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

yep! sounds cool

Welcomed Wherever I Go

by Glenn Jones
Thrill Jockey
Thrill 367 - 2014
Glenn Jones has emerged as a clear leader in the new wave of American Primitive music for solo acoustic guitar. Many have mentioned his friendship with the late John Fahey, the genre’s progenitor and demigod, but Glenn’s music is truly all his own. His pensive sentimentality and playful spirit, not to mention his innovative technique, have become just as ingrained into the style’s DNA as any hallmarks of the original Takoma school. Welcomed Wherever I Go is a collection of live numbers, one featuring fellow guitarist Cian Nugent, and one forgotten tune recorded, speculatively, during the 2007 sessions for Jack Rose’s Dr. Ragtime and His Pals.

“Island III” and “Against My Ruin” were both originally recorded for Glenn’s 2007 album Against Which the Sea Continually Beats, and were subsequently played live as a medley. The recording that appears on Welcomed Wherever I Go was recorded in December of 2011 at the well-loved and now shuttered Brooklyn club Zebulon. “From A Lost Session” was a recording lost to time until Glenn discovered an unmarked CD-R in his archives, presumably during that classic session with Jack Rose. It is a particularly meditative track for Glenn, in a minor key with an incessant pedal tone not unlike Rose’s pieces of the same era. The entire b-side of the release is occupied by a live take of “The Orca Grande Cement Factory at Victorville,” a duet with similarly innovative guitarist Cian Nugent. Glenn will only play the song live in duet settings where the second musician has little to no preparation or coaching, letting them add to his instrumental musings, ignore them, or destroy them completely. Nugent’s interpretation leans more toward the former.

Welcomed Wherever I Go is being released in a limited edition, vinyl-only format for Record Store Day 2014. Glenn will be doing limited touring in 2014, mostly in support of a new biography on John Fahey by Steve Lowenthal.

yarr, that does sound good.

glenn touring for lowenthal's fahey biography is typically heroic, he's done more than anyone to carry the flame, nothing but <3

wait there's a spotify for this thread??

People on this thread should take note of the new Stein Urheim album, it is mindblowing. Could also be relevant on the psyche/drone thread but I noticed this one first.

I've just had a listen to that, xelab - really good. Reminded me of Big Jim and Terje Rypdal, but really striking and bold. Nice. Hubro is generally a really high quality label.

saw cian nugent open for angel olsen earlier this week -- totally great! would've loved to see the full band thing, but the songs from born with the caul actually translate very nicely in the solo setting. also did michael hurley's "eyes eyes" which was awesome.

Still sorry I missed Cian in my town, but apparently his set got really shortened due to the other acts on the bill (he was added last minute so I don't blame the other acts, but still). Very cool he did a Hurley cover, sounds like a good time.

angel is coming to mpls but cian is not on this leg :(

would have gone but i think i'm gonna opt for tinariwen who is coming to the same venue a few weeks later

angel was killer too. cian said he was hooking up for some dates w/ ryley walker on his way back to Chicago, so he may be popping up in some more places...

yeah i just only have so much money and i've missed Tinariwen a bunch of times, feel like a group i should see once in my life

wait there's a spotify for this thread??

― gbx, Monday, March 10, 2014 4:28 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, been a little behind but it's now updated:
http://open.spotify.com/user/theshipment/playlist/2WNjL5jGiUHaSu5CFkN9Xg

I recently finished editing and mixing the next album for my Rag Lore project.
It'll be available as a limited tape pressed by Cabin Floor Esoterica.
Those that follow tape labels may know of Cabin Floor; really really great stuff there.

It isn't out yet and probably won't be for another 3-4 weeks.
But I wanted to share it here to get a bit of feedback from you guys.
You can stream the A side of the 40min cassette over at my bandcamp:
Rag Lore - Misr Environs: Cairo Road Recordings and Other Half Truths

that long post has left me very curious about this, field recordings of the call to prayer & basically ambient guitar couldn't really be any more my thing, will send you an email

Nice write-up Neal, sounds like a great idea for a recording, look forward to hearing it.

Digging "Since the Devil Is Gone" this am:

http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/2014/03/luke-hirst-breaking-hex.html?spref=tw

Nice little piece by our man Tyler here running down some upcoming releases from some old-school heavies, Bikoff, Tausig, and Suni McGrath, with songs from each of 'em.

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2014/03/18/return-of-the-repressed-new-work-from-don-bikoff-harry-taussig-and-suni-mcgrath/

Happy to see folks like this get back on the wagon, as I am turning into an old man on whatever scene I am on myself, so I find it immensely inspiring seeing musicians older than myself putting out good records and playing shows.

heyyy, yeah, these are all quite good! The McGrath one is maybe a bit dodgy at points, but has its moments. The Taussig one gets pretty raw at times, almost Orcutt-ian!

this is cool - Dakota Dave is a Mpls folk scene stalwart!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/608952014/classic-american-ragtime-guitar

fun fact: peter lang was telling me if i ever wanted to get acrylic nails for performing, he has a vietnamese woman that dakota dave hull taught how to do fingerpicking nails "the right way" and she's the fake nail jump-off for all the twin cities old timey music O.Gz

haha, sounds like a slippery slope, dude, be careful! "I started out just listening to Fahey records every now and again and before I knew it this Vietnamese woman was making me acrylic nails."

lol tyler.

i keep thinking about going to that lady. but i don't wanna have to like, shake someone's hand for work and have to explain american primitivism to someone asking about why i'm wearing fake nails

you guys need ilx's in orbit to make you some cool fake nails!

I'm just gonna dissolve my fingertips off and play with my fingerbones

no, don't do that! ~check it out~
http://www.etsy.com/shop/LiabilityNails

in other news, i have managed to play along somewhat passably with a roy montgomery song :D

too late. That wasn't pleasant!

i guess you can't use your finger bone nubs to press rewind on your life and not do that
might as well invest in some falsies!

here here for the long nailed freaks. i recently grew out mine and it sure gets a laugh between my wife and housemates when i break out the filer. i think it does help if you only have the thumb, index, and middle finger long. it helps explain it a little better than your entire hand looking weird.

my old roommate majored in jazz guitar at our university and throughout the classical guitar class, growing out your nails was a requirement. the professor passed on info about trying to avoid water when you can, haha. on the mornings that he had a recital, he would have to shower with his right hand hanging out of the curtain to avoid getting it wet. it is really helpful tip though, but those classical guys take it to extremes. i guess it is nice for certain people out in public to look at us and assume we are proficient classical guitar players! rather than just a fumbling mess around-er who is scared of standard tuning :)

Probably old news by now, but this new William Tyler track is lush: http://www.stereogum.com/1670738/william-tyler-whole-new-dude/mp3s/

sounds awesome, kind of a richard thompson tone happening at parts. excited that the rother cover is getting a release.

i didn't know that was out

yeah dig it! seems like a natural extension of where he seemed to be headed with the more elaborate (relatively) impossible truth (in comparison to behold the spirit)

he's got a good band sounds like

Looking forward to a band reworking of "We Can't Go Home Again", love that track

Nice group sound for sure, sounds like some of the O'Rourke stuff at times just in instrumentation/approach (end of Gastr's "Bauchredner" etc.), though maybe it's just the pedal-steel. Damn I love pedal-steel in the right context. Also reminds me in sound of my man Colin Langenus's Colin L. Orchestra at times (which a great track "You Need Sleep" is posted somewhere up above here, well worth revisiting if you want lush guitar/pedal-steel kraut-country leanings). Definitely interested to hear the W. Tyler full band sound over the length of a record. I assume it is a whole record of it, not just an isolated track, anyone know for sure?

Also, I love the hell out of "Bauchredner":

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

Yeah love that Colin L Orchestra, just a good rock album even beyond the 'country kraut' stuff

Yeah, Colin is great. Varied and weird guy, but a really good guitar player too.

Plankton Wat is so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, that new one is great - totally got the Popol Vuh thing down, but it's varied enough to be enjoyable on its own terms. Gotta get his other records.

BTW ilx brigade showcase this Thursday in MPLS, me & global t. are playing a show (African Kirar player up thread also on the bill)

haha, ilx brigade showcase, love it. gonna be a fun night!

this plankton wat is really cool. hard to tell how composed each song is. they almost sound like improvisations with added textures and stuff

Was waiting for this one to go down, psyched to see it is happening. Hope MPLS is ready for the ILX brigade takeover.

good luck dudes! will there be a bootleg.

live album of my android phone recording of this on tompkin's square for Record Store Day

(and thanks! been practicing like a motherfucker)

Will check all bootlegs out, whether crappy android phone recordings or otherwise. Make it happen!

only listen to pono now so if you guys can make that happen that'd be swell

coupla things I've heard recently -- the glenn jones record store day thing is excellent, though much too brief. one solo live track, a beautiful duet with jack rose and an even more beautiful duet with cian nugent. i'd like a whole live disc of jones, dude has it dialed in.
william tyler band EP is fucking stellar, just so good. will be the ultimate driving music this summer. rother cover fulfills all kraut-country-rock dreams.
hayden pedigo's forthcoming album (which he's mentioned in this thread) is really something else, too!

I really want to hear how that Pedigo record came about. Such a crazy list of collaborators, and guy is very young (right)? I assume it is long-distance file/track sharing, but still such a wild set of guests. I assume it would have to be something else (and Hayden can play really well of course).

Also, I sincerely hope that Glenn Jones finds a reason to come to my town/city at least once a year for the rest of his or my life. He is just such a damn enjoyable guy to listen to. I mean, even if he is still telling the same stories in 5 years I will enjoy them all over again and be psyched for the tunes. Hope he has a new full-length in the works too, think his from last year was my most-played record (still put it on all the time).

I'm dying for those Glenn Jones and William Tyler records.