(You still looking for that cookbook, amateurist? there was recently a copy in the student fleamarket here...)
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― jwd, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 08:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Keith, Monday, 2 May 2005 10:18 (nineteen years ago) link
And in my opinion Richard Youngs has always been better with other people than just solo.
― Stewart Keith, Monday, 2 May 2005 10:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amon (eman), Monday, 2 May 2005 10:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Monday, 31 October 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― the don juan he, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 11:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― a, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Ah no -- and since I love Galbraith, I must investigate, even if he's a limited presence.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link
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...
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― nik bozic (nikjasdf), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― m the g (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― m the g (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Craig Dunsmuir (Craig D.), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― m the g (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 1 February 2007 09:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 8 February 2007 08:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Craig Dunsmuir (Craig D.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Honestly, I think this might be a better subject for a record than most!
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Craig Dunsmuir (Craig D.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link
It's very much the selling point for the album, in fact.
― be home by 11 (orion), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― be home by 11 (orion), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:14 (sixteen years ago) link
So has anyone heard Electric Lotus? I'm thinking of picking up either this or Canticle by Ilk.
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― ian, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― krakow, Saturday, 21 March 2009 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― krakow, Thursday, 26 March 2009 12:48 (fifteen years ago) link
rReEaAlLlLyY lLiIkKeE tThHeE aAuUtTuUmMnN rReEsSpPoOnNsSeE aAlLbBuUmM...
― henry s, Thursday, 26 March 2009 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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)
― Duke, Thursday, 26 March 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
and and the autumn the autumn response response album is album good is good
― Duke, Thursday, 26 March 2009 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
@ 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.
― krakow, Thursday, 26 March 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
i've only heard "Advent". Like the minimalism.
― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Thursday, 26 March 2009 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
and the lugubriousness.
Now that's a nice word.
― krakow, Thursday, 26 March 2009 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Krakow: I found it. It's Maria-Laach Abbey. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Laach_Abbey
Lovely part of the world
― Duke, Thursday, 26 March 2009 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks for posting that interview! Great read, love Chasny and Youngs, but have never read an interview with Youngs. Pretty insightful.
― grandavis, Thursday, 29 August 2013 13:35 (ten years ago) link
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
― dan selzer, Thursday, 29 August 2013 13:42 (ten years ago) link
Thanks Dan! Marc is a great guy, hope I can track that down. Maybe someone has digitized it ....
― grandavis, Thursday, 29 August 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link
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?
― Clyde One DJ Diane “Knoxy” Knox-Campbell (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 29 August 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
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.
― grandavis, Thursday, 29 August 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
Great show tonight in Brooklyn.Fairly evenly split between acoustic guitar and acapella numbers. Very happy I went.
― ian, Friday, 6 September 2013 02:50 (ten years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Friday, 6 September 2013 03:02 (ten years ago) link
his best stuff on canticle, by ilk
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 6 September 2013 03:06 (ten years ago) link
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.
― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Friday, 6 September 2013 23:07 (ten years ago) link
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?
― kraudive, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/volcanictongue/unreleasedrichardyoungs
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Friday, 6 December 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
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.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7mBRk3WCx8
― am0n, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
gorgeous
― first is the worst (askance johnson), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
RICHARD YOUNGS - A TOWER HAMLETS TRILOGYThree 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...
...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/
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Friday, 19 December 2014 12:29 (nine years ago) link
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
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Thursday, 19 February 2015 23:18 (nine years ago) link
that sounds great, and VHF releases are usually affordable.
― sleeve, Thursday, 19 February 2015 23:20 (nine years ago) link
descriptions of the 7 CD's contents and some sounds herein case you (like me) were wondering if you need 7 CDs/$45 worth of hard-to-find Richard Youngs musichttp://www.vhfrecords.com/catalog/richard-youngs-no-fans-compendium-7cd-box-set-vhf137
― groundless round (La Lechera), Monday, 23 March 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link
~~sold~~
― adam, Monday, 23 March 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
i'd like to pay to download this. hope they port it to emusic.
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Monday, 23 March 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
New disco thing, although I'm not sure he had any involvement other than singing on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQpE8Aqb32U
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 23 February 2017 09:30 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH5HQ4yFYHI
― 👁 (am0n), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
AMON.
― ian, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
Disco things got Paul from franz ferd on it. Not sure who else.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link
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.
― kraudive, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
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.
― mahb, Monday, 1 February 2021 12:05 (three years ago) link
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
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Monday, 1 February 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
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
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, 1 February 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
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
― in a bar, under the (seandalai), Sunday, 18 July 2021 01:50 (two years ago) link