Aquarium Drunkard

On Saturday, April 20th, Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions returned to the esoteric grounds of the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles for a living taping with guest host Will Sheff (Okke...

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/24/transmissions-sean-howe-live-at-prs/

On Colours & Light, Project Gemini’s second album, released by certified groove merchants Mr. Bongo, UK bassist Paul Osborne welcomes listeners into the soundtracks of his dreams. Expect acid f...

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/23/project-gemini-colours-light/

On his second live release this year, Villa Maximus sends jazz pianist and synthesizer maven Greg Foat to Mykonos with his frequent collaborators guitarist Warren Hampshire of the Bees and drumme...

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/23/greg-foat-sokratis-votskos-warren-hampshire-ayo-salawu-live-at-villa-maximus-mykonos/

With Death Jokes Damon McMahon has created a complicated musical and cultural tapestry, inspired by hip-hop sample density. “I just really hope that people take the time to pay attention to th...

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/23/catching-up-with-amen-dunes/

Although a few diehard indie rock fans would probably recognize his album artwork for groups like Galaxie 500, Urge Overkill, and the Butthole Surfers, it’s likely that even that small coterie ...

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/22/reversed-lens-the-return-of-michael-macioce/

Maximal repetition with minimal deviation: This is the guiding principle of Water Damage, the amorphous Austin, Texas-based collective specializing in 20-minute slabs of hulking, relentless drone...

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/22/water-damage-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/

Enter Nick Millevoi. The guitarist's Moon Pulses rises over the horizon of cosmic guitar, breathing life from a new direction. The six-part suite that encompasses the LP offers a stoic take on th...

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/22/nick-millevoi-moon-pulses/

Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard returns to the Dublab airwaves for another round of sound. New Happy Gathering kicks things off with an hour of folk, chamber atmospheres, and downtown jazz + Doom ...

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/20/radio-free-aquarium-drunkard-april-2024/

somesurprises began modestly, but with the band’s latest record, the excellent Perseids, they’ve moved into a positively widescreen space. It’s a dreamy sound, occasionally reminiscent of s...

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/19/somesurprises-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/

This second round of Ghosted rides a sinuous pulse, a tricky pop of rhythm playing out over multi-toned drumheads, a subtle nod of bass, a flame-like fluctuation of tone and feedback. Oren Ambarc...

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/19/oren-ambarchi-johan-berthling-andreas-werliin-ghosted-ii/

Sun is shining. The latest installment in Michael Crow Taylor’s dank reggae mix series, Sufferer’s Time, winds a path through deep devotionals, primo dub and loping, cosmic love jams. Mixed a...

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/18/sufferers-time-michael-crow-at-the-controls/

Equal parts João Gilberto tribute and freshly inspired arrangements, this is a fulfilling experiment reaching cinematic depths. A restless arranger and film composer in Japan, the prolific Giro ...

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/18/goro-ito-ensemble-amorozsofia-abstract-joao/

The singular and enigmatic singer-songwriter Judee Sill has been gone nearly 45 years, yet her work is in a renaissance. Over the past twenty years, there has been a growing fascination in both S...

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/17/prophesies-of-a-world-to-come-on-lost-angel-the-genius-of-judee-sill/

On The Great Bailout, Moor Mother transmuting jazz, noise, rock, folk, gospel, classical music—melting down genres in a poetic churn. Moor Mother plays history and time like a science fiction ...

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/17/transmissions-moor-mother/

March 30, 1993. Paris, France. Following the release of their studio debut, Peng, and eight months before the release of the, now classic, Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements, Stereo...

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/16/stereolab-black-session-la-maison-de-la-radio-paris-france/