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Laura Marling :: The Aquarium Drunkard Session

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The Aquarium Drunkard Session: Previewing five songs from her just released lp, Short Movie, Laura Marling cut the following session for us last December in Los Angeles. The set airs Friday on the SIRIUS show -- first taste for AD readers, below.

Laura Marling :: False Hope (Aquarium Drunkard Session)
Laura Marling :: How Can I

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Michael Angelo :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Michael Angelo’s self-titled 1977 LP is an earnest fusion of post-Beatles psychedelia and “out there” lyrical incantations, but reflecting on its 2015 re-release by Anthology Recordings, the Kansas City songwriter would like to clear up one popular misconception: “To this day, people hear the album and they say, ‘Were you doing LSD?’ And no, I didn’t do LSD. I don’t do any of that stuff. No really -- I was absolutely straight on that record. A couple of beers and that was it,” Angelo says with a chuckle . . .

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)

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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 381: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Oliver - Off On A Trek ++ Linda Perhacs - Paper Mountain Man ++ David Wiffen - Never Make A Dollar That Way ++ David Crosby - I’d Swear There Was Somebody There ++ Neil Young - The Old Laughing Lady ++ Ellen McIlwaine - Can't Find My Way Home ++ John Martyn - Solid . . .

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John Renbourn :: 1944 – 2015

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We lost a great musician this week -- English guitarist John Renbourn.

Whether duetting with Bert Jansch, creating a masterful folk-jazz hybrid with Pentangle, or playing all on his own, Renbourn was the epitome of taste, style and subtlety throughout his long career.Like his brother-in-arms . . .

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Dennis Taylor :: Dayspring

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The Minnesota-based Grass-Tops Recordings has earned the love of guitar soli devotees over the past few years thanks to its stellar reissues of some of Robbie Basho's hard-to-find masterpieces, as well as new works by talented players like Chrisopher Bruhn, Kyle Fosburgh and Mariano Rodriguez. For their latest effort, they're shining a well-deserved light on a mostly unknown early 1980s LP by solo acoustic guitarist Dennis Taylor. Originally slated for release on Windham Hill, but ultimately self-released, become a member or log in.

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Strange Light – A Mixtape

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Enter Strange Light, a sister mix to last year’s Blue August Moon. If the latter played like a transient spirit hovering over a hazy, humid dusk, then think of this as a snowy, white dawn giving way to spring. Thick with its own mystery and magic - a tranquil blend of global folk, gospel, soul and psych. A strange light, indeed. | become a member or log in.

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Jamaican Snapshots :: Lloyd & Glen – Keep On Pushing

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Welcome to Jamaican Snapshots — the second installment of a recurring column illuminating Jamaican artists whose music largely flew under the radar outside genre enthusiasts.

Lloyd Robinson was best know for his dancehall hit "Cuss Cuss".   Born Altemont Thomas Robinson, he began recording in the mid-1960s as a member of The Tartans, which also included Cedric Myton (of Congos fame). Glenmore Lloyd "Glen" Brown, known as "The Rhythm Master", began his career as a vocalist in Sonny Bradshaw's . . .

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Sharam Shabpareh :: Prison Song

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It’s extremely difficult not to think of Iranian music in terms of black and white, before and after. The 1979 Revolution all but put an end to non-religious music-making in the country for the better part of a decade (not to mention the Persian pop and jazz fusions this culture had thrived on since the turn of the century). Foreign influences became even less welcome. Thirty years later and not even the anodyne Chris De Burgh, who had been weirdly experimenting with an Iranian band, could get a visa. In fact, it was only last month that . . .

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Michel Colombier :: Canon

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With two days off in Paris after a show at La Maroquinerie, I wanted to explore another side of the city, hitting the Belleville neighborhood. After lunch, a friend and I strolled to Le Silence de La Rue - still one of the coolest record stores in the world. Christophe, the owner of this closet shop, has the most refined taste in all things vintage and ephemera. He can easily pass as a musician from a Mulatu Astatqé concert in the 70s. With everything keenly . . .

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Kamasi Washington :: The Epic

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On May 4th, tenor saxophonist Kamasi Washington will release The Epic, a 3-disc, 171-minute record on Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder label. Referred to by Lotus as "West Coast Spiritual," Washington's record will include a 32-piece orchestra and 20-person choir and seems poised to make a critical statement for borderless free jazz.

Check out the 14-minute first taste, "Re Run Home." With its . . .

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Hallelujah The Hills :: Have You Ever Done Something Evil?

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This one came out with little fanfare last year, but it deserves more ears -- and it's just been released on vinyl, too. Hallelujah the Hills have been kicking around the Boston area for a decade now, quietly building up an extremely solid catalogue of sharp, smart guitar rock that calls to mind the halcyon mid-90s days of Guided By Voices, Pavement and Superchunk. Now of course, every city in these United States (and probably beyond) has a dozen bands drawing from that deep indie rock well, but few do . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Jim Ford — A Companion Piece

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Pack your bags, hop in that green Volks’ van and take a Bobby McGee-esque trip with one of America’s most underappreciated musicians and a godfather of Country Funk - Kentucky native, Jim Ford.

Jim Ford — A Companion Piece

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Mirage :: Blood For The Return

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Mirage is the “ambient dream-pop” recording project of Robin Nydal, a resident of Los Angeles. That geography seems to have some influence here, especially on “Blood for the Return,” the title track to his 2014 debut. The florid piano, cymbal brushes and forlorn oboe, paired with Nydal’s hushed, echo-y warble, evoke a kind of noir surrealism akin to tales of that city of dreams.

Nydal sings “I was born in the dark” and, indeed, this song exists in the moonlight and dusk, where the sparkle . . .

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)

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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 380: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++Intro — “Unknown to Themselves” ++ Dara Puspita — To Love Somebody ++ Van Morrison — Sweet Thing ++ Daniel Bachman — Happy One Step ++ The City — Man Without a Dream ++ Bob Carpenter — Miracle Man ++ Doris Troy — Whatcha Gunna Do About It ++ The Combinations — While You Were Gone ++ Lee Jung Hwa . . .

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Stoneface And Life Everlasting :: Love Is Free (1973)

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By the time he rounded up a pack of teenage musicians to form Life Everlasting, Innocent "Stoneface"  Iwuagwu was a veteran of many top Eastern Nigerian bands (including The Tall Men, The Postmen, In Crowd, The Soulmen, The Hygrades, and Ify Jerry Krusade).

Not having the financing to purchase all the necessary gear, they used instruments made by local carpenters and had amps and pedals built by their good friend and electronics guru Goddy Oku. They recorded their first single, "Love is Free" b/w "Agawalam Mba" at the EMI studio in Lagos. The record was a hit and . . .

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