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

voice of the 7 woods/thunders/rick tomlinson stuff is all good as much as i've heard
i like the more wacked out/plugged in songs best
as usual

yeah should say that clip is way more straight up acoustic than a lot of it which is more psychey and full band stuff...but it's all great imo

Man that Matthew Young album sounds right up my alley, thanks for posting that. Have been meaning to check out Rick Tomlinson in more detail as well, have not heard much at all but see him repped in lots of cool places. Definitely the feeling wacked out/plugged in side of this equation.

Tyler posted this before I think, and in some other channels recently, but these Zachary Cale covers are pretty damn cool. I especially like the Eno and country-shuffled/acoustic leaning take on the Stooges "1970". Sounds right in a lot of ways that covering the Stooges typically does not, i.e., he owns it in a cool way without it sounding that forced. Peter Laughner cover is great too, and probably suits Cale's voice best.

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2013/11/04/the-lagniappe-sessions-zachary-cale-brian-eno-the-stooges/

found an interview with Matthew Young...interesting guy! came from more of an electronic music background which kinda makes sense...disses Ween and Klaus Schultz!

http://www.longhousepoetry.com/young.html

Hah hah will check that out.

might just be the stuff on spotify but MV & EE ain't doing a whole lot for me. feel like there's a ton of kinda shambly neil young ppl out there that do this better and the singing isn't the best and not even in an interesting will oldham way

― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, November 18, 2013

it's not just you, I saw MV/EE live and hated them. never wanted to give the records a chance. just lazy, tuneless hippie wanking. feel free to point me to a Spotify link or whatever that can change my mind.

shout out to spottie who doesn't really post on the thread much anymore :( but just did a huge update of the spotify playlist :)

Glad to do it. A lot of the artists aren't available on Spotify but lemme know if I'm missing anything. You guys go at such a quick pace! So much info and quality links on a near daily basis. I've made so many discoveries here I don't even know where to begin to thank people.

I often just put that playlist on shuffle and let it ride for days at a time.

I play Solar Motel quite a bit.

Well, thanks from me as well Spottie for making this effort. I don't use Spotify too much, but this is the kind of thing it really does well. Plan to "let it ride" myself in the near future ....

putting spottie's list on shuffle makes me feel bad for clogging it up w/ early modern guitar transcriptions

John Mulvey, of Uncut magazine (which I hadn't really heard of until his stuff started getting re-tweeted/posted all over the place), has been repping for most stuff in this thread pretty hard, and he just posted an "Uncut playlist" that includes Rag Lore's (i.e., Neal Cassady) "Sabah el Mitragyna Reveries". Pretty cool:

http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/wild-mercury-sound/the-43rd-uncut-playlist-of-2013

yeah, i like john. one of us!

Seems like a nice dude, and certainly is putting this stuff out there. Have meant to post that "Marquee Moon"/"Sailor's Life" list somewhere. That was a fun exercise with some cool results.

yeah, absolutely. that is a "genre" i can get behind.
this might be a bit of an outlier for this thread, but it is an instrumental guitar-based album -- the Plankton Wat LP on Thrill Jockey.
https://soundcloud.com/thrilljockey/plankton-wat-empire-mines?in=thrilljockey/sets/thrill-jockey-tracks
Dude (real name Dewey Mahood) was (is?) in Eternal Tapestry. More Floyd than Fahey, but I've been enjoying it.

I've only heard a couple of tracks off of that record, and they were pretty cool. He was in Jackie-O Motherfucker when I saw them a bunch of years back as well I think, guy has been playing this kinda thing for a while. The acoustic on that song is nice, and not outside the wheelhouse of this thread at all. I should try to listen to that whole thing.

yeah, that track is good, though I actually think it's better listened to as a whole -- don't know if there's a "standout" song, but the album has a great vibe/atmosphere overall.

Ahh cool, will add it to the pile. Definitely felt that way about the D. Paul Grody album, it was like a long song-suite to me.

just got wind of this

Black Dirt Oak
Wawayanda Patent
MIE
13 January 2014
MIE has cast a harvest wreath upon our season's door, a deceptively intricate record woven like a spell by many interlocked arms and voices: a welcome hex.

Featuring Steve Gunn (GHQ, Desert Heat, Violators), Nathan Bowles (Pelt, Black Twig Pickers), Jimy SeiTang (Rhyton, Stygian Stride, Psychic Ills), Justin Tripp (Georgia, Steve Gunn), Margot Bianca (Flown, Key Demo), Dave Shuford (Rhyton, D. Charles Speer, NNCK), and Wednesday Knudsen (Pigeons, Sea Donkeys), Black Dirt Oak's Wawayanda Patent is a song sung from a splintered Ouija board, a mass Shaker gift-drawing, a truly exquisite corpse. All these musicians have been fixtures at this rural studio west of New York City for years, but never so integrated as in this bizarre working. With songs that seem both plant and animal, this music splices many logics into a trembling unity. Without a doubt, an alkaloid-laden root is cellared down in Jason Meagher's Black Dirt Studio. To drop the needle onto this record is to slice across its concentric spheres. The fumes instigate fever dreams: Arco banjo strings and horns spiral like vines and gently strangle steeples erected by drum machines, leaving a skyline of electrified maypoles twinkling in the dark. Hands clasp and graft synthetic and old-world strains into an agrarian wish. The plant leafs out, flowers, fruits, and then sinks silvery seeds back into the rot. Someone plucks a song out in processional cadence only to fall backwards into a seance, channeling creation myths aloft in winds of disembodied voices. The harmonics float down and shroud the earth in breathable fabrics, tenderly draped over dead electronics like stainless skeletons half-buried in dirt, grinning to expose a circuitry of gold fillings amidst the teeth. To describe this music is to clog a drain with hair. You can see what repeated listenings do. I've flooded my bath.

To be sure, each musician has left her telltale fingerprints all over this record; however, the patterns are spun around an entirely different magnetic north, or maybe an underworld passage where the pole should be: Bowles blankets SeiTang's synthesized landforms in wet forests of frailed banjo, wooded hollows haunted by Bianca's porcelain song. Their impossible horizon melts with a setting inner sun that turns out to be Knudsen's sax. Meagher spins the whole like a glass witch ball, the distended interior described by Tripp's geomantic figures, the crystalline surface etched by Shuford's acid. Gunn delicately suspends the microcosm by a golden thread... and then they all trade places without us even noticing. Familiar sounds are put to unfamiliar tasks. While the music was germinated in the protected warmth of this cellar, pressing up against those walls are ten-thousand hectacres of soaked earth, the drained and fertile remainder of ancient swamplands known as the Wawayanda Patent: soil fat with sulfuric allums, tubers, and now this occult growth, uprooted from below Orange County's sun-soaked surface. Ingest with care.

-Rob Smith (Pigeons, Rhyton)

well shit

i really liked pigeons first album haven't heard them since

that's some album writeup!

pigeons are great imo. underrated band.

Hah hah, that looks great to me, but I think N. Bowles himself told me about this at one point and merely described it as "doofy". I am having trouble imagining that it is doofy, but you never know. Didn't realize N. Bowles had played with Pigeons until recently.

First track from the forthcoming Steve Gunn & Mike Gangloff record is being floated around. Mike is on tanpura on this track, which is always such a cool sounding instrument, and Steve just lays down some pretty loose playing over the top. Definitely sounds like a late-night recording session or something, nice:

https://soundcloud.com/#importantrecords/steve-gunn-mike-gangloff-worry

cool back and forth interview with William Tyler and Doug McCoombs of Tortoise/Brokeback/11th Dream Day....not surprised to hear that young William was a big Tortoise fan:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/doug-mccombs-interviews-william-tyler/Content?oid=11590541

gunn-gangloff tune sounds nice! hard to keep up with these dudes. but i do like the approach, with this and the Black Dirt Oak thing and the Desert Heat EP... more of a jazz approach, getting players in the same room and seeing what happens.

I think these dudes have trouble keeping up with themselves. I am a big fan of putting players in a room and seeing what happens, seems to pay big dividends with a lot of these folks. Hit the Tom Carter & Bardo Pond collaboration today, and it similarly delivers as an example of getting the right folks in a room together and seeing what happens.

in kind of a melancholy pre-holiday mood today and remembering that the fahey xmas records are some of my favorites by him

i found an album by M. Mucci the other day, Time Lost. it's pretty sweet. never heard of him aside from him being mentioned in that american primitive post on total vibration that was linked upthread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U240SJk6m9A

link to his site:

http://mmucci.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c80pa9lCFjQ

^ this is hilarious, apologies if old

ha, that's excellent.

are there many people in the vague scene that this thread is about doing john martyn-style effects laden stuff? if there's anyone who's approximating stuff like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X5qDeK3siw

then i'm there.

love the moving capo vid! love john martyn, especially his echoplex stuff. don't know much which is close to that, yr either moving towards an ash ra new age place w/ mark mcguire or someone or someone improv like david daniell.

has anyone else noticed that noel akchote seems to have released about 30 albums this year?

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

-or someone

one guy who i think was quite john marytn influenced is nigel mazlyn jones who might be a wee bit too prog for some but here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjRaLI7m0fk

not sure if it comes across in his playing, but forsyth was raving about this wacky john martyn on a beach in the early 90s video recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVjEERe1UqU
it is pretty killer

whoa at the martyn capo thing! listening to the studio version i always just thought they'd sped up the tape to get that pitch change. looks like that's from the same show where you get his comedy stylings prior to a very nice solid air.

Nigel Mazyln dude sounds like a cross between John Martyn and Bobb Trimble. I'm not hatin' it!

Hey, does anyone know what sorta effect he's using at around 1:40, where the strings ring out and there's a sorta synth pad-y sound underneath?

Really digging the new Nathan Salsburg album on No Quarter. Two vocal tracks (both excellent) but the rest instrumental. Pretty far from the Fahey style - very busy left hand, very soft touch - but that won't keep reviewers from comparing him to Fahey, of course. Only comparison my wife and I could come up with while listening to it last night was Frisell, which is still kinda way off.

Last open mic I went to dude rocked 2 capos at once

damn that is some open mic swagger.
salsburg makes me think of the nic jones style of playing mostly, but yeah, i really love that new album. definitely more polished than some of the stuff here, but lots of lovely moments.

btw, sir richard bishop just dropped four (!) new albums (download only) over here -- http://deliradio.com/sir-richard-bishop
haven't listened yet, but I'm going to check them out. was just thinking it had been a quiet year from him....

haha, "Nile (Music For Dance) is 35 minutes worth of a slow, two-chord middle eastern groove. so good.

Hiowdy!!! Ragtime Ralph here...thank you for the positive posts...I'm still playing lots...I'll be 62 in March...I play slower now because I gave up fingerpicks because they were aggavating my tendonitis...currently I am playing lots of slack key and Hawai'ian guitar...which I plan to record soon under the title "Haole Blues"...In the last few years I've played in New York at the release party for the Dust To Digital Fahey Fonotone box set where I met my hero Joe Bussard...played in Portland, Oregon at a Fahey birthday celebration...and in Kona, Hawai'i at Humpys Bar while we were on vacation...currently
(since 2001) I am playing Dix...an early '30s Regal wood bodied resonator which suits my guitar needs perfectly!!!

Cheers! Blind Brand X/Ragtime Ralph/RC Johnston.

Hey Ralph / RC - love all the stuff of yours that Delta Slider has posted. Glad you're still playing, too! is there a reason those recordings you did for takoma haven't been issued officially ever? they are fantastic.

also! darn good bachman track over here - http://www.thefader.com/2013/11/25/stream-daniel-bachmans-coming-home-the-first-release-of-new-labelpublication-singles-club/
part of a new singles club kinda thing: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/singles-club/singles-club-record-club-and-music-journal

Hi Ralph, love your music!

yeahhhh your post had me listening to vol. 4 this morning. seriously a classic LP! why hasn't some label put this out on vinyl?

salsburg is a player for sure

I came to John Schott's blog via the books on music thread--he's very well-read, but also, dig this post, re his fellow Bay Area guitarists of the 90s (Duck Baker plays Herbie Nichols, on Spinning Songs, yesss! Tracks I've heard are so down-to-earth dazzling---in effect, both acoustic and electric, whether plugged-in or not) http://www.johnschott.com/2011/09/07/95/