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

I won't post them here so as to not clog up the thread but the youtube user 'TV LIES' recently posted a couple Fahey interviews that I don't think have been upped before.

https://www.youtube.com/user/michieljaveline/search?query=fahey

nice! looks good.
here's my review of the RSD alvarius b./richard bishop split + glenn jones EP. http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2014/04/14/rsd-guitar-soli-alvarius-b-and-sir-richard-bishop-glenn-jones/
and an amazing live version of Cian Nugent + Cosmos' "Houses of Parliament" http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/82708659484/the-houses-of-parliament-cian-nugent-the
and a great preview of the Solar Motel Band live thing coming out on Record Store Day too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL4DKjBeDws

that AB/SRB split isn't actually out yet, right? Really want that thing.

no, comes out on Record Store Day this Saturday (same with the Jones).
will be available digitally too, if you don't do the RSD thing: http://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/if-you-dont-like-it-dont

There's another new Alvarius B. record coming out soon, called What One Man Can Do with an Acoustic Guitar, Surely Another Can Do with His Hands Around the Neck of God:

http://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/ABDT.053LP.html

I didn't get a chance to check out the solo record he put out last year yet, I imagine it's impossible to find a copy by now. Loved The Invisible Hands record, but that's a whole different thing.

haha, that is a great title

hey I have a sealed extra copy that I will sell for less than whatever Discogs lists, maybe $25? xp

hit me up on ilx mail if u want

thanks for the heads up on the new LP also!

A lot of good stuff posted here. Just checked out that T. Dorji set on the Marmara bandcamp page, and I like it though I need to listen some more. I feel like other recordings I have listened to mixed it up a bit more, but the last track in particular I like a lot. More space, some nice detail and more direct playing mixed in with the buzzing/percussive/more out stuff. Heard an electric track recently that didn't work as well for me, but still interested to see where he takes his playing.

That Forsyth live clip is definitely good, just love the live sound of that band. Couldn't hear the organ/keyboards that well in the mix, though when I could I really liked the addition. Maybe it was just so integrated that I missed when it was there at times?

About to dive into that Cian Nugent live track Tyler shared!

did i mention that chasny said he was starting a label and putting out a tashi dorji LP (culled from some of his cassettes) this summer? dorji seems like an interesting dude, apparently he has major chops (berklee trained?).

Yeah, that came up somewhere (I imagine here), think when you gave the rundown of the New Bums show. He plays with a lot of control (it seems), the stuff he does seems to come from a considered and not wild/aggro place, so it wouldn't surprise me if he could play straight up guitar-as-guitar very well.

Gonna say it again too: just five minutes into that Nugent live track and already dude has won me over with the string bends.

yeahhh, i just love his style. really love the cosmos drummer too, a nice lope that you don't hear too much these days. maybe truscinski is similar.

I like Truscinski a lot, on those Gunn duo tracks he does some great shit, but yeah the lope is in there too. Interested to see the Gunn band with Nathan Bowles on drums too. I have only seen him do the Verrastro/Bowles improv stuff, which is pretty out (as well as play in Kid Millions' Man Forever group), but I imagine with his background he would be providing pretty excellent/sympathetic support for Gunn. Not sure if he has full-on replaced Truscinski or it is a tour-by-tour thing, but seems he has been the guy for recent shows.

"the lope"?

sorry, always with the questions

haha, i don't even know really what exactly that means -- just maybe a certain looseness to the drumming that isn't sloppy?
i dunno, like the drumming here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN0-c__mCtY

i feel like that has more to do with the guitar playing than the drumming? i could be wrong but to me it sounds like the drummer is playing along with the guitar player and occasionally adding little things here and there but not ever getting too far ahead. whatever it is, it's definitely not complicated!

it also sounds like they play well together and sound organic, which is appealing

I think if you check out around minute 3 of that Nugent and the Cosmos track linked, you will hear a version of "the lope" too (from Tyler's Doom & Gloom blog link posted a little bit upthread). Becomes maybe even more "lopey" around minute 5, but you'll get the idea.

merriam-webster says: "an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter. 2. : an easy usually bounding gait capable of being sustained for a long time." so um, you know, drumming like that.

i understand gallop, stomp -- do you mean like Ralph Molina?

crazy horse lope

yeah molina's got a lope. ha, i don't know, i think I just think of it as a drummer who is propulsive without being "tight" -- maybe keeps things a little behind the beat?

also possible i just like the word "lope"

holy shit @ that solar motel band video... kinda wishing i'd somehow made it to chicago to see that

whole thing is pretty incredible -- as good as the studio version is, I think the live version is going to replace it in my listening habits. drumming in particular is out of this world.

forsyth says there'll be a solar motel band LP called Intensity Ghost out this fall on No Quarter

Yeah, next Forsyth record should be great, first one written with/for the live band lineup, which seems to just be getting ramped up.

Yeah the lineup is different for the live shows, right? A subtle but different feel. Looking forward to jamming it on my speakers at home instead of earbuds at work.

Lineup of the live band is only on that RSD live record, the Solar Motel LP is its own thing (Forsyth plays all the guitars for instance). Next record will be the live band as it is in the video, though the keyboard player wasn't on the tour (but could be on the next record?).

If anybody is in the mood for more live-listening, there is a new set from my duo up on bandcamp. It's a weird one, all strings (electric guitar and table steel guitar) no keyboards: http://grand-banks.bandcamp.com/track/grand-banks-live-3-28-2014

Starts out kind of Branca/gamelan-ish, with some drone/feedback, but gets mellower around the 7-8 minute mark. Jump to minute 27 if you just want pretty guitar and a nice story ....

checkin' it out. are you really supposed to remove your shoes before playing?

Cool man, hope you enjoy.

As far as the shoes go, no one has ever asked me to, but technically I think you are? (oddly enough several people have asked me this question in regards to that photo already!) It is a restaurant/tea house most of the time, and when you sit at the little Japanese tea tables they have set up there I think they do ask you to take your shoes off, but when it is show time they let the bands slide (unless I have just been being a jerk all these years, but the bands always seem to keep em on). Virginia has really antiquated liquor laws, so if you want to sell beer/liquor you have to have food too, so basically all small music venues are in restaurants for the most part, or bars that sell food too.

so punk, keeping shoes on in the Japanese teahouse.

hey, marisa anderson is touring a lot

4/16 San Francisco CA @ The Hemlock Tavern w/ Marielle V Jakobsons and Danny Paul Grody

4/17 Venice Beach CA @ Del Monte Speakeasy w/ Guy Blakeslee EARLY SHOW 8-10pm

4/18 Phoenix AZ @ Trunk Space w/ James Fella and JRC

4/19 Tucson AZ @ Exploded View Microcinema w/ Ohioan

4/21 Marfa TX@ Ballroom Marfa

4/22 Denton TX @ Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios

4/23 Austin TX @ The Safara Lounge w/ Randy Reynolds

4/25 Houston TX @ Kohn's Wine and Darts w/ Jenny Hoyston & Sandy Ewen

4/26 Houston TX @ Cactus Music 1pm

4/26 Baton Rouge LA@ Mud and Water w/ Tess Brunet

4/30 Boone NC Espresso News + Low Wine Bar w/ Cowboy Crisis

5/1 Charlottesville VA Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar w/ Mike and Cara Gangloff

5/2 Durham NC The Pinhook EARLY SHOW 6pm

5/3 Blacksburg VA @ the Cellar w/ the Black Twig Pickers

5/4 Asheville NC @ The Mothlight w/ Mike and Cara Gangloff

5/6 Pittsburgh PA @ Garfield Artworks w/ Pairdown, Plankton Wat, Mike Tamburo

5/7 Washington DC @ Bathtub Republic w/ Marian McLaughlin

5/8 Baltimore MD @ Calvert St House Concert

5/9 Philadelphia PA @ Random Tea House

5/10 Harrisburg PA Little Amps Coffee Roasters

5/11 New York NY@ Trans-Pecos

5/12 Providence RI @ Machines with Magnets w/ Plankton Wat, Work/Death and God Willing

5/15 Montreal QB @Casa del Popolo One Man Band Fest

5/16 Hamilton ON Canada@ This Ain't Hollywood

5/17 Guelph ON Canada@ Silence w/ Bantam Wing and Syngia

5/18 Toronto ON@ Thou Shalt Lori Canada Holy Oak

5/19 Detroit MI @Trumbullplex

5/20 Columbus OH @ Natalie's Coal Fired Pizza

5/21 St Louis MO@ Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center

5/22 Chicago IL @ The Hideout w/ Brokeback

5/23 Louisville KY @Dreamland w/ Wooden Wand

5/25 Lexington KY Willie's Locally Known w/ Wooden Wand

5/26 Cincinnati OH @ MOTR w/ Wooden Wand

5/27 Nashville TN @ The Stone Fox w/ William Tyler

5/28 Bloomington IN @Bottom of the Hill

5/29 Iowa City IA @ Public Space One

5/30 Omaha NB@ The Slowdown w/ Simon Joyner

5/31 Wichita KS @ Kirby's w/ Francis Moss and Keepers

6/5 Aspen CO@ Justice Snow's

6/6 Paonia CO @ house show

6/8 Boise ID @The Crux

actually annoying because she has TWO colorado shows, but they're both about 250 miles away from me. I even emailed her asking about another show and she said if I can find someone to set it up, she'll do it! i have no experience in this kind of thing, but I'm asking around. any advice?

Yeah man, I am psyched for that! M. Anderson is playing at said Tea House with Mike and Cara Gangloff, which is a great fit. Really psyched for it.

No real advice, seems like you would just try to find a friendly venue for her to play at? I know she was booked to play a really weird place here in the past, and the Tea Bazaar definitely is not paying folks a ton to play, so she probably just doesn't want to chase a venue down.

goddam no one comes to mpls :(

come on now, you get more of these people than colorado!
but yeah, seems like it might not be too hard to find a friendly venue ... maybe even the local guitar shop would do it (they host shows pretty regularly). I don't know, i'll have to ask around. I mean, she's playing a pizza place in Columbus OH...

yeah she did come through before but my daughter was sick....i should ask chris from s0ft @buse i think he helped her get a gig before

actually though there's no way she could do it

5/29 Iowa City IA @ Public Space One

5/30 Omaha NB@ The Slowdown w/ Simon Joyner

5/31 Wichita KS @ Kirby's w/ Francis Moss and Keepers

nice to see her getting on some good bills though! brokeback, wooden wand, tyler, etc

i feel spoiled with two back to back houston dates for marisa, a rooftop nighttime gig then the next day a lunch time in-store performance; i'm trying to picture a daytime gig like that, i don't think i've ever been to one. i can't decide.

rooftop sounds nice

Rooftop does sound nice. The Tea Bazaar in my town (putting on the M. Anderson show) has a great outdoors back porch (on the roof essentially), but I have only successfully gotten them to put a show on up there once years ago. Apparently it is too important to their teen/college kid hookah-smoking contingent to let stuff happen back there. Would be such a cool place for some of the shows they book though.

If anybody is in the mood for more live-listening, there is a new set from my duo up on bandcamp. It's a weird one, all strings (electric guitar and table steel guitar) no keyboards: http://grand-banks.bandcamp.com/track/grand-banks-live-3-28-2014 Starts out kind of Branca/gamelan-ish, with some drone/feedback, but gets mellower around the 7-8 minute mark. Jump to minute 27 if you just want pretty guitar and a nice story ....

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Really cool stuff, sounds like someone's hitting that steel guitar with a mallet or something? This sounds like stuff I'd like to make.

Still bummed I missed Marisa when she came through town, I love how effortless her stuff sounds. I listen to Mercury several times a week! A nice palate cleanser when coming off of listening to some like grandiose 20 minute Basho epic. Her work is a bit more pristine and joyful, kinda. She's something special, for sure.

yeah grandavis - that grand banks set was very nice! spoken word bit at the end was great too. i'd love to see more of that kind of thing around where i live. maybe i just need to start doing it.

oh and hey speaking of marisa, looks like there is now a CD version of that last public domain record if you didn't get the (somewhat pricey) LP: http://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/album/traditional-and-public-domain-songs-2

Marisa Anderson apparently has classical training, and has played a long time, so that probably goes a long way towards explaining her effortless sound. Can't wait to see her live, a really good pairing with Mike & Cara Gangloff.

Also, thanks for listening! You can actually see me playing my guitar with mallets in the photo attached to the track (which is from this show). Basically I have a drum stick shoved in my strings between the neck and pickups and am alternating hitting the strings over the neck (in front of the drum stick) and over the pickups (behind the drum stick). I try to mix in stuff like this most shows, but straight playing too (working a LOT harder on the straight playing these days).

liking this grandavis...part of me hears reich anytime i hear non-jazz mallets on anything, but this isn't really like that at all....this actually reminded me of an interesting dude in Minneapolis, Dave Krejci....he made this as far as I know one of a kind instrument called the cleophone...he bows or uses mallets and other stuff on it....he's also a hammond/farfisa player who does kind of quirky zappa-meets-booker t kind of stuff i've heard...but yeah it's a cool thing....i don't think he plays out much because it weighs a ton and is hard to set up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPMW7VOKOWQ

http://www.doses.com/2006/11/24/the-cleophone/

Thanks UMS, that Krejci is really cool, but I am a total sucker for this kind of thing. I used to think about making instruments, but I don't think I could pull anything that cool off. Plus I like trying to get stuff out of regular guitars. The movable bridge on that thing is great though, and it has serious resonance! Always cool when folks can play super weird stuff all acoustically (at least it doesn't seem like he is amplifying it at all, could be wrong).