JenkellySep 17, 2025
“Fiery Gizzard, is a full, rich, vibrant music that feels aligned with history but not confined by it,” says me at #aquariumdrunkard.com . https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/09/17/joseph-decosimo-fiery-gizzard/ #josephdecosimo
Joseph Decosimo :: Fiery Gizzard - Aquarium Drunkard

Joseph Decosimo learned the old-time fiddle and banjo at the feet of the masters, studying with the Kentucky master Clyde Davenport from an early age and earning a PhD in traditional music from the University of North Carolina. Well-connected among traditionalists, Decosimo also taps into some non-old-time-y talents for this record, the jazz guitarist Matthew O’Connell, Andy Stack of Wye Oak and Helado Negro on bass and Beirut’s Kelly Pratt on horns. The result, Fiery Gizzard, is a full, rich, vibrant music that feels aligned with history but not confined by it.

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Andy AldridgeMay 7, 2025

New post from A Head Full of Wishes
Dean Wareham podcast appearances
Dean has appeared giving a lengthy interviews to a couple of podcasts:
#Discograffiti #AquariumDrunkard #News #DeanWareham #Galaxie500

https://www.fullofwishes.co.uk/2025/05/07/dean-wareham-podcast-appearances/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ifttt

Dean Wareham podcast appearances

Dean has appeared giving a lengthy interviews to a couple of podcasts:

A Head Full of Wishes
JenkellyMar 1, 2025
“Though Grubbs credits last year’s Gastr del Sol retrospective We Have Dozens of Titles as inspiration for these open-ended compositions, they owe a lot more to his mid-life focus on experimental classical-adjacent minimalism.” #aquariumdrunkard #davidgrubbs #Music
JenkellyOct 30, 2024
I missed this one, looks like it went up last week. In any case, Jennifer Castle is great, read the interview, buy her music, catch her song on the Bear. https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/10/22/jennifer-castle-letting-the-songs-out/ #JenniferCastle #aquariumdrunkard
Jennifer Castle : Letting The Songs Out : Aquarium Drunkard

“I don’t want to teach anybody anything with a song. I’m not trying to steer anybody towards anything with a song. I’m not trying to be manipulative. I’m trying to let it out,” she says. “I must want it to come into being, so I just try to let it out as honestly as I can and then work from there.”

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Dan Kletter 🥑Aug 25, 2024
#NowPlaying Originally recorded for #AquariumDrunkard’s #LagniappeSessions in 2020, #IlyasAhmed’s version of “Candy Says” is rather dreamy. https://ilyasahmed.bandcamp.com/track/candy-says
CANDY SAYS, by Ilyas Ahmed

track by Ilyas Ahmed

Ilyas Ahmed
JenkellyJun 6, 2024
This was a good one. https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/06/06/bonnie-prince-billy-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview-2/ #Music #BonniePrinceBilly #aquariumdrunkard
Bonnie “Prince” Billy : The Aquarium Drunkard Interview : Aquarium Drunkard

Will Oldham has known Daniel Higgs for decades, first in Baltimore in the late 1990s, later putting up the Lungfish auteur whenever he passed through Louisville. So when his friend, musical collaborator and Louisville neighbor Nathan Salsburg suggested covering a Lungfish song that he’d been singing to his infant daughter, it made perfect sense to Oldham.

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JenkellyMay 27, 2024
I really enjoy this late-stage Arab Strap…much venom, elegantly put, mostly directed toward technology. https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/05/27/arab-strap-im-totally-fine-with-it-dont-give-a-fuck-anymore #music #arabstrap #aquariumdrunkard
Arab Strap : I'm Totally Fine With It Don't Give A Fuck Anymore : Aquarium Drunkard

It’s no accident that Arab Strap’s eighth full album has a couple of emojis in the title. A disgruntled, disgusted masterwork, I’m Totally Fine With It lives in the belly of the digital beast, spewing blasted poetry at the dits and dots that move through its digestive tract.

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JenkellyMay 6, 2024
“I’m going to go off on a complete tangent here.” My Jessica Pratt interview. https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/05/06/jessica-pratt-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview-2/ #music #jessicapratt #aquariumdrunkard
Jessica Pratt : The Aquarium Drunkard Interview : Aquarium Drunkard

Here in the Pitch is a gorgeous slice of baroque pop, but also something gnarlier and more complicated. Recording for the second time at Gary’s Electric Studio in Brooklyn and employing a full band, Pratt'’s realized a lush, baroque 1960s pop sound akin to Vashti Bunyan’s work with Joe Meek, Dusty Springfield, even Petula Clark.

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JenkellyApr 19, 2024
Ghosted II from Oren Ambarchi and crew, reviewed at Aquarium Drunkard. https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/19/oren-ambarchi-johan-berthling-andreas-werliin-ghosted-ii/ #music #OrenAmbarchi #aquariumdrunkard @aquariumdrunkard
Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin : Ghosted II : Aquarium Drunkard

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 Ambarchi who more typically works in the studio, layering texture on texture in post-production, here again sinks into a live, intuitive groove, reacting on the fly to long-time compatriots Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin.

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JenkellyApr 3, 2024
Great album, interesting talk with Phosphorescent at AD. https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/03/catching-up-with-phosphorescent-2/ #phosphorescent #aquariumdrunkard #music
Catching Up With Phosphorescent : Aquarium Drunkard

It’s been five years since the last Phosphorescent album, a dark half decade for most people and especially for those in the performing and creative arts. So it’s not surprising that when Matthew Houck first glimpsed the contours of what would become Revelator, the album seemed like it would be quiet, insular, inward-looking and maybe a bit of a downer. But a funny thing happened when Houck began working and reworking this material. It caught an updraft of hope, of expansiveness, or cosmic revelation. First and second takes with a core band yielded a free, unfettered sound, not perfect or finished, but a foundation for further refinement.

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