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

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.

SBJ seems to have gone a bit quiet of late.

some weird unknown names to me in the wiki list. would almost make a viable poll.

i mean, who is norberto lobo?

he wins appreciative points for calling a piece "ayrton senna" as i have a weakness for musical compositions dedicated to sportsppl that i refuse to justify

there are the big names, some serious faheyites like charlie schmidt, andrew stranglen, ragtime ralph, and a lot of ppl who i feel may have added themselves. searching through their varied web presences is a study of tropes akin to the marketing of masculinity thread. just a bunch of guys in checked shirts, believing in the american primitive dream.

i sincerely hope with every fibre of my being that this is the same pat o'connell listed:

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

I recently came across the new Peter Walker at the record store. There was just one sealed copy, couldn't listen to it, and thought I had come to the conclusion that there wasn't anymore 'old' Walker to be released. Then I read the blurbs on the cover and it seemed like a songwriting kind of album, so wasn't sure what to expect at all. Thankfully I bought it regardless because of my handy giftcard. Didn't know how to take the vocals at first but it really grew on me, and the steel string playing is fairly darker feeling than his ecstatic nylon string raga albums from Vangaurd. Much of the playing rarely changes in feel throughout the whole thing but it is a sound that I can defiantly love for 45+ minutes.

Also, the short essay that comes in the sleeve is worth it on it's own too. I had no idea how integrated he was into certain groups and events that took place in the early 60s; was also surprising that he ventured into studying and practicing law after disappearing from the music world.

Streamable here:
http://delmorerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/has-anybody-seen-our-freedoms

That Peter Walker record is amazing. My favorite, total deconstruction of any rhyme measurement. So weird.

I really like that Green Glass song posted above, going to have to track that down at some point. Something about the tunings that guy uses, and his phrasing, that really resonates with me. I mean, I like bleak for sure, and his acoustic shit is doomy/heavy without using obvious (to me at least) tools to get there.

I also really enjoyed that M. Blue Smaldone electric tune! I am a fan of the Cerberus Shoal/Big Blood/Smaldone crew for sure (I lived in Portland, Maine for a couple of years) and I am glad they are still putting records out. Had no idea that that record existed though, had only heard the acousic Smaldone stuff. Reminds me of the Richard Thompson songs I have heard, any fans here should check it out.

that "new" peter walker is definitely pretty strange, but also great, I think. still trying to wrap my head around it actually.
listened to basho junghans' song of the earth over the weekend - man, that guy really needs to start making records again, he was way ahead of the curve. do we know why he hasn't done anything in a while? i know he suffered from carpal tunnel at some point...

Have to get to that Walker still, going to give it a listen today. Ogmor probably already suggested what happened to B. Junghans, but maybe he is just taking a break for a while. Maybe the time is ripe now for him to get something out.

pretty intriguing review of william tyler's full band show over the weekend:
"We heard lots of influences coming to the surface during Tyler’s set: the acerbic blues licks of Captain Beefheart’s Strictly Personal, The Byrds and the groove of Nashville ‘70s rock. Area Code 615 themselves — who of course played the tune "Stone Fox Chase" — would have been impressed by the combination of Tyler & Co.'s versions of Bobby Charles’ 1972 “Tennessee Blues” and Neu! guitarist Michael Rother’s 1977 “Karussell.” On the Charles tune, the band abstracted the original’s 6/8 groove, with Tyler showing off his ability to play skronk guitar. Essaying Rother’s kraut-rock classic, they emphasized the song’s melodic contours."

http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashvillecream/archives/2014/01/06/william-tyler-and-band-wadia-victoria-and-lylas-1413#more

Well that sounds pretty great. Hell yeah, hope recordings pop up.

Oh, btw Tyler, can get you a copy of the Bowles/Verrastro duo set from here in Charlottesville if you want it. Let me know how to get it to you (can put it up on soundcloud for a day or two or something ....)

I saw this guy William Rees last night, he was so full-on it was a bit fatiguing over time but it's nice stuff, kind of a James Blackshaw vibe where it leans much more Basho than it does blues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr9vR6KXfLw

Luke Hirst from the UK released a new digital album.
4 dark lengthy tracks.
http://lukehirst.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-the-hex
it's more consistent than the one from last year: http://lukehirst.bandcamp.com/album/farewell-adventures
which is good too and got also featured on the NPR's dude massive "american primitive" list (if that means something).

oldie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdjaoY7i7j0