ILX Gonna Shine in My Backdoor Someday (new post-Fahey folk for ppl posting in Takoma/Tompkins Square threads Pt II)

Elkhorn record is terrific, where did these guys come from??

pretty cool -- Pelt has added a fair amount of stuff on bandcamp (including some hard to find CDR action): https://peltusa.bandcamp.com/

this Elkhorn is the business! great stuff...like the mix of acoustic and electric textures

jesse from elkhorn is responsible for cataloging a lot of crucial jack rose/glenn jones/marisa anderson/etc/etc stuff on youtube, i'm sure folks here have seen his work but if not- youtube channel 'orthophonix'

Thanks for the Joost Dijkema - Sacred Revelations recommendation from way back in the thread by the way... that album is just really incredible!
Was blasting it this past weekend with my wife up in Kingston NY.

new Richard Bishop live recording over yonder (including a Beatles cover!): http://www.nyctaper.com/2017/05/sir-richard-bishop-may-17-2017-park-church-co-op/

really shoulda gone to that show...

new orcutt on the way -- can't wait to hear him tackle "white christmas"
With its deep-space beauty, harmonic complexity, and dark dissonance, Bill Orcutt is a stunning landmark in the guitarist's form-destroying trajectory. His pachinko-parlor pacing, marked by unraveling clockspring accelerandos crashing into unexpectedly suspended tones, is still in evidence -- but here, his developing melodicism maps a near-contemplative mental realm, orbiting St. Joan-era Loren Connors more than the cascading treble clatter of his duo LPs with Chris Corsano and others.

http://forcedexposure.com/Catalog/orcutt-bill-bill-orcutt-lp/PAL.048LP.html

new mark fosson too! i like this guy
https://markfosson.bandcamp.com/

"Noodlin' On The East Fork"!

nice cover art on that fosson

always loved this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8UugY6nozY

Listened to Fosson's kY while packing for a trip tonight. Helped make things go smoothly.

oh yeah---from Drag City newsletter:

MARK FOSSON RETURNS WITH SOLO GUITAR

Mark Fosson's been playing music for nearly 50 years now. Solo Guitar is the 5th album released under his name in all that time, which gives an insight into the nature of his music; when it is time for Mark to commit to something underneath his fingers, regardless of whether that is after two years, ten or twenty, that's what's right.

Sure, it makes for a funny career arc, but as far as the music that falls out of a guitar over the span of a lifetime is concerned, any old curve will serve. Mark's picking career was destined to be weird anyway, based on how it started: in 1976, a demo sent to "American Primitive" label Takoma Records received a personal response from founder (and its primary artist) John Fahey himself, who invited Mark out to the west coast to rerecord the material for forthcoming release. Mark showed up, they recorded, it sounded great...then Takoma went bankrupt, John Fahey sold the whole company and the release of Mark's record was abruptly cancelled. No new destination for the recordings immediately presented itself, so Mark moved on, making music with the Bum Steers and continuing to release albums sporadically in the mid aughts.

Now here's another collection to hear! Solo Guitar continues to use his chops and enthusiasm to wander musically, drawing up pieces of sparkling, nimble fingerstyle with an eclectic vision. As the title implies, this time Mark is focused on the austerity of the guitar, plain and simple, to bring out the music. This is one of Mark's favorites of all that he's written, and it is clear why: the golden, eternal promise of the guitar is ebulliently, transcendentally delivered. Mark Fosson's Solo Guitar is a masterful work, the kind it takes a lifetime to assemble! Out July 28th on LP/CD!

What happened to the Takoma album?

Drag City out it out about a decade or so ago? The Lost Takoma Sessions. Then Tompkins Sq. put out the demos a few years later.

Shoulda figured, thanks!

The demos might actually be better, iirc

Glenn gave me the scoop on an exhaustive American Primitivism write up + 2LP set he's writing and compiling. He said he's hoping it'll be out later this year!

I'll ask him if I'm allowed to share more details...

I recently got the Fosson lost Takoma Album on Bandcamp, it's wonderful!

Evan, that sounds amazing

ooh yeah, that does sound good

He told me all about it unprompted in an email, so hopefully he'll be OK with me sharing more details here.

Drag City newsletter again:

Meg Baird Heads Out With Lee Renaldo and Steve Gunn

AH, yes, it's a brand new month and another season on earth! Given today's climate, who knows how many more seasons we've got but that's all the more reason to ACT NOW and join Meg Baird for some upcoming shows! That's right, Meg's got a loaded six string on her back and is headed down the southeast corridor of these fine fifty states stopping in cities like Richmond and Atlanta before looping west towards Texas! Meg's carefully constructed ballads are brimming with vibrancy, taking you down the traditional sandstone that folk is built upon and the simultaneous empathy and entertainment it can provide with pristine musical companionship. Riding alongside Steve Gunn and Lee Ranaldo for all of the dates below, expect nights of pure, spring bliss at each and every show!

6/13/17 The Broadberry Richmond VA
6/14/17 Arts Center of Carrboro Carrboro NC
6/15/17 40 Watt Club Athens GA
6/16/17 Smith's Olde Bar Atlanta GA
6/17/17 Saturn Birmingham AL
6/18/17 Gasa Gasa New Orleans LA
6/19/17 White Oak Music Hall Houston TX
6/20/17 Sons Of Hermann Hall Dallas TX
6/23/17 Proud Larry's Oxford MS
6/24/17 The Anchor Fellowsh

All dates with Lee Ranaldo and Steve Gunn!
(dunno if they're playing back-up for her only or at all, solo sets only or as well etc)

Just saw Joan Shelley & Nathan Salsberg w Jake Xerexes Fussel opening

Great show, taped it on my portable. Tascam, will clean it up and post it but yeah wow you should see this tour if you get a chance

glenn jones/matthew azevedo LP 'waterworks' is really great... the musique concrete bits work really well

yeah it's great

Also great: new Hayden Pendigo - Greetings from Amarillo

really cool meditative guitarwork, reminds me a bit of Danny Paul Grody's rural new ageism, then more ambient tracks that recall Popul Vuh's more pastoral moments or even Tangerine Dream if they were from TX

gotta get that jones LP! yeah, I like pedigo's new one.
re-recommending the Elkhorn LP - the coltrane cover is surprisingly successful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9F-hcrPBrA

really been enjoying that forthcoming Orcutt LP too -- his "Old Man River" is one for the ages!

i saw a facebook comment from hayden pendigo on something that roy montgomery posted about daniel fichescher where he posted a vid of himself playing vuh-style. it reminded me that some people have no reservations posting unsolicited videos of themselves playing!

oops missing an L in Fichelscher but you know what i meant

do you think it's rude or just not something you are accustomed to doing yourself? (also, did you go to horse lords this weekend?!?)

both (though not rude necessarily, just quite forward on Roy Montgomery's facebook page, and definitely not something I would do myself)

i did!!! the place was packed for the second opening act, but all those people spilled out and we went in. i was right directly in the front and it was extremely enjoyable. they didn't play the song i wanted to hear from the mixtape iV, but it was super long and probably edited together. which brings me to this point: they seem CANnier every time I see them. People were going bananas dancing too. made me want a cowbell and rototoms, haha!! looks like they aren't that expensive either...

they're so crazy good, like an ideal band for me in many ways... would love to see them

i think they came thru mpls once and i missed them :(

it was my third time!
haven't been disappointed yet

yeah horse lords rule massively live, great nyc set from the other week: http://www.nyctaper.com/2017/06/horse-lords-june-4-2017-sunnyvale/

this is a funny thread for a horse lords convo to break out on but the more the merrier i say

eh i know a lot of folk in thread enjoy em

yeah chris forsyth has a new jam out today -- he doesn't reallllly fit in w/ the fahey world (for the most part) but what the heck: http://www.npr.org/2017/06/13/532600182/songs-we-love-chris-forsyth-the-solar-motel-band-dreaming-in-the-non-dream

this is a funny thread for a horse lords convo to break out on but the more the merrier i say

otm and thanks for the link, adam

forsyth has always been a thread staple imo

(also his earlier stuff before he went all television fits pretty well)

<3 solar motel band

yeah if we're just going with 21st Century (Mostly) Instrumental Guitar Stuff he fits in fine. new song is awesome.

horse lords guitarist uses fingerpicks so there

NO YOU MAY NOT DISCUSS THEM HERE

William Tyler apparently is on a forthcoming Forsyth live cassette!

xp he also chews a toothpick

no he has older stuff that is way more in line!! i won't be bullied by early chris forsyth truthers!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLhZanAf2Gk

horse lords i admit are a perversion of common decency and the social mores of the post fahey thread but i like them

haha, i'm just kidding you guys here -- the more eclectic the better, i says.

"if it does not fit, you must omit"

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actually maybe this is of thread interest -- the night before i saw heather leigh and peter brötzmann and they were great. her guitar playing was super interesting to watch (her hands in particular) and sounded really cool. lots of pedals on the pedal steel. brötzmann brötzmanned as he does. they played for an hour!