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

not normally one to plug my own stuff, but can break the news that I have an LP coming on a very cool psych label in Virgina: http://www.sunriseoceanbender.com/

here are some teasers of the sleeve art, pretty excited. i wish i could share the rest of the art because they did awesome work, but there will be plenty of time. no firm date on release yet

https://i.imgur.com/4pxRX9l.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/UmIs22P.jpg

That's awesome! Looking forward to it overall.

that rules, sunrise ocean bender is a great label

That’s awesome. Play in Chicago and let me (and whoever I can put together) open for you! 😀

Tell u what, if/when I have stuff to plug please believe I will be plugging it

fuck yeah that looks great

very exciting brigade cru news : )

yeah global! congrats, psyched to hear it.

That's awesome! Can't wait to hear it.

Really digging that Kinloch Nelson album right now, that almost Neil Young vibe it strikes on a few songs is right up my alley.

Also really excited to dig into a recent (unexpected) Fahey find. I was browsing around Barnes & Noble over the weekend, idly flipping through the CD racks and found a copy of God, Time and Causality.

just saw that nyc taper has a recent kinloch nelson show to check out: http://www.nyctaper.com/2019/05/kinloch-nelson-april-8-2019-troost/

global's album is so good I'm excited for you all to hear it. *spoilers* while it varies quite a bit over the album the sound is consistently subtly gorgeous, the textures well-worn to perfection; it's an incredibly comfortable and familiar album to inhabit, and it's tied together with a lot of tasty delay, but he pulls off the all-time #1 trick of covering a lot of ground and incorporating a lot of different streams while sounding more & more like himself. there's one big uncanny dance of the inhabitants>>?????? moment of sublime transcendence which feels like your brain folding in on itself that has been v pleasantly haunting my thoughts ever since I heard it

congrats tetraglobs, fine news indeed

Going to see Sarah Louise tonight.

Excited.

Yeah, should be good. I like the few tracks I've sampled.

Very psyched to hear Global's record. Thanks for that rundown Ogmor, a good primer (pretty much all sounds exactly up my alley).

Same

I liked Lang's "Lost on the Chainbridge Road" a lot.

Also, Sarah Louise was lovely. More singing and keyboards than I expected. Really nice washed-out 12-string electric sound.

New House and Land song is v nice.

a little roundup of some recent/recommended items — https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/05/30/transfigurations-2019-recent-recommended-guitar-soli/

That roundup was nice Tyler. A couple of favorites and some new ones too. Obviously I am a Jon Collin fan (as per one of my recent posts) but also I can take all of that kinda M. Morley action that he can put out. I like this mode of his way more than the solo drone records he's been doing lately (which are fine but not this compelling imo). I mean, as a Dead C fan I am wired for it, but that distilled and simplified version really really works for me. You also do a good job of concisely summing up why!

yeah the morley seemed kinda underwhelming at first, but i think it might be my fave out of all of those now ... he's doing ... something!

His playing just contains a heavy gravitational pull, whether blasted into the void a la Dead C or more quietly floated out, al la this solo release. The key elements remain and operate on my brain in ways I am super into. I imagine it is not for everyone, but those it works for probably all get similar things out of it.

with a bit of time and distance, i think the alexander LP and Sarah Louise's VDSQ release are the best acoustic albums of the last decade.

i don't know if i actually think this but if you haven't listened you are missing out, masters of control and composition

I'd throw Glenn Jones's My Garden State in there, never tire of those songs

Agree with those sentiments. A) Glenn really nailed it on that album, I can't think of many records like that where the songs get stuck in my head for days and yet the record retains mystery and surprise for me. B) Both the Alexander and Sara Louise VDSQ records are two of my favorites in this realm for sure.

I am lucky in that I am buddies with David (aka Alexander) and have gotten to see him play a bunch over the years, but for like the first 3 years I knew him I had no idea he even played acoustic guitar hah hah, I only saw him play in his droney improv band Nagual. Was blown away the first time I saw him, and then yeah that record rules. That control and composition aspect is key, both of them managing to use the tools but not really sound exactly like any one player I can think of when listening to them. It is always make fun of David's lack of song titles when he plays, cause like they are all untitled/numbered, so you can't intelligently talk about any of them other than to remember what number the track was on the particular album in question.

Yeah My Garden State is the album where the constant remixing of his choice guitar patterns finally coalesced into some incredibly tight melodies. That album never gets old.

For me Matthew Mullane VDSQ is also one of the best of the decade

The Isasa album from that Aquarium Drunkard link is very nice. Feels a little stronger melodically than some of this stuff can be at times.

the new jake xerxes fussell is really great and introduced me to his previous two, which are even better. his arrangements and voice are so comforting and warm. great lazy summer evening listens.

yeah he's good!

this thing is nice: https://jonnydillon.bandcamp.com/

JXF's What in the Natural World is great, haven't heard the new one

got to see him open for Joan Shelley in front of about 25 ppl and was instantly charmed

anyone read that White Tears book from last year? I didn't think it was particularly great, but it did deal with some of that overall mentality.

― tylerw, Friday, October 19, 2018 3:42 PM (eight months ago)

Just read that White Tears novel . Flawed but it does make some good points re how some collectors are...

i liked it....goes a bit off the rails but man he gets the details of the 78s weirdos down really good

this was just posted on FB, Charlie Schmidt's set of adaptations of Fahey songs at 1000 Incarnations of the Rose
this is really beautiful, as global said it felt the closest to seeing Fahey live as you could get, without being just slavish imitaion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuvyCY_43y8

Hey how was the Ilx all stars show?

it went really well!
felt good for a first show
the forsyth lineup might been my fav ever, had a more minimal Chicago rock vibe

we should have a recording of it soon

sweeeeet
i missed the forsyth show when they came through chicago and was bummed bc of the lineup. i haven't met a jaime fennelly musical endeavor that i haven't liked. the mind over mirrors performance at the MCA was esp memorable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGeOc2_ii70

talk about lineups, geez louise

show was a blast, so fun, felt great

and yeah schmidt explores new contexts of fahey's stuff and embodies the material with unique vigor, which is a totally fahey thing to do. i can see why fahey used him as his mimic for a few tracks

jamie said he was letting mind over mirrors sit for a little while after bellowing sun, i can see why- that is definitely the peak and of everything he had done prior seemed to be leading to that. his additions to the band were subtle but great (maybe partially due to the sound system at the venue but it settled in after a bit)

it was great, doug is such a great bassist him and arif from brokeback on drums gave it an almost krauty, motorik feel instead of classic rock

if i had one complaint is that the PA set up was vocals only, so nothing was mic'd and i wish i could have heard the keyboards better, he seemed to be doing some really cool stuff and i wished it would have cut through more

i'm sure it's relaxing to play a more supporting role/have a break after that -- it was a huge endeavor!

my only gripe about the show here is that the lineup (as advertised) provided 0 women the opportunity to be heard and seen playing music.

neither did ours tbh :/

smh :(

posted to the Fahey FB group, Holden Rush, young kid from Chapel Hill, really refined player

https://holdenruch.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-isms-in-an-american-primitive-style?fbclid=IwAR016K1LSM9GWifwBo3BjdFVhwppAfJDGw_h1ukUr6h7uno4MJd0J0hGI-8

https://delta-slider.blogspot.com/2019/08/john-fahey-unissued-studio-sessions-1977.html?fbclid=IwAR0eZ3FwJcH4xt_gtXlWUVbHsWkGJF2vURjlviJRBGND973HqpcrNw8hwWk&m=1

!!!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

this is the holy grail

holy shit

I'm crying at my desk lol. it's beyond embarrassing how huge this is for me. I've been dreaming about these recordings for 16 years. and it starts with the softest possible version of melody mcbad/ananaias. oh man, my heart

had you read rumors about their existence before? this is all new to me....so far it's wonderful

lol @ ilx connection of 77 sessions