About
Pauly Deathwish is a conceptual performance artist 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 . He has also recorded as a bass player with Clem Burke (Blondie) and Hunt Sales (Iggy Pop). Pauly studied music composition with Drs. Hsueh-Yung Shen and Russell Riepe: both students of Nadia Boulanger.