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

yeah, no prob — that must've been back this summer ...

"scott seward, are you ZEBU... who is zebu?"

zebu is ted from feeding tube. and also the name of one of his groups.

came across Fahey (bootleg?) - Azalea City and Other Toxic Nostalgia, must've downloaded it from a link on one of these threads

says it's from 90? Kinda interesting period, I think he's dealing with his diminishing facility in a pretty great way on this, very hypnotic and midtempo stuff, esp. Banjo Street, Springtime in Azalea City and Our Lady of Sorrows...what year in the 90s did he take the left turn into NNCK land?

IMO that would be 1997, the year he released City Of Refuge and the Mill Pond 2x7"

I would love to hear this double-78 release from 1996, it may fit in to that late-90's period as well:

https://www.discogs.com/John-Fahey-Morning-Evening-Not-Night/release/1095107

cool, yeah i didn't know much about the early 90s...doesn't seem like he was super active

also this is one horrible album cover on every level

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y4xmw1RrL._SY355_.jpg

that azaelia city thing is good — http://itslostitsfound.blogspot.com/2014/11/john-fahey-azalea-city-and-other-toxic.html
can't remember but I think some of it is actually old 60s stuff (in addition to late 80s/early 90s recordings). I might be making that up.

ah could be, the recording/engineering is all over the place so they are certainly not from one session or show

the "O"s in "Old" on that cover really, really bother me, the very early 90s was the worst time for design in history

on the plus side i like his take on "Blueberry Hill" RIP Fats

putumayo vibes

haha it's that squiggly O!

I'm still haunted by that time birds were attacking my ex's armpits

it looks like an art project some kid would turn in in 5th grade the school counselor would call their parents to see if everything was "alright" with little johnny

Takes on Fahey's 90s work (and much else, of course) here, maybe especially 2016-17 posts:
Search and Destroy: John Fahey

the new gunn-truscinski album is really working for me, wow

Yas indeed came here to post:
Currently digging Gunn-Truscinski's non-genius but quite diggable Bay Head, and so far I can tell all the tracks apart, which is not to be taken for granted, esp. (if not only) on first listens. Good bandcamp sound also gateway to many other Three Lobed friends: https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/bay-head

i normally don't care about this sort of thing but some luscious guitar tones here. has a friendly sound, like they just set up in a room and went for it

i had no expectations because i listened to their last and it didn't do much for me

^global^ How about the first one, 'Sand City'? Surprised! I thought you were a huge Gunn-head... heh. I still feel like I will always like the first one the best, have only heard the first two singles that were streamable from 'Bay Head' but from what I can tell it's kinda going in a different direction.

What about that 'Desert Heat' EP (Gunn-Truscinski + Cian Nugent)?

The Gunn-Truscinski releases have been my favorite Gunn-related project since the (now-defunct?) group GHQ. GHQ has similar dense, sprawling type sounds like what Gunn-Truscinski try to do on their duo albums. GHQ of course is much noisier, and at times are more drone than acoustic, psych, Pelt-y type stuff. But I do love the overall GHQ sound and hope Gunn hasn't fully moved on from experimental projects.

yeah, i generally like gunn's stuff, but the Gunn-Truscinski stuff is my favorite, i just really enjoy that interplay. new one is fantastic.
Desert Heat is pretty great too.

i guess ocean parkway is the one i'm thinking of? will certainly revisit in light of this

Oh wow guys, I'm really digging the full stream of 'Bay Head'. It covers a lot of ground, even some straight droning on here. Glad to see another addition to their taksim series too, from the premiere singles I was worried that they were straying away from that type of stuff. Love the album.

Man, still need to listen to this. Kinda swamped right now but will dive in next week. Glad to hear it is working for folks though, seems like a good time of year for this release, if that makes sense.

This interview with John Kolodij (a.k.a High Aura'd) came across my Twitter feed and boy am I glad it did!

(has he ever been mentioned here before? anyway this is ILX brigade bait to the fullest)

https://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/high-aurad

Wasn't he mentioned on here the other day? Sanguine Futures is magnificent. And he seems like a thoroughly decent chap.

yeah mentioned briefly upthread -- very cool record! lotta different zones covered, but he does it all well. angel olsen cameo is very nico-esque.

okay okay speaking of upthread, here's the one I was raving about fairly recently, expanded*, reissued and now posted on her already generous bandcamp: Marissa Anderson's cosmic electric soli set, Traditional and Public Domain Songs.
(*The CD does not include Amazing Grace or Bread and Roses, but both these songs are available here for free download.)
https://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/album/traditional-and-public-domain-songs-2

Looks like the CD isn't on Amazon, but this 14-track digital version is (should you trust unheard Amazon sound over Bandcamp enough to order from the former, or subscribe to their Unlimited)(Damn it why can't all the new music be on Prime? We're not First Class anymore!)

cuz Amazon is utterly evil and Bandcamp are pretty decent folks

^^^ (although at this point I think Apple/iTunes is actually more evil than Amazon.)

music is all evil

snagged a copy of this, interesting stuff

https://www.discogs.com/Jeff-Fuccillo-Disturbed-Strings/release/2395048

cool, that's a reissue, saw him once with the Irvign Klaw Trio and it totally ruled but was way noiser/rock than this thread. obviously he is also a hero for the Union Pole label.

That Fuccillo looks like it would sit in my sweet spot, will try to look into that one.

Had a heavy guitar week last week, Glenn Jones show on Sunday and Jon Collin on Wednesday. Glenn was in great form both in the story-telling department and the playing department. He also asked my friend Tyler (who I play with in Grand Banks) to sit in with him on harmonium for "Portrait of Basho as a Young Dragon". Was really beautiful, and cool for my buddy to get to play with him. There was a new song with slide on it that I really dug. Evan, did not get to say hi for you as I had trouble getting in a word! Glenn can really talk, and since what he has to say is pretty interesting I let him roll with it.

Gotta say that the Jon Collin set was extremely cool. I think his records bore some folks (not me, I am firmly on board), but live he really expanded on and dug into his playing in some very cool ways. He played a continuous set, no pauses between the movements/pieces, and he had a great sense for how long to sit on a set of sounds/moves and when to move on to the next set. Moved between pretty minimal, abstract playing and some nice finger-picking. Very cool tone and sound throughout though, just really mesmerizing and beautiful. Supremely nice guy as well.

new dbh out today
https://threadrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/mass

yay!
grandavis I'm always jealous of the shows you get to attend, yr in the post fahey droney heartland

No worries grandavis! Yes, he is really great at talking, that's for sure. Show sounds like it was fantastic!

Onda / Dorji / Chen

https://chechen.bandcamp.com/album/haz-bins

Loving this on first listen, thought the folks who haunt this thread might be into it!

Che Chen is among my favorite musicians going right now, haven't been sold on Dorji yet but I've only heard like two records he played on other than this one.

Hah hah, I feel lucky sometimes too UMS. I will say for these I actively campaigned for/booked them, so I helped my own cause in those particular cases. Right now there is a good pipeline from D.C./Balt./Philly to Asheville/Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill that we sit in between, so a lot of folks look into Charlottesville as a place to bridge that gap. Nice easy drive from both spots, so we get some folks we may not otherwise. Which is of course something I actively encourage!

Need to hear that Onda/Dorji/Chen. I love Tashi, and he is a good collaborator for sure.

the new DBH album is beautiful

it's eclectic! I don't quite know what to make of the proggy "blues ii" and the distracted piano woolgathering of "Hike"... but everything else is lovely if not quite as magnetic as _mood_.

i had the same fx pedal he used on 'blues ii' so i liked it haha (earthquaker arpanoid)

he's so under the radar/mysterious! i'd honestly put him up there with glenn jones as top-tier post-fahey picker, whatever that even means

the ambient sounds on 'blues ii' drive me kinda bonkers; feels like it goes on for hours!
but yeah, it's fun.

i wonder what this thread would think of the just released "Trio López" new album Taos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUrCMj6liUs

(^ on all streaming services, I like it quite a bit though the hurdygurdy can get a bit corny)

http://i66.tinypic.com/30bzped.png

He's also got a song called "On Doing an Evil Deed Blues".

RVA all day :)

haha wow

Nice