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

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

dbh really starting to click

heh for me too; i came around on blues and hike

New Sarah Louise on its way!: https://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/field-guide-2

"The Day Is Past And Gone (Variations)" sounds fantastic.

that's a (slightly re-jigged) reissue of her first cassette. but yeah, it's great!

Ah, I thought the title Field Guide sounded vaguely familiar from somewhere. I only started buying with last year's VDSQ album.

And I see now that I would have known this if I read the notes. Yeah, never heard it before.

Anybody grab that self-titled Alexander LP? Haven't found it yet myself, but man this tune is right up my alley:

https://davidalexanderguitars.bandcamp.com/album/alexander-preview

He has some really cool phrasing/patterns in my opinion. Comes from a cool place.

yeahhh, i really like it, was just listening this morning. the slower stuff is kind of amazing ... he stops time! almost!

I love the slow tunes (when I have seen them live and on the tapes I have). I am just a huge fan of "stately" playing, for lack of a better word. But yeah, gonna go order this record now. Don't wanna miss out.

This was shared by a bunch of folks yesterday as part of a wave of R.I.P. tributes to Jack Rose, but it is worth sharing here. An unreleased live rendering of Pelt's "Road to Catawba" from 2004, put up by VHF. Jack is in full flight and it is a great sounding recording. Think I am gonna go down the Rose wormhole today myself:

https://soundcloud.com/vhfrecords/pelt-road-to-catawba-1

Glad those Pelt recordings where Jack is still in the fold playing acoustic guitar exist, but man I could use a bunch more. Would be cool if any other good live recordings made their way to some kind of publicly available landing place.

whoa nice ... listened to Red Horse White Mule yesterday. so great!
would be cool if there was an archival series w/ live and/or unreleased Rose at some point. Jason Meagher said last year:

"The tracks you hear on a Jack Rose LP are the favorite takes of the man himself. These were not always my favorite takes, and I was often both surprised that he felt there were higher peaks to ascend to, as well as terrified that they would be insurmountable and the song in question might find its way to the cutting room floor. Some of those earlier takes, the other little squares on the contact sheet, were of jaw dropping beauty. And I tend to believe that out there in the infinity loops that were Jack’s tour routes, someone heard him unleash a version of an album track that allowed everyone’s feet to gently rise a few inches above the highest peaks he strove for when the shutter of the audio camera that is a recording studio went “snap!”

All of that said, I must apologize to the kind reader in advance of my next statement; there is an unreleased version of “Linden Ave Stomp,” Jack with a band consisting of people he cared greatly for – Glenn Jones, Harmonica Dan, Hans Chew and Nathan Bowles – that is brimming with so much joy it is almost tangible. Performance, snapshots, cutting room floors… I like that track quite a bit."