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

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.

Congratulations again Evan, glad that it all worked out. In my limited interactions with Glenn I concur, great guy.

Really like all these tracks. Uggh, some day probably gonna try to get a lot of these VDSQ records.

Thank you! We had "Across the Tappan Zee" as our processional and recessional. Glenn played beautifully and throughout the night and the day was gorgeous. He later told me him and his wife "were both saying how on the way home it was one of the best weddings we've ever been to." So It was really just a spectacular time. I'll post a few photos when I get them all. Maybe video too- I know the photographers were filming Glenn playing as well.

oops second sentence there kind of mangled

sounds so fun, wish wedding i went to had genius guitar players playing them... "tappan zee" is so great (and i love that bridge too, so it is perfect).
digging that alan licht VDSQ tune. kinda different from a lot of stuff on here (strummy, rather than fingerpicky!) but very nice nonetheless.

*wish weddings*

that's so awesome evan, congrats!

Thanks! He fit our vibe perfectly. Whole thing was very relaxed and beautiful.

That song in particular, "Across the Tappan Zee", is so damn good. I get it stuck in my head all the time. I mean, I go to that record all the time, probably play once every two to three weeks. Just something perfect about it to me.

So yeah Evan, so cool that you go to have Glenn make it part of the big day!

hopefully you didn't spend the reception huddled in a corner with Glenn asking for his best John Fahey stories

Yeah I mean, the whole record is his homage to his childhood home in a town next to where my mother's side grew up, which is only a few towns over from where I grew up. So I was a fan of his and the genre in general already, then that record comes out and to me it's his best personal significance aside. And it just fits my own mindset around that part of north NJ as well. Hard to explain.

So to have him play Bergen Country Farewell, Going Back To East Montgomery, Across The Tappan Zee at our wedding (and it's an important record for both of us) was just beyond special. And we got married in MA so for him to get there was just an hour drive! I'll show off one picture of the location (my Grandparent's house on an island below the Cape) when I get the photos. Just one; I won't turn it into a wedding slideshow.

No I didn't at all! Though that would have been easy I'm sure. Instead we briefly talked beforehand about some current stuff like Chuck Johnson, William Tyler, Daniel Bachmann, Nathan Bowles. He mentioned that one time Daniel and I think he said Ryley Walker showed up unannounced at his home just to tell him how big of fans they were.

speaking of xpost Nathan Salsburg:

Nathan Salsburg ‏@twosandfews 1h1 hour ago

Nbd, just some guitarist Richard Thompson singing some praises of some other guitarist Jim Elkington
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COLpQuyWcAAtuNg.jpg

Might shoulda saved that for the Thompson thread, but ain't *all* about RT, believe it or not.

re: RT

Thompson was also on last week's episode of WTF, Marc Maron's podcast. It's a pretty good conversation to be honest, aside from the fact that we're all fans of his already. The episode also features an interview with Lemmy - tune in for insights on Hawkwind and amphetamine :)

Yeah, I posted that on RT's own thread, can't let him take over all the others--Get back, RT!
Just listened to John Rebourn's The Attic Tapes, out Oct. 16. They go back at least to '62---he died before getting all the dates, but his commentary is really fluent, analyzing some of the songs, without getting pedantic, and talking about how several of them came together, incl. ones whose (probable) sources were unguessed way back when he learned 'em: who knew "Can't Keep From Cryin'" was a Blind Willie, and it's one of several familiar titles who sound really different from any version I knew.
He also talks about finding traces of the UK songster Davey Graham in various cities, ideas that lodged in the heads of musos who may well have had no reel-to-reels, or anyway didn't need one to summon the bits that JR puts together here. Mind you, he does give Graham the writer's credit for the opening tightly loose bedsit version of "Anji"(that's from the box marked "1962").
Most are like that, as he says up front, with no thought they'd ever be heard---apprentice JR, but he's already got it, and the audio's a lot better than I expected: just whoosh on the hemp carpet, and You Are There. Ditto the live tracks, where you can tell he knew somebody was listening.
He's an okay-to-good singer, maybe more the former, but we also get a couple of nice jolts from Beverly Martyn, on young Donovan's Jansch-y "Picking Up The Sunshine." JR mentions her being on the cover of a Jansch LP...need to check out more of her stuff; I only know her from the album with hubbie John. She's even better on a tight blues. Though actually most of this is pretty concise--20 tracks in 60'48"---with no lack of atmosphere.
Also a couple guest shots from the Hurdy Gurdy Man, Mac Macleod (vocals and guitar only), and the grand finale teams JR with Graham himself, on "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out": jazzy-bluesy, duh, and rawther magical. What other Graham should I check out?
Oh yeah, audio and more info here:
http://www.worldmusic.net/store/item/TUG1089/
PS: speaking of Jansch, this also has an intriguing solo Renbourn version of "Courtship Blues," which Renbourn says is Jansch's first song--they hadn't met then, and the writer hadn't recorded it yet, but Renbourn heard it when Tom Paley came down from Edinburgh.
Wantin those Graham tips yall.

lots of davy graham releases i've yet to hear but...

the comp that came out on see for miles is a great place to start, picks and chooses from most of his decca albums. not sure if this has been superseded by a more recent collection or not.

favourite dg lp of mine: large as life & twice as natural. stretched out folk blues jazz raga (love the joni both sides now cover that kicks it off), cd reissue has good notes from john renbourn himself.

& if you don't want to hear him sing (i like his voice personally) the collaboration with shirley collins is a+

there is a particular magic that comes from finding the right musical pairing. we’ve all experienced the perfect song at the perfect time and know how electrifying it can be. the set and setting that combine to make those jukebox choices, mix tapes or playlists really work can be so hard to define but easy to identify once they are out there in the wild. part of the fun behind the curtains at three lobed recordings has always been trying to divine the alchemy of pairings that work to our ears. these efforts have time and again taken the form of collections and collaborations, both as multi-volume releases (ranging from the trio of multi-disc CD series to the not the spaces you know, but between them box set) and single albums (such as the collaborative albums from golden gunn or the hagerty-toth band to the eight trails, one path compilation). with this in mind, three lobed is proud to present parallelogram, a collection of five carefully assembled split albums celebrating complementary musical pairings.

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the parallelogram collection consists of the following five albums:

hiss golden messenger / michael chapman (TLR-109)

six organs of admittance / william tyler (TLR-110)

kurt vile / steve gunn (TLR-111)

thurston moore & john moloney: caught on tape / [alan] bishop – orcutt - corsano trio (TLR-112)

bardo pond / yo la tengo (TLR-113)

each album consists of never before released material compiled especially with this collection in mind. each LP will be housed within its own letter pressed “matchbook” (similar in nature to the ones used on the eight trails, one path guitar compilation [TLR-091]) bearing new original artwork by casey burns and printed by dexterity press. each LP is pressed on 140g black vinyl pressed at record industry in the netherlands and includes a download coupon. all 5 LPs were mastered by patrick klem. all 5 LPs will ship simultaneously in a single package.

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only approximately 950 five LP collections are available from three lobed. the parallelogram collection can only be purchased from three lobed as a five record set and not a la carte. all of the contributing artists will have individual copies of their respective albums for sale at a later date through their own channels. due to the nature of shipping for this particular collection, parallelogram is not eligible for combined shipping with other three lobed titles (or with additional parallelogram sets).

http://threelobed.com/tlr/parallelogram.html

Thanks for pointing me toward those xpost Davey Graham albums, will check. Speaking of xpost Salsburg and Elkington:

James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg, a twosome with a singular chemistry on and off their respective axes, release Ambsace, their second album of guitar duets next week. While their work alongside other remarkable musicians (Elkington records and/or performs with those including Steve Gunn, Richard Thompson, Eleventh Dream Day and Tweedy; Salsburg records and performs with Joan Shelley) is a testament to their unmatched musicianship, riffing off each other is truly where these two shine brightest. This new album was conceived as an antidote to getting soft in the fingers. The result is an elegant suite presenting Elkington & Salsburg’s own nimble, filigreed compositions alongside arrangements of songs by Duke Ellington (“Fleurette Africaine”), The Smiths (“Reel Around The Fountain”) and Norman Blake (“Slow Train”). Masterful miniatures like “Up of Stairs” and “Invention #4” strut out from the parlor with a spidery sense of swing, the cascading runs recalling the leaf-dappled play of sunlight on water. Elsewhere (e.g. “The Unhaunted Williams”; “Carrots”; “Rough Purr”), the intricate cross-currents of their duets liquefy and pool, demonstrating a mastery of restraint and space. These ten new compositions and three covers offer an adequate representation of the influences brought to bear on the playing of Ambsace in particular, but also the players of Ambsace in general.

James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg’s Ambsace is out September 18th on Paradise of Bachelors. Catch the duo on their first tour this October supporting Steve Gunn. All dates are below.

Stream/Share/Embed James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg’s New Album, Ambsace –

https://soundcloud.com/paradise-of-bachelors/sets/james-elkington-nathan-salsburg-ambsace-pob-21-2015/

Apparently Ben Chasny, Elisa Ambrogio, and Tashi Dorji are doing a joint set at Hopscotch in about an hour. Can tune in via the WXDU stream here:

http://www.wxdu.org/

This is three of my favorite guitar players playing together. Thinking it might rule.

All electric. Nice.

Now Steve Gunn, Eugene Chadbourne, and Mary Lattimore trio. Very cool so far!

This is sweet.

They ended the set with a weird and great version of Bascom Lamar Lunsford's "I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground"! Really cool.

Think nyc taper is there so hopefully I can check this stuff out at a later date!

me & global & matt sowell are playing a house show in mpls with sarah louise next wednesday, very exciting!

Nice! I've really been enjoying her record.

Awesome UMS, would love to see that show!

And yeah Tyler, pretty sure NYC Taper is there. Would like to hear both of those sets again.

wow this new Joan Shelley *swoon*

yeah kind of ridiculously good