraven’s 2017 record of the same name. Marc Ford leads the Neptune Blues Club through a Neil classic, ripping as only he can and dropping us off at Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang’s annual Winter Solstice celebration . . .

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Videodrome :: Jammin’ The Blues (1944)

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Produced underneath the guidance of Verve Records founder, Norman Granz, Jammin’ The Blues was released on May 5th, 1944. Granz’s objective was to showcase the top jazz musicians of the day and shed light on the shifting musicality of the genre, which had begun transitioning away from the populous swing arrangements of big bands in favor of smaller groups experimenting with rhythm & blues and free form improvisations . . .

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Pastor TL Barrett :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Fifty years ago, Pastor Thomas Lee Barrett, better known as T.L., went into The Sound Market Studio in Chicago with his Youth For Christ Choir and recorded a testimony of faith. The result: “Like a Ship … (Without a Sail),”  Barrett’s signature song, and a gospel album of the same name. 

The pastor hasn't spent the past 50 years wandering the wilderness. Barrett continues to record music and minister to his congregation at The Life Center COGIC (Church of . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PDT, Channel 35)

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Outré California. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Alan Licht :: Transmissions

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Today on Transmissions, author, artist, guitarist, and creator Alan Licht. He's the author of Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020, which features insightful conversations with ANOHNI, Tony Conrad, Greg Tate, Yo La Tengo, Kelly Reichardt, Lou Reed, and many more . . .

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Little Feat :: Snakes On Everything

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Released in 1971, Little Feat is a far cry from the studio slick boogie that eventually became the band’s trademark, but it’s also one of the best records Lowell George & co. ever made. Little Feat knew what they were all about from the start, and every tune on the album feels road-worn, frayed, and more than a little delirious. With a pinch of swagger and a sly, stony wink, Lowell George wrote about what he knew best: speedballs and hamburgers, dive bar denizens and cranked-out truckers looking for salvation . . .

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Mouth Painter :: Tropicale Moon

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For their third release, Mouth Painter mold their high-lonesome exotica into a different kind Americana altogether, something more Kosimiche than cosmic. It’s the kind of music that might be playing on the jukebox in some Venusian honky-tonk. While the languid haze of Barry Walker’s pedal steel is certainly a touchstone of Mouth Painer’s sound, it’s complemented perfectly by Jason Willmon’s rhythmic drive, and the warm, proggy breeze of Valerie Osterberg’s flute . . .

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Nancy Sinatra :: Boots

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Fifty-five years after the release of her career-defining debut, Boots, Light in the Attic present the second installment of their Nancy Sinatra Archival Series; a deluxe edition of the record featuring an interview with the singer, unreleased tracks and previously unseen photographs taken during the recording sessions . . .

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José González :: The AD Interview

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It's been six years since the last album of new studio music from José González, but from the sound of his latest, Local Valley, there's clearly been a lot on his mind over that time. The Swedish songwriter's latest is a record that stretches the sound and focus of what has been an impressive body of work dating back to his 2003 solo debut.

We recently caught up with González to discuss learning to be a working musician with kids, expanding the actual language of his songs, putting listeners in the room with him when . . .

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Lee Morgan :: The Complete Live at The Lighthouse

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Seven-and-a-half hours of music in total, The Complete Live At The Lighthouse is an immersive affair, exhaustive in the best way. It gives listeners front-row seats for these razor-sharp gigs, allowing us to revel in Morgan’s boundless (and still developing) creativity . . .

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Bob Dylan :: Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series, Vol.16 (1980-1985)

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Is it possible that the latest in Dylan’s Bootleg Series feels … a little slim? Here’s what we get with Springtime In New York: two discs of rehearsals and outtakes from the tail-end of the so-called “Gospel Era”; two discs of Infidels session outtakes; and one disc with a smattering of live performances and studio alternates from 1984 and 1985. It clocks in at well over four hours, but it isn’t quite the immersive deep dive into this Dylan era that fanatics have been dreaming of for many years . . .

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Autumn Equinox :: Fall 2021 AD Spotify

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Spotify | 20 tracks | mostly 70s. Step inside this house ...

Gene Clark - Tears of Rage ++ Crazy Horse - I Don't Want To Talk About it ++ Sir Douglas Quintet - At The Crossroads (Alternate mix) ++ Karen Dalton - In My Own Dream ++ Matthews' Southern Comfort - Sylvie ++ Goose Creek Symphony - A Satisfied Mind ++ The Band - Whispering Pines ++ Warren Zevon - Steady Rain ++ Ian Matthews - These Days ++ Link Wray . . .

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Badge Epoch :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Before adopting the Badge Époque Ensemble banner and a palette of '70s prog, jazz rock, and funk, Toronto's Maximilian Turnbull recorded art rock under the alias Slim Twig. It's fitting then that he reached for a third designation for Scroll, his new 90 minute audio collage under the Badge Epoch designation. Drawing from nearly a decade of recordings, sessions, snippets, and demos, the album documents Turnbull's restless experimentation, drifting from minimalist tones to crisp beatwork, from jazzy washes to intense musique concrète freak outs . . .

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