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

thanks all for listening and (presumably) liking it! i am pretty proud of them, was going to do 'good' recordings of everything later (these are all just on the built in mic on my tascam) but then months later i found these kinda sketch/demo tracks had a certain ambiance to them that i liked, so here they are.

yeah it sounds really cool

any of you dudes heard this record (or anything else by this guy?)
http://assets.boomkat.com/images/100733/333.jpg
a friend just recommended it to me, listening now, really beautiful. windham hill-ish, i suppose, but with some definite raga-y moves too.

here he is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqTmo6d8y5Q

haha i was gonna say that album cover screams windham hill

btw if i wasn't lazy and stuff, is there an oral history of windham hill? that would be interesting.

Guy is definitely a good player, it's fun watching his right hand in that vid. Note the turtleneck, and the album title "acoustic adventures". The music sounds like that, which is kinda cool in it's own way.

For real, one of the most interesting bios I have read is Yanni's. Dude is WAY different than I imagined based on his new age/PBS rep, and really he is kind of amazing (I had never heard any Yanni when I read it, it was given to me as a joke gift and or course I read it right away cause I am a sucker for a free music bio). I imagine that a Windham Hill history might be similarly interesting.

yeah dude Yanni used to be a hard rocker in Minneapolis!

He sure did! And he taught himself to swim and then went and made the Greek national swim team (before leaving for the States). You should read it, Minnesota time is well covered.

kinda pisses me off MN doesn't celebrate him! all we talk is prince replacements prince replacements dylan replacements prince dylan dylan prince

yanni sold way more than the replacements

Hah, I am telling you you will dig that bio. I mean, it is kind of maddening at times (I read it a long time ago so I don't remember it super clearly), but he made his own luck for sure. Dude was a force of nature when it came to believing in himself, and then the sales showed up. Of course, it is absolutely unnacceptable to "like" Yanni for most people, but whatever, he lived a crazy life that you would never know from his music. I think he has gotten in some hot water recently or something, so I don't wanna vouch for him as a human being or anything.

Not really that into the Replacements generally. Some great tunes but a lot I can live without too. Still don't listen to Yanni mind you, but that bio is gold.

Also, should have said "he sure was" in regards to being a MN rocker, not "did". Can't write worth a damn today.

i love the replacements and mostly love prince but i get so sick of reading about them...lots on the mats lately cuzza the reunion

i'd be more interested in reading about yanni.

yeah dude Yanni used to be a hard rocker in Minneapolis!

GTFO

best new fact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me-KiE-sVx8

Hah hah hah! I drove my wife crazy telling everyone all of the crazy shit I learned about Yanni reading that book. For like 6 months that was my go-to conversation piece, because no one could believe it.

The Three Lobed day party at Hopscotch is streaming right now on WXDU: http://wxdu.org/

The line-up:

12:00 – 12:30 - Jenks Miller Band (only show of fest)
12:50-1:20 – Tom Carter (only solo show of fest)
1:40 – 2:10 - Magik Markers (improv set)
2:30 – 3:10 – Glenn Jones (only show of fest)
3:30 – 4:10 – Desert Heat ( Steve Gunn / Cian Nugent / John Truscinski /Jason Meagher – North American debut – only show of fest)
4:30 – 5:15 – Thurston Moore / John Moloney Caught on Tape Duo (only show of fest)
- live between-set music from Mike Gangloff and Nathaniel Bowles (both of Pelt, Black Twig Pickers and solo fame)

thanks for the tip!

I had completely forgotten! My twitter feed is all Hopscotch right now, so I got hepped there. Good quality stream too!

Tom Carter!

i need to listen to more tom carter, clearly

Dude, last Charalambides is so killer is really killer, but this set is blowing my mind. Holy shit!

oops, you get what I mean there.

um yeah holy shit is right!

Markers were great, but now it's Glenn Jones time! Psyched!

Glennnnnn!!

You see the stream link Evan?

I've been listening!

I wish I was there.

Argh my stream just broke up at my favorite part of the song. Was that just me?

ha, no there have been little glitches in mine too.

That was the first time I noticed.

i'll take a glitch or two! pretty amazing just to be able to listen in real time here from colorado. TECHNOLOGY

So good. I could listen to Glenn all day ....

I am going tomorrow! I can't believe it. 4 hour drive down and back, but man am I excited about the Paradise of Bachelors show now.

twig pickers starting off a little skronkier than i expected

I think I'd been over-listening to this record but this set is rekindling the magic of it all.

He really captured the peaceful vibe of the NJ rural suburbs I grew up in. This:

http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/the-station-agent-ii-angela-mastrincola.jpg

Glenn Jones - My Garden State

yeah i OD'd on the jones record earlier this year, but it is so good.
and yeah loving the twig pickers' interstitial rambles.

Those guys can go in a LOT of different directions. I think calling it The Black Twigs is a little misleading, cause when they play under that name usually it is pretty straight "we're going to play a bunch of tunes" territory. Think this is pretty much just Nathan and Mike too, which is not the Twigs full band. Frees them up, as I think a couple of the other Twigs come from a more straightforward string band background.

desert heat killing it. hopefully they are doing some more recording while they're all in the same place...

No joke. Kinda hope that all of the people in that room right now spend the next week all recording together in their various (or new) incarnations. That could be one damn productive crew, not that they are slacking too much these days.

btw you can get that cian nugent & the cosmos matador single ove ron bandcamp now. it is great - http://ciannugent.bandcamp.com/album/hire-purchase

Aww cool, thanks!

i missed all this streaming, i was in white plains :(

otoh, yes you def need to check out tom carter! i dunno which of his solo albums i think is best; i think he's best live, really. and the eleven twenty-nine record (with marc orleans) is great as well... charalambides are one of those bands i've loved for going on uh, i dunno, 12 or 13 years now. and i discovered them even a bit 'later' in their career!

In my opinion Tom Carter definitely put in the best set of the day, though I guess Thurston and Moloney can win me over still. But yeah, it was so good, one of the best sets I have heard from him, though I haven't seen him in person solo, just listened to some live stuff and checked youtubes. He was really on though.

yeah, i know a little carter/charlambrides, just haven't got deep into it -- that set convinced me i need to get deep into it.
lol at thurston busting out queen of noise!

what i heard was great! velvets cover was fun

had to stop tho was getting too many skips and it was driving me nuts.

Desert Heat had the mist skips, for me. Other sets have been alright, but maybe it's my computer. Headed home to sleep and then get up at 6 in the morning for Raleigh departure!

Uhh, most skips.