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

yeah and he throws some classical elements in there

I love Lenny Breau btw! (Would probably just go with the jazz thread for it myself. Could use more guitarists in there.)

(Also, hi guys. I've been lurking on these threads when I can.)

Listening to Gimmer Nicholson now and regretting not having lurked more.

Sund4r I'm curious if you'd like Matthew Mullane. I owe you a recommendation after your generosity over in the classical thread.

https://soundcloud.com/jimmullane/a-second-choir

Sir Richard Bishop / Ava Mendoza split just out, with what appears to be SRB's version of The Beatles' She Loves You

http://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/bishop-ava-mendoza-sir-richard-ivory-tower-hanuman-lp/UNROCK.005LP.html

RE: Lenny Breau - Five O'Clock Bells/Mo' Breau
www.discogs.com/Lenny-Breau-Five-OClock-Bells-Mo-Breau/release/7586560

I'm not familiar with any of Lenny's stuff, but this CD is a re-release of two Adelphi Records albums onto what looks like the CD reissue offshoot of "Gene's CD Co.". I'd say the thread-through-line is there :)

If you head over to the labels page, the remainder of the discography is mostly country blues material re-licenced from content owned by Adelphi Records.

There always seems to be some sort of six degrees of connection type situation for anything brought up in this thread. Or maybe that's just obsessive compulsion driving me into another unproductive corner again, oh boy.

Seems like endless cool stuff to check out
I love music!

Hey Evan, Matthew Mullane is pleasant. Thanks.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through Hut Variations and I really like this. Sort of thing I can see myself putting on a lot. Guy can definitely play. He's also an electronic musician on Mego? Intriguing.

I'm glad you like him! I was blown away when I caught him as an opener. I've been absolutely addicted to his VDSQ LP for awhile. Finally picked up Hut Variations myself a few months ago.

Also thanks for reminding me to pick up his electronic album under the Fabric moniker. It's been on my list.

This Gimmer Nicholson album sounds, on first listen, like a cross between Big Star and George Cromarty. It very occasionally gets a tad--I wanna say stately?--for my tastes, but I'm probably going to be listening to it quite a bit over the next few days because it feels like there's some magical stuff lurking just beneath the surface. "Red and White Light Ship," in addition to being a great title, is a particularly gorgeous tune. Glad I pre-ordered this one.

ILM's Rolling Post-Fahey Folk Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

cool

i'm getting into the cian nugent
took me a minute, sometimes when ppl do different things than you want them to do it takes a bit

but it's a good album not that different than steve gunn but in cian's style

i will say he doesn't have a great voice but it's good enough

Don't wanna reopen a can of worms here but I really wish we could leave Spotify out of this. 95% of the artists (and labels) here are exactly the sort than need all the help they can get, and while I realize most of us are the type who 'audition' albums on Youtube, Spotify, etc and then do our best to support the artist either by purchasing records or attending shows, I still feel a Spotify playlist sets a really bad example.

the larger economic and ethical consumer questions of music streaming are very personal, so i respect your opinion. if it's not something you want to interact with, that's cool, no one's forcing you.

fuck you dude! how about showing you respect that opinion instead of paying lip service to it and doing what you want anyway.

him, i respect. you, i don't.

ulysses I'm pretty sure Matt doesn't buy loads of counterfeit psych reissues on Radioactive and then act all holier-than-thou about streaming, but I respect your opinion.

also pretty sure every thread regular here except Jimmywine is totally cool w/a Spotify playlist.

xp C'mon now, this is the best thread on ILX! Let's not ruin it by fighting. It's not a huge deal, just pointing out that a lot of us on this thread probably know some of these artists personally and, well, most of 'em ain't "making it" in the traditional sense, so it sucks to see them getting robbed.

That said, I understand the practical aspects of maintaining a single playlist for all of this (though it bums me out that it excludes people like me who would never have a Spotify account) and I guess it is the way the winds are blowing, so to speak. Maybe the compromise should be no more than one or two songs per artist or something?

also pretty sure every thread regular here except Jimmywine is totally cool w/a Spotify playlist.

― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Wednesday, February 3, 2016 7:55 PM (53 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p big assumption there, though I guess it's possible I could be the only one. I certainly don't relish the idea of leaving it to a vote, if that's what you mean. I might throw myself out of a window.

fwiw I think yr "one or two tracks" idea is totally fine

Spotify is pretty grody but I do use it to listen to dicks picks.

When it comes to the turn offs, for me at least, the usability of the Spotify app definitely comes in a distant second behind the ethics of artist licensing and royalties. I deleted my Spotify login and should've never connected it to my FB account (& data) in the first place. The app seems kinda heavy overall and is difficult keep up with alongside all the stuff I've got going on my laptop at any given time.

I do like Soundcloud though, and I'm not sure how well this could work or if multiple users can participate in a single playlist? But what could be nice is a edit-able playlist of preview tracks that labels have uploaded when doing press releases for upcoming albums and the like. Some labels don't preview tracks this way, but it seems a lot certainly do now a days. Keeping track of all that in a single place could be nice.

Can we drop this honestly?

Just checked and mattresslessness has never posted to this thread before & most of jimmywines posts are complaining about what's being posted in the thread.

The Spotify debate has moved to another (excruciating) thread. I'm sorry I mentioned it. But I take exception to the idea that "most" of my posts are "complaining about what's being posted in the thread." My opinion is that Spotify encourages a shallow listening experience and rips off artists, and it is true that I'm not crazy about the idea of people posting their own musical experiments here when we have an entire board dedicated to that very thing, but neither of those issues has kept me from posting very enthusiastically about thread-appropriate music as recently as 24 hours ago.

There's new Head Of Wantastiquet material released on a split tape with Dire Wolves on Pome Pome Tones out of San Francisco. I remember a lot of people really digging Dire Wolves "Jams and the Giant Peace" over at the Fangs and Arrows forum (RIP) when it came out on Stunned Records in '10. You guys might dig him too, lots of psych and komiche sounds.

http://pomepometones.blogspot.de/

Stream it on bandcamp:
https://jeffreyalexander.bandcamp.com/album/head-of-wantastiquet-dire-wolves-split-cs

If anyone here never heard Paul LaBrecque's (Sunburned Hand of the Man) first Head Of Wantastiquet release from '07 on the Father Yod/Ecstatic Peace, it comes recommended—especially on solemn nights. It hovers in the Jewelled Antler-type territory mostly, with each subsequent release sitting in a different place of it's own.

http://headofwantastiquet.bandcamp.com/

cosign on Paul. He's great.

1) jimmy - my post was unfair. you def do contribute and that was wrong of me to say. however, i think ppl posting some of their music is a good thing and contributed to the culture of this thread. also, like for ex. global has released music on a great label in the space and shared bills with bachman, forsyth, and peter lang, so i don't see why he shouldn't post his music, or grandavis or neal or anyone (as for my stuff, well, every rose has its thorn as freakfolk group poison once said). and as neal pointed out the line between "enthusiast" and "artist" in a space as niche as this is pretty damn thin....but apologies to you, you've def been a good member of the community.

2) Was thinking it might be time to start a new thread anyway? this one is getting pretty long as is and it's a new year....what do ppl think?....or maybe I'll just keep posting til the spotify stuff is above the break and it won't annoy me anymore.

3) mattressless, please stay off this thread you only came here to attack jimmy.

Thanks UMS, was gonna post some nonsense about thread politics etc. but fuck it, I am not interested in that shit generally, but yeah Jimmywine is a welcome participant in my book, like a bunch of his posts and thoughts on this stuff. Happy for a new thread or to ride with this one, as long as it rolls along in the usual manner.

My two cents take two: I will say that it isn't too hard to go out into the world beyond this thread and see that it has had an impact on helping some of these folks get more press + attention/exposure, though unfortunately sales are hard to come by for anyone doing interesting music these days. Hopefully the good outweighs the bad though in regards to what we post here streaming-wise, it is a tricky line to ride for sure. Not to give anyone a big head here though, we are just a very cloistered little crew of guitar nuts, but still it makes me happy to see stuff here grow legs and get a few ears it may not have gotten without it.

Back to cool shit: Tyler (I think?) posted this cool Gimmer link where the engineer breaks down how that record was made, plus provides some background details on Gimmer. Definitely a Memphis guy, which goes some way to explaining the Big Star relation here (engineer claims that Chris Bell was a fan essentially):

http://repforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php?topic=5781.0

every rose has its thorn as freakfolk group poison once said).

― I'm currently in an online essential oil class! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, February 4, 2016 10:13 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

HA! Apology definitely accepted and thanks for the irl LOL

another vote for that Gimmer Nicholson album, the guitar has a near clavier quality... so crystalline and yet so warm.
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/04/465128476/songs-we-love-gimmer-nicholson-hermetic-waltz

That link above is a great read. But I was reading through going "say what guitars they used. say what guitars they used..." and then the very last thing on the site is like "sadly, we can't remember what guitars were used..." HA.

Also, interesting to read Terry's tale of what a friend refers to as 'demo-itis,' as in, the artist getting accustomed to demos and rough mixes and then being unable to match those sounds on final mixes. I've heard of certain producers forbidding artists from leaving the studio with rough mixes, and I guess this is one of the reasons why.

(I also like how Terry dodged the THC question).

Yeah man, that overview was fascination. "Demo-it is" is very real. Really too bad that he was thinking about recording again but didn't get there. May not have lived up to this one great record, but still, would have been cool to see.

Uhh, "was fascinating".

"Charon's Crossing" is out there bruh

yeah the gimmer thing is pretty amazing. been putting it on repeat at work, making me a better person, i think.
was under the impression that Manning's CD of it in the 1990s was the first release, but it seems like it came out in a very small way on Sid Selvidge's Peabody label in the late 70s or early 80s? Not even listed on discogs, but it apparently was sold on ebay a while back. http://www.ebay.ca/itm/LARRY-Gimmer-NICHOLSON-Christopher-Idylls-LP-PEABODY-Outsider-Folk-PSYCH-Memphis/221406635941
There's also this late 80s video of Gimmer, which is nothing like Christopher Idylls.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aELLQv7oHlY

'Hermetic Waltz' is like being hit over the head and having all rainbows fly out everywhere. I wish Light in the Attic stuff wasn't such a pain in the arse to get hold of in the UK.

sounds like VDSQ has a ton of good stuff coming up: [via facebook]

What's up with VDSQ?
In production now:
VDSQ Solo Acoustic Vol 11- Michael Chapman
VDSQ Solo Acoustic Vol 12- Sarah Louise
VDSQ Solo Acoustic Vol 13- Tashi Dorji
VDSQ Solo Acoustic Vol 14- Kristin Thora Haraldsdottir
Coming Later- new records from Arian Shafiee, Jim O'Rourke, another full length from Anthony Pasquarosa, a solo ambient pedal steel LP from Chuck Johnson, Donald Miller has prepared some recordings for an upcoming VDSQ release...plus more to be announced. Really excited about sharing all of this soon. Samples forthcoming.

oooh Donald Miller!

I imagine that record will kill most everything on this thread from 20 paces away

Sarah Louise's album is gonna be great