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

Yep, finishing up now, it rips. Forsyth really tearing it up. A lot more rhythmically aggressive than most of his stuff. Very excited to see if he tours with this band, would absolutely love to see this.

Yeah, "Solar Motel" is cool. Going to listen to it again, but having just seen this whole record live (which was great) and listened to various versions of these songs from the other live sets he's been posting, it's definitely cool to hear the recorded versions. Way more texture and detail, it gets really dense here and there. More skronky and "wall of noise" type playing here and there as well. All of which is summed up by global much more succinctly: definitely more rhythmically aggressive/varied. Some nice touches like droney organ etc. as well.

yeah i was worried the record would suffer in comparison to the live stuff, but it delivers in a big way. exciting from start to finish.

Yeah, he packed a lot of details in there that cannot be duplicated live but make the record a real cool straight-through listen. Cool transitions and moments popping up throughout.

Tyler, do you know if Chris plays all of the guitar on the album, or is the guy Paul from the live band on there too? Seems like all Chris to me, but not sure I could really tell.

It's all Chris

That's what I thought listening to it, thanks Jimmywine!

Finally made my way through this whole thread, took a few days. Really love the Lena Hughes record, Cian Nugent, and George Cromarty and lots more, thanks guys!

hey jacob! listening to your night moves mix right now, it is pretty amazing.

Wow Jacob, quite a task! Still gotta get a copy of that Lena Hughes at some point, another reminder.

It's officially posted now: Desert Heat (for those forgetting it's Steve Gunn and Cian Nugent with a rhythm section) set at Hopscotch via NYC Taper:

http://networkedblogs.com/Pstk2

I listened live and enjoyed it a bunch, but I am excited to dig back in.

I never got that latest Steve Gunn record but I really wanted it for my trip to Vermont this weekend :(

If I don't purchase it before winter rolls around I just won't until the weather gets cheery again.

Man that is a good driving to Vermont record for sure, assuming the weather cooperates.

right... oh well! It probably isn't poppy enough for the guy I'll be driving with. He's an indie pop lover and rarely strays or has patience for that boring shit Evan likes, along those boring 90s bands too!

along with*

But that's OK, we have some mutual tastes too but not as much as 6-7 years ago.

my wife is more an indie pop kinda lady and she likes that steve gunn record. and yeah, great driving music, we were jamming it on the last trip through the Rocky Mountains in August.

desert heat set is killer btw

Yeah driving buddies can be a tough sell sometimes, but a LOT of people I did not expect to dig that Steve Gunn record did, it's pretty universally great in a lot of ways, but I have known some indie pop hard-liners and they can, at times, be an extremely closed-minded bunch.

Or, what Tyler said! Yeah, going to listen to that set again. I love the way those two play together, wish I could have seen it in person to get the full read on it.

found dean mcphee's 'son of the black peace' LP today, a pristine used copy, for $2.99

been trying with the fingerpicks...also been messing more with recording and Audacity and the mic i bought...anyway i've been practicing really simple picking patterns over and over again with fingerpicks so i figured i might try a song with overdubbing a lot of really simple parts (terry riley kinda came to mind because his stuff is all these real cyclical things) but anyway...i kinda dig this. it's crazy how easy it is to record stuff now w/home software. Audacity lets you generate a click track which is really nice to keep everything together

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/terry-goes-camping

that's neat and the fingerpicks sound lovely and bright. nice development too, kind of turns into a penguin cafe orchestra jam at the end. how many guitar tracks?

total of 5 by the end...i kinda arbitrarily added something about every 45 seconds

i don't know penguin cafe orchestra, i'll check them out

fun trying to get a handle on multitrack recording

well it was only the way the guitars were piled up playing repeated phrases that reminded me of PCO, they're waaaaay too twee and refined for this thread but here you go anyhow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd066rqUJqQ

a friend of mine made a 'best of' for PCO, I really dig some of their stuff. Not quite like things in this thread, but in the same realm if not barking up quite the same tree:

http://open.spotify.com/user/mrbeecheese/playlist/3pSTJJjgdDeOxTBDkpQKux

Hey UMS, the picks sound good, seems like you are making that transition pretty seamlessly.

Also, they finally posted the Tom Carter Three Lobed set from Hopscotch on NYC Taper. It was a burner, can't wait to hear it again!:

http://www.nyctaper.com/2013/10/tom-carter-september-6-2013-three-lobed-wxdu-day-show-kings-raleigh-nc-flacmp3streaming/

sweet

thanks grandavis

global thanks for posting that playlist

i'm totally digging this pegnuin cafe orchestra....definitely not in the vein of anything in this thread, but i can totally hear it in relation to maybe robert wyatt or ivor cutler type stuff

My buddy knows more about them, but basically he described 'em as Simon Jeffes as the mastermind and composer, and he'd have a revolving door of musicians, and some were close to amateur/self-taught. I think that element of sorta-primitivism adds a lot of color to the songs. That he'd write really intricate parts that would co-exist with the very simplistic.

yeah this band a is a minor miracle because it's really brilliant IMO but SO CLOSE to shit that i would really hate

i'd bet money the rotating cast of pp and relatively amateurism is what's making this something i love

there's a certain fragile quality to it which i think is what reminded me of wyatt

terry goes camping sounds nice, dude!
guys the new daniel bachman record is excellent -- maybe a little less hopped up than previous things.

the layering on your track is making me think of that danny paul grody LP a bit.

thanks! yeah i'm p in love with the new DPG album

Yeah, DPG is not a bad comparison UMS. That is a lovely record, very tasteful but cool playing all over it.

Ogmor alert (and anyone else looking for the less trad stuff touched on in this thread): I have seen this guy Tashi Dorji's name thrown out here and there, but I am just checking him out now, and it's pretty damn great. A real mix of prepared acoustic guitar played in an "out" way, slightly disjointed but pretty playing, and gamelan-ish bell tones vs. percussive hits etc. Really digging it right now. No overdubs, and some great tones for an acoustic guitar:

http://tashidorji1.bandcamp.com/

i like that

taster of the new cian nugent record. really good, though it's the epic numbers that are blowing my mind. "houses of parliament" is like an all-time jam.
http://www.thefader.com/2013/10/09/video-cian-nugent-the-cosmos-grass-above-my-head/

Nugent is an epic string-bender, can't wait to hear that record for more of that action. He just slips in some really cool bends that make his phrasing hit some surprising and very soulful marks in equal measure. Seems like he can definitely take his playing in a lot of directions.

that's incredibly lovely. i like the subtle arrangements. reminds me a bit of tyler's last but more subtle and dreamy. i like how he takes his time to let things unfurl.

listening to the new bachman right now.

it's good. he's a really great player. that said, i'm beginning to think he doesn't quite know how to expand his palette or make records like some of his contemporaries.

then again, a lot of things would suffer in comparison to that cian nugent track you posted tyler...wow. such range and done with such aplomb.

the old timier stuff on the new bachman works really well for me -- the stuff with the fiddle?

yeah i like those

i mean i like the whole thing, i'm not dissin'

UMS I feel what you are saying. I do think Bachman takes some small steps on this one towards some outwards expansion, but he is also 23 or something, so I imagine that he might have a lot of stuff in the works over the next few years (hope so at least, so much potential there). I wonder how old the songs on this new one are, it came out with very little warning/fanfare (at least compared to a lot of the similar records that have come out this year), so maybe it wasn't labored over too much. Might not have been a big deal for the label or Daniel, just a collection of stuff he had in the bag, but I have no idea if that is the case.

I at least feel like there is a little more air/space on this one, though really I should listen to it again.

Huh, listening to a D. Bachman interview right now where he says that the new record was specifically a set of songs that he had been wanting to record for a while, it is not his latest batch of compositions at all. He has another in the works that is going to be "different", which who knows what that means in the context of his catalogue, but it does seem that this record was specifically made as a collection of more trad stuff done in a way he hadn't before, i.e., very straight and with a limited paleyte in mind from the get-go.

yeah that's cool. that's def what it sounds like. and he's a good player, i can always listen to him play. i agree w/tyler that the more trad fiddle stuff is the best i think.

yeah, pretty sure he has wide ranging tastes, wouldn't be surprised if he's got some more psych-y/experimental thangs coming in the future.

Here is a recording of Daniel Bachman and Ryley Walker on Freeform Radio WBAR on Oct. 7th.
http://dyingforbadmusic.tumblr.com/post/63666878835/daniel-bachman-ryley-walker-wbar-jurassic-snark
And as download: https://db.tt/hRhfLf0a - Ryley is a pretty good player too methinks.

Regarding to the new one. I like the traditional stuff too - but hardly can't hear a difference between this: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Black_Twig_Pickers_and_Steve_Gunn/NATCH_1/ and e.g. Chattanooga. But I guess there is no need to make a difference :).
At all it sounds less coherent and as mentioned before, like a collection of songs thrown together.
Seven Pines is still my favorite track/song.
Looking forward to have them here again.

Sam Moss' coming album is pretty good too. http://sammoss.bandcamp.com/album/no-kingdom

there was new bachman track posted by PRTLZ https://soundcloud.com/prtls/daniel-bachman-we-would-be