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

ha the name looked familiar -- i guess i'm facebook friends with him (feels like in a year's time my facebook feed will be entirely random music people i haven't met irl). haven't checked anything out but will do so!

feels like in a year's time my facebook feed will be entirely random music people i haven't met irl

i know that feeling... can't tell if it's helpful/cool or annoying. a little of both. that's facebook in general i guess tho.

haha yeah. increasingly when I'm over there I'm thinking "who the hell is this?"

You guys just gotta stop being so "like"-able.

Any discussion of Stara Rzeka here yet? I nominated it for metal poll but duscussion probably belongs here more than anywhere

Yeah, I'm getting a Six Organs+neofolk+some other stuff vibes more than I do metal here. It's good stuff tho.

Will check that out, think I listened to a track (Stara Rzeka) at some point and liked it OK, but I didn't dive into the whole thing. That description is definitely a good one for getting my attention though.

NPR Music is really into the Joan Shelley album, and Stephen Thompson even ranked it as his top album of the year. Which is amazing and awesome!

www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/12/09/458939744/stephen-thompsons-top-10-albums-of-2015

revisiting this today, think it's a bit underrated/slept-on. nicely eerie originals and takes on fahey classics:

http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/2012/04/rc-johnston-fahey-project.html

yeahhh, i liked that one! i should revisit too.
something just in from scott mcdowell's newsletter
Word on the street is that Jack Rose's catalog is about to get a major reboot, with reissues of the records Jack made for VHF and Three Lobed Recordings, as well as an expanded version of the final Thrill Jockey album Luck in the Valley, all on the slate for 2016.

Yeah, saw this too! Would love to upgrade a few of those records, really hope that this is true.

Just got the Fahey Christmas record pretty cheap, psyched. I actually enjoy Christmas tunes when done well generally, and had been waiting for a copy of this one to cross my path for some time.

Well, "a" Fahey Christmas album, i.e., the "New Possibility" one.

Yeah, I'm getting a Six Organs+neofolk+some other stuff vibes more than I do metal here. It's good stuff tho.

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i like some stuff that's "neofolk" but man don't dig too deep down that google/spotify well as i did one day, there are some unsavory elements to that whole scene

like ... the Lumineers? or something eve more unsavory?

*even*

no like...um....dudes that are really into the idea of "pagan europe" and really like "reappropriating" facist/nazi/martial imagery and "provacative" ideas, like the whole death in june descended stuff, it's a whole wormhole that intersects w/the early industrial scene way more than anything we would perceive as folk or american primitive

then they are always like "jeez guys why does everyone get the wrong idea about us" i wonder why?

http://www.spittingatpigeons.com/images/dijzagreb17112012/dijzgrb3.jpg

http://www.homeboyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/death-in-june-0512.jpg

Yup that's what I thought you meant.

blecch

free folk > fisherfolk > freak folk > neofolk

Volk

Going to post this big Jack Rose radio tribute by Scott McDowell's WFMU show here. Haven't listened yet, but sure plan on it. RIP:

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/64033

Has some live stuff and Peel Sessions and other non-b-g-album tracks, looks great overall.

Also, as Chris Corsano came up here (I think?) and Tom Carter is just the best, I am also posting this trio set with Carter Thornton here:

http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/12/tom-carter-chris-corsano-carter-thornton-december-5-2015-trans-pecos-solo-and-trio-sets/

All three have solo sets posted as well, and then a full trio improv that, to my ears, rules. This is pretty out stuff though, so keep that in mind. Very little "guitar as guitar" action.

yeah just checked that carter/thornton/corsano gig out, totally killer. need to dig into more of carter thornton stuff -- some dorji-like moves, but some more straightahead sounds too.

Trying to set up a show for him here, but he wanted to do Dec. 27 or 28, which is a tough time for a small town. Hoping to get him here in the Summer though, he is great.

But yeah, that trio set is like 100% in my wheelhouse. I AM the demographic for that shit hah hah.

on twitter, carter helpfully pointed out the "Killer sneeze solo about halfway into the trio set"

incoming! new glenn jones! http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/12/10/459072516/vikings-choice-glenn-jones-flower-turned-inside-out

Hah hah, was just about to post that, such good news!

if anyone happens by amoeba in hollywood and needs Glenn Jones' "My Garden State" LP on vinyl, there's a relatively cheap used one filed in the soul section with the other Glenn Jones

I have listened to "My Garden State" more than any other record that has come out this decade. You should buy it and give it as a gift to someone, it is a real deal soul stirrer, no doubt.

new track is unsurprisingly lovely
also lol that gotrich's column is called "Viking's Choice"

Oh man, the tune was already working for me to say the least, and then the outro came along and took it to a whole other level. He is a master.

Beautiful!

Hah hah, I have listened to this like 5 times in a row.

has glenn ever written a bad song?

btw i got a loop pedal that works with microphones so you can do loops of acoustic guitar

i can't use it for shit, so i was trying something and everything didn't quite match up and was a touch off beat but then i started to like, and then did a couple effected solo improvs over it. anyway kinda more "out there" for me i guess

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/lost-in-queensbridge

Sounds cool UMS, I particularly like the soloing. Nice work, the out-of-sync-ness didn't bother me at all.

!
a new glenn jones is always a treat but this is just gorgeous

there's always a beautiful calm about his playing but this slack-keyish sound suits him so well and the coda just sends it over the top into pure oceanic bliss

Yep, exactly. The outro/coda is just an amazing touch. REALLY hope I get to see him live next year (and that tune in particular I would love to see in person). Maybe I will campaign with him directly!

little bit of pr blurb from thrill jockey:
Fleeting was recorded in a house on the banks of the Rancocas Creek in Mount Holly, New Jersey. Jones and his recording engineer Laura Baird made no attempts to soundproof their environment, instead incorporating the sounds of crickets and birds into the recordings.

Haven't posted one of these in a while, but gonna throw up a recent live set of my duo Grand Banks. Takes a bit to get going, but some actual guitar playing in there here and there (between the prepared guitar and more abstract passages). Pretty into this one though, but I am of course biased:

https://grand-banks.bandcamp.com/track/grand-bands-live-12-05-2015

Man, sure wish I could have that Glenn Jones record for Christmas i.e. right now. Would be very useful.

yeah that preview track is fantastic, pretty much perfect.

Yeah man, I like how it just jumps in with an upbeat tempo right away, no long intro or anything. Just an instant mood-enhancer.

totally.
saw joan shelley + nathan salsburg tape an etown radio show last night -- so good. can say without a doubt that their concert tomorrow will be the greatest gig ever played in my house. as i told davis, there's still time to book a flight out to colorado.

Hah hah, can you send the Aquarium Drunkard jet?

can you periscope it?

getting into this grand banks, like the twinkly sounds so far, is that prepared guitar or another instrument?

Oh cool man. Twinkly sounds at the beginning are a music box played into the pickups of my guitar.