Revolt of the ILX Brigade: New Post-Fahey Folk For PPL that post in the Takoma & Tompkin's Square Threads

Pretty good Steve Gunn interview here:

http://adhoc.fm/post/steve-gunn-interview/

Hadn't looked at Ad Hoc much, but it seems it is gunning for our demgraphic a little these days (just joking MFB ....)

never seen Adhoc before, looks like a cool site

Glad you enjoyed, I actually did the write up on the Steve Gunn album for the Mid-2013 best of post, it was a pleasure to give that record some kudos. It was really great/gratifying to watch Gunn's playing start from a very experimental/drone place and now he's done this full-band album with vocals. I don't play guitar so I don't have a lot to say in this thread, but all this stuff has been in my wheelhouse for some time now and it's great to see it flourishing and getting a lot of attention.

As the cover implise this is some darker and raw lapstyle guitar stuff.
"God's Business, Witch Finding" is pretty good.
I reviewed it here.

― Nikolaus Höhle, Wednesday, July 10, 2013 12:34 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is great!

this guy sent me his new EP http://johnmcgrath.webs.com/
pretty nice, though probably more along the lines of what Dustin Wong has been doing than a lot of stuff on this thread.

i like dustin wong will investigate

saw william tyler last night in boulder, gorgeous from start to finish. woefully under-attended, but at least that meant it was quiet!

funny, i think because of this thread and a few other places, i expect this stuff to be at least a little more popular but it is so very niche.

yeah there was hardly anyone there in mpls either :(

i bought an old album on Rounder by Eric Schoenberg called Steel String Guitar...he's nice...kinda walks the line between more ragtimey stefan grossman stuff, some celtic stuff, and kottke...very skill player, here's a recent video (said album is from the early 70s though)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfWObDHT1d0

sounds nice, don't think i've heard this dude before.
worth checking out: http://danbachblog.blogspot.com/

this thread has been the best thing for me this year...but one side effect is that there has been so much stuff that i've had to check out that i've kinda sped through things and not really engaged with stuff for longer periods....so...anyway....been listening to the Don Bikoff - Celestial Explosion again and goddamn this is such a fucking amazing, distinctive, and odd record....definitely one of the best this year, and honestly I think this is one of the records on this thread that can hold its own with anything by Fahey or whoever

Yeah that Bikoff record is really nice, and agreed that the volume of stuff presented here has been overwhelming at times. I troll back through the thread pretty regularly to return to a bunch of stuff. Just went on a recent Stephen Basho-Jungan listening spree (at Ogmor's recommendation), and really loved it. Really interesting player. Listening to that Bikoff record again right now!

Agree about the Bikoff - definitely its own thing. A beaut. I'd also add both Taussig LPs to the list of 'crucial' purchases in this thread.

yeah the bikoff is very good, need to go back to it. that lena hughes thing on t. square is very very good too, if you haven't gotten to it yet.
hey, question for y'all, that bikoff record came out on oblivion records, which also put out the first leo kottke record - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-String_Blues
does anyone have the kottke record? i've never heard it, and apparently it's never been re-ished?

looks so nice
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/12-String_Blues.jpg
is kottke embarrassed by it or something?

12-String Blues (sub-titled Live at the Scholar)

I looked at that cover and I've NEVER seen that in a shop.

BTW, I'm pretty sure The Scholar was owned by jjjusten's dad, so maybe we could ask him? I know he has crazy tapes of stuff.

oh nice, i bet some rad people played there back in the day.
oh and lookee here: http://kicktokill.blogspot.com/2008/04/leo-kottke-12-string-blues-oblivion.html

I love Steffen Basho Junghans, seem to remember arguing his merits w/ hstencil on this board way back when. Some of his more percussive playing where it sounds like he using some sort of extended techniques remind me quite a bit of 70s era Hans Reichel, who was another German guy but from more from the free improv side of things who built lots of his own instruments, often by splicing bits of different guitars together. Not enough footage of him online but the first section of this thing is what I'm talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8uGNY2Qf9Y

cool!
yeah there are some junghans live recordings i've heard where i'm pretty baffled as to what exactly he is *doing* to the guitar -- getting all kinds of strange resonances. i mean, he's just playing guitar, right, no effects or anything?

Yeah, I have no idea what SBJ is doing half the time but it is often just so hypnotic that I assume some sort of sorcery is afoot

I've got a copy of that Kottke @ The Scholar rekkerd -- it's cool but not a patch on Circle Round The Sun in my book.

i need to get that one too!

i put on SBJ rivers and bridges this morning while i changed my son's diaper and got him ready for the day -- i think it had a calming effect!

leo kottke singing vs. peter lang singing FITE!

KOTTKE ALL THE WAY

do ppl on this thread dig Norman Blake? sick shredding flatpicker and great songwriter. i feel like i've asked this before..

yeah i have one of his first couple albums (on flying fish i think) it's really good

Kottke is by far a better singer than Basho. No question. Summation: Kottke has a pretty low opinion of his own crappy voice, and it shows. Basho had a high opinion of his own crappy voice - and it shows.

fucking hell footage of hans reichel playing guitar fuuuuuuuck nick you have made my week! been looking for clips for years and only ever found tiny fragments, not sure how i missed this on youtube. i was thinking about him just today. he was just so good it makes my heart hurt. he was technically a way better guitarist than anyone mentioned in this thread but spent most of his time bowing wood to make weird badger noises and designing fonts... i don't have the time to eulogise properly, i will have to start a thread

i know SBJ owns some hans reichel records but idk if he was influenced by him. i suppose extensive acoustic hammer ons &c. are p rare. if you ever get the chance to see SBJ you absolutely should though, the sound is just fantastic live. a lot of the right hand stuff looks incredibly straightforward & elegant but it's obv completely impossible to replicate. also basho's voice is amazing, gtfo

there's a copy of that first kottke rekkerd on ebay at the moment, only $10 ending tomorrow... (not my auction.)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LEO-KOTTKE-12-String-Blues-RARE-PRIVATE-PRESS-Pre-John-Fahey-Oblivion-1969-/290949519223

Nice write-up of the upcoming Danny Paul Grody record from Aquarium Drunkard, along with a track from the record. Very mellow, but it is really lovely. Some sweet Neu!-ish guitar tones on it, with a nice slow build.

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2013/07/29/danny-paul-grody-between-two-worlds/

Definitely the kinda thing I dig, but might be slight for some of the hard-liners on here.

Definitely enjoyed that Hans Reichel vid as well! I had looked for some footage myself and found mostly the bowed-wood shit myself (which is cool, but would rather watch him play his bizarre guitars instead). Wild musician.

xp heyyy, i wrote that. totally great record imo.

listening to a promo of this upcoming gunn - truscinski - cian nugent collaboration this morning. does not disappoint.
http://mie.limitedrun.com/news/posts/2518-desert-heat-cat-mask-at-huggie-temple-12

Hah, I know Tyler! Trying not to make you too self-conscious. Great write-up. Jealous of your promo-pile these days for sure.

speaking of stuff that's more out there, the guy who inspired this thread Nathan Bowles has a new weird percussion record out w.Scott Verrasto

https://soundcloud.com/miemusic/nathan-bowles-scott-verrastro

Nathan's work with the later incarnations of Pelt is also v worthwhile tbrr

yeah i want to do a write-up of the pelt universe at some point, but it's hard to keep up! dudes are prolific.

Yeah, I just saw mention somewhere of a Mike Gangloff/Steve Gunn collab coming out in the future (unless I dreamed that up on my own). Scott Verastro is a good drummer/percussionist, seen him several times. Stuff I have heard from that release has been cool. Writing up the Pelt universe is definitely a large task. There was a decent piece on Pelt itself in the Wire a while back, but I would love more. Glad Mike and Nathan live relatively nearby, I get to see them play a few times a year these days (if not more), which is great.

If anyone is looking for some more mellow but "out" stuff, I actually just got a recording of my duo Grand Banks opening for Nathan Bowles a couple of weeks ago. I am really proud of it, though please only those who are truly interested take a listen. Seemed like a good time to post it due to the N. Bowles tie-in though, and at times it is not too dissimilar from the Danny Paul Grody track just posted. Pretty droney/minimal, but with plenty of straight guitar playing through a lot of it, along with piano/organ and some other instruments:

https://soundcloud.com/grand-banks/grand-banks-live-7-15-2013

this is radical, thanks for posting....

Thanks man, I really appreciate it.

I hope to have a copy of the N. Bowles set at some point as well, though I'll have to check that it's cool to share it. Friend of mine has been recording all of the folks coming through Charlottesville, wanna get him to post them somewhere but we'll see.

i liked it too! admittedly i didn't listen to the whole thing, but it sounds good and interesting and i followed you on soundcloud.

oh wow you're in grand banks?? i saw you play, uh, probably ten years ago in providence, at a gig at as220 with freakzone and some other ppl.
strange world! i still have the flier for that gig.

Wow, thanks La Lechera. Considering some of the stuff you dig that is flattering, but yeah we might be slightly up your alley.

Ian, we never really toured, though we have played out of town a few times. Never got up to Providence though. We were friends/aquaintances with a lot of Providence folks cause I booked/ran a space here in Charlottesville called the Pudhaus that a lot of Providence bands played in, but yeah, no Providence shows for us personally. My guess is that you saw another band called Grand Banks. Never heard of the other one though, and we have been playing on and off since 2001. Funny.

yo but... but.. the flier says "GRAND BANKS" and under that it says "pud house drone, va" and i even think i have a recollection of your set??
THIS FLIER:
http://i43.tinypic.com/2q3srdf.jpg

is it possible you were scheduled to play at some point but did not?

Hah hah yes it is entirely possible, that poster is definitely referring to us. I do remember an aborted tour at one point, cause I broke my ankle. Wow, had totally forgotten that! Jeremy Harris always tried to get us to tour, and we just kinda had setback after setback in that regard. Wild man.

You should come to Chicago! We have lots of venues and local bands you would fit right in with. Clean/decent places, with chairs! Respectful appreciative audience, albeit small. Can give you suggestions if you're interested but I am not an insider so that's about all I can offer.

In other news: bummed that I missed Glenn Jones' set at a recent folk fest thing and also missed his show at this other place -- there was toooooo much going on that week. Looking forward to his album with Chris Corsano, apparently?!

oh no kidding, he's doing a whole record with corsano? that would be awesome -- the one track they do on The Wanting is killer.