Pauly Deathwish
San Antonio, Texas, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2021
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The Pocket Symphonies
Leaving Is Believing Though it doesn't come equipped with many obvious pop devices, the Pocket Symphonies' debut slides right along on rough-hewn bedroom charm and still manages at points to sound like something you might've heard on a more adventurous Top 40 station back in 1972. The San Marcos quartet alternately strives for universal resonance and late-night studio rat exploration, sometimes within the same song. This approach is somewhat insular, but it's a shared insularity you might find between old friends getting together to drink beer and reminisce about the past. The lazy summer atmospherics of "Music Fades" start things off with Paul Etheridge effectively channeling the soulful, emotive vocals of Carl Wilson on the Beach Boys' early Seventies work. "River" ebbs and flows on the strength of dueling twang und fuzz guitars that meet at the bridge in mesmerizing effect. Young Heart Attack guitarist/Bubble studio impresario Chris "Frenchie" Smith takes a break from engineering to drop in on guitar here, and Fastball bassist Tony Scalzo does another impressive six-string guest spot on the Flaming Lips-textured ballad, "Waves of Sound." The one straightforward song on Leaving Is Believing is "Wonder World," a rocking ode to the venerable San Marcos roadside attraction. Taken as a whole, the album creates a unique, forward-into-the-past buzz that never sits still long enough to be tagged and bagged.
*** - The Austin Chronicle
Southwestern Division
February 16-19, 2000
University of Oklahoma
William Wakefield, host
Southwestern University Wind Ensemble
Lois Ferrari, conductor
Folk Dances…Shostakovich/Reynolds
Folk Song Suite…Ralph Vaughn Williams
Vesuvius…Frank Ticheli
Medium from Thais…Massenet/Harding&Ferrari
For the Weary Traveler…Paul Etheridge
world premiere
Armenian Dances, Part I…Alfred Reed - CBDNA
Discography
Albums:
غَزَّةَ (November 17, 2023)
mascarasnake (November 10, 2023)
quatour (October 27, 2023)
Mossadgauze (October 13, 2023)
Magritte (September 29, 2023)
trUSAmp (September 15, 2023)
nicejugs (September 1, 2023)
patriotica (August 18, 2023)
pizzagated! (August 4, 2023)
lizard (July 21, 2023)
Dubuffet (July 7, 2023)
shoofly (June 23, 2023)
Schadenfreude (June 9, 2023)
glamdemic (May 26, 2023)
Shakespearesque (May 12, 2023)
Injun (April 28, 2023)
Torched (April 14, 2023)
outrEsider (March 31, 2023)
Yale (March 17, 2023)
IYKYK (March 3, 2023)
G'uh? (February 17, 2023)
Mockingbird (February 3, 2023)
JXTPSTN (January 20, 2023)
Republican (January 6, 2023)
Fontainebleau (December 23, 2022)
Shango (December 9, 2022)
Thomasin (November 25, 2022)
icewater (November 11, 2022)
AaWxEiSsOoMfE (October 28, 2022)
JanDeKrautrock (October 14, 2022)
DIXIEcontin (September 30, 2022)
Montmartre (September 16, 2022)
putrefaction (September 2, 2022)
København (August 19, 2022)
wolfman (August 5, 2022)
incognito (July 22, 2022)
dervish (July 8, 2022)
fooksake (June 24, 2022)
numnum (June 10, 2022)
geopolitics (May 27, 2022)
twittering (May 13, 2022)
Mariupol (April 29, 2022)
buffalo (April 15, 2022)
USAoutofNATO (April 1, 2022)
matryoshka (March 18, 2022)
codger (March 4, 2022)
anniversaire (February 18, 2022)
noncompliance (February 4, 2022)
chrysanthemum (January 21, 2022)
Lisbeth (January 7, 2022)
Bumbaclart! (December 24, 2021)
acciaccatura (December 17, 2021)
disinformation (December 3, 2021)
Gymnastik (November 19, 2021)
6uild6ack6etter (November 5, 2021)
BeFri (October 22, 2021)
differential (October 8, 2021)
revolution (September 24, 2021)
vengeance (September 10, 2021)
crestfall (August 27, 2021)
41020 (August 13, 2021)
disassemble (July 30, 2021)
drugs (July 16, 2021)
glitch (July 2, 2021)
zenith (June 18, 2021)
MZFPK (June 4, 2021)
bucolic (May 21, 2021)
introversion (April 30, 2021)
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Bio
Pauly Deathwish is a musician and film critic from San Antonio, TX. While he led his own band called Pocket Symphonies, he is better known as the bass player for Young Heart Attack on their second album Rock and Awe.
After YHA ceased to exist, Pauly spent four years touring and recording as the drummer for Grammy-winning Cajun band Lost Bayou Ramblers. With LBR, Pauly appeared in the Sylvester Stallone movie Bullet to the Head, on the soundtrack to Beasts of the Southern Wild, on the HBO show Treme, and on the LBR album Mammoth Waltz.
Working with such musicians as Gordon Gano (Violent Femmes), Dr. John, Scarlett Johansson, and Nora Arnezeder, Pauly was able to simultaneously be an in-demand studio musician and arranger in Austin and New Orleans.
Some of his recording highlights include keyboards on The Answer’s album Revival (Top 40 album in the U.K.) and string arrangement on ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead’s album IX.
Pauly has also collaborated/recorded/performed with Clem Burke (Blondie), Hunt Sales (Iggy Pop), Tony Scalzo (Fastball), Big Freedia, Cliff Jones (Gay Dad), Seth Tiven (Dumptruck), Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Givers, D.L. Menard, Pinetop Perkins (Muddy Waters), Ronnie Leatherman (13th Floor Elevators), Charlie Prichard (Cat Mother), Nick Curran (Fabulous Thunderbirds), and Elliott Frazier (Ringo Deathstarr).
Pauly studied music composition with Drs. Hsueh-Yung Shen and Russell Riepe: both students of Nadia Boulanger.
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