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

can still get them here but probably not for long:

http://www.fusetronsound.com/label.php?whomart=LANE,WILLIE

Cool!

Oh man, thank you v much for the tip, have not been keeping up with anything lately. Willie's 3 solo albums are some of my all-time favs, ordered.

Diving back into the Gimmer Nicholson record. Really good to listen to on a rainy night in central Virginia.

Need to listen to more Willie too.

yeah listened to gimmer nicholson this morning. the guitar parts are really sparse when you pay attention to it. little of that octave/thumb-driven 'chicken pickin'

what's willie lane like? I'm unfamiliar, but it seems like every other person on facebook/instagram is posting about this new one ...

A little difficult to describe, but imagine a slightly more reigned-in MV mixed with the sort of wistful stoner stuff Scissor Tail releases. Both of those are really superficial comparisons--he really does his own thing--but that's as good as I can come up with. It's weird, there's also this very '60s' quality in his playing I can't really place, like I feel like he's spent a lot of time listening to, like, Clarence White and Dillard & Clark and things like that. But that's just a guess. He's pretty outside any 'idiom' or scene too which is refreshing

sounds worth checking out, thanks!

just got a note about this, which may be of interest (Coley sometimes needs to be taken w/ a grain of salt, haha, but I like him):

Feeding Tube Records presents the debut solo LP from guitarist Eric Arn (Crystalized Movements, Primordial Undermind, Outsideinside).

"Near the end of his days, John Fahey told me he was sick and tired of solo guitar records. . . . He seemed genuinely bored by most guitar players, especially those who were traveling in the shoes he'd first worn on his own early records. That said, I'm pretty sure he woulda loved Eric Arn's Orphic Resonance.
"Eric moves through vast style-fields with absolute surety. He can generate massive drone-throbs that would make even that old crank Fahey smile. He can play with sound-sheets in a way that moves even deeper into experimental realms. He can play acoustic fantasia sprawls that would have made Fahey swear. He can throat sing better than John ever did. Which makes for one hell of a dandy album."
--Byron Coley, 2016

Watch an excerpt of a live performance by Arn at the Fanø Free Folk Festival in Denmark on July 22, 2016, here: https://youtu.be/njBurrlq76E?t=12m6s

Stream album track "Pas d'une Hélice" here: https://soundcloud.com/eric-arn-sounds/pas-dune-helice-from-orphic-resonance-feeding-tube-2016

I love byron coley. not sure about the arn but I'll check it out when it's out. the van wissem is economical in a way I really appreciate, it's interesting that more people don't go for such a steady tick tock rhythm like that, mb says something about guitar vs lute etc.

a fellow here in mpls (nic garcia) does some throat singing along with his v hypnotic playing, it's a great effect. will check that out

playlist is updated.

Saw Xylouris White over the weekend and can draw a parallel between Jim White and our pal Nathan Bowles performance-wise -- they both have an unusual way of gazing intently into the audience. Musically they are both responsive and versatile, characteristics I admire in drummers.

Also caught Marisa Anderson and especially enjoyed her riff on The Demon Lover. She's great.

nic is great

xylouris white + marisa anderson is a total dream bill. both of their 2016 albums are favorites this year.

Omg, Sarah Louise CD arrived with the hand-drawn packaging and hand-written envelope. I didn't realise it was so twee. Beautiful!

VDSQ one or Field Guide? I think they both have CDr editions

VDSQ

Saw Rob Noyes last night at the small record release show at Blue Bag Records here in Cambridge. Glenn Jones played a set too. Both were fantastic and Rob's lp sounds great too—beautifully recorded and mastered.

I've not posted in this thread in a while but ryley walker's new album might be my favourite out of all his releases

Also not sure if they're relevant to this thread but since they were mentioned, chris forsyth's and heron oblivion's new ones are majestic

i really like that latest ryley walker, i think he's starting to sound like himself, if that makes sense

that's exactly what i was thinking

also marisa anderson, good lord. her guitar work is the most graceful, precise, and delicate i've heard in a long time

yeah she is a treasure

Unsure how long Willie Lane's new one has been up for streaming, but I came across it today while (still!) trying to track down a copy of the lp. Good stuff as always, I'm sure lots of folks here would dig...

https://willielane.bandcamp.com/

this is pretty good, though i really bristle at this new engineered scarcity of the vinyl world bullshit, as if willie lane better than, say marisa anderson albums you could go buy right now, there was some secret squirrel shit with this album i found really annoying like you had to be an "insider" to get it or w/e

if you were looking at my instagram or facebook timeline, you'd think Willie Lane was Bob Dylan
(but I'm glad to check it out on b-camp!)

i read he self-released/distributed it, may not have been intentional but yes overall that's annoying

well hey willie paid for those records himself and he's not online much so he's not exactly a marketing juggernaut. i told him he could have definitely made 500 instead of 350 but its not my money.

i like his stuff a lot and i own almost no solo guitar records. also, he's so good live. one of my fave people to see live. same with tony pasquarosa. i'm really glad they are both around here and that i get to see them play. also two of the nicest people i know.

Tony is indeed extremely nice!

plus, five bucks for a download, that seems fair. isn't that how most people listen to things?

willie lives up the road near the Quabbin. check out this picture my friend Dale took of that neck of the woods...

https://scontent.fbed1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15541679_10155388210002137_141942608503006473_n.jpg?oh=e6a8c0e3152086a02c4418b8f5b11c26&oe=58B8BDDC

Man, I know that would help fuel my own musical output

this is sounding cool. and $5 is indeed a generous price ... "Raga For Riding Mower" wins Best Song Title 2016 imo

Yeah, it's hard to find but admittedly it's already two months out from his original blog post, with such a small edition and the ability to grab direct from him, it's not surprising that they have all found homes. I just recall Known Quantity showing up at more than a couple distros instead of this time around where it only seems to have been available at Fusetron. I've seen this kind of turn-around on tape labels a lot, where batches are only available for a week or two, but Cord-Art is almost on a whole other level and everyone seems to love his releases.

I found a live show of his from 2006 hosted by the Autonomous Battleship Collective I must have downloaded a long long time ago. All other links for it are dead, I'm gonna try to share it again. There isn't much solo Willie Lane material out there so it's always good to find more.

guess that Rob Noyes LP sold out fast, too ... seems like maybe 1,000 is probably the right amount of copies to have pressed. there are 1,000 of us.

eh i'm probably projecting a lot of my current gripes with the hobby of Record Collecting which I've never enjoyed less than in 2016 on to a guy who hell, might just have wanted to limit his potential losses...i do enjoy his playing

i think his immediate goal was to make his money back and to have something to sell at shows. i don't know if anyone ever asks him if they can put out CD versions of his stuff. unlike a lot of guitar people, he's not prolific. that also makes people buy it faster.

This looks really good

http://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/the-hired-hands-a-tribute-to-bruce-langhorne

Shit, that's some lineup.

Yeah, wow.

Nommed Sarah Louise for the eoy poll btw.

thanks, I was going to and saw that somebody already had. let's go, team!

I can't recall where I first heard this, but keep coming back to it and I think it vaguely fits here... it's by a guy called C. Diab, a denizen of some remote town on Vancouver Island. He describes his stuff as Cascadian guitar music and I'm not about to argue. It's all played on bowed guitar, and it's vast and magnificent. Sort of like Skelton, Scott Tuma, or the outer edges of yer man's Red Cross.

https://injazerorecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-perfect-wave-2

Yeah, this is really pleasant in its spareness. Idk about "virtuosic instrumental technique", really, but an enjoyable listen.

Loving it!

It must be interesting to have such an intimate relationship with the general feeling of vast loneliness/calm, given where he lives and his experience producing music that conveys it so well. I wonder if it's ever overwhelming when you're so constantly surrounded by it in both of those ways.

all the correct reference points are here, but I'm not 100% feeling this yet; some of it sounds like Effects Pedal Demonstration, one of my most hated genres. Guy seems worth further investigation, though

haha when i think of effects pedal demonstration i think of youtube demo videos with blues dads in em playing the worst possible music. also one of my most hated genres

I just mean guitarists with loop or 'freeze' pedals who overdub themselves in real time, just layering really simple parts until it's just a wash of drone. Some people are good at that sort of thing (Roy Montgomery, Jeff Parker, etc) but mostly when I see people doing this I wonder how there can be anyone left on Earth who's amazed / entertained by watching this process unfold.

This is clearly a bias I have, so don't mind me! Don't even get me started on extended technique, ha ha ha

That reminds me... did anyone else see that demonstration video Ryley did for Reverb? pretty entertaining, great sounding guitar too

hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcRvo8JrNTU