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

Hah!

lol no, I just got a spare download voucher for the Gangloff record tyler was asking about.

oh hey just saw this -- thanks, but i ordered the album!

& if there's one band I know for a fact is ok w/ the bootlegs it's the feelies

hey that new Danial Bachman single that I got as a freebie with my LP is also really nice, in case anybody was wondering - pressing is a bit dodgy but that might be cuz both sides are around 6 minutes at 45 rpm.

"Daniel"

oh hey just saw this -- thanks, but i ordered the album!

it is a beautiful piece of vinyl imo so i think you did the right thing!

The cover for that Gangloff record is really cool as well, bet it looks great in person.

it is lovely - blackest rainbow do some really great sleeves

It is the same artist that did the Pelt "Effigy" cover, Mike probably pulled him in for this as well. Think Jake Blanchard is his name, but it is cool stuff.

Like that Evandro Dresch tune posted above. Especially dig the central "riff" it keeps returning to.

just backing up re: linda cohen -- yes! she's great! her albums are not hard to find cheap, i feel like i see leda and lake of light all the time.. but she is dope! p sure scott seward is a fan.

internet tells me that one of the guys from the mandrake memorial plays on her records. neat. i guess. those mandrake memorial LPs never hit me right. i liked songs on 'em but never the whole thing. i dunno..

Had a feeling you would have some info about this Ian. What I have been able to hear from "Leda" I really liked (obviously), which do you think is better, "Leda" or "Lake of the Light"? Probably pretty similar I would guess, but still what a weird/cool sound she has. I have a friend who buys a ton of records (to sell) on the lookout, but maybe I'll go digging for it myself.

Related to this, do you have any insider info on good record stores in Nashville? The only ones I have been to are pretty pricey, and mainly carried a lot of country (some of it great, but not what I am generally looking for). My wife's family lives there and we will probably try to get out of the house for a bit, so record hunting may be on tap.

speaking of thread appropriate Lindas...LInda Thompson has a new record out and it's really fantastic! Richard plays on it a bit, plus their son on some tracks and a bunch of real great players

wonderful songs and she's still in good voice...production is clear as a bell, unfussy, and very classic feeling

Still gotta go deeper down the R. & L. Thompson rabbit hole.

yeahhh, need to check out the new Linda Thompson record, keep forgetting about it.
Linda Cohen tracks sound very cool!
Have we talked about Mary Lattimore's album? She plays the harp, but I think it fits in here, some stuff sounds kinda Basho-y: http://www.desirepathrecordings.com/releases/mary-lattimore-the-withdrawing-room/
Super beautiful.

Who's that transgender NYC harpist? Saw her open for grant hart... was pretty cool

Baby Dee maybe?

Lattimore track in that link is really nice. Harp is such a cool instrument, especially when handled well (can be corny/too precious sometimes). Pairing it with some analogue synth is a good move. Think she and the synth dude are linked above in a jam with Chris Forsyth (which you may also have posted Tyler). Actually, this shares some DNA with that Linda Cohen stuff, maybe that is what you were getting at!

yes! baby dee!

Cause it is that time of year, and I went ahead and submitted this for Ned's "Boughs of LOLly" ILM comp, going to go ahead and put this here too. My attempt at playing a song pretty straight ("Silent Night"). I have barely learned any "traditional tunes" in my life, enjoyed it way more than I thought I would:

https://soundcloud.com/#nedraggett/grandavis-silent-night?in=nedraggett/sets/the-ilx-christmas-compilation

Duet for electric guitar and sleeping aid/noise generator.

that was lovely, nicely done!

ha! i was gonna do "silent night" for ned's thing too then i got lazy

wow yours is great glad i didn't do it

Thanks dudes, was the only thing I could imagine getting together and doing in a style I was comfortable with, whatever that style is. Felt like forcing myself to learn something though, I have been trying to imagine writing stuff (instead of improvising), so this was an exercise in thinking that way. Would have liked to have heard yours UMS!

yeah maybe i will, i bought this fingerstyle instructional book at a used book store and they had a nice arrangement of it that i learned for fun, but the way the guy arranged it was actually pretty cool, very minimal

Obviously I chose the minimal approach as well, usually the way to go. I like "stately" takes on this kinda thing, if that makes sense.

Linda Cohen is great!

One of my favorite release this year is definitely Micah Blue Smaldone's The Ring of The Rise.
It's more singer-songwriter stuff, but he appeared also on the Imaginational Anthems Compilation and the Open String compilation, so you can definitely count him to the open-tuning-steel-string-pickers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MMs6WrtMTw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a92eXWCL5aM

nice, thanks for the recs, nikolaus, don't think you've steered me wrong yet.
and yeah, i'm really enjoying the linda cohen! the mix of classical guitar + analog synth-iness is fantastic. so this has never been reissued or anything?

@tylerw thanks, neither did you! :)

if you have some time over the holidays, there is this music documentary "Behind The Hills" about the New England Psych Folk scene including MV&EE, Sunburned Hand of a Man, Big Blood and more.
Mica Blue Smaldone is somehow part of this (Tour with Asa Irons, split record with Big Blood)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL93FF2967E4C83A78&v=xrLn5TOZSjU

http://behindahill.com/

got the DL for the new marisa anderson record, LP is in the mail -- sounds so great, she has such a cool tremelo/distortion thing happening.

Here is Green Glass aka Zachary Hay.
I mentioned this earlier referring to Bronze Horse and The Dove Azima

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nDiD9A88rM

Bleak.

Took a day off to compile my Best Of 2013 list, if anybody interested in:
http://www.dyingforbadmusic.com/blog/post/2013/12/dfbm-61-best-of-2013-part-ii-folk-edition.html
It's maybe nothing on there that wasn't already discussed or mentioned here or in other places... but maybe you just like to listen to this 3 hours program of american-country-psych :)
http://8tracks.com/loveyourlocalhonk/dfbm-61-best-of-2013-folk-edition

Been away for a while, a bit of catching up to do here. I posted about Tashi Dorji above, who is an acoustic player out of Asheville, NC, that I really like, but here is Ben Chasny's take. Ben always nails things pretty well, so I like this description of Tashi's playing quite a bit:

This guy is my favorite acoustic guitar player right now. He doesn't play the same old Takoma re-hash finger picking patterns that are so popular nowadays. Tashi takes a point on the guitar and explores it inside and out, plucking, scraping and sometimes integrating beautiful cascading arpeggios. There's something about his playing that makes me smile every time I hear it. Every once in a while he'll pull a move that makes you realize, "this guy has crazy chops" and then he'll move into pure sound. Wonderful.

From Ben's top 10 list for Filter: http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/filters_top_10_of_2013_ben_chasny_of_new_bums_six_organs_of_admittance

hey thanks for that, some good recommendations there that I hadn't picked up on yet

Ben is a knowledgable and no-nonsense kind of guy, pretty much trust his takes on most things (though he can be a hardliner for certain things). Still, I think Dorji is a really interesting player, think he will start bubbling up in a lot of places before too long.

no-nonsense is right, i recall reading him saying some quite harsh things about his own output which mirrored thoughts i'd had & i think it's hard not to warm that self-awareness. tashi dorji is my fav thing from this thread so far i think.

it gets said quite a lot but for octavio paz by chasny [as six organs of admittance] is one of the classic solo guitar lps

Nothing of Chasny's hits me as hard as For Octavio Paz, personally, though I do like plenty of his other records (School of the Flower has been doing it for me lately). But yeah, he is not precious about anything, certainly not his own playing.

Really hope to see T. Dorji play live, I will certainly report back if I do so. Seems like the kind of playing that would be pretty striking in person.

ha someone else was just talking up tashi dori to me, saw him open for bachman a little while back. will check it out!
that Alan Licht thing Chasny mentions sounds interesting.
and speaking of Ben, it's not really for this thread, but the New Bums LP is fantastic, really really good.

I enjoyed New Bums live, was pretty charming and low-key. I like that Licht record a lot, but I am a Licht solo fan generally. It is definitely maximal, some real aggressive electric tones on there.

xxp yeah improv guitar technique can be v engaging, exciting little moments &c. I saw tetuzi akiyama play acoustic to about five people in the upstairs room of a bar, at one point slowly leaning in to the mic droning bass till he found the sweet spot of resonance where the many windows in the place buzzed and shook, before slowly leaning back & carrying on playing pretty

i fell asleep while watching tetuzi akiyama until he took out his electric and started playing stuff from that don't forget to boogie album (i think? like that) and it was so loud that i could feel it in my teeth

The manipulation of sound in improv is completely my thing, and the different ways people do it, especially with acoustics, is always fascinating to me. Never had a chance to see Akiyama, but seems like a must-see to me if I get a chance.

Chasny has pulled that droning acoustic trick a couple of times when I have seen him live, it's a good one.

xxp haha, i generally like him as quiet as possible, but i love his deafening hendrixisms too

grandavis you'd definitely enjoy him. steffen basho-junghans too, if yr in europe or something, probably the most amazing technique i've seen

also i don't really want to discuss the ham-fisted reification of "American Primitivism" but the list at the end of this is sort of interesting at least - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Primitivism

I have to thank you for getting me more into Basho-Junghans, I went on a few listening sprees last year but of course have not seen him in person. Would love to see him live for sure.