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

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/

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cool friday is payday i'm gonna order something from tompkin's

Man, this time of year is tough with vacations/holidays/gifts, not sure when I am going to buy all the records I want to. Gotta give myself a gift card or something.

cool news -- new marisa anderson album: http://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/album/traditional-and-public-domain-songs-2

Oh yeah, gonna listen to this right now! Thanks Tyler.

Cool song, made me want to listen to "Mercury" again, which I am going to do.

Here is Daniel Bachman playing Kensington Blues by Jack Rose (RIP 2009-12-05)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DkWPYeblS4

Peace!

This is pretty endearing, posted by Nathan Bowles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=482GocrgP8s

soft abuse (my friend's label that put out the last bowles record) just put out a new record by a guy name matthew gennaro:

https://soundcloud.com/soft-abuse/matthew-de-gennaro-the-plumb

it's pretty cool...lots of drone fiddle...real sparse guitar picking...def on the more drone/experimental side of this thread...this song is among the more droney though, some stuff is a bit more american primitive

but either way cool worth checking out, support the label he's a cool guy!

damn, that is gorgeous, thanks for passing it along!

Uggh, my computer has been crap lately. Can't get that soundcloud to stream right now, but that sounds right up my alley. I own at least 3 or 4 Soft Abuse records I think, good label.

listening on spotify now, really nice

DeGennaro is great. Check out his earlier stuff: http://dyingforbadmusic.com/blog/post/2009/01/matthew-de-gennaro-under-sun-2002-5.html
Pretty nice Psych Folk.
In the same vein is early Brad Rose/Digitalis Ind. Project The North Sea - which turned after 2007 in some kind of (cosmic) synth noise.

Underneath the Jesus Tree and Exquisite Idols are recommended.
Similar also to the whole Jewelled Antler/Skygreen Leopards/Donovan Quinn family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0sL-RTm_q8

Could be Takoma/Fahey related in terms of using collage techniques/ragas/freeform guitar strumming :)

And talking about Soft Abuse.

Jeffery Davison played something by Langtry in one of hist last shows.
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/53106

It was released by Soft Abuse in 2005 and it's some dude from Iron & Wine.
Stream Snippets on Amazon: http://bit.ly/1cqQ5Ke
http://www.softabuse.com/catalog.php?catno=SAB007

It's not bad, but also not essential...

Finally got to listen to that DeGennaro song, really pretty stuff.

Hah nice, soundcloud went right to Herman Dune & Cerberus Shoal. Dig that record.

together? don't know that one but I love the 3 of 4 Cerberus Shoal records I have

Not sure they play together on many songs, but it was a split record: http://www.discogs.com/Cerberus-Shoal-Herman-D%C3%BCne-The-Whys-And-Hows-Of-Herman-Dune-And-Cerberus-Shoal/release/1322713

The John Fahey Movie/Documentary is on the BBC website for streaming:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03kw2g3/In_Search_of_Blind_Joe_Death_The_Saga_of_John_Fahey/
You need to tinker around with VPN/Proxy, if you sit outside of the UK. (Browserplugin like Hola or ZenMate should work). Good Luck (maybe it works for the US anyway)

Awesome thank you! Didn't know about Hola works great

Was Nick Schillace ever mentioned here?
I love his stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpoM2k9nrxI

He has 2 Solo Guitar records out:
http://nickschillace.bandcamp.com/album/box-canyon

He's now more active in the Folk duo Lac LaBelle.
I had the opportunity to see/meet him this year on a gig in Chicago.
It was fun to see them play.

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

http://www.laclabellemusic.com/

Nick Schillace also wrote his Master Thesis about Fahey.
It was a pretty enlightening read for me.
http://scribd.com/doc/105858632/Nick-Schillace-Master-Thesis

cheeers!

Yep I think he's come up... He's great

The Fahey Docu is now also on youtube for easier access:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wURop95fNEY

hi y'all, i don't post a lot in this thread but i just wanted to give respect and thanks for everyone that does. so much great stuff in here. i've long been a big fan of metzger, rose, basho-junghans, bishop, valentine, fahey, et al. and various other raga blues and this thread is very generous. thanks! maybe i'll try to post more.