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

fahey + basho reed recording looks niiiiiice. keep us posted!

p4k just repped for Mason Lindahl's Kissing Rosy in the Rain and from my philistine vantage point it sounds great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObiT0_6-gNw

veering more toward shredder territory than maybe accceptable for this thread but sounding real good to me rn

i know the guy who runs the NYGF but i never heard of Yasmin Williams before... they're really good!

She sounds very Bibio. Very cool.

p4k just repped for Mason Lindahl's Kissing Rosy in the Rain and from my philistine vantage point it sounds great.

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Same, it works for me. As a fellow philistine I'd like to point you to Matt LaJoie's 'Everlasting Spring' from last year, curious what you think.

umm all of those Reed college recordings mentioned upthread (Fahey, Basho, John Lee Hooker, Rev. Gary Davis) are in incredible vintage SBD reel recording sound, tylerw or other plz HMU if u need files

Same, it works for me. As a fellow philistine I'd like to point you to Matt LaJoie's 'Everlasting Spring' from last year, curious what you think.

Will check it out and report, dank je!

I put the Reed College show on youtube if it makes it easier. There is a guy on the FB group named Duane that really knows how to dig up old show bills from newspapers, using like microfiche archives and stuff, but it was a no-go for any kind of flyer from this specific show, unfortch. He did have a cool scan of Basho's business card that I used though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX14WJ1CWkc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL792z4uTWw

thanks Neal!

it's just astonishing to me how great these sound

No problem! I need to check out the Hooker and Davis shows too.

Re: the Matt LaJoie is indeed very good, nice and ambient-y. Makes for a great start to the day.

Grozav, ura!

:)

i'd always been curious how much of basho's raga material was compositional vs improvisational, this take of lost lagoon suite suggests a note-for-note composition, pretty interesting to hear. not as versed in live basho as i am with fahey however

i know, separate the art from the artist (and god knows fahey wasn't great) but i think i keep basho at a distance because he seemed like such a fuckin chooch

by most accounts he was an unbearable weirdo

probably a necessary ingredient that contributed to his approach and output!

absolutely!

this untitled third track is pretty hot stuff

yeah this 1967 stuff is GREAT. probably worthy of official release!

I'm trying not to think about what was on the reels that got thrown out :(

haha yeah. oregon archives are delivering, though — have you guys checked this out? https://kboo.fm/media/66141-terry-riley-kboo-archives

I've been digging into a couple of those early pre-Sundowner solo Steve Gunn releases that I hadn't yet heard. I just really like the sort of downer quality his playing had. The two self-titled albums from 2006 and 2007 are interesting in that they came out when GHQ was still an active band. The step up in his playing from 2006 to 2007 is great in that the '07 release is very much in the same voice that he's carried up until now. The 2010 "Camel Throat" cassette is something I've eyed of a while and didn't realize the label has it up on Bandcamp. No duds on that one and it covers all the ground within 5 songs. I also found a 2005 Moongang cassette released by Not Not Fun on my hard drive. Did not know that was a solo Gunn project. Not solo guitar related at all, but more in line with what Not Not Fun was doing at that point in time.

I will continue to group GHQ alongside other top-tier groups active at the time like Pelt. One of their later releases, "Seven & Eight" was a Gunn/Bassett/Orleans line up instead of their usual Gunn/Bassett/Nolan, maybe Peter Nolan had left by that point, I'm not sure. But it's very good, had not heard it up until now.

The Yasmin Williams album everyone's going nuts for right now is very pretty, but I'm having a hard time connecting with it. I feel like I'd like just a tad more rough edge or something. Am I alone on this?

you're not alone, too wyndham hill for me

Going nuts? Not here.

Speaking of Windham Hill, I'm really enjoying this Mason Lindahl LP on Tompkins Square, which definitely has a few WH type pieces

http://www.tompkinssquare.com/lindahl.html

I think that is the one pom mentioned. I really enjoyed it as well.

Yep, and happy to hear it. I really like the flamenco influence on that one.

Enjoying the hell out of the new Rob Noyes album. I love his style, definitely hits a lot of sweet spots for me. Just love the logic and patterns/phrasing in his playing (and lots of rhythmic stuff going on that really charges it with cool energy):

https://robnoyesvdsq.bandcamp.com/

Probably my favorite straight-acoustic-guitar record I have heard in a bit.

oh cool, yeah I find Rob to be a singular talent, he really has his own voice as a player

Yeah I agree. This record rips, and lots of short songs too which is kind of refreshing.

interesting piece of Loren Connors who I was not familiar with, but seems very interesting

https://daily.bandcamp.com/lifetime-achievement/loren-connors-lifetime-achievement

connors is kind of his own universe — tons of good stuff (and I've probably only heard 1/10 of what he's put out over th years)

Yeah I never got too into him but I really like Airs in particular.

Oh man Loren is one of my dudes (not that I have heard even near everything, there is a lot). That Bandcamp piece is good though, Grayson did a good job with it. Think I maybe heard about him first from the Harmony of the Spheres box set?

I really love this album of his, just beautifully impressionistic playing, for lack of a better descriptor:

https://lorenconnorsnyc.bandcamp.com/album/red-mars

Definitely paved the way for a whole lot of moves people are taking liberally from, including myself.

Guys I have problem. I don’t think I remember how to play guitar and not sound like New Arrivals by Willie Lane

good problem to have imo

Hah playing guitar is a problem. You are always going to sound like someone for the most part .... but yeah I agree that sounding like Willie Lane sounds like a good problem to have.

Well it just always falls into that sort of formless wandering thing complete with that kind of cool but kind of shitty electric guitar sound. Framed it as a problem because I honestly wonder if I'll ever be able to focus enough to "compose" something ever again or if I'm cursed to forever jam aimlessly in avant post-primitivism mode with wacky tunings.

Welcome, friend hah hah.

My movement out of these waters a bit is finding myself being interested in the texture and phrasing that you can exaggerate a bit more by playing loudly. Kind of find myself almost playing "noise" at times but don't think of it that way while I am doing it. Just kind of finding some of that territory that you can to where the freeform, wandering notes start to take on a life of there own via feedback/overdrive/fuzz etc. I have been really enjoying it!

was exploring this global radio google maps overlay, where you can click on a station anywhere in the world and stream.

http://radio.garden/

was randomly clicking around oceania, landed on what turned out to be easter island. they were playing PETER LANG. absolutely one-in-a-million chance. i took lessons with the guy! he is not particularly famous!

wow that's wild

we should put on a american primitive/psych/weirdo fest on easter island

Neat site! Love Peter Lang... wonder how he is doing. Always confused when reminded that The Thing At The Nursery Room Window is not as sought after as one might think.

grandavis- sounds like fun! Though it also sounds a little like what someone says when they're essentially stumbling upon shoegaze? Like, the good'n messy experimental post-punk version of shoegaze not the glossy version.

Also yeah my brain ignored your actual point... easter island? WTF/cool.

Speaking of stylistic overlap and islands in the middle of the ocean I really love slack key guitar too.

that site is fucking amazing