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

Speaking of IA Vol. 8, think somebody on here was asking about track list? Just posted that & other info, with a couple audio links, on the Tompkins Square thread.

Saw that, thanks! So is this all stuff with vocals or guitar soli style?

all instrumental, mostly acoustic

Ah, great! Gonna pre-order this one. Thanks.

Just had the promo for this - cracking cover! Some of those titles, though - the genre is ripe for parody, innit.

Tyler's right, this is a great comp. The stuff on here I'm not immediately connecting with has less to do with the quality of those tunes as it does my relationship to some of these styles and my personal saturation point irt Westernized 'ragas' (give me "East West," Peter Walker, and Sandy Bull, and I'm good for like three lifetimes) and the endless "bluesy and bendy" recitations of things that all sound like variations on One Kind Favor / Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down / Cannon Ball Rag / etc. The tracks on here that fall into those camps are very good, they just don't move me. Stuff like Stan Samole's "Prayer Blessing" and Herb Moore's "Wen Also Found," though - whoo boy, those are hitting the spot.

I'm like most of you in that all but one or two names here are completely unfamiliar to me (which, as someone else said, is kinda insane if you think about it), and though the temptation is always great to just seek out the full albums by the three or four players you like most on the comp and forget to buy the comp, I'm glad I pre-ordered this one and look forward to many more spins.

just popping in to say that Sandy Nissan's Just Guitar may be relevant to you guys' interests. it was released on Herbie Mann's Embryo label in 1970 and has never been reissued, though copies are going for <$5.00 on discogs. the track below (all I can find online right now) is a 13-minute freakout acoustic jam with elements of raga and jazz, maybe not that far off from Sandy Bull's 'Blend':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOfkv7N60qs

(Sandy Nassan, that is)

sounds cool, thanks for the tip!
sample from the forthcoming daniel bachman album over yonder: https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/daniel-bachman-2016

anyone know Ignatz on Feeding Tube? pretty intriguing

http://feedingtuberecords.com/releases/the-drain/

i'd checked out something of his a little while back, but it didn't really grab me -- this sample sounds very nice indeed, though. Will have to dig in more.

one of my favorite ignatz tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fr3xbpSTIo

Psyched to listen to that Ignatz ("The Drain"), I have dug a range of that guy's stuff. Interesting player.

Also, new Nathan Bowles is up for streaming. Have only hear a couple of these tunes so far, but I really like where Nathan has been taking his playing so I am sure this is going to be a good listen:

http://www.stereogum.com/1895862/stream-nathan-bowles-whole-cloven/franchises/premiere/

it's fantastic! really gets into like hillbilly terry riley zone at times ('i miss my dog' especially). why aren't there more people exploring that very repetitive henry flynt kind of thing? i feel like a lot od the more experimental players in this genre i encounter do the more improvisatory/skrony/derek bailey kind of thing (like tashi) which is cool but i guess i just like lots of arpeggios ahaha. (maybe i'm missing somebody, please fill me in)

excited to dig into your set too man!
https://daisqueue.bandcamp.com/album/dais-queue-live-8-19-2016

Yeah, Nathan definitely digs into that sound really well. I mean, playing w/ Pelt (and especially Mike Gangloff regularly) kind of sets one up to prioritize that kind of thing, so I basically expect this from him. It is super gratifying to me though, especially live. One time I saw him and he laid into one of the repetitive passages for what seemed like a super long time and the overtones just started singing, it was pretty glorious.

Also, thanks for tuning into the set! No hillbilly action but lots of pinging overtones and drones (all from open tuned guitars, so kinda in the zone of this thread hah hah).

bowles is great so far
the 2nd song (piano song) reminds me of philip glass a bit

why more people aren't doing it: there is only one nathan bowles!
i still remember seeing him play drums with steve gunn's band and admiring his calm demeanor
he has a strong musical voice imo

lolz "I like to bang on things and hear the results."
yeah this album is really really good!

bowles has v unique voice on banjo, he has kind of a "heavy hand" (not heavy handed) but it reminds me a bit of neil young on acoustic like his thumb thumps the first beat pretty hard and gives it a rhythmic kick that makes, for ex harvest have more boom bap flavor than yr typical 70s folkie but anyway in a more reich/glass/terry r. kinda way i get that from bowles

like everyone does the fahey/travis picking etc etc alternating oom-pa bass generally with syncopation over it but bowles generally just thumps the one beat really hard at the beginning of every measure without doing the alternating thing so it doesn't feel as *trad* in a way? dunno if i'm explaining this the best

i'd say that he foregrounds rhythm as a sonic component
i'm sure he doesn't do the same thing every time, but he uses rhythm in addition to like, idk, notes or melody or whatever else there is besides rhythm :)

think he's said he considers himself first and foremost a percussionist, so that probably fits into the rhythmic thump he has going on the banjo

exactly, he is a banjo-playing drummer <3

Banjo is basically a drum with an unnatural growth anyway

the only track i am not into is the vocal one- i don't mind his voice but the instrumentation doesn't work for me. excited to get a copy thought!

i like it as a song but i think it's a bit at odds w/the rest of the album's feel

I mean, clawhammer is a specific style that is really percussive, so a natural fit. He is playing a style though, and it is what drives that thumpy approach (and keeps it from being the alternating/picking version so many bluegrass and guitar fingerpickers go for).

Sorry, that didn't come out like I wanted it to. I have thought to myself that I should try playing guitar in a clawhammer style though hah hah, as I have hamfists and could maybe adopt it more easily than other styles.

Not sure quite where Papa M belongs on here, but it's great to know Pajo is alive and well and producing music again: https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/papa-m-walking-on-coronado

Not convinced about that drum machine on this, but liking the tone of his guitar.

Late to this party, but I love the new William Tyler album. Gorgeous and contemplative and I love the way the songs really stretch and expand even when they're just three minutes or so. (I told my wife it's "music for feeling like you're in an indie road movie," which is probably underselling it but still true.)

I could swim and float in the guitar tones on "The Great Unwind."

Belatedly occurs to me that one of the THREE full-length albums which will be available in stores on Cassette Store Day on October 8th and digital service providers everywhere on October 14th.
http://cassettestoreday.com/, which I just pasted from a Northern Spy press release to thee Ingest All etc psych thread, might also be particularly relevant over here:

Between them, British folk phantasms Padang Food Tigers (Stephen Lewis and Spencer Grady) and Norwegian harmonium player Sigbjørn Apeland have recorded for illustrious imprints such as ECM, Hubro, Bathetic, Scissor Tail and Blackest Rainbow. These past offerings are engrained with a rich devotion to various branches of traditional composition – church music, country and folk – yet seek to dissemble those well-worn forms under the aegis of extemporisation. Both parties are collating a formidable canon of après organic ambient, venturing beyond the all-prevailing placebos tailored by so many sleep-starved somnambulists. These guys offer up genuine alternate atmospheres with an emotional pastoralism that speaks with a deep heartfelt feeling, undeniably immediate and open. Theirs is a music inviting, or rather insisting, upon a listener’s self-projections – aimed inward towards the soul, outward in boundless leaps of imagination.

Bumblin’ Creed, this collaborative venture for Northern Spy, finds these kindred spirits revelling in their new-found alliances. A shared vision now bears its artistic fruit, borne of an unshakeable belief in the beauty of the passing moment and the intrinsic need to harness precious seconds in the slow-motion passing of a reductionist blues, a child’s plaintive plea or the creak of an old wooden chair (listen, you’ll hear it). In theory it can get pretty Cageian, in reality the academy never gets a look in. The nine pieces on this highly-emotive suite – each built up from an embryonic kernel ceded by Apeland or the Tigers and developed in cherished association – seduces the space between every well-judged note, while hanging on their ebbing word. Tones react to the muttering of memory and recollection (before vanishing, lost forever), or to the artist’s respective environments (a picturesque Norwegian village, a lost river found buried at the end of a suburban garden, a stone sphinx blanketed in snow watching over the relics of a crystal citadel).

As influenced by Messiaen’s ecclesiastical organ works as Uncle Tupelo’s last round of alt.country cuts, as energised by the non-idiomatic innovations of Derek Bailey as the Delta deviations of Loren Connors, Bumblin’ Creed is an extraordinary piece of enchantment that ranks right up there alongside the best material these guys ever produced, a slow-motion country crawl, the soundtrack to your spiritual baptism: listen close, and be born all over again.
http://padangfoodtigers.bandcamp.com/album/bumblin-creed

I got that mail too and this looks really intriguing. I've never heard of this band but that press release definitely piqued my interest

Ready Country Nimbus is a lovely little record, sort of in the same tradition as Bruce Langhorne's Hired Hand - all simple, sighing folk miniatures.

Playlist is up to date.

three lobed hopscotch extravaganza streaming over yonder: http://wxdu.org/
whole lotta good stuff -- sarah louise playing w/ a percussionist right now.
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daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn

baird/lattimore is a cool combo

though it's funny man no one really ended up liking that Heron Oblivion album huh? It was almost trying too hard at particular aesthetic

no one liked it? i loved it!

haha sorry! i liked it fine but felt like it just kinda came and went w/o much talk

my older brother keeps a low internet profile but if he was on here, everyone would be asking him to shut up about Heron Oblivion.

i thought it was boring tbh

I tried and failed with it. It just didn't touch the sides on the way through.

maybe i just have an unusually high blown out wah pedal tolerance

i go see them live tho, bet it'd be nice and loud

Yo folks the WXDU stream of that Three Lobed Hopscotch show is happening now!

http://wxdu.org/

75 Dollar Bill just ended ... but more to come!

Oh, linked above already, but yeah, get on it!

Bachman/Toth duo up next!