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

While watching this I couldn't help thinking 'this guy looks so Greek'

http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/2pbIWTlMvF90LLwWW1DCpx

^nice, some new stuff in there for me, thanks!

Thoughts on DADGAD.. I don't know why but up until a week ago I never thought I'd be interested in messing with DADGAD, I'd always assumed it was better for vocal accompaniment and am honestly not too sure if any noteworthy Jack Rose/etc songs use the tuning. If anyone does happen to know if it's used on a contemporary record somewhere.. hoping to get further into it.

I didn't know I'd get anything out of my recent woodshedding, but there seems to be some ideas in here I will work with further, certainly a really fun tuning to play in on your lap.
https://soundcloud.com/raglore/january-16-2015

I like that
I play dadgad more than anything
Great tuning IMO also plenty of super important players use dadgad on the uk folk side, Davy Graham pioneered it (Anji is in dadgad), Jansch, Renbourne, Page, Wizz Jones, Thompson, etc

xp - it sounds like florian fricke overdubs being played by three men sitting near a waterfall

Yeah I could see the more pastoral side of Popul Vuh.

Just three bros throwing down some tasty licks at the local waterfall

Yeah I'm certainly into all the guys from across the pond there. Off hand I'm not aware of any players in the vein of Rose and Fahey who have something written in that tuning. I'm sure there's gotta be like a Chuck Johnson tune in it. Not to mention all the albums coming out now. Contrary to it having that distinct sound, I'm not sure I'd be able to recognize it.

Yeah Chuck I could see. Maybe 6 organs?

Neil Young uses it a lot

Pretty sure I heard Daniel Bachman get asked about a song tuning at a show and heard him throw out DADGAD. Can't remember which song though.

dadgad is the best tuning, i've pretty much given up standard tuning for it

I hate playing in standard tuning now, except for single note lead type overdubs

Lying down in bed with the flu, the new Ryley Walker album is hitting all the right spots.

Hmm I've got to try DADGAD. I've finally hit another stale spell with DGDGbBE

amazed that there is no band named DADGAD, there is a record title and a label and a Butthole Surfers track though

i like the new ryley walker song on spotify a lot but it's kinda funny to have a "smokin' weeeeed is sooooo mind blowing" song in 2015 haha

Enjoying this Wes Tirey tape. Really good afternoon music, and some cool slide moves on track 1:

https://twinspringstapes.bandcamp.com/album/gnostic-hymns-of-the-blue-ridge-mountains-vol-i

He has a pretty aggressive attack at times, which I think is a nice move. Hammers/accentuates the patterns etc.

will investigate

also realized today i hadn't spent enough time with Hayden Pendigo's album, a tour de force and so many big tymers as guests

Yeah, I need to give that Pedigo album a listen as well. The pile is always growning ....

Speaking of which, there are a couple of nice videos (with good audio) from a recent Daniel Bachman show available here:

http://www.indyweek.com/music/archives/2015/01/28/video-jenks-miller-and-rose-cross-nc-strike-an-intimate-balance-with-daniel-bachman-at-the-artscenter

Some nice understated playing from him at times, good stuff. I think this upcoming Three Lobed album is gonna be really good.

Yeah fully agree regarding the new Bachman material. Sections within part 1 (of the 2 videos) are very Days Have Gone By, and knowing that Vol. 6 is his favorite of Fahey's, I'm sure this material doesn't come lightly. Those huge gaps of quiet and silence were few and far between throughout his early material. I especially dig the extended song writing, having multiple passages and re-referencing notes played 10 minutes prior. Reads like a book, or a long narrative.

man, Ilyas Ahmed's With Endless Fire never gets old

Speaking of which, new press release from Immune about a new Ilyas record:

Ilyas Ahmed returns with I Am All Your Own, set for release on March 24th. Listen to the first track below! Available to pre-order now on deluxe or standard LP, cassette, and digital

http://i.imgur.com/gnlTsHL.jpg

Earlier today FACT Magazine premiered album track "Come On". You can listen to it below:

http://immunerecordings.net/catalog/i-am-all-your-own/

I Am All Your Own was mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk in Portland, OR and cut to vinyl by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering in Brooklyn. The LP is pressed on virgin vinyl and packaged in a full color jacket featuring Ahmed’s distinct artwork, a two-sided artworked insert and free download card. The first 200 copies are pressed on opaque red vinyl.

We have a limited deluxe versions that includes a unique signed and numbered collage made by Ilyas Ahmed. The collage measures 6″ x 6″ and is a one of a kind piece of art made by Ahmed. Only 100 exist and each one is signed and numbered.

“Ilyas’ music is in service to dream investigation, at once still and impermanent as an August cloud and then sweeping like a strange breeze through your thoughts. I Am All Your Own will wrap you in serenity but is aware that any second now you may escape. Music of a sweet morning, and unforgettable.” - Thurston Moore, London

Ilyas Ahmedʼs songs exist in a sublime moment of suspended animation, calmly dwelling in between modes of music making both timeless and contemporary – deeply imbued with stillness and peace. On I Am All Your Own, his first album in three years, Ahmed employs strategies gleaned from experimental and ambient musicians, such as Lawrence English and Fripp & Eno, and applies them to song-based guitar music. Building slowly and purposefully, each individual track adds to the albumʼs overall, scrupulously-forged contour. His most direct work, Ahmed’s voice is brought to the fore and unobscured. Like the best work of his friend and collaborator Liz Harris (Grouper), as well as classic touchstones such as the Velvet Undergroundʼs self-titled third album and David Crosbyʼs “If I Could Only Remember My Name,” Ahmed’s latest is sentimental and emotive, while remaining hushed and understated. I Am All Your Own is a record for late nights and early mornings, those times spent in solitude and reflection.

Written and recorded entirely on 12-string and electric guitars, I Am All Your Own was recorded using a 4-track cassette recorder with few overdubs and mixed to ¼ inch tape, exuding intimacy and homespun atmosphere. An impressive balance lies between the lush atmospherics he conjures and the sparse arrangements of the songs themselves. As the LP unfolds, a narrative also begins to take shape: the protagonists begin their day peacefully after a long night, they come to a realization that the events of the previous night will change their life forever, and eventually dissolve into a states of regret and eventually acceptance. The guitar-based tracks are interspersed with two untitled interludes of heavy drone and celestial drift – a reminder of Ahmedʼs days as a key, and prolific, figure in the international experimental underground of the past decade. However, even these emanate a clarity that is new to Ahmedʼs work, and which makes I Am All Your Own seem like the opening of a new chapter of his career.

Born in Pakistan, Ahmed moved to America at a young age and wandered throughout his teenage years, eventually settling in his current home of Portland, OR. The songs on I Am All Your Own were thoroughly tested in front of live audiences in the Pacific Northwest and at the venerable Hopscotch Festival in North Carolina before being laid to tape in Portland, then mixed at Old Standard Sound. Concurrently with writing and recording I Am All Your Own, Ahmed has been working with Jonathan Seilaff and Matt Carlson of Golden Retriever on a new project called Dreamboat. Ahmed will tour extensively behind I Am All Your Own, a rare treat indeed.

oh that's great news, on my kid's birthday too

that Golden Retriever album was pretty good, interested to see what they can do together

Ilyas track linked above sounds cool. Nice 12-string sound and kind of weird turnarounds/progression. Reminds me of early Tortoise (Pajo?) a bit (parts of the guitar progression at least).

And yeah Neal, you nail what I am digging in that new Daniel Bachman material. He is opening up his sound and playing in really nice ways, definitely maturing into a broader sound and creating a more varied movement through the tunes, really promising stuff (though I have been on board with it all).

Imaginational Anthem Vol. 7 is streaming right now:

http://www.thefader.com/2015/01/30/im-never-going-to-stop-listening-to-imaginational-anthem-vol-7

the new IA is pretty great, i don't think there's a dud in there.
have we talked about dean mcphee? listening to his forthcoming one now -- kinda moody solo electric pieces. very nice!

Just digging into IA 7 now, but looking forward to it.

McPhee came up in the original thread. I have been hot and cold on what I have heard, but when it works for me I really like it. Seems he gets a little more "out" here and there, and that is what I respond to, but some of it was a little too "purely moody" and not much else for me. I think I need to listen to more to have a real opinion though.

yeah the dronier bits are maybe what I'm responding to here -- one of 'em is a pretty great fripp/eno evening star kinda epic.

Ohh that sounds promising. I am definitely a sucker for droney guitar (obviously).

you guys see this?
http://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/fahey-john-record-plant-sausalito-ca-september-9th-1973-cd/KH.9039CD.html
legit?
keyhole looks they traffic in grey area releases...

and speaking of the man, if you never got your past comes back to haunt you, dust to digital is selling it for the low low price of $45
http://www.dust-digital.com/fahey/
totally worth the bucks.

probably not legit, I might have that show from a D!ME upload

yeah everyone should have it in one form or another, it is amazing

dust to digital is selling it for the low low price of $45

holy shit!
thanks for the tip

The John Fahey Handbook Volume 2 has been out for a few weeks. Goes into deep detail about his discography.. 500 pages deep. The author chimed in on Yahoo that it's a print-on-demand book, and ships from overseas, with hopes that the price will go down like the first volume has.

The John Fahey Handbook Volume 2

ah good to know...and yeah, please bring the price down!

Wow really enjoying the Christoph Bruhn tune on IA7. Don't think I have seen that dudes name come up before, but that is a really pleasant tune (and I mean that in all sincerity and not as a "slight" thing).

is this the kind of thread in which we would talk about ilyas ahmed

http://immunerecordings.net/catalog/i-am-all-your-own/

it is and we did

Grandavis - I've mentioned him a couple of times, he's great. I had posted a link to a live duet recording he did w Kyle F. at a library in mpls

Oh man I somehow missed it. Thanks UMS, I'll try to dig back through and take a listen. As stated, good stuff.

yeah i like the Bruhn stuff I've heard -- think him and Fosburgh are planning on hitting the road for house concerts later this year.

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STORY TIME WITH SIR RICHARD BISHOP: REVEALING THE MYSTERIES OF TANGIER SESSIONS!
From the mind (and hands!) of one of the most brilliant guitar players of any generation, Sir Richard Bishop, comes the excellent Tangier Sessions! Yeah, February 17th sees the release of Bishop's newest album, finely and finally delivered to the fervent hands of noble devotees everywhere! SRB's wide ranging, maxi-cultural influences are on full display within Tangier Sessions' outwardly expanding compositions, delivering unparalleled depth of sound from within the comforting confines of a six-string. Oh, but what a six-string! This guitar is of the ancient, parlour variety - and for Rick or anyone we've yet to encounter, it's origins are eerily puzzling. Yet, it's symbiosis with Sir Richard has resulted in a stone-cold classic album of acoustic explorations!

The basic concept of such an album alone should have you salivating (it's all over our keyboard, too), but hold up - there's more to it! How often do we get the chance to truly demystify such a magic set of songs? How often do you hear tale of how an album this intriguing came to be, straight from the horse's mouth? And how often does that mouth belong to a horse as seductive as Sir Richard Bishop? Not too often, player, so listen up, cause Rick Bishop's got something to say about the origin and creation not only of Tangier Sessions the album, but of the unique instrument which enchanted him so deeply as to drive him to record it.

And now, for the complete story! It's a mysterious tale that begins in Geneva, Switzerland, deals in the art of possession (both tangible and demonic), and ultimately ends this very moment, with the "royal we" wishing to hear more sounds from Tangier Sessions ... take it away, Sir Rick:

WATCH SIR RICHARD BISHOP TALK GUITAR AND TANGIER SESSIONS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2p5j3EajWI&feature=youtu.be

cool story, weirdly i was just gonna post my new guitar which is MUCH less valuable but inspired by those old slothead parlors (though I believe this is an 00 body not a 0 parlour)...but yeah the recording king ROS-06, (fahey famously played a recording king but this is a new company that's brought the label back). but it's the same slothead, thick neck, no fret markers type thing....liking it so far, like the 1 13/16 nut little more room for fingerpicking

http://postimg.org/image/fvk62s1kn/

http://s23.postimg.org/r7wrkka9n/guitar_2.jpg

Nice looking guitar! Think I would dig these (like the parlor-size body).

schnazzy... someday i will get a new acoustic guitar. i've had mine since 1993!
in ILX brigade breaks big news, just saw that steve gunn will be opening for wilco this summer at Red Rocks!
did not think that would be the venue I'd finally get to catch the dude at.

Woah. Red Rocks not a bad local for that at all.

That's awesome for him
I think his newer stuff will go over well with the Wilco crowd

The recording king is not spendy. Actually I think the originals were Sears catalog guitars