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

clip of that neu cover posted upthread, it is killlller

edd hurt! great piece on walker & "neo-revelationist rock archaeology and old-fashioned astrology" is very otm about tyler

i think the winter twilight put me in the mood but i really liked yr set grandavis, v elegant tho the chugging caught me a bit offguard (mb more [ sub ] bass wld lend it extra mass?). indignant local feebs are funny but it's not like yr trolling the audience. hopefully it was educational.

wow grandavis - the teens were really yukking it up huh? geez. i thought you meant the light giggling, but then the boy teen was like LOLOLOLOL
how rude -- i love that it gets all heavy right after that. a+!

Hah thanks folks. I do not blame the teens, I mean I am not a young looking dude and I was up there making high-pitched feedback on purpose. Most likely they hadn't seen much like it before, plus they were there hanging out in mixed company etc., I am sure it was all angsty/nervous behavior. They stayed though, most likely because of the heavy part!

Ogmor, I rarely go for "chuggy" stuff (hopefully comes across not quite chuggy but more just a change of pace kind of thing, but I get the descriptor) but I also try not to just play pretty all the time. I agree though, my amp doesn't put out much bass, so it doesn't have much heft. Mainly I like the unstable quality of the notes when I add the low octaves, the way the low notes fail at times etc. Just an effect I like. The teens are into sub-bass apparently though, based on the lines for any EDM/"dubstep" shows that get booked here (which all the sudden are all the time), so maybe I need to incorporate more of it to pull in the youth demographic!

Jokes aside though, thanks for listening.

imo chug and choogle away, experimental guitar players!

seriously the combo of experimentation and earthy chug is a very pleasant one imo.

Edd, that Walker piece is great! What an interesting guy, seems to have had a full life for sure (and all that detail in a pretty short piece too).

Also completely cosign that Rother cover from W. Tyler band. Would love to see that live, great band sound.

I am glad that I have the La Lechera demographic on board btw.

I love the idea of you harnessing dubstep dynamics & kids turning up at gigs to goad you until you unleash The Drop & they can gleefully stomp around

Gonna need some humbuckers I think, maybe downtune some more (only at D-flat right now).

Light in the Attic is reissuing Peter Walker's 1968 "Song for Karmela" in early March. Very different from the newly issued 1970 music, and more in line with the main stream of "American primitive" (and raga-influenced) guitar pieces. Nice stuff, and I also referenced his 1967 Rainy Day Raga, for my piece. Apparently the long-lost jam stuff Tompkins Sq. issued on Walker was more of a jam session.

been listening to Vol 6: Days Have Gone By by Fahey a lot lately

it's an interesting album
feels transitional...like the threads of his music are starting to fray and drift off into the ether sometimes

Peter Walker's in Baltimore Saturday night at the Windup Space

Whoa, gotta tell my buddy that just moved to Baltimore to check that out. He will be psyched.

New Bums - new project by Ben Chasny of Six Organs and Donovan Quinn who put out a really nice singer songwriter record called Your Wicked Man a few years ago on Soft Abuse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78dObGiUYPc

Just going to repost this here for you UMS (there was a little New Bums action above):

"Coming to your neck of the woods too I think UMS: http://first-avenue.com/event/2014/04/newbums";

Commercial for the record is cool though! They have made videos and everything for this record. One of my favorite Six Organs shows was when he played a whole set of solo acoustic and had Donovan Quinn opening.

amazingly i have weaseled my way into opening for new bums in april out here in Denver. Forces At Work's first gig outside of my basement omg.

Aww cool Tyler! Hope it goes well.

Also UMS, wasn't trying to point out that we were talking about New Bums upthread, just wanted to make sure that you see that they are hitting your neck of the woods up on this tour.

not familiar w/ quinn, but i love this new bums thing, so I should definitely check him out.

I think he was in Skygreen Leopards at some point, and his solo stuff that I've heard is pretty cool, but I should dig deeper as well.

this is one off your wicked man...this one has kind of a nikki sudden vibe....sometimes i get a go-betweens vibe from him as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FHYzFzo6vg

yeah the new bums has a heavy nikki sudden/dave kusworth vibe (and they cover sudden on their single).

yeah i score an original press twin/tone of that album a couple years ago, pretty psyched

New Bums now streaming. Haven't listened yet but going to tune in today:

http://pitchfork.com/advance/327-voices-in-a-rented-room/

just book my first official "show"! 4/20, an auspicious day

i found a nice copy of that donovan quinn LP last night, really enjoying it

Cool UMS, hope it goes well. Still some time to learn Bob Marley and Grateful Dead covers ....

are you going under your given name or Blind M@tt Death

omg

Hah!

tyler i'm getting p tempted to take yr advice

u gotta market this shit, build up the mystique
http://www.mainspringpress.com/masked.jpg

Do it UMS!

I had a band that for at least a day considered calling itself "The Azalea City Penis Club" (we had probably had too much to drink that night ....), but lo and behold someone has already gone and done it.

I guess this New Bums record is gonna be the closest thing to new Skygreen Leopards as we're gonna ever get. Fuckin miss you Skygreen Leopards! Glenn D. posted some unreleased Leopards song to youtube a couple months back, can't find it again for the life of me.

Has there been any Willie Lane talk here? I hope he comes out with a third release this year for his house label, Cord-Art. A follow up to "Guitar Army of One" would be much anticipated and I'm real curious to see where he's been zoning lately.

not familiar with him

Record I am currently in love with:

Bola Sete - Ocean

friend of mine had a extra copy and gave it to me...this is one produced by Fahey. Was released on Takoma but - PRO TIP: It was reissued on the Windham Hill subsidiary Lost Lake Arts on vinyl in the 80s, and that version is usually cheaper because it's not Takoma, and also anyone who has ever bought a Windham Hill record know they pressed the most HQ vinyl ever and let's not even get the VAPORS talking about those amazing Windham Hill plastic inner sleeves! *fans face*

anyway Sete's awesome, and this is a little more expansive than the stuff I'd heard before which was amazing but def more bossa nova and conventional....anyway this is a just a flat out gorgeous record and I def can see why he was a guitarist that Fahey held in the highest regard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLYNipN6CEo

yeah that is a desert island album for me. beautiful, effortless record, incredibly memorable, something really positive & generous about it too.

yeah it generally makes me feel happier after i'm done listening than i was before i listened to it

gah, that sounds great, i need to get into bola sete. otm about those sweet windham hill plastic sleeves, they just feel so right.

ok i had to put it on. just harmonically & melodically lush and gorgeous. the whole record is like one long contented sigh. it's very intimate & has real ebb&flow, where he will cautiously advance something and then back away again into the shadows. I think this album fulfilled fahey's ambition of solo concert guitar better than any of fahey's albums, the way it very gently creates so much space, the ability to create separate parts. there's a lot of definition, call&response, beautiful tunes suddenly cascading out over the top of pieces. 'expansive' is definitely right, he is a great player & a really great arranger, the bossa nova technique is just slowed and opened up, which is a lot less cluttered than fahey or basho's finger-picking pattern reductio ad absurdum monstrosities. playing on a classical guitar helps this too, he has great tone & gets really good bass... the fluttering hammer-ons. so many fantastic bass parts. you can really hear his influence over late 70s&80s fahey. very much a good thing. says a lot about fahey that he adapted so well, his version of ocean waves is really good.

sete's version is much better though. he's very direct, very dynamic. none of this slow build-up biz that so many guitarists like, just straight in, back, then again. also really good at deploying slides. & stillness. this record is so full of subtle richness, chords that are just not exactly what you'd expect, but it really works. heard jungle suite/shambhala moon first but didn't get as into it as this. crystal garden sounds really good though.

summary: djalma de andrade was one of the best things to ever happen to the guitar

Apologies in advance but I'm gonna step into the middle of this Sete talk. But those who love getting temporarily far away from un-effected guitar, and haven't heard Willie Lane yet, are in dire need of grabbing his work.

Willie is kinda like the unheralded king of that small niche in pedal ridden, post-sandy bull psych zones, his work is released very sporadically but each of his three solo full lengths have been met with huge love.

His last two vinyl full lengths have been self releases, and it's fairly amazing that his stuff has been kept under the soil and aren't massively distributed. He's got a fair amount of allusive qualities to his appearances and sound as a whole. Along with what's below, I suggest his newest Cord-Art release, and a duo recording under the moniker Slurp Dogs that was put to tape by Bart at Sloow Tapes.

http://assets.boomkat.com/images/414131/333.jpg
Willie Lane - Recliner Ragas (Child of Microtones, 2006, CDR, OOP
This was recently re-released on vinyl by Rafi Bookstaber's (of Death Chants) Humito house label.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RB8n_Yb4fmA/T87Hkr13IvI/AAAAAAAAAAM/YKmOJFFaFSk/s320/knownquantity.jpg
Willie Lane - Known Quantity (Cord-Art, 2009, LP, OOP)
One of 2009's best**

Tiny Mix Tapes Interview with Willie Lane

I like the juke joint guitarist willie lane, will have to see if I have room in my heart for a second guitarist w/ that name

Hah, yes the country blues Willie Lane is great. But this other Willie Lane is from a different planet.

Thanks for posting those Neal, been meaning to check more W. Lane out for a bit so I'll dig into these this week.

For anyone on the fence, I saw Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band on Saturday and can say that they were really good to great for the whole set. It was the first night of tour, and there were a couple of tech issues, but they seemed pretty seemlessly "on" to me. I imagine that by show three or four they are going to be really cooking. The new song I heard sounded like a mix of Mission of Burma's "All World Cowboy Romance" with some of the sweeter bluesy riffs from Led Zeppelin circa Presence, which for me is a pretty nice sweet-spot of guitar action (C. Forsyth copped to the MoB feel of the song, was definitely on board with that description). Really nice guys too.

Unfortunately my buddy who records all of the good shows here in town could not get out of his driveway, so no boots of this one.

a mix of Mission of Burma's "All World Cowboy Romance" with some of the sweeter bluesy riffs from Led Zeppelin circa Presence

^^jesus h. christ grandavis you might have just hit on a formula for my absolute ideal rock music

liked that interview w/willie lane

did some recording this weekend. the first thing is probably the first time i got close to a *sound* that i was looking for, in terms of recording, some kind of distinctive quality to the way everything sounds...it's guitar, open C9 tuning, it's on the high strings so it sounds like plinky and almost banjo-like, i think this is my most successful recording as recording, could be played a bit better but oh well

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/c9-drone

second, i'm always sort of afraid of failing as a player so i'm trying to do some more improv stuff where i'm not mapping out everything so explicitly...always been kinda scared of impov but i think this actually turned out pretty well, has it's moments i think

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/guitar-improvisation-1

and here's an electronic drone/ambient thing i did for no reason at all

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/worker-drone-1

Damn UMS, not at a place where I can listen right now but look forward to those! I am actually more scared of playing tunes straight (cause you know exactly when you flub something) than improv, which I do all the time. Trying myself to get better at just playing straight-composed stuff, i.e., having some discipline.

And yeah, that new Chris Forsyth song had me pretty psyched. Probably indicative of the direction they are going in, as it would have been written with the whole band as opposed to him solo. They have a great group sound live, and the other guitar player, Paul Sukeena, played some truly great solos/parts, truly a dual-guitar band.

bought my ticket because i had forgotten that mind over mirrors is opening
now i'm excited!