richard youngs ,what's his best stuff?

good for Richard, making a break for the big time.

Has anyone heard the "Barbed Wire Explosion In The Kingdom Of Atlantis" album that kraudive mentioned? It sounded intriguing but not quite intriguing enough to splash out whatever Volcanic Tongue were charging.

It's good but very short. Twelve tracks under 2 and a half minutes, and many of them under a minute long. It's repetitive and noisy rock with a similar hardcore drumbeat on every track. It's very much Richard's voice throughout, crooning over the cacophony. I'm not at all familiar with the central concept genre but I've enjoyed it each time I've heard it. "Neon Desert" is worth hearing for his Rotten like howling.

I would urge any US ilxors to go and see these shows. You won't regret it. You may well not get what you're expecting but what you get will likely be fantastically great and moving.

Damn. When can I see him again?

What would it take to convince someone to book a show in Chicago?!

can't wait for this show tbh. richard is one of my faves...

http://bombsite.com/issues/999/articles/7310

nice interview with Ben Chasny.

Has anyone heard the "Barbed Wire Explosion In The Kingdom Of Atlantis" album that kraudive mentioned? It sounded intriguing but not quite intriguing enough to splash out whatever Volcanic Tongue were charging

VT is listing it at £12.99 which hardly seems unreasonable for a signed limited run of 250 copies.

Thanks for posting that interview! Great read, love Chasny and Youngs, but have never read an interview with Youngs. Pretty insightful.

Look for Marc Master's old Zine, Crank Automotive. Issue 5 I think has an EPIC and fascinating interview with Youngs, and an awesome one with Stefan Jaworzyn. T

Thanks Dan! Marc is a great guy, hope I can track that down. Maybe someone has digitized it ....

there was also a good interview with him in the Wire a few years back, the one where he was also on the cover. Around 2007, maybe?

Yeah, I had (have?) that Wire. He is just a compelling guy, always has some really interesting stuff to say and is just so atypical as a musician.

Great show tonight in Brooklyn.
Fairly evenly split between acoustic guitar and acapella numbers. Very happy I went.

Oh man, I totally forgot about that. Worked late and was exhausted and came home to more work and debating if I'm going to Lindstrom/Todd Terje and totally forgot about Richard Youngs even though it's in my calendar. Saw him and Simon Wickham-Smith at the Table of the Elements Festival at the Knitting Factory in the 90s. First Tony Conrad show since the 70s I think? W/ Jim O'Rourke. Zeena Parkins played as well.

his best stuff on canticle, by ilk

Northampton show was great, too! I was hoping for some Ilk, but I'll take what I can get since he hardly ever plays live in the US.

Just ordered from VT: a tour cd "rumoured to be the album ‘rejected’ by a notorious cabal of bozos masquerading as an ‘underground’ record label"

Hmm, who would this be? Jagjaguwar maybe? They've not released one of his records for a while. Heard one track and its typically tripped. Sounds great actually. Is that 6 LPs this year then?

https://soundcloud.com/volcanictongue/unreleasedrichardyoungs

went to a local glasgow library this lunchtime to return a cpl of bks. slightly disconcerted to find richard youngs behind the counter. he had that slightly wary "you might know me outside of my day job" look, so I didn't say anything.

For context, that unreleased tracks soundcloud "release" is as-picked by Neil Campbell from a pile of unreleased R. Youngs stuff he has lying around. It's a fun listen for sure.

Ward, that is very cool and decidedly weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7mBRk3WCx8

gorgeous

RICHARD YOUNGS - A TOWER HAMLETS TRILOGY
Three different performances in three different places

...For this very special trilogy of shows in London's Tower Hamlets, Richard has been working with Upset The Rhythm to take live music away from its safe domain of established venues to somewhere different in search of a more radical and memorable experience. Over the three nights Richard Youngs will perform an entirely different in tune with each specific place...

http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/

No Fans Compendium 7xCD box set on VHF in April!

http://www.vhfrecords.com/news/2015/2/19/richard-youngs-no-fans-compendium-7cd-box-available-april-6-2015

that sounds great, and VHF releases are usually affordable.

descriptions of the 7 CD's contents and some sounds here
in case you (like me) were wondering if you need 7 CDs/$45 worth of hard-to-find Richard Youngs music
http://www.vhfrecords.com/catalog/richard-youngs-no-fans-compendium-7cd-box-set-vhf137

~~sold~~

i'd like to pay to download this. hope they port it to emusic.

New disco thing, although I'm not sure he had any involvement other than singing on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQpE8Aqb32U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH5HQ4yFYHI

AMON.

Disco things got Paul from franz ferd on it. Not sure who else.

Finally got a copy of A Glasgow Wassail this summer and it's on now for the first time. Sounding lovely and a bit spooking / Christmas Eve BBC 2. Them vibes.

I'd also recommend to those interested his recent collaboration with Daniel O'Sullivan - brings out the best in both of them.

All Hands Around the Moment from last year is getting to me at the moment. If Tim Buckley had made an album for ECM it might've sounded a bit like this.

Also, RY's pal/peer Eric Chenaux just released a nice extended-song semi-cover/tribute as part of the Constellation Corona Borealis series:
https://ericchenaux.bandcamp.com/track/3-stars-on-mountain-of-doom

thanks for highlighting this, i totally missed it last year (to be honest i've been out of contact with his stuff for quite a while) and it's really great

Did we need a "reimagining" of Sapphie by Hypnotic Brass Ensemble + friends? Probably not. Is it worth a listen? Sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xmNczXQSak

spin me endless in the universe

what an incredible song

i can't seem to find lyrics, so i'm putting it on genius. i'm absolutely the worst at guessing at lyrics, so if anyone has corrections please let me know here or out-genius me on https://genius.com/Richard-youngs-spin-me-endless-in-the-universe-lyrics

if I were a superhero
superhero with superpowers
my superpower it would be
it would be honesty

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

all of us are industries
industries one of factories [?]
factories manufacturing
manufacturing some kind of truth

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

wish I were I wish I was [?]
as rugged I could be [?]
former is now [?][
never is unconditional [?]

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

if I were the strongest man
strongest man in the world
I would [?]
[?] out of time and space

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

imagine somehow that we are
that we are undefeatable
undefeatable in what we do
undefeatable in love

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

[?] they are falling down
falling down on the factories
still there manufacturing
manufacturing some kind of truth

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

[?] they are falling down
[?] and can you feel
can you feel my superpower
superpower of honesty

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

look my love at the stars [?]
[?] stars are such freedom
for my love yes my love
my love is unconditional

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

[?]
when i stay inside
at the world get out of here
somewhere out of time and space

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

imagine somehow that we are
that we are undefeatable
undefeatable in what we do
undefeatable in love

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

i had to clarify some richard youngs lyrics once -- i went to the man himself on twitter but idk if he's on there anymore. it was "oh reality" from beyond the valley of ultrahits.

can't help you with the lyrics, but i love this man nd his muic.

I could never really find my entry point into this guy’s solo work but I absolutely love the duo record he did with the guy from Acid Mothers Temple

Beyond The Valley Of The Ultrahits is so good, other than that I would actually start with the early stuff, the collabs with Wickham-Smith

His first, Advent is still my favourite. One of my favourite records of all time.

Sapphie is lovely, also Autumn Response.

I picked up “All hands around the moment” recently, ray the recommendation of a guy sleeve and I play d&d with and it’s GORGEOUS. That said I find the earlier stuff typically less interesting than when he started experimenting with song BUT I’ve hardly heard all of it. Prolific being the understatement.

I like beating stars w/ Alex Nelson a lot too

Neilson*

I stopped being able to keep up and only have dipped in and out of the catalog. Nothing but admiration for the breadth and depth of his talent and experimentation. Didn't he do like 6 volumes of records where he played the guitar with his feet?

Got into him while I was in college and was really into the Skullflower/VHF records axis of noisy stuff and wait a minute, I think I posted my thoughts already upthread...17 years ago! Jesus. I stand by this statement "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."

Looking at my digital catalog, I have 21 Richard Youngs albums,1 with Matthew Bower, 1 with Raul Refree, 1 with Stephen Todd, 1 with Tirath Singh Nirmala, and 11 with Simon Wickham-Smith!

it's a 3 way collab but belsayer time is the one i always go back to

Sapphie and All Hands… are the albums I keep coming back to - I’ve dabbled around the catalogue (never heard Ultrahits though) but it gets hard to keep track