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

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."

damn, this "road to catawba" is fantastic

Yeah, it rules. I recall that post by Meagher as well, and still hope that some day everyone will all just agree that these alternate takes should see the light of day.

Some of the stuff coming out on the Polish Instant Classic label is right in the post-Fahey wheelhouse - particularly the stuff featuring Kuba Ziołek. His duo album with Wacław Zimpel from this year is pure neo-pastoral (with added skronk) and the Alameda Duo album is straight up glorious early 70s Crosby-esque folk dreaming (albeit with a dredging of Polish folk history, which I can't hope to understand). Makes me think of Gimmer Nicholson, too, and, by extension, there's a weird 'ghost of Big Star' about the whole project. Anyway, I'm babbling.

https://instantclassic.bandcamp.com/track/ming-days-of-yore

yeah if people itt don't know those, they are really really good

stara rzeka, innercity ensemble, polish underground

This is cool.

Vocals kind of distract for me a bit, but the music works. Digging into the long tracks now ....

Yeah first track is sitting pretty squarely in my wheelhouse

i know it's been covered upthread, but this Alexander lp is stunning.

Haven't read it, but it's nice that p4k is trying to help all record stores in the US sell that one Fahey LP they're guaranteed to have in stock used.

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/why-you-should-listen-to-john-faheys-christmas-musiceven-if-you-hate-christmas-music/

Critics often represent Fahey as a monolithic genius, a savant of syncopated six-string brood and little else. But his career was a sidewinding rollercoaster, prone to shuttle him anywhere a mix of narcotics and nostalgia, alcohol and obsessions dictated. He did Dixieland jazz and hardline blues, mimetic pop and immersive ragas, psychedelic rock and aloof drone.

who says fahey in monolithic?

Hey don't get down on folks for fancifying their sentences with words-that-sound-right

maybe he meant monochromatic

are "banh mi ringtones" and "cummins falls" the same song?
i think they might be
i like the latter slightly better bc it has a more persistent beat

For those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:

ILM's 2017 Rolling Post-Fahey Folk Thread Spotify Playlist

monolithic: (of an organization or system) large, powerful, and intractably indivisible and uniform.

Think he was angling for the "uniform" aspect here, which I get from the aspect of how Fahey is sometimes written about. Grayson has covered and written a lot about metal, so perhaps that is seeping into all of his writing. \''/

oh haha yeah metal def has a lot of "monolithic" riffs

we're talking about colter wall in the country thread but you guys might dig him (i can't open this entire thread for some reason so can't see if you guys have talked about him already)

Just posted this on the classical thread but, similarly, it might interest people here as well:
http://www.johngordonarmstrong.com/my-new-cd/

Decent dbh review on Dusted for all you dbh-ers on here:

http://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/169473723903/dbhmass-thread-recordings

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