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

(not too thrilled w Amidon)

I know Nathan Bowles is playing that festival, and at least a few other good folks (besides Ryley). Joan Shelley I think too?

william tyler too. seems like a fun fest. looks hot though.

man, the forthcoming joan shelley record is amazing.

I think Nathan is actually sitting in with Joan for one (or more) of her sets. Not sure if he is just drumming or playing banjo too, but I imagine there will be a lot of sitting in on various sets.

Chuck Johnson show here in Charlottesville was top-notch. He only played about 6 songs/40 minutes, but it was perfectly paced and just expertly played. All straight guitar songs were played on a telecaster, then he switched it up for the end of the set w/ two lap steel songs that were maybe the highlight of the whole show. Definitely recommend seeing him live if you can.

Also, I bought a Zoom recorder and used the show as a trial run. Thing works great, show recording is crsytal clear and was super easy to record. Really psyched I bought one (the H5).

I attended Pickathon. Saw Wm. Tyler perform in a barn Saturday night with about 100 other people. Audience included Nathan Salsburg, Nathan Bowles, M.C. Taylor and Phil Cook. Maybe others I didn't recognize. I couldn't enjoy myself because I spent the whole time worrying about the future of solo/acoustic/whatever music if something bad were to happen inside that barn. :)

(Yes, it was hot. Really hot.)

Pickathon looked pretty stacked, bet it was a good time.

I totally had a middle-of-the-night sit up in bed moment last week and thought 'the post-Fahey thread!' My computer blew up about six months ago, and somehow I totally forgot this place. I've had a fine time catching up. Cheers.

glad you're into it! love the tight-knit feel of this thread but also good to know there's some onlookers. can always use more voices though! we don't bite.

It was a great time. I saw truly mesmerizing sets by Ryley W. and HGM (both on the stage in the woods), plus Bowles in the same barn as Tyler. Those two were more of an interview/performance format ... I could've lived without the interviewing and more music, but it was fine. Saw Alice Gerrard, too, and Tinariwen, and a bunch of rock bands (DIIV, Ex Hex, Meatbodies, Viet Cong, Wand, Happyness, A Giant Dog, etc.) Missed Ernest Ranglin, a bit bummed about that.

aw man I wanna see Wand! not really relevant to thread but...

Wand are stellar. their drummer is amazing

Wand was great. Later, they backed Ty Segall as the "Roling Stons" and did some mangled Stones covers.

Surprise of the fest for me was Meatbodies, another West Coast garage/psych/punk band. I like their record OK but they absolutely destroyed live.

Back to thread topic: Tyler joined HGM for their two scheduled sets...it was so great. And then on Sunday Alice Gerrard canceled her second set and HGM (who had backed her on Saturday) played a surprise-ish set w/ Tyler and Mandolin Orange. A super-jam of sorts.

Forgot I saw Sam Amidon. He did one of the interview-type sets. The only instance where I might've actually enjoyed him talking as much or more as his playing - in part because I think his music's above average but not amazing, and in part because he's clearly a very funny/sharp guy.

Wish I'd caught Joan Shelley.

enjoying this thing - https://itasca.bandcamp.com/album/anns-tradition
very mellow, but very nice.
and omg act now! "Limited to 100 cassettes, 50 of which include a vial of water bathed in the lunar eclipse of October 2014 in California."

I'd go for the non-water version. I can definitely see a USPS-related mishap ruining someone's day.

This is nice - mellow, pensive, out of time, like the best of this stuff. I keep waiting for vocals to come in though, for some reason.

i think she usually has vocals on her stuff...

let's hear it for emma ruth rundle! https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/electric-guitar-one
i really like this, göteborg is my favorite track but it's all super mellow and droney <3

idk if this sort of thing belongs here or on another thread but i feel like you guys might appreciate it. i'd say fans of the dronier side of steven r smith would enjoy.

really into it

yeah this is great

ooh yeah, nice. similar mood to that dean mcphee record from earlier this year, or the noveller album. she really recorded this in the back seat of a van?

idk -- i get the impression she did the primary noodling while she was in the van and then they edited some stuff together at home?
it's a pretty short album, i have no idea
but i like it

loving this chuck johnson NYC set - http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/08/chuck-johnson-august-2-2015-union-pool-flacmp3streaming/
he sounds great on electric!

^ chuck is great... blood moon boulder is probably one of my top guitar releases of the year, familiar-sounding but fresh and doesn't get bogged down with flash.

enjoying this today, particularly the banjo stuff but it's all pretty good:

https://jamestweeddale.bandcamp.com/album/weird-world-rolls-on

new michael chapman on tompkins square sounding great

tourdates w/ ryley walker coming up too:

10/08/15 North Bethesda, MD (USA) AMP
10/09/15 Brooklyn, NY (USA) Rough Trade
10/10/15 Portland, ME (USA) Waking Windows Music And Arts
10/11/15 Providence, RI (USA) Columbus Theater
10/13/15 Albany, NY (USA) The Low Beat
10/14/15 Northampton, MA (USA) Iron Horse Music Hall

here's a track: https://soundcloud.com/tompkinssquare/jack-by-michael-chapman

That's a nice track. Cool that he is swinging through for some shows too.

New Tashi / Marisa Anderson split LP just announced

http://www.footfallsrecords.com

Yeah, that looks like a good record! Big fan of both Tashi and Marisa, especially live, and a great pairing for a split. Guess it is just two sides, not a collab at all, but cool regardless.

very cool combo. i like split albums!
checkin out this new nyc taper recording of alan licht playing some solo things from a forthcoming vdsq record: http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/08/alan-licht-august-2-2015-union-pool-flacmp3streaming/

also enjoying this thing
http://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/lonely-and-blue
some blown out solo electric things, some mellower stuff... all very nice.

Ooh nice, gonna check that Alan Licht set! Still need to listen to the Johnson one, but it is probably pretty close to the show I saw here (and got a recording of). Did the Pasquarosa set get recorded too? I assume so, but that is one I am interested in checking too.

Pretty interesting interview/talk with Anthony Pasqarosa via our man Mr. Dying For Bad Music:

http://dyingforbadmusic.com/blog/post/2015/07/interview-anthony-pasquarosa.html

Good insights overall, and I hadn't really read much about AP at all, so a good thing to dive into if you dig his playing. There is a good playlist embedded in the interview too.

new chris forsyth & koen holtkamp (who i am not familiar with) joint album, like the sample track a lot, v chill psych vibes

http://m.tinymixtapes.com/news/chris-forsyth-koen-holtkamp-announce-second-joint-lp-share-long-beach-idyll

Chris & Koen have another record, and Koen is in the duo Mountains that has records on Thrill Jockey (amongst other labels). I like the Mountains records I have heard OK, but seeing them live kind of killed the mood for me quite a bit (just a lame personal thing, but they talked to each other quite a bit during the set, as if they were making serious choices about the music on the fly or something, but the music did not change after they talked etc. etc.).

Odd criticism of the day: I think the lead playing on this Forsyth / Holtkamp track is really good, but I find the acoustic playing distracts from the mood being set. Sounds a little overcomposed to me, in regards to the turnarounds/ornamental parts, wish it just sat still a little more. Probably just me hah hah.

To round this confusing series of insights out, I saw Koen & Chris play live and really dug it, they went down some good roads and it was pretty engaging throughout.

tyler had mentioned that the willian tyler band/solar motel band tour needs to happen and i agree

i knew that forsyth had been recording via facebook but i assumed new solar motel (or maybe there is that too)...

as for me...well i guess i have fucked around with recording shit in my basement now for more than a year and pretty much gone through all the steps and basically this is as good as it's gonna get soundwise so i need to quit my fuckin procrastinating (disguised as gear lust, "learning recording techniques", googling about compressor plugins and shit).....this is a new version of a track i posted a reeaaaally long time ago on the old thread, my most ambient/spaced out/droney number....added a subtle synth pad throughout and obv better mics etc

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/heaven-is-real

Speaking of Ryley Walker that John Hurlburt LP he found is streaming on the Fretboard Journal site for the moment; link posted on the Tompkins Square thread cos yall should visit. Speaking of Pickathon, I forgot to mention The Weather Station's set was pretty good if jonesing for pre-/post-fusion Joni. Ditto the new album by young Joan Shelley, where the picking is mostly(?) acoustic or discreetly plugged-in (sounds like a nice warm hollow-body on the title track). She's been around and thought about it, with the end of summer gliding by. Seems more consistent in the second half, and "Subtle Love" is the perfect closer, as patterns blossom into Patty-Griffin-Sandy-Denny-Rthompsonesque autumnal allure. Sorry to mention influences/associations but they're pretty up=front, and you gotta have the chops/touch/shit together to wear 'em well, as she mostly does here.
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/26/434271578/first-listen-joan-shelley-over-and-even

yeah that's nathan salsburg playing guitar on most of the joan shelley record, really adds a nice dimension, without overshadowing shelley's major talents as a songwriter. love it.
hulburt thing is cool! "sunrise" is one of the lovelier fahey homages i've ever heard.

just listened to that john hurlburt stream, really nice stuff

listening to your tune right now, ums, very nice meditative quality happening here.

thanks! i feel like the sound quality is p good, i just held down three C octave notes on a crappy old yamaha synth through the whole thing, might end up shortening it up but i was kinda of hypnotized by playing and kept going for awhile

yeah i dig it.
you guys checked out this william tyler band set from a week or two back? holy crap:
https://soundcloud.com/williamtylermusic/william-tyler-band-8-21-15

^^ killer

Yeah UMS, I remember that tune! It is a good one, and I like the treatment. I think it is fine at the length you have it, depending on what you sequence it with (assuming this gets bookended by some other tunes). Good thing to fade into or out of.

Still need to check the W. Tyler Band set. Listened to the beginning and it sounded great.

yeah, pretty blazing.
did i report back about marisa anderson in denver last week? was totally great -- really a pleasure to hear her in person. everyone should go see her!
new tune, a medley of "house carpenter/see that my grave is kept clean" from the forthcoming split LP w/ tashi dorji sounded amazing.

Some new tunes posted to the VDSQ soundcloud page:

https://soundcloud.com/vdsq-1

Anthony Pasquarosa, Dan Melchior, and Alan Licht. Really lovely Glenn Jones tune on there too.

I've been meaning to tell you all about how wonderful Glenn was (and his wife) at our wedding, but it's been taking forever for us to get the photos.

Loved the William Tyler set too by the way. That stuff makes me want to go on a road trip or something.