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

He was great! Laura Baird and Anthony Pasquarosa opened. Anthony and Laura were both super nice to talk to and it was great to catch up with Glenn since the wedding. Obviously Laura joined him on stage for Across the Tappan Zee.

sorry to do the mid-00s ilx-as-nyc-show-discussion-board thing BUT speaking of union pool anyone going to ryler walker/charles rumbach tonight?

damn you nyc-ers and your endless cool shows.
glenn jones performance/interview from last night on WFMU is archived here: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/66113

I hadn't planned on/known about the Union Pool show tonight, but I probably won't I don't think. Don't feel like going into BK right now, sorry Ryley!

cmon it's 4/20 man

Did that sound spoiled or what? Yup... cracks fingers plenty of local shows to choose from, I'll catch the next one...

Took a break from blasting Polvo records to listen to the Danny Paul Grody cassette mentioned above.

https://geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/sketch-for-winter-vi-other-states

Really nice halfway through. "On Leaving" in particular sounding pretty lovely. I mean, if you dig his stuff you will definitely dig this.

been listening to Death Adder by Rod Poole, if anyone fancies some just intonation guitar you should check it out

Playlist updated for April.

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

So, William Tyler follows up on Lost Colony---mentioned way back at the beginning of this thread, I believe---with one about a county that seceded from Mississippi when Mississippi seceded from the Union, like Alabama's Winston Country declaring itself the Free State of Winston. Not terribly successful, ditto counties in Tennessee, though West Virginia did come out of Virginia etc.: divisions of the Civil War South=largely untapped, still-fresh material for musos, and especially as WT's fellow Southerner, I say, "Rat on, go, son!"

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Today, William Tyler shares “Kingdom of Jones” from his forthcoming new album Modern Country. William describes the album as “a love letter to what we’re losing in America, to what we’ve already lost” which is explored visually in the stark, lovely album trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHzr4rJ9guA&feature=youtu.be

Listen to & share "Kingdom of Jones" now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDV2tJI3CMU

William shared the inspiration behind the song: “Kingdom of Jones” is dedicated to the memory of the people of Jones County, Mississippi, a small county in the southern portion of the state that seceded from the Confederacy during the Civil War. The county became a haven for Confederate deserters and those opposed to the War. I like the idea of it, a tiny kingdom in the heart of the Deep South that fought actively against “The Cause” and gives a more complex tint to the reality of what the War was about. As someone who is proud to be Southern but struggles constantly with the weight of the history of my homeland, I like thinking about the people of Jones County during the War. They must have realized something that a lot of people still haven’t figured out.

Modern Country features an ensemble backing group consisting of multi-instrumentalist Phil Cook (Hiss Golden Messenger, Blind Boys of Alabama), bassist Darin Gray (Tweedy, Jim O’Rourke), and percussionist Glenn Kotche (Wilco). The album was tracked at April Base Studios in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and finished in Nashville, recorded and mixed by Jon Ashley, and produced by Tyler and Brad Cook.

Modern Country is available for pre-order now on CD or LP with an exclusive t-shirt available only in the Merge store, or digitally via iTunes. William Tyler just finished a run of dates with the Mountain Goats and will perform at the Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival and at shows with Wilco in August, with more dates to be announced soon.

William Tyler on tour:
Jul 13 Durham, NC – Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Aug 12-13 Eau Claire, WI – Eaux Claires Festival
Aug 14 Moorhead, MN – Bluestem Amphitheater w/ Wilco
Aug 16 Kansas City, MO – CrossroadsKC w/ Wilco
Aug 17 St. Louis, MO – The Fabulous Fox Theatre w/ Wilco.

More, from the Merge site (should've been incl. on above press sheet, but maybe they didn't have it yet for that)
While there is never a comfort zone in instrumental music, Tyler attempts to leave any perceived one behind with Modern Country. His first album for Merge, 2013’s Impossible Truth, found Tyler exploring the boundaries of composition for solo guitar in a manner that paid homage to everyone from Leo Kottke to Brian Wilson. It was an epic song cycle that veered from cathedral-like psychedelic hymns to pastoral folk melodies. In contrast, Modern Country finds Tyler exploring more focused melodic themes rather than ethereal wanderings. These aren’t pop songs, per se, but they are closer in spirit to Neu!, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and Bill Frisell.

Primarily written while Tyler was on sabbatical in Oxford, Mississippi, where he stayed at the cabin of a family friend within a stone’s throw of William Faulkner’s house, Modern Country is a collection of songs about the vanishing America that still exists on back roads, in small towns, on AM radio stations. In an election year when so many certainties and assurances have vanished, Tyler doesn’t offer optimism or pessimism but rather a calm and measured commentary in our age of anxiety.

Preorders will ship to arrive on or around the release date of June 3.

"closer in spirit to Neu!, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and Bill Frisell."

want

Sounds gorgeous!

That new Dreamboat album mentioned waaayy up thread is completely incredible! Long ambient tracks don't usually hold my attention, but this is so oddly textured and beautiful. Really liked what I heard (admittedly only 'Gone Clear' so far) of the William Tyler.

bassist Darin Gray (Tweedy, Jim O’Rourke

Dazzling Killmen invented this gangsta shit - This the motherfuckin' thanks they get??

also grand ulena was nuts live

have any of you ever gotten a hold of cian nugent's childhood, christian lies, and slaughter?

william tyler's new one is really good. modern country (the song) reminds me of elegant transaction by loose fur (jeff tweedy, jim o'rourke, and glenn kotche side project). sunken garden reminds me of wilco's either way, or something off sky blue sky

last tune is kind of classic rock. i'm working from memory but some guitar and keyboard chord progressions remind me of dire strait's sultans of swing

ha i did think there were some knopfler-y tones on some of tyler's new one. i'm ok with that! record is really nice.

is it 'out' or is it actually out

comes out officially on june 3, i have a digital promo.

digital 'promos' are also 'out'

hey, i wrote up the latest bunch of vdsq releases! they are all very good, all very different
http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/05/17/vdsq-2016-michael-chapman-sarah-louise-tashi-dorji-and-kristin-thora-haraldsdottir/

and did we talk about this record yet? great improvvy acoustic guitar duets https://eastofthevalleyblues.bandcamp.com/

LOVING the Kristin Thora Haraldsdottir track. Very much my thing.

yeah! whole record is very good (though that one might be the most song-y song of the bunch, it gets fairly atmospheric/ambient at times)

That works for me.

Thanks for the Mullane recommendation btw. It's getting regular rotation in my apartment.

Oh, you're very welcome! His VDSQ Solo Acoustic Volume Four remains one of my top favorites of this genre.

Cool. Hut Variations was the one I bought. I'll add the other to my list.

Really liking the East of the Valley Blues and new VDSQ stuff.

That East of the Valley Blues tape is a really nice listen, definitely a good one to dig into.

At this point most of the VDSQ stuff speaks for itself (but nice round up Tyler!), but this batch in particular has resonated with me. Definitely gonna pick up at least a couple of these.

I may have posted this before, but I return to it now and again because it hits a nice sweet spot for me. It is also half of East of the Valley Blues, and maybe even more up my alley. Running Point - Medita/Medica:

https://powermoveslibrary.bandcamp.com/album/medita-medica

oh nice, will have to check that out!

Yeah, I think you would enjoy it Tyler. He is a cool player in my opinion.

Ryley Walker is pleased to announce his new album, Golden Sings That Have Been Sung, coming out August 19th on Dead Oceans. It’s the triumphant follow up to his breakout album, Primrose Green, which earned critical hosannas from the likes of NPR, Village Voice, Uncut, and Mojo and admiration of musicians who had chalked up no shortage of turntable miles in Walker’s life. Robert Plant declared himself a fan – as did double-bass legend Danny Thompson, with whom Ryley embarked on a British tour.

In November 2015, at the end of a ten-month period which saw Ryley play over 200 shows in support of Primrose Green, Ryley decided that he should probably head home. However you wished to measure it, he was surely due some sort of holiday. Although, a holiday was the last thing on Ryley’s mind – and certainly not a holiday in his adopted hometown.

He went into the studio over the Christmas vacation to record Golden Sings That Have Been Sung whose songs were directly wedded to Ryley’s return to Chicago. Some of his formative musical memories had been shaped by the work of pioneering Chicago acts such as Gastr del Sol and Tortoise. “Jeff Parker was the guitarist with Tortoise, and I used to listen to him a lot,” recalls Ryley, who figured that, for the first time in his career, it might be helpful to enlist the services of a producer. With only one person on his shortlist, once again, all roads led back to Chicago.

Ryley had been a long-time admirer of sometime Wilco multi-instrumentalist LeRoy Bach. Back in 2009, still in his teens, he had frequented the improv nights hosted by Bach at a restaurant/gallery space called Whistler. “For me, it was an incredible opportunity,” recalls Ryley, “…because you would sometimes also have Dan Bitney, the drummer with Tortoise, and I’d get to play with these people. I mean, they were twice my age. I’m sure they thought I was annoying at first, maybe some of them still do, but I kind of looked at them like gurus – and to have these old school Chicago heads taking me in was just amazing.”

For Ryley then, the prospect of having Bach produce his album was something of a no-brainer. “It was everything I wanted it to be,” he enthuses. “I would go to LeRoy’s house every other day with a riff, and we would take it from there.” Perhaps more than any other song on the record, the somnambulant sun-dappled intimacies of opening track and lead single “The Halfwit In Me” most audibly bear the imprint of those Whistler sessions.

Golden Sings That Have Been Sung was made for the dewy magic hour when night and day have yet to meet and, as long as the song is playing, you feel might briefly leave the corporeal world with them. This is the music you might imagine the woodland animals making once the humans have left for the night. This is Ryley Walker’s coming of age.

Ryley will play two record release shows in support of Golden Sings That Have Been Sung at Rough Trade East in London on August 19th and at Empty Bottle in Chicago on August 25th with full U.S. and European tours to follow. A full list of dates is below with more to be announced soon.

LISTEN TO RYLEY WALKER’S “THE HALFWIT IN ME”:
https://soundcloud.com/deadoceans/ryley-walker-the-halfwit-in-me/
http://youtu.be/brva1zK6Q1E

RYLEY WALKER TOUR DATES:

JUNE
6th US Chicago, IL, Millenium Park ^
8th IT Ravenna, Beaches Brew festival
11th CH St. Gallen, Palace *
12th BE Liege, Reflektor *
14th Lux Luxembourg, Rockhal *
15th UK London, Oval Space *
16th BE Ghent, DOK *
17th FR Paris, Le Petit Bain
19th NL Hilvarenbeek, Best Kept Secret festival
20th DE Leipzig, Werk 2 *
22nd CZ Prague, Lucerna Music Bar *
24th NO Oslo, Piknik i Parken festival

JULY
8th CA Winnipeg Folk Festival
9th CA Winnipeg Folk Festival
22nd ES San Sebastian, Heineken Jazzaldia
29th UK Cornwall, Port Eliot festival

AUGUST
2nd UK Hebden Bridge, The Trades Club **
3rd UK Nottingham, Glee Club **
4th UK Norwich, Norwich Arts Centre **
5th UK Hastings, St Mary's in the Castle **
6th UK London, Caught by the River Thames
8th UK Cardiff, The Globe ^^
9th UK Leamingdon Spa, Zephyr Lounge ^^
10th UK York, The Crescent ^^
12th UK Guildford, St. Mary's ^^
18th PT Praia do Tabuao, Parades de Coura
19th UK London, Rough Trade East instore
20th UK Brecon Beacons, Green Man festival
25th US Chicago, IL, Empty Bottle

SEPTEMBER
14th US Bloomington, IN, The Bishop
15th US Nashville, TN, The East End
17th US Bristol, VA, Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion
18th US Bristol, VA, Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion
21st US Sonoma, CA, Gundlach Bundschu Winery ***
26th US Pittsburgh, PA, Club Cafe
27th US Columbus, OH, Wexner Center @ Ohio State
29th US Madison, WI, The Frequency
30th US Minneapolis, MN, 7th Street Entry

OCTOBER
1st US Davenport, IA, Daytrotter
4th US Salt Lake CIty, UT, Kilby Court
5th US Boise, ID, Neurolox
8th US Seattle, WA, Barboza
9th US Portland, OR, Mississippi Studios
11th US Felton, CA, Don Quiotxe Music Hall
12th US San Francisco, CA, The Chapel
14th US San Diego, CA, Soda Bar
15th US Joshua Tree, CA, Desert Daze Festival
17th US Santa Fe, NM, Meow Wolf
24th US Athens, GA, Calendonia Lounge
25th US Asheville, NC, The Mothlight
26th US Washington, DC, DC9
27th US Philadelphia, PA, Boot & Saddle
28th US Hudson, NY, The Half Moon
29th US Northampton, MA, Iron Horse Music Hall
30th US Providence, RI, ColumbusTheatre

NOVEMBER
1st US Boston, MA, Cafe 939
2nd US New Haven, CT, BAR
3rd US Brooklyn, NY, The Market Hotel
7th NL Amsterdam, Paradiso Noord
8th NL Groningen, Vera
9th FR Paris, Espace B
10th BE Brussels, AB Club
11th BE Bruge, Cactus
12th NL Utrecht, Le Guess Who? festival
13th UK Brighton, The Haunt
14th UK Manchester, Ruby Lounge
15th UK Glasgow, Broadcast
17th UK London, Islington Assembly Hall
20th ES Barcelona, Sidecar
21st ES Valencia, Loco Club
22nd ES Cadiz, Aulario de la Bomba
23rd ES Madrid, Siroco
26th FR Lyon, Le Sonic
29th CH Lausanne, Le Bourg
30th DE Schorndorf, Manufaktur

DECEMBER
1st DE Erlangen, E-Werk
2nd DE Berlin, Kantine am Berghain
5th SE Stockholm, Bryggarsalen
6th DK Copenhagen, Pumpehuset
7th DE Hamburg, Nochtspeicher


^ with Blonde Redhead (Ryley and band)
* with Destroyer (Ryley solo)
** with Danny Thompson (duo shows)
^^ Ryley solo show
*** with Iron & Wine

GOLDEN SINGS THAT HAVE BEEN SUNG TRACKLIST:
1. The Halfwit In Me
2. A Choir Apart
3. Funny Thing She Said
4. Sullen Mind
5. I Will Ask You Twice
6. The Roundabout
7. The Great And Undecided
8. Age Old Tale

Press sheet prose, but

awesome

He is embracing his Chicagoness more and more it seems. Definitely sounds great, and like a lot of records I love from that city, at least on this track:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/18313-ryley-walker-the-halfwit-in-me/

yeah some definite gastr del sol vibes throughout the album, more restrained vocal style, funnier lyrics.

sly dig on the oldsters "these guys are twice my age" etc ;)

but generally speaking, chicago is a great place to be if you want to learn from people who have been there and done that

apparently the bonus disc of the new one is a 40-minute version of "sullen mind" haha.

I just spent the last hour listening to the first track of the Krisin Thora Haraldsdottir record on repeat. Not on purpose mind you, I just hadn't noticed I had the Loop Track feature on. I kept thinking the album was much more ambient-y than I expected.

from the well-named Riot Act Media

Get to know Moon Bros, out 7/8 on Western Vinyl

Hear "Pitch" at FLOOD
https://soundcloud.com/western_vinyl/moon-bros-pitch

"Rustic, loose, and forward moving, Moon Bros. is a wagon ride to nowhere in particular—a trip outside just for the sake of the fresh air... the song is as patient as it is thoughtful, and channels the likes of Bill Fay and early, porch-pickin’ Tom Waits." - FLOOD

Fans of Ryley Walker (they used to be roommates in Chicago!) and William Tyler will find something to love on this album, and Tortoise enthusiasts will be intrigued by his rise from the Chicago post-rock underground.

With approachable alt-county lyricism recalling Fred Neil, Townes Van Zandt, Jackson C. Frank, and Bill Callahan carried away on meandering ragas, this one feels simultaneously poetic, organic, and mathematical. Moon Bros. (aka Matt Schneider) is joined by Dan Bitney (of Tortoise), Matt Lux (Iron & Wine), and Sam Wagster (Cairo Gang). Producer and engineer Brian Sulpizio (Health & Beauty) records and mixes.

It’s difficult to follow the fragmented life and musicianship of Matt Schneider. His twofold path has always embraced both an abiding love for Chet Atkins and Nashville session virtuosity, and a begrudging though fruitful flirtation with Chicago’s post-rock underground and middleground. In his native McHenry County as a young teenager, he was a guitar phenom, an engine of local pride who played old-timey anthems and oldies for an audience of delighted townies in a button-up shirt and short dweeby haircut. His clipping book is filled with front page praise lavished on his performances at Dobbyn’s House along the Fox River. That he made it through high school is due in part to the fact that he provided the soundtrack for many of his teacher’s drunken evenings and they let him slide through like a star athlete. In a simultaneous, parallel universe he was roped into playing with bands like Adhesive and Filament (two different bands who shared members and lovers) who had more in common with Seam and Tortoise than Chester or Les. The summer of 1998, immediately after graduating high school, Schneider went on a several week trip to Nashville, where he found more of a ghost town than a warm welcome for a burgeoning session player; Chicago’s fecund melting pot of jazz and rock was far more inviting. He moved to Wicker Park with his Adhesive band mates and participation in a succession of acts followed: The Exciting Trio, then Toe (where he and Griffin Rodriguez replaced, respectively, Jeff Parker and Doug McCombs of Tortoise), and then ex-Codeine Doug Scharin’s large fusion ensemble HiM. After touring Europe with HiM, Schneider retreated to his mother’s empty house in Marengo, Illinois and woodshedded for six months, grinding out fundamentals. He recalls “I wanted to learn the instrument.”

Maintaining his idiosyncratic trajectory as a musician, Schneider never quite returns to the road. Rather he burrows in Chicago, creating ever more complicated methods and tunings for his acoustic guitar while otherwise focusing on his children and his carpentry. He becomes, in a classic sense, the hidden secret of Chicago musicianship. Encountering his playing, stalwart performers are consistently stunned. Without ensconcing his work in dubious spirituality he channels something somehow simultaneously poetic and mathematical, like Kepler’s “music” of the spheres. Each composition is instantaneous, improvised and launched as if fully formed, making sense only in relation to its own spontaneously formed rules of interaction… Songs aren’t so much finite concepts but endless ragas that he taps in and out of; consequently these pieces can’t be entered mid-stream. Instead the listener must participate in the universe as its created in order to live in it. His reputation is such that top collaborators need not be sought, but are intrinsically curious to participate. On these recordings, he is joined by Dan Bitney (of Tortoise), Matt Lux (Iron & Wine), and Sam Wagster (Cairo Gang). Producer and engineer Brian Sulpizio (Health & Beauty) records and mixes. It is the sixth recording by the ever-shifting entity called Moon Bros. (named for turn of the century Moon Bros. Carriage Company) but the first three have all been lost, likely forever, possibly irretrievable from a broken CD-R in the bottom of a box of tools and flotsam hardware. Dancehall Sound and Frijolillo at least made the jump to internet download-ability; onlyThese Stars has ever seen wide, intentional release. Will you hear more about Matt Schneider? Yes, but whether in the context of the great and unknown, or the at-last recognized, remains to be seen.

http://westernvinyl.com/artists/moon-bros

just popping in b/c i needed a place to note that "albion moonlight" bears more than a little resemblance to "the sailor's grave on the prairie" off six and twelve string guitar. this record is great though.

forgot to tell y'all that i went to see heron oblivion on friday and they were sizzling LOUD. i ran into someone else who went to the show the next night, and she agreed that if meg played louder/doomier it would have been 100% perfect instead of just 95%

hometown muppet ryley walker played with bill mackay and it was lovely (glad the whole night wasn't like this though because i get reeeeeestless standing there quietly) and chris forsyth played with an entirely different solar motel band than the one i have seen before. it sounded good but their stage presence was a bit weird. drummer was quite different from previous in style too. interesting. good show.

yeah saw that there is yet another solar motel lineup...hope he can keep finding killer drummers! ah well, heron oblivion/forsyth is still my dream double bill.

Liking the new Wiliam Tyler a lot. Highway Anxiety is so bullseyed on my sweet spot I'm beginning to suspect occult forces.

just popping in b/c i needed a place to note that "albion moonlight" bears more than a little resemblance to "the sailor's grave on the prairie" off six and twelve string guitar. this record is great though.

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lol this post was related to a song on the william tyler which must have been completely unclear

New Facebook page was invited to "like" this is quite promising

House & Land is a collaboration of Sarah Louise (VDSQ, Scissor Tail Editions) and Sally Anne Morgan of the Black Twig Pickers (Thrill Jockey).