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

played a show with global & another guy named cyrus pireh, really great solo electric, bought his album, will try to upload a video of both, fun show

neal - it's funny to see jack rose on the same comp as burning star core

decided to start demoing stuff again, couple new-ish ones, both in DADGAD, kinda dark bluesier dronier stuff

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/the-seventh-letter

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/camden

man, i'm having a mild midlife crisis and I just wanna quit my job and start a band and make music like global's "Cassini"

Hah yeah "Cassini" is great. Maybe my favorite from the album is "Banjo Burner", though it is solid all the way through. Glad to see the record growing some legs too, some good folks have picked up on it.

Global, you should get a band together locally to do an "expanded version" of the album tracks.

Also, nice work UMS. I liked both tracks, but in particular dug "Camden". Some really cool changes in it and a nice progression. Your playing generally is really clear and well-articulated too, sound is definitely good for a demo, or at least sounds good on my crappy headphones through a computer.

Hammering the thread as usual here, but wanted to throw out the radio show The Avant Ghetto on WFMU, which is great and plays lots of stuff relevant to this thread. The DJ pretty much ALWAYS plays something that I have never heard before and love. I have discovered several great great records from this dude, plus he played Global's record last show. He isn't full time WFMU yet, just subbing for various folks, but yeah one of the best shows out there right now in my opinion. Jeff was at East Village Radio before it folded under the same name too for reference, but all his archives/shows are worth trolling through for sure:

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/57870

that show sounds awesome

yeah, the couple avant ghetto shows i've heard have been great, totally heady stuff. sometimes i feel like i could only listen to wfmu and be fairly happy.
going to check out UMS' new stuff! you planning on releasing any of this?

That show really is great, Jeff digs DEEP into the stuff he plays, whilst also playing plenty of well-known heavy hitters. Gets pretty far out there, but there is always a lot of good playing (and guitars) to be had as well as more abstract stuff.

and hey, that new forsyth/solar motel band record is out today -- another great one.

tyler - i kinda of want to go to my friend's studio and do some stuff if i can get the $$ together! but i might end up just doing home stuff, or doing home stuff and mixing there....

ooooh shit the solar motel is out! damn so excited for that!!!!!!

Yeah man! Definitely looking forward to grabbing "Intensity Ghost" when I can. Nice write-up too! http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2014/10/27/chris-forsyth-the-solar-motel-band-intensity-ghost/

Damn that track KILLS.

...in the link

avant ghetto is great.... turned me onto russell hoke, that alone warrants a donation imo

thanks re: cassini, y'all! i have wanted to do like a live EP recorded in my basement for a bit. now that i'm borrowing my roommate's loop station that's more likely. (lots of layers going on there.)

preordered that forsyth, i've seen other folks get theirs in the mail already, i'm getting antsy

Hey y'all, wanted to let everyone know the spotify playlist is now collaborative so anyone can add or subtract from it!

http://open.spotify.com/user/theshipment/playlist/2WNjL5jGiUHaSu5CFkN9Xg

I have it backed up and will do so on occasion so we don't have to worry about playlist merkers.

cool thanks spottie!

*adds a bunch of red hot chilil peppers*

stadium arcadium tracks only plz

BloodSugarSexKottke

hahaha
gross

think it was mentioned somewhere on this thread, but i listened to Michael Chapman's Playing Guitar The Easy Way this morning and it is soooo nice

i was just telling myself that i was gonna listen to some chapman today, that album it is!

his set here in the cities was soooo good, ugh

yeah that one is great, you'll recognize a few songs he did during his set

Another track from the upcoming Hayden Pedigo album up on Vogue of all places (everyone wants in on the action these days). This one features Steffen Basho-Junghans, and is probably my favorite of the 3 or 4 songs from this I have heard:

http://www.vogue.com/3620065/hayden-pedigo-guitar-five-steps/

Also I know there are some Scott Tuma-heads on here. Just saw that Scissor Tail Editions is reissuing "Hard Again / The River ..." as a 2 x LP. Note also that they reissued "The Hired Hand" on vinyl as well, which you can access via the bandcamp below as well:

https://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/hard-again-the-river-1-2-3-4

wow the hayden track sounds great...it being on vogue.com is really odd

Maybe fingerstyle guitar is the new way to become the "Sassiest Boy In America".

Cheers for the heads up on the Tuma/Langhorne releases. Now I have to go through the PAIN of gambling on the possibility of UK distribution or taking a good humping on the US-UK postage deals. Ho hum.

well-played from hayden for getting in vogue

got both the new forsyth and steve gunn LPs last night, but i'm bummed bc there's a scuff right at the beginning of side 1 track 1 on the gunn album. i'll be able to return it but ugh, it was the only copy in the store.

chuck johnson just posted a bunch of new stuff on soundcloud, looks like he's getting a lot of work doing television scores! which is cool i'm sure pays better

it's cool stuff though some of it really has nothing to to do with his guitar stuff, some is synth etc, but yeah atmospheric and cool

(but some is guitar stuff too, anyway chuck is great)

remember loving crows in the basilica, should give that another spin

oh wait i am getting him mixed up with this:
http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/2012/04/rc-johnston-fahey-project.html

(which is also cool/not that derivative of Fahey despite what the context might suggest)

crows in the bascila is one of the best albums of the last few years in this whole thread IMO

help - i preordered solar motel lp and still haven't gotten it
do i need to ask what's wrong?
(i wouldn't ask but i swear to the almighty spirit that there is something about his records that repels them from my home -- i had to write like 8 emails to get the last one i ordered iirc)

i haven't gotten my preorder either. apparently they were missing the street name on my order. i emailed them and they got back to me pretty quick... here's hoping. i don't know if that was a screwup because of paypal or something on their end, but it's never happened before. i dunno. kind of annoying

weak! yeah, you should just get in touch w/ mike at no quarter.

*sigh*
ok

but seriously i don't know why this keeps happening to me!

Gee- I'm going to pick this one up in a store for sure given all this.

I took my gunn lp back. what a bummer! The guy at the store noticed a bunch of other scuffs on it too. Jeez. New vinyl!

It happens! That's why labels and retailers accept exchanges on new stock.

new digital danny paul grody record - https://dannypaulgrody.bandcamp.com/album/furniture-music
guess it's older compositions, re-recorded. sounding lovely right now.

oh! and this michael chapman sesh from a little while back is wonderful: freemusicarchive.org/music/Michael_Chapman/Live_on_WFMUs_Surface_Noise_with_Joe_McGasko_-_September_25_2014/

one more! bachman does jack rose and william moore: http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2014/11/05/the-lagniappe-sessions-daniel-bachman/

Intensity Ghost is sooooooo good

bandcamp discover, Time and Temperature (think this is just one person though)

anyway, i guess the early cat power comparisons are there, but the guitar work is very cool and unique, great UK folk feel to it, i really love this, very evocative

http://timeandtemperature.bandcamp.com/

Got some catching up to do here, but wanna throw this up so that everyone can dig in while it is available. Nathan Bowles' new album "Nansemond" is up for streaming. Have at it, everything I have heard so far has been great, definitely going to be grabbing this one when I can:

http://pitchfork.com/advance/593-nansemond/

listened to that bowles record several times this weekend, really trasporting stuff.
new richard bishop album on the way via Drag City:

SIR RICHARD BISHOP IS BACK, WITH A NEW ALBUM- AND GUITAR- TO PROVE IT!
Sir Richard Bishop's Tangier Sessions will be released on Febuary 17th!
Tangier Sessions tells the oft-told tale: while traveling abroad, nobleman meets guitar. Guitar is too expensive for nobleman and, outraged, he departs. Nobleman quietly returns several days later for guitar but still can't bring himself to pay the price. Yet nobleman can't get guitar out of mind (he's never heard anything like it) - so nobleman buys guitar, then travels the world with it, enchanted, and makes an album while in Tangier.
On the lookout for something playable- yet portable- last year while living in Geneva, Sir Richard Bishop stumbled into an obscure luthier's shop in a shadowy lane off the high road. He was unable to find what he was looking for, but as he was leaving, the old shopkeep reached behind an ancient, dusty cabin and produced a model identified only by a tiny sticker inside-- "C. Bruno" it read. With no other recognizable attributions, it was clearly an old piece-- likely made in the mad, final days of the 19th century. And the sound! Just to touch it was to hear an instrument of unusual depth. The experience of playing it was equally exquisite. But the price forced Sir Rick to put it down and walk out, empty-handed. A couple days later, he was back, to play it again... and back again a couple days after that, his wallet stuffed fat with Swiss Francs. It was as if he'd been enchanted! Or cursed....
Later in the summer, in the company of said guitar, Bishop holed up for a week in a rooftop apartment in Tangier, Morocco. He spent his time feverishly playing; at night, the pieces on this record were improvised and recorded. An incredible story, we know! But then, all compositions were improvisations once, weren't they?
Alluring from its opening moments, Tangier Sessions unfolds and elongates, chills out and cuts loose in familiar, yet newly unique ways for Sir Richard Bishop. Arriving in the moment that was imagined for them, its songs stretch out, finding themselves in vast, open spaces. Once there, Sir Richard relaxes, yet remains totally focused and present. Meanwhile, the listener is enlightened by the expressiveness and tonality the guitar and he are capable of, symbiotically, in real time. Tangier Sessions is a singular listening experience, even in the crowded realm of solo acoustic guitar albums. Nobody plays the guitar like Sir Richard Bishop - and on Tangier Sessions, he's found a guitar that nobody but him plays, either.
TRACK LISTING:
1. Frontier
2. Bound In Morocco
3. Safe House
4. Hadija
5. Mirage
6. International Zone
7. Let It Come Down

ooh that sounds lovely