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

i can't even make it out of my basement
any time you guys think "hey this could use a beat" please think of me
at least i can make new things remotely!

The noise label Rainbow Bridge, out of Chicago, puts out this project called Minimalism & Juxtaposition. The most recent being volume two of the project. Artists submitted minimalist inspired tracks and the label mixes multiple artists over top of each other. I submitted material for inclusion a while ago and randomly remembered today about doing so. Turns out the project was released just last week. The results are pretty nice:

Here's the track:
https://swampcircle.bandcamp.com/track/big-swetter-rag

Here's the full album:
https://swampcircle.bandcamp.com/album/minimalism-juxtaposition-vol-2-sw-034

cool idea can't wait to listen to that

hey i picked this album up on a whim, i'm sure you guys are aware of pierre bensusan but i hadn't been previous to this random acquisition. enjoying it!

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

Bensusan is definitely a ripper, and that track you posted is a good one. Have heard some stuff that veers a little off the rails for me into acoustic guitar wank, but he is definitely a skilled dude. (he has/had a big following in Charlottesville for some reason, came through regularly for a while, so a lot of his less interesting stuff would get trotted out on folk shows here in town).

Any of you Minneapolis folks go see the Forsyth & Solar Motel Band show? Curious as to how the new line-up fares. Also curious if anyone asked why Paul isn't touring right now. Am still hoping that maybe when they hit Charlottesville down the road the line-up that made the record will be back in action.

Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but yall don't sleep on Richard Dawson, esp. new album, Nothing Important. See recently started Dawson thread.

Elements familiar to post-Fahey/acid-folk etc. acolytes, but sounds like boyo's livin' it these days.

Been meaning to check out some more Dawson. Will bump over to that thread.

we got the calvary cross in chicago last night! those guys are total slow jam masters. great show!!

so jealous

Nice! Maybe I can sweet talk them in Charlottesville! Would take that any day over "Cortez" (might be time for bands to retire "Cortez" as an option, though I would take their "Little Johnny Jewel" in trade as well).

digging the new nathan bowles record

The final track "Sleepy Lake Tire Swing" on Nathan's album is one of my favorite pieces of music this year. Really sonically rich and hypnotic, love it to death.

yea that tune is amazing

new six organs incoming...obv in here for legacy reasons but not exactly fahey-ish!

http://soundcloud.com/drag-city/six-organs-of-admittance-wax-chance/s-aTF3A

Shop talk:

Been looking into maybe, possibly, probably wanting a Oahu square neck lap guitar for Christmas. Hope to find one locally.

Does anyone have opinions on pickups? I've never had one installed or owned an acoustic with one. Sound hole vs the under saddle piezo type transducers. Naive questions ahead: If you opt for sound hole, does it inhibit your projection when playing without electricity? Do you lose the warmth when playing through a piezo? Have you played with pickups in the past only to then realize later on that you much prefer a good microphone?

i hate the mechanics of using a microphone, find it very inhibiting

i have a K&K Sound under the saddle and i think it sounds fantastic, not too spendy, was like $200 installed

messing with a some audacity effects, kinda going for a weirder '80s ry cooder soundtrack vibe

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/desert-jive

Nice man! Sounds very cool, the loop stays interesting throughout (and maybe even shifts slightly as the track progresses?). Could see this slotting in nicely with some of your more stately pieces.

yeah it changes a bit, it's not actually a loop it's a whole performances of a kind of repetitive riff timestretches, backwards, and...phased or something? haha i dont' remember

and thanks :)

Cool, it sounded like it changed in a cool, slippery way. Definitely added more than a usual loop would, just couldn't tell if my ears were playing tricks on me or not!

http://www.drudgesiren.com/siren.gif

http://itslostitsfound.blogspot.com/2014/11/john-fahey-azalea-city-and-other-toxic.html

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haha!
apparently this was made available over on the delta slider blog a while back, but i missed it then.

and who could resist this
http://38.media.tumblr.com/a297e00eae893c0cb83c4c83092dc15e/tumblr_nfju82glL51qzy30io1_500.png

btw did you see ryley walker talking shit about fahey on twitter? haha cian nugent, forsyth, nathan bowles all got involved

he tends to troll a lot on there. he can be pretty entertaining tho

links?

https://twitter.com/Ryley_walker/status/535036315876990976

finally getting to the fahey's biography -- good stuff, but feels a little slim, lots of stuff I'd want more detail on. i think what i actually want is a big history of american primitive book, a la that fantastic overview of UK folk, Electric Eden, from a few years back.

haha i deleted like 2 tweets calling ryley a sam's club bert jansch to be a dick but yeah whatever he seems to cultivate an "outrageous" persona and he's usually pretty funny

though i think the "oh i can't stand fahey" thing is already getting more popular in certain aspects of the scene just to contrary and distance themselves from it

haha, yeah i think he was just being provocative/funny. certainly can get why people in this scene might be tired of fahey mentions -- it'd be like every jazz musician getting miles davis comparisons. not necessarily inaccurate, but maybe a bit too surface. i don't know, it's tough to get around when you're writing about it, because (this thread to the contrary) not many people (even plenty of serious music fans) even know who john fahey is, so you gotta start somewhere.

re. that unreleased album

This is an unreleased original John Fahey album. Written, recorded and completed at the same time as 'Old Girlfriends And Other Horrible Memories'.

isn't that generally considered one of fahey's worst albums, recorded when his health problems were impacting his playing?

though honestly i think the worst fahey stuff is the stuff he recorded in the years prior to his death. it was hard to admit that at the time, since he was venturing off in some dangerous new directions and enjoying some late reappraisal and rediscovery. it's not a matter of "i hate all this noisy stuff, i wish he would go back to the delicate fingerpicking stuff" since i like plenty of noisy stuff. i just don't think it was very good. :(

btw jack rose would be buggin' over that twitter exchange

listening so far, yeah his playing is definitely very deliberate and there are some audible flubs

but i'm definitely liking it, he seems to be playing within his limitations. reminds a bit of "fate is only twice" by harry taussig in that way

agreed amatuerist, i've def. tried w/the 90s stuff, but i like the IDEA of him bro-ing down with NNCK and thurston much more than the reality of it

i like red cross a lot and parts of the cul de sac collab. but a lot of it does seem like he's going for something that isn't quite there.

i tried to book fahey and the NNBB for a show at my college in 1998 or 1999, but the guy running the student affairs office wouldn't bite.

i would've interviewed fahey for my radio show, which probably would have been a good story, at least. :(

btw which is yr favorite fahey album, gents?

Vol 2 or Fare Forward, depending on the day

i actually think the Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick might be my overall fave.

man I really need to get that

the "Magruder Park" on there is incredible. whole thing is fantastic, just a really good argument for his genius.

really tough between The Great San Bernadino Birthday Party & Other Excursions & The Yellow Princess

New Possibility...America...Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death close behind....

basically the though the first six takoma albums packaged in the Transcendental Waterfall box set are all pretty perfect really

New Possibility is really really good, I seriously considered that as an answer

it certain transcends the concept of a "christmas standards" album to me & takes everything to a very sad and beautiful and meditative place

Death Chants or Days Have Gone By for me

Oil Slick is v good too

i don't think his 90s era was as 'new' as it might seem, check this, some srsly wild/vaguely unlistenable stuff here (1967):

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

heh, yeah, that is a good one... bio says that fahey and the red crayola recorded a whole album of this stuff, but the label rejected it? I'm assuming the tapes have never surfaced.