richard youngs ,what's his best stuff?

hm that was an understatement.

i figured out which machaut piece "machaut's dream" quotes from (it's available on t he "art of courtly love" collection) but now i forgot the name. it's in medieval french anyway.

(You still looking for that cookbook, amateurist? there was recently a copy in the student fleamarket here...)

new ilk album! it's only been a decade. richard youngs in proper prog clogs. i bet i'm the only person excited by this though.

And in my opinion Richard Youngs has always been better with other people than just solo.

Ah no -- and since I love Galbraith, I must investigate, even if he's a limited presence.

Anyway, my favorite Richard Youngs has always been the first song on Festival. I fell out for a while but got back at some point and got really into Sapphie, one of the most gorgeous solo records I've ever heard, really really beautiful.

I was so into their stuff in college. My boss at the record store got the vinyl in, releases on Forced Exposure and stuff like Durian Durian. I'd just never heard anything like that before. Then we got in Kretinmuzak and I was so confused. What was this stuff? It sounded like 2 guys, a casio and a cardboard box making electronic choral music from Mars. I started collecting all that stuff, and remember having really high hopes for the Richard Youngs/Matthew Bower record on VHF but not liking it as much as I hoped, and I think it made my entire record collection smell funny(er) because of the inks or paints on it.

And echoing above, I dont' know if everybody hates Pulse of the Rooster, but I think it's awesome, more accessible, electronic art rock, definitely Simon and Richard at their most Joy Division! If you don't know what I mean, check out By the Sea...

saw him and alex neilson (and campbell kneale, also on gtr, for one number) play a fantastic noize duo blowout earlier this month

aye, this was good, especially the two really sludgy pieces in the middle. although it dragged a bit towards the end.

it was good indeed. I went for a slash after his set and every bloke at the urinal was singing 'summer's end'. how touching.

As far as one single, simple song of his goes, though, you can't go wrong with "The World Is Silence In Your Head" from "Making Paper", a great Feldman-y piano ditty along the lines of Grubbs/Gastr.

youngs is a totally unique artist. I've been familiar with him for a year or so, and I'm no closer to truly understanding what he's doing. there are so many facets to his music, but they're all reflecting the same image...if that makes sense. it's very early. pre-coffee early.

Honestly, I think this might be a better subject for a record than most!

It's very much the selling point for the album, in fact.

like half a decade late i get airs of the ear. really beautiful. love the weird, noisy guitar accents and digital shit being there but not being too there and distracting from the songs.

So has anyone heard Electric Lotus? I'm thinking of picking up either this or Canticle by Ilk.

I like Electic Lotus. It's pretty different than the Ilk stuff, though. More in line with the Beating Stars or Mauve Dawn albums. Free-ish drumming with electronic droning buzz, for the most part.

I finally caved in and typed up the 'Gregorian Chart' that Richard did for the Wire magazine a couple of years back, since I could never find it online.

Richard Youngs' Gregorian Chart

Just bought "Multi-tracked Shakuuhachi" (CD-R on No Fans) the other day and it is glorious. A thing of droney beauty. I've previously avoided (the) CD-Rs, but have pretty much given up that conceit now. So where to next? Anyone else heard this one?

rReEaAlLlLyY lLiIkKeE tThHeE aAuUtTuUmMnN rReEsSpPoOnNsSeE aAlLbBuUmM...

krakow: the "Mariendork" that you suspect to be a typo could very well actually be "Mariendorf". It's a common enough place name in Germany, literally "village of mary". There's a part of Berlin called Mariendorf (for example -- there's no abbey there)

and and the autumn the autumn response response album is album good is good

@ henry s and Duke #2 - haha, very nice

@ Duke #1 - I agree. When I searched for Mariendork Abbey and turned up absolute zero, my initial thought was that it should probably be Mariendorf. Unfortunately even that doesn't seem to turn up any info on the listed recordings.

i've only heard "Advent". Like the minimalism.

can't wait for this show tbh. richard is one of my faves...

http://bombsite.com/issues/999/articles/7310

nice interview with Ben Chasny.

Has anyone heard the "Barbed Wire Explosion In The Kingdom Of Atlantis" album that kraudive mentioned? It sounded intriguing but not quite intriguing enough to splash out whatever Volcanic Tongue were charging

VT is listing it at £12.99 which hardly seems unreasonable for a signed limited run of 250 copies.

Thanks for posting that interview! Great read, love Chasny and Youngs, but have never read an interview with Youngs. Pretty insightful.

Look for Marc Master's old Zine, Crank Automotive. Issue 5 I think has an EPIC and fascinating interview with Youngs, and an awesome one with Stefan Jaworzyn. T

Thanks Dan! Marc is a great guy, hope I can track that down. Maybe someone has digitized it ....

there was also a good interview with him in the Wire a few years back, the one where he was also on the cover. Around 2007, maybe?

Yeah, I had (have?) that Wire. He is just a compelling guy, always has some really interesting stuff to say and is just so atypical as a musician.

Great show tonight in Brooklyn.
Fairly evenly split between acoustic guitar and acapella numbers. Very happy I went.

Oh man, I totally forgot about that. Worked late and was exhausted and came home to more work and debating if I'm going to Lindstrom/Todd Terje and totally forgot about Richard Youngs even though it's in my calendar. Saw him and Simon Wickham-Smith at the Table of the Elements Festival at the Knitting Factory in the 90s. First Tony Conrad show since the 70s I think? W/ Jim O'Rourke. Zeena Parkins played as well.

his best stuff on canticle, by ilk

Northampton show was great, too! I was hoping for some Ilk, but I'll take what I can get since he hardly ever plays live in the US.

Just ordered from VT: a tour cd "rumoured to be the album ‘rejected’ by a notorious cabal of bozos masquerading as an ‘underground’ record label"

Hmm, who would this be? Jagjaguwar maybe? They've not released one of his records for a while. Heard one track and its typically tripped. Sounds great actually. Is that 6 LPs this year then?

https://soundcloud.com/volcanictongue/unreleasedrichardyoungs

went to a local glasgow library this lunchtime to return a cpl of bks. slightly disconcerted to find richard youngs behind the counter. he had that slightly wary "you might know me outside of my day job" look, so I didn't say anything.

For context, that unreleased tracks soundcloud "release" is as-picked by Neil Campbell from a pile of unreleased R. Youngs stuff he has lying around. It's a fun listen for sure.

Ward, that is very cool and decidedly weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7mBRk3WCx8

gorgeous

RICHARD YOUNGS - A TOWER HAMLETS TRILOGY
Three different performances in three different places

...For this very special trilogy of shows in London's Tower Hamlets, Richard has been working with Upset The Rhythm to take live music away from its safe domain of established venues to somewhere different in search of a more radical and memorable experience. Over the three nights Richard Youngs will perform an entirely different in tune with each specific place...

http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/

No Fans Compendium 7xCD box set on VHF in April!

http://www.vhfrecords.com/news/2015/2/19/richard-youngs-no-fans-compendium-7cd-box-available-april-6-2015

that sounds great, and VHF releases are usually affordable.

descriptions of the 7 CD's contents and some sounds here
in case you (like me) were wondering if you need 7 CDs/$45 worth of hard-to-find Richard Youngs music
http://www.vhfrecords.com/catalog/richard-youngs-no-fans-compendium-7cd-box-set-vhf137

~~sold~~

i'd like to pay to download this. hope they port it to emusic.

New disco thing, although I'm not sure he had any involvement other than singing on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQpE8Aqb32U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH5HQ4yFYHI

AMON.

Disco things got Paul from franz ferd on it. Not sure who else.

Finally got a copy of A Glasgow Wassail this summer and it's on now for the first time. Sounding lovely and a bit spooking / Christmas Eve BBC 2. Them vibes.

I'd also recommend to those interested his recent collaboration with Daniel O'Sullivan - brings out the best in both of them.

All Hands Around the Moment from last year is getting to me at the moment. If Tim Buckley had made an album for ECM it might've sounded a bit like this.

Also, RY's pal/peer Eric Chenaux just released a nice extended-song semi-cover/tribute as part of the Constellation Corona Borealis series:
https://ericchenaux.bandcamp.com/track/3-stars-on-mountain-of-doom

thanks for highlighting this, i totally missed it last year (to be honest i've been out of contact with his stuff for quite a while) and it's really great

Did we need a "reimagining" of Sapphie by Hypnotic Brass Ensemble + friends? Probably not. Is it worth a listen? Sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xmNczXQSak