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

Hi Neal, plz check the Brightblack Morning Light thread :)

This is lovely, Neal Cassady, thanks for the heads-up. Reminds me of Scott Tuma (catnip to me, basically) and the Dead Tongues record from a couple of years back, albeit at about three steps of abstraction. Not surprised to see Andrew Weathers' name in the small print.

yeah this is nice on a frosty MN morning

think i can hear some e-bow on the acoustic + a slide to fret? that's a great trick to get some pretty crazy noises from an acoustic guitar. it can feedback and make all kinds of microtones

hey neal! thanks for sharing

does anyone know how ignatz records his guitar? it's so dry yet psychedelic, i find it very compelling... is it just an amp DI'd to a tape four track?

Love Jake Fussell's music, but does he not write at all? No shame in that, just curious. If he has released originals, I've missed them.

ah shit, i see the new one has some. never mind!

the originals on the new one are instrumentals (and fit very nicely in this thread, I think)

Hey all, been a while. Took a long break from ILM but just hear to say that that Old Saw "Country Tropics" record is indeed really nice (got it a while back). Henry Birdsey, who is in the band, works a lot with just intonation tunings etc., so that might be why some of the microtonal action is apparent on it (as suggested by global above). He has a duo called Tongue Depressor with Zack Rowden (member of Crazy Doberman and guy who gets up to a lot of stuff generally) that has some really good stuff too, really grainy string-based drone on various instruments. Good folks to check in with if you like that kind of thing.

hey grandavis! good to see you

thanks for the recommendation will check old saw out

Hey UMS! Neal is the one who originally made the recommendation (the link is just a little up the thread) but I definitely second it. I have a couple of friends who ended up in New Haven, where Birdsey definitely worked out of for at least a little while, so have been following related activities for a bit. Nice to see them keep rolling out good records.

cool I don't know much about it will have to check

hope you are healthy and doing well

hey grandavis! yeah same, wishing you the best

Awww thanks Sleeve and UMS. I am doing alright all things considered, hope you are as well. Just been spending less time online if I can, and ILM was one of the things that took a hit. Always a fan of this thread and those of you who check in here of course.

hello grandavis!

been digging Old Saw as well — definitely in the Pelt zone, but with some differences too.

More of that Jack Rose rarity stuff has dropped — all pretty great: https://new.sound-o-mat.com/downloads.php

and though most of this is probably familiar to y'all, I'll just leave it here: https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2022/01/04/new-transfigurations-recent-recommended-21st-century-guitar-music/

Oh cool, that is a good list. A couple of things for sure I haven't checked out yet.

Old Saw album sounds v nice.

Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena

West Kensington

Three Lobed Recordings

20 May 2022

It is shocking what your mind will choose to forget. Almost always it needs a tear, a clean dash, a straight passage into what you’ve already known. Looking back, West Kensington has achieved that very goal: creating a landscape for memory, an imprint of that horizon, suspended in the cosmos.

I heard it in real-time, percolating against our shared apartment wall. The assembly of sounds was a comfort; a welcome change during what felt like a fresh era entirely. Like the comets we see every so often, it’s the streak of some long-ago awe that we try to comprehend. So much space, so much reach and so far; so much weight hanging in the dark sky. And the reasons we missed the comet – and why – become the moments we remember most.

Welcome to The Unknown. “Hundred Dollar Hoagie” is a slap across the face, our new normal. The weight of Lattimore’s harp is our hull, her tones steadying the ship’s course. Sukeena’s guitar is our intrepid guide, as terrified as us. All at once, the things that seem so familiar, appear so far away. The mid-record swells for “Didn’t See The Comet” like a hall pass for a coastal drive. The chimes in “Flaming Cherries Jubilee at Antoine’s” tell us it’s going to be OK. Permission to land has been granted. The ambient noise dissipates and like a futuristic prelude to Koyaanisqatsi, the chords of the harp conjure a feeling of togetherness and intentional greeting resembling Philip Glass after loads of red wine. These are the tiny holes in the dark.

…Time as a constellation.

A constellation is only recognized when its stars are aligned: those bright spots, seemingly neighbors beside each other, yet billions of miles apart. The matrix of light is abstracted and creates a new name. What if our memories did the same? Our stained fingertips made stained fingerprints on our foreheads from the garage wine we made together. The cosmic blue-tipped crest of the waves on that warm night, all aglow but not for us. Our memories as gas giants, fleeting supernovas that when glared at, only become more intense and abstract.

In “Altar of Tammy”, the sky sinks to indigo and we know there will be another one of these days. Sukeena lets his guitar drone…reminding us of this truth. Like a forced smile, Lattimore swings her notes where our hearts want to go: there can’t only be darkness – there can’t only be smoke. We can’t be the only ones in this expanse, gaze fixed. There is an absence of ‘noise’ here, aside from the click of a pedal. Where did we go in 2020? What did we do? Why did we cry together, on the porch, looking out? On the days we couldn’t go outside, West Kensington is proof there was music created and it felt like something real; and the jacaranda tree had a soundtrack to drop its leaves to.

…Things had better work here, because here is where we run out of space.

As we reach the end of the journey, “Garage Wine” arrives. Here is a glimpse of hope and a nod to the freedom we never saw coming. We traveled so far and have reached the edge only to realize that there was never a map. We were only using our gestures as directional guides, our hands moving toward one another in hi def. Using these earthly makings of strings and tubes, West Kensington takes us to that cosmic latitude of memory, and the ride is a healing one. As it goes with the passing comet, the songs are a reminder that we are here, making those vibrations into nothingness together. And it is brilliant.

Nicky Devine

January 2022

Saw Glenn Jones play last month. My wife thought he was great (I thought he was pleasant enough). Opener Jordan Perry was more jazzy

https://richardthompson.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-grizzly-man/

Great stuff

I haven't even seen the movie but that album is really good! Reminds me of Frisell.

I don't know if he completely fits in with this thread, but I've been blow away by the Duncan Marquiss (formerly of the Phantom Band) solo album, sort of like Bert Jansch gone Popol Vuh.

yeah that record is fantastic — definitely has some Bad Timing moments.

Definitely hearing some Durutti in this Duncan Marquiss album, too. Great find. Thanks

thanks for rec, been in a rut finding new stuff to listen to generally

another semi-recent one I've been enjoying: https://ayalsenior.bandcamp.com/album/az-yashir

this duncan marquiss reminds me of the recent release by ezra feinberg, which i really enjoyed

thanks tyler! checking that out next

Yeah, it is reminiscent of that Feinberg record, which was also great.

just put on duncan marquiss so i'm only on the first track BUT — have ya'll heard date palms? big time catchy drone vibes.

was just thinking about Date Palms yesterday for the first time in a while ... love 'em

okay after taking in the whole thing, the rest of that duncan marquiss isn't in the same vein as the first droney track at all.

it gets way better.☺ thanks jon for the word.

the transition from about the last minute of "c sweeps" into the first 30 seconds of "fixed action patterns" is an absolutely perfect moment.

this album is really good.

Yeah, it really reveals quite a few different moods, it's wonderful. Thanks for the tip on Date Palms! Not sure how I missed that one because it came out right when I was big into Thrill Jockey stuff, but I remedied that today and placed an order before I was two tracks into sampling it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugptv2YCIV0

gonna check that later, evan. thanks!

nothing new, but did ya'll like pullman? listening to the second album again this morning. so effortlessly pleasant.

Happy New Joseph Allred Album Day

Sea of Stars, the new solo Matthew J. Rolin thing on Ryley Walker's label is gorgeous, really love it. One forty minute track of 12-strong guitar beauty.

the new solo Matthew J. Rolin thing on Ryley Walker's label

When I was looking into that the other week it reminded me to check up on what Husky Pants has been doing lately and there's another recent good guitar record by Moon Bros called "Le Jaz Mystique"

https://moonbros.bandcamp.com/album/le-jaz-mystique

That Moon Bros. was cool, thanks for the pointer. Had seen that name bumping around for a while but hadn't checked any out until now. Very nice action on it.

Not sure who is checking in here these days (certainly not me much, but that is just due to me trying to be online a bit less, not due to not liking this site any more or anything ...)

Anyway, just wanna say congrats to global and UMS as those two Cassini tracks RIP! Really cool mix of lots of winning moves, and great playing all around.

For any not tagging along already, you can go dive in over here:

https://cassinimpls.bandcamp.com/releases

Truly enjoyable, I imagine anyone who still checks in with this thread will find tons to like about it.

thanks grandavis!!! our couple shows this weekend felt amazing, they were recorded too. a lot more to come, including a duo mostly-acoustic LP that bandmate and pal m*tt be*chey are really proud of under 'slow clarity' moniker

Hell yeah man, all great to hear! Look forward to listening to all of it! Very psyched on that duo LP!

All those folks (Jon Camp/The Caribbean folks) are buddies who I have played with multiple times, so I wish I could have made it. Looked like a great line-up.

I need to do something with my life...

Looking forward to listening thanks for the heads up grandavis!

this Cassini shit RULES and reminds me of the mighty F/i in places, damn y'all

just played it on actual FM radio earlier today if u check Spinitron dot com for KWVA at 5 PM

Hah sure thing, I thought many who have tagged along with this thread over the years would enjoy it, but honestly it rules as just plain good rock music regardless of the fact that it has two of the people who regularly post(ed) in this thread involved. It has way more energy and legit cool guitar moves (coming from many good angles, I especially like that it is a bit raw and barely-contained at times, keeps it from sounding too "nice" to me). Gonna have to check out F/i Sleeve!

May as well throw one of my own things here, which I used to do, but I actually got a little write-up for one of my releases in Bandcamp Daily recently too.

https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-experimental/the-best-experimental-music-on-bandcamp-june-2022

Anyone who cares here probably knows kind of what I get up to when I play, but this one I think is probably my best effort yet of making more of an "album" as opposed to just doing what I do when I play live.

If I was a label I would be trying to get you Cassini boys to lay out a full length. Maybe that is in the works. Hope so ....

like grandavis i've been trying to pull back from the internet/social media in general but global showed me this and wanted to pop in and say thanks so much to everyone for the kind words of support. (and sleeve for playing us!)

we have a ton of recorded practices, a reel to reel recording, live stuff, and a brief studio date so hopefully more to come.

the shows were so fun with a great sense of community. i really love playing in this band, it always feels pretty natural. at our best i think we hit an odd mix of heavy psych freakout, jamming and midwestern classic rock moves

also, the little community within a community of the ilm post fahey threads has been pretty influential to me as a listener and musicians, always been nothing but enthusiasm and good vibes, so thanks to you all

also for anyone in the twin cities area, the lakeside guitar festival is a cool free outdoor event at como lake park, this year paul metzger and james blood ulmer (!!!) are playing

https://allevents.in/st%20paul/lakeside-guitar-festival/200022951741534

I've fallen out of the loop with regards to a lot of experimental music (time, mainly); I'm pretty much off the socials these days and I miss the steady drip of stuff from this thread (always one of the best places on the web to find new music). Loving both these new things. I need more skronk and guitar turbulence in my life!