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

haha yeah i've never bought any new agey album that wasn't in pristine condition

dudes were partying too hard rockin out to basho i guess

yeah this one had seen some action

Man I love Linda Cohen! She definitely came up in the old thread and that record "Leda" is cool as hell in my opinion.

I didn't know barbecue bob was taught by sylvester weaver's mum, that's wild

Sylvester just has the same last name, and is unrelated :/ my mistake

Man I love Linda Cohen! She definitely came up in the old thread and that record "Leda" is cool as hell in my opinion.

Yeah thanks for digging that one up tyler, it's great!

Did anyone else back that kickstarter for Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho, the Basho doc? Hopefully it'll come out before summertime, was looking forward to it's release last year and then it completely fell off my radar.

http://i59.tinypic.com/11rdeft.png

"In East Or West, I See No Christ", written by Andrew Hammond

hah! great title.

lol

ha, andy is an old friend of mine, NC you truly have your ear to the ground!

Grass Tops putting out a Dennis Taylor reissue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wbEks6xgpg

who is sean proper? i like his song on the new imaginational anthem

young guy out of florida i think? i have one of his records -- it was ok, but his imaginational anthem track suggests he's gotten a LOT better.

overall, this edition of IA is really great, Hayden Pendigo did a great job curating it

yeah i don't think there's a bad (or even boring) track in there, and it flows nicely

yeah and such a good variety while still feeling like a coherent "scene" (which in a lot of ways is one of my favorite things about the stuff we talk about on this thread overall, is that you can mention like duck baker or the crazy ass new 6 organs stuff)

totally...
you can check out some of that forthcoming dennis taylor reissue on grass tops now: https://soundcloud.com/grasstopsrecording/sets/dayspring

Gotta go listen to those Taylor tracks. Might have to go listen to that Six Organs record two or three more times first though ....

First track from the Steve Gunn/Black Twig Pickers album has been put up:

http://www.stereogum.com/1736873/steve-gunn-the-black-twig-pickers-trailways-ramble-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/

Nice sound, very mellow overall. I imagine this is only one of many directions this album goes in, this being probably the most straightforward, but we'll see. Hoping for some really deep, extended meditations though.

currently doing some deep listening to sir richard's new one -- some seriously beautiful playing.

I listened to Road To Siam last night, whetting my appetite

i haven't even heard that one... dude is hard to keep up with. i think i have three records of his from 2014!

Oh yeah, keep forgetting about this Sir Richard album. There is gonna be a lot of stuff coming out in the next few months, crazy.

His playing was beautiful when I saw him live last year. I was going into it under the impression that it would be a bit more abstract/avant-garde/indirect than it ended up being. Excited to hear the new one.

yeah this one is very melodic -- some more shredding kinda moments, but mostly lovely tunes (albeit still w/ the tension he seems to bring to everything)

sir richard playing mpls in april, gotta make that one

saw him end of last year; he's unsurprisingly great

i mean he's always great live but it had been almost eight years since i saw him last and it was as good a show as memory allowed

Hello faithful Delta Slider readers. As you may know the annual Fahey week is approaching. Unfortunately I’m pretty much out of material and buried at work, in other words: I got nuthin’.

So…here’s the opportunity you’ve been looking for! If you’ve always wanted to post an essay about Fahey and his music, your guitar tab of his song, that rare bootleg that hasn’t been posted yet, etc. Then now is the time to contact me about it! If you send me ready to publish material I can post it and you get the byline.

I would love to continue the tradition but frankly I’ve been short on time and resources. Let’s see what happens!! Fahey Week traditionally starts February 22nd.

Use the contact form below or email me at the addy listed in the "About" page.

Thanks all,
Scott

http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/2015/02/fahey-week-needs-your-help.html

also via twitter, david crosby's fave alt tuning is EBDGAD
FYI

woah CROZ Modal Tuning, i bet i could do some next level shit w/that

the crosby songbook that came out sometime in the early seventies has the tunings (and there are a lot of them!) for his first solo and a bunch of his byrds and csn(y) songs, finding that at like 16 was my intro to non-standard tunings.

his new album ain't bad!

Yeah, it's pretty good. The highs are especially high. Definitely some duds though.

Anyone know Matt Baldwin? Can Nugent was big upping him on FB

name sounds familiar, but I don't think I've heard him.
not sure if it's been talked about but -- glenn jones' vdsq 7-inch is wayyyyyy too brief, but it is lovely. makes me hope he's got a new record on the way soon.

Was gonna chime in last nite regarding Baldwin but was thinking someone else would - he is a ripper for sure, first seen mostly on that Berkeley Guitar comp T. SQ did in '06. But his first full length "Path's of Ignition" is pretty unique as far as solo guitar albums go within that first burst of records in the mid 2000's. Not a subtle record at all as far as I can remember, acoustic solo tracks with electric solos overdubbed on top. He does a Neu! cover and a Juda Priest cover, so that should tell you a lot about his playing. But it comes across as cohesive rather than a grab bag.

I do know he went full on electric there for a while after the first album, I haven't followed much of it except for the minimal synth/guitar stuff he's doing currently, putting it out on tapes. This post had me discover his bandcamp so I'll probably get into that soon enough...

https://psychicarts.bandcamp.com/music

this still floors me- i could listen to the outro forever. still one of Fahey's best moments, IMO:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kIaTRKii_M
(Dry Bones in the Valley)

Love the idea of Neu! and Judas Priest. That reminds me of this guy, who is really great- apparently reared on a diet of metal before discovering WIlliam Tyler? https://samuelgrayedmondson.bandcamp.com

Global opened for Daniel Bachman & I couldn't go :(

On week 3 of no guitar to see if I can heal this arm, sucks

Good luck UMS! Hope once you get there it is healed for good. It is painful to watch other folks play sometimes when you can't grab a guitar yourself.

https://sonicmeditations.bandcamp.com/album/basalt-palisades
^^^sounding cool - a collab between chuck johnson and plankton wat

New Steve Gunn/Black Twig Pickers out! Really enjoying track 'Cardinal 51'

Oooh, gonna check that Chuck Johnson/Plankton Wat collab. Seems like a good bet for fine Friday listening.

Looking forward to that Gunn/Black Twigs collab when I get to it, but gonna let that one come to me by and by. I have a feeling it will work well in the springtime ....

Wanna post this nice musing on a Fahey performance by our own Global. Good stuff, and nice to see it pop up on Delta Slider (which means many of you may already have seen it):

http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/2015/02/john-fahey-dance-of-inhabitantslive-u.html

Still geek out frequently listening to the slide action on the track he posts there (a live run through of "Dance of the Inhabitants").

chuck/wat thing sounds cool - johnson seems to have a bunch of new music on the way this year.
global and i have contributed to delta slider's fahey week! what's everyone else's excuse. http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LCi-WfU_cv4/VOFa-OrEKKI/AAAAAAAACO4/HdU5RcDDWzM/s1600/Fahey_Lacy_Wilson_Evans.jpg
xp!

hah nice! I ain't going to contribute, but I will enjoy anything that pops up. I have nothing to add about Fahey that would not be better handled by someone else.

you've all let the fahey community down
and yeah holy shit that "dance of the inhabitants" is totally worth singling out -- unbelievable.

Isn't letting the Fahey community down part of embracing the Fahey legacy?

yeah i think that is what fahey would want. disappointment for everyone.

Somewhat related to this, I was just talking with a friend of mine who came up with an idea for a theme for a radio show for a non-profit station here doing a fundraiser, that theme being last songs on last albums from an artist, and I immediately thought of "Untitled With Rain" from Red Cross. To me, a supremely cool song largely enhanced by the long section of recorded studio silence at the end of it. Doing a quick google search brought up this review:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2945-red-cross/

It ends with this passage in re "Untitled With Rain":

The only real misstep is "Untitled with Rain". For six minutes, the song flows leisurely across faintly ringing organ tones and chimes, with just a few scattered notes recalling some of Fahey's concrete leanings. At that moment, the music dissipates into eighteen minutes of thoroughly impenetrable silence while the ambient noise of a deserted studio is mic'd up for, presumably, listening pleasure. Sadly, his generally keen abstract edge is at its dullest-- any similar track from City of Refuge makes this seem like a cheap gimmick. And worse, if it weren't for the (almost fittingly) unnamed tonal reverb of the track's final two minutes, the closing seconds of his final album would conclude in a vacuum. Even if Red Cross is less of a striking conclusion than a broad summation, it's a tragedy to allow the vague recognitions elicited here to evaporate into nothing. It's silence in remembrance of a talented, haunted man, but he deserves a eulogy, and his guitar speaks better than anyone ever could.

Key words here: "the closing seconds of his final album would conclude in a vacuum". Freaking perfect to me, love it. The void is real, and the best playing/art/records find a way to inhabit/illustrate it. So fuck it, I lied, there is my Fahey piece.