richard youngs ,what's his best stuff?

Ah no -- and since I love Galbraith, I must investigate, even if he's a limited presence.

Anyway, my favorite Richard Youngs has always been the first song on Festival. I fell out for a while but got back at some point and got really into Sapphie, one of the most gorgeous solo records I've ever heard, really really beautiful.

I was so into their stuff in college. My boss at the record store got the vinyl in, releases on Forced Exposure and stuff like Durian Durian. I'd just never heard anything like that before. Then we got in Kretinmuzak and I was so confused. What was this stuff? It sounded like 2 guys, a casio and a cardboard box making electronic choral music from Mars. I started collecting all that stuff, and remember having really high hopes for the Richard Youngs/Matthew Bower record on VHF but not liking it as much as I hoped, and I think it made my entire record collection smell funny(er) because of the inks or paints on it.

And echoing above, I dont' know if everybody hates Pulse of the Rooster, but I think it's awesome, more accessible, electronic art rock, definitely Simon and Richard at their most Joy Division! If you don't know what I mean, check out By the Sea...

saw him and alex neilson (and campbell kneale, also on gtr, for one number) play a fantastic noize duo blowout earlier this month

aye, this was good, especially the two really sludgy pieces in the middle. although it dragged a bit towards the end.

it was good indeed. I went for a slash after his set and every bloke at the urinal was singing 'summer's end'. how touching.

As far as one single, simple song of his goes, though, you can't go wrong with "The World Is Silence In Your Head" from "Making Paper", a great Feldman-y piano ditty along the lines of Grubbs/Gastr.

youngs is a totally unique artist. I've been familiar with him for a year or so, and I'm no closer to truly understanding what he's doing. there are so many facets to his music, but they're all reflecting the same image...if that makes sense. it's very early. pre-coffee early.

Honestly, I think this might be a better subject for a record than most!

It's very much the selling point for the album, in fact.

like half a decade late i get airs of the ear. really beautiful. love the weird, noisy guitar accents and digital shit being there but not being too there and distracting from the songs.

So has anyone heard Electric Lotus? I'm thinking of picking up either this or Canticle by Ilk.

I like Electic Lotus. It's pretty different than the Ilk stuff, though. More in line with the Beating Stars or Mauve Dawn albums. Free-ish drumming with electronic droning buzz, for the most part.

I finally caved in and typed up the 'Gregorian Chart' that Richard did for the Wire magazine a couple of years back, since I could never find it online.

Richard Youngs' Gregorian Chart

Just bought "Multi-tracked Shakuuhachi" (CD-R on No Fans) the other day and it is glorious. A thing of droney beauty. I've previously avoided (the) CD-Rs, but have pretty much given up that conceit now. So where to next? Anyone else heard this one?

rReEaAlLlLyY lLiIkKeE tThHeE aAuUtTuUmMnN rReEsSpPoOnNsSeE aAlLbBuUmM...

krakow: the "Mariendork" that you suspect to be a typo could very well actually be "Mariendorf". It's a common enough place name in Germany, literally "village of mary". There's a part of Berlin called Mariendorf (for example -- there's no abbey there)

and and the autumn the autumn response response album is album good is good

@ henry s and Duke #2 - haha, very nice

@ Duke #1 - I agree. When I searched for Mariendork Abbey and turned up absolute zero, my initial thought was that it should probably be Mariendorf. Unfortunately even that doesn't seem to turn up any info on the listed recordings.

i've only heard "Advent". Like the minimalism.

and the lugubriousness.

Now that's a nice word.

Krakow: I found it. It's Maria-Laach Abbey. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Laach_Abbey

Lovely part of the world

I should have added: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Organs-Bells-Maria-Laach-Abbey-Roloff/dp/B000JJ3WES

Wow, thanks Duke. Well done. That's quite some typo. I'll update my wee write up.

I also received this advice to my question of where to next from elsewhere:

""Airs Of The Ear" is like a more psychedelic and slightly heavier companion to "Autumn Response" and is completely brilliant. "Summer Wanderer" is a masterpiece - 3 solo voice tracks, proper singing (sound poetry? nein danke!), utterly enthralling. They should both be available without any stress."

"Oh, and no-one who loves Sapphie shoulde be without "May" but start at track 2 the first time you listen to it."

I suppose if you pronounce Laach with a Scottish or English accent, it can quickly sound like "lark". But still quite a leap to "dork", mind...

I can wholly recommend River Through Howling Sky.

Airs of the Ear is the masterpiece imo.

Lotus Edition is five tracks of free shakuhachi + Alex Neilson on drums so you might like that

Summer Wanderer is absolutely gorgeous, I agree. I wouldn't have liked it so much a few years back, but it's a nice addition to a night of Anne Briggs, John Jacob Niles, Shirley Collins et al.

The other one I've been listening to a bit is Beating Stars, with Alex Neilson. The opening track is a perennial favorite; it could be ten minutes longer and it would still be too short.

However hyperbolic Volcanic Tongue may be at times, they're right on this one...

"Beyond The Valley Of The Ultrahits" is truly special (yes, really, that is the title).

Richard Youngs' new CD-R on Andrew Paine's Sonic Oyster label. It's 'pop' in as much as anything by Youngs can be. It's beautiful, wonderful, all that... highest possible recommendation, indeed.

it's a nice addition to a night of Anne Briggs, John Jacob Niles, Shirley Collins et al.

sounds like a pretty good night...

I love the split w/tirath singh nirmala. the loooooong penultimate track is gorgeous.

tho the somewhat harsh closer always startles me. the rest is largely warm and sedate.

Just in case anyone ever wants to be rid of their Richard Youngs No Fans releases, I'm the man to talk to...

Just thought I'd throw that out there. I'm frustrated at myself for having ignored them at the time, and now they're like an even more unobtainable form of gold dust.

http://cgi.ebay.com/RICHARD-YOUNGS-10-CDs-jewelled-antler-fursaxa-haino_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZ65Q3a12Q7c66Q3a2Q7c39Q3a1Q7c72Q3a1205Q7c293Q3a1Q7c294Q3a50QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem2ea669fa2eQQitemZ200360458798QQptZLHQ5fDefaultDomainQ5f0QQsalenotsupported

Looks like someone's selling a lot of his No Fans CDs on ebay.

Thanks. I have a few of those (there's a lot of Sonic Oyster stuff in that lot, as well as No Fans stuff), but might take punt depending how the bidding goes.

Looking forward to seeing Youngs play with Heather Leigh Murray as a duo in London in October. The Skaters and Astral Social Club supporting too. Nice!

"Beyond The Valley Of The Ultrahits" is really, really good - it's Youngs making 3-minute pop songs, which are even more perfect than you'd expect.

'"Beyond The Valley Of The Ultrahits" is really, really good'

listening to this - has a depeche mode or camouflage feel to it. different and i think i really like it. r. youngs is always full of suprises.

search: the boredom of poetry (aka 'untitled' i think) which reminds me of 'festival', also really great. almost all the wickham-smith collabs are memorable - enedkeg probably near the top.
and, holy shit, 'belsayer time'. until it came out, i never considered what a dream union a galbraith/youngs record would make. so beautiful.

I lost out on the above-mentioned auction, got a wee bit too steep for me. Rats.

Like others, tho, I need to get into his catalog more. I do love most everything I have heard.

agree, beslayer time is also fantastic. galbraith meets young is a true meeting of 90s / 00s underground idiosyncrasy

decade and a half ago i saw galbraith open for youngs with the changeover being the both of them singing the title track together, magic!

xposts didn't see all these posts and forgot to bookmark it! thanks nickb, i updated the lyrics with your suggestions, appreciate it!

OK time for a binge - I got cheap vinyl copies of Dissident, Amplifying Host, and Under Stellar Stream, plus the collab with Raul Refree (All Hands Around The Moment)

I ordered the recent CD with Howard Stelzer, which was advertised as a special deal of $7 pp anywhere in the world. I live in the UK, so i added a few extra dollars to cover postage, but when it showed up the postage sticker showed that shipping alone was like $40! My modest additional donation certainly didn't cover the expense, but is that really the right cost? I've seen comments about shipping to the UK being prohibitively expensive, but this was just a CD. It was wrapped a little more padded than necessary imo but i feel terrible now. Excellent cd anyway. Will buy on bandcamp too as thank you.

Dissident sounding great, very mellow, singer/songwriter with piano, bass, drums, understated, lovely

and yeah that Raul Refree comp is incredible, one of his best as noted upthread

comp collab

I find it very weird that he has a minimal bandcamp presence, very little under his own name, the two Jagjaguwar LPs I got aren't digital, etc.

That is because he almost always deletes his Bandcamp-only releases after a certain period--I think if someone has bought them it is still accessible as a private BC listing, but that accounts for there currently only being 10 public No Fans releases at https://nofansrecords.bandcamp.com/

ah thanks!

second collab record with Daniel O'Sullivan is gorgeous, he's on zither, O'Sullivan on piano

https://vhfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/persian-carpets

Ya I'm really feeling this one. Terrific record. Waiting for this Friday to get a proper copy

VHF is always a stamp of approval