ILX Gonna Shine in My Backdoor Someday (new post-Fahey folk for ppl posting in Takoma/Tompkins Square threads Pt II)

william tyler - modern country has steadily grown on me since release, it's really a wonderful album, but it's so low key and vibey at first maybe i was a little let down because the EP w/the neu cover etc went in a little more over the top rock band jamming direction. however, this sort of weird ry cooder soundtrack meets krautrock meets fahey vibe is great and rewarding.

to ogmor's point, tbh the only people i think are really doing much that's 'new' right now are sarah louise and tashi dorji. that does not, however, mean that the rest of this stuff doesn't sound nice on a summer day, or is good to put on at a party, or to just ~chill out~ to and there's nothing wrong with that

i first listened to modern country half awake in a TSA line at 4am and then again while taking tram into denver, hit all the right spots

modern country has been perfect for hand surfing while i drive around rural vermont

to ogmor's point, tbh the only people i think are really doing much that's 'new' right now are sarah louise and tashi dorji.

metzger maybe but he's kind of sui generis and to attach him to this "scene" any more than tangentally would probably wouldn't be right

I think DBH has a very unique sensibility

wrt to "Modern Country" I agree it's a very chill mental landscape and w/current events as they are that has an increasing appeal

You're right, makes me yearn for the moment Real America will finally be restored! #voteTrump

jk

Thanks for reminding me about DBH though. I loved what I'd heard, will revisit now.

Mood is so gorgeous

ogmor was the one who introduced me to them/him, i don't know that much abt dbh actually though i love both albums to death

part of me would not be surprised if he came fingerpicking stuff from a whole different angle and wasn't even into fahey et al.

i mean, he's from the UK, yeah? prob drawing on a different folk tradition

you know i really dig his music but know really nothing about him, i think i like maintain a sense of mystery

was just listening to dbh's Mood -- really lovely record. need to check out more by him.

i found like, one video of him playing live, self-filmed on a phone or something and it was great but then he took it down. mystery man

Ogmor had posted some of him doing Estelle's American Boy and Hounds of Love by Kate Bush as fingerstyle instrumentals

can i get a repost there? curious to hear.

https://shaunweadick.bandcamp.com/album/sparrows-by-the-cross-at-menasen

nice, i'm always a sucker for "she moved through the fair"

Wild Reeds sounding like fresh air (not Terry Gross) in the Galazy Barn, I guess kicking off livestream of Pickathon:
http://livestream.com/pickathon/events/5911922

Galaxy Barn, that is.

Seeing Sarah Louise live for the first time next Tuesday and am very very psyched.

In the next 2 weeks I am going to get to see Sarah Louise and open for both People of the North and Mike & Cara Gangloff. Gonna be a good couple of weeks.

https://shaunweadick.bandcamp.com/album/sparrows-by-the-cross-at-menasen
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this is really nice, thanks! (actually saw today on Tyler's twitter but ya)

yeah i like it!

got to check out the new imaginational anthem - private press thing coming out soon, and seriously, it is fantastic. not the same old-same old by any stretch. lots of interesting surprises, all killer no filler.

You were right when you said exactly the same thing about the latest Wayfaring Strangers so I'll take your word for this one too.

Speaking of IA Vol. 8, think somebody on here was asking about track list? Just posted that & other info, with a couple audio links, on the Tompkins Square thread.

Saw that, thanks! So is this all stuff with vocals or guitar soli style?

all instrumental, mostly acoustic

Ah, great! Gonna pre-order this one. Thanks.

Just had the promo for this - cracking cover! Some of those titles, though - the genre is ripe for parody, innit.

Tyler's right, this is a great comp. The stuff on here I'm not immediately connecting with has less to do with the quality of those tunes as it does my relationship to some of these styles and my personal saturation point irt Westernized 'ragas' (give me "East West," Peter Walker, and Sandy Bull, and I'm good for like three lifetimes) and the endless "bluesy and bendy" recitations of things that all sound like variations on One Kind Favor / Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down / Cannon Ball Rag / etc. The tracks on here that fall into those camps are very good, they just don't move me. Stuff like Stan Samole's "Prayer Blessing" and Herb Moore's "Wen Also Found," though - whoo boy, those are hitting the spot.

I'm like most of you in that all but one or two names here are completely unfamiliar to me (which, as someone else said, is kinda insane if you think about it), and though the temptation is always great to just seek out the full albums by the three or four players you like most on the comp and forget to buy the comp, I'm glad I pre-ordered this one and look forward to many more spins.

just popping in to say that Sandy Nissan's Just Guitar may be relevant to you guys' interests. it was released on Herbie Mann's Embryo label in 1970 and has never been reissued, though copies are going for <$5.00 on discogs. the track below (all I can find online right now) is a 13-minute freakout acoustic jam with elements of raga and jazz, maybe not that far off from Sandy Bull's 'Blend':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOfkv7N60qs

(Sandy Nassan, that is)

sounds cool, thanks for the tip!
sample from the forthcoming daniel bachman album over yonder: https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/daniel-bachman-2016

anyone know Ignatz on Feeding Tube? pretty intriguing

http://feedingtuberecords.com/releases/the-drain/

i'd checked out something of his a little while back, but it didn't really grab me -- this sample sounds very nice indeed, though. Will have to dig in more.

one of my favorite ignatz tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fr3xbpSTIo

Psyched to listen to that Ignatz ("The Drain"), I have dug a range of that guy's stuff. Interesting player.

Also, new Nathan Bowles is up for streaming. Have only hear a couple of these tunes so far, but I really like where Nathan has been taking his playing so I am sure this is going to be a good listen:

http://www.stereogum.com/1895862/stream-nathan-bowles-whole-cloven/franchises/premiere/

it's fantastic! really gets into like hillbilly terry riley zone at times ('i miss my dog' especially). why aren't there more people exploring that very repetitive henry flynt kind of thing? i feel like a lot od the more experimental players in this genre i encounter do the more improvisatory/skrony/derek bailey kind of thing (like tashi) which is cool but i guess i just like lots of arpeggios ahaha. (maybe i'm missing somebody, please fill me in)

excited to dig into your set too man!
https://daisqueue.bandcamp.com/album/dais-queue-live-8-19-2016

Yeah, Nathan definitely digs into that sound really well. I mean, playing w/ Pelt (and especially Mike Gangloff regularly) kind of sets one up to prioritize that kind of thing, so I basically expect this from him. It is super gratifying to me though, especially live. One time I saw him and he laid into one of the repetitive passages for what seemed like a super long time and the overtones just started singing, it was pretty glorious.

Also, thanks for tuning into the set! No hillbilly action but lots of pinging overtones and drones (all from open tuned guitars, so kinda in the zone of this thread hah hah).

bowles is great so far
the 2nd song (piano song) reminds me of philip glass a bit

why more people aren't doing it: there is only one nathan bowles!
i still remember seeing him play drums with steve gunn's band and admiring his calm demeanor
he has a strong musical voice imo

lolz "I like to bang on things and hear the results."
yeah this album is really really good!

bowles has v unique voice on banjo, he has kind of a "heavy hand" (not heavy handed) but it reminds me a bit of neil young on acoustic like his thumb thumps the first beat pretty hard and gives it a rhythmic kick that makes, for ex harvest have more boom bap flavor than yr typical 70s folkie but anyway in a more reich/glass/terry r. kinda way i get that from bowles

like everyone does the fahey/travis picking etc etc alternating oom-pa bass generally with syncopation over it but bowles generally just thumps the one beat really hard at the beginning of every measure without doing the alternating thing so it doesn't feel as *trad* in a way? dunno if i'm explaining this the best

i'd say that he foregrounds rhythm as a sonic component
i'm sure he doesn't do the same thing every time, but he uses rhythm in addition to like, idk, notes or melody or whatever else there is besides rhythm :)

think he's said he considers himself first and foremost a percussionist, so that probably fits into the rhythmic thump he has going on the banjo

exactly, he is a banjo-playing drummer <3

Banjo is basically a drum with an unnatural growth anyway