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

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!

Glad to hear there are quite a few recordings UMS. I think you all definitely hit a sweet spot with what you are doing.

This thread (and its earlier incarnation) certainly were influential to me too. Found out about a ton of cool stuff here and always found it to be one of the healthier/friendlier/more interesting places to talk about a lot of this stuff. Honestly in the early days, which woulda been 2012 or 2013 or so (hard to believe) I think this thread was very much ahead of the curve and was a great place to discover and share stuff, but at a certain point a lot of the folks we discuss here were getting covered pretty much everywhere so I think I personally felt a bit less of a need to post. But yeah posting less generally also. Just trying to be online a bit less.

Realize I posted a Bandcamp thing, which isn't necessarily showing my album right away. For those interested here is the tape itself:

https://oxtailrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/i-live-here

All solo electric guitar built from one-take improvisations and tracks. Will have a companion that is all acoustic hopefully out sometime this year. Always think of this place fondly, maybe we will find some good records to throw down here soon enough.

I love posts like that^^ and is a great thread for the sort.

Aww cool.

I think we have been a good, non-gatekeep-y place to share stuff (fuck gatekeeping). It is funny, I remember a moment early on where a musician who posted here suggested we stick to covering "known commodities" or heavy hitters or some such early on, and it never made sense to me. Why not be a conduit for what is happening instead of trying to make cuts to the flow in real time? I think we took the right approach by just sharing enthusiastically, including when someone from the thread got something out into the world (some seriously good records too).

who are the 'heavy hitters' in a 'genre' of like 87 people who all know each other online lol

I think some guy named jean fayhee?

I showed dbh to Glenn when we got lunch a few weeks ago but then I realized I haven’t been paying attention to his work since 2015’s Mood album. I do feel out of the loop and need to get back on track knowing what is relatively hot in the genre among the 87 participants.

oh no i went back to the first ILX brigade thread, we are approaching the ten-year anniversary in december

Hah hah the person who had suggested sticking to "heavy hitters" certainly knows this ... and yet seemed to think we were ranging too wide (or just didn't want anyone posting their own music, though really not worth going into too much, it was just a rare moment where the "reason" for the thread was discussed).

I forgot that Glenn has a new album coming! Hope I get to see him play live sometime in the not-too-distant future.

It's already out!

https://glennjones.bandcamp.com/album/vade-mecum

To clarify I was referring to not paying attention to dbh, not Glenn.

Oh yeah, I got it! And apparently I am lagging in my attention to Glenn hah hah. Somehow I lost track that it was out already, look forward to diving in.

just went back to the OG thread for the first time in forever and LOLd at this:

"Hon, what time did you go to bed last night?"

"Uh ... 3 a.m."

"What!?"

"Yeah, well, I was past deadline on one assignment and had another due first thing this morning but instead of working on either I ended up reading an entire thread on ILM about modern acoustic guitar wizards, Fahey disciples, drone-folk dudes and the like. And listening to lots of Soundclouds and Youtubes and stuff."

*blank stare*

― alpine static, Wednesday, March 13, 2013 1:27 AM (nine years ago)

Short version: Killer thread, folks. Bookmarked, for sure.

― alpine static, Wednesday, March 13, 2013 1:31 AM (nine years ago)

Ah hah hah!

hahaha, and this:

man, i'm having a mild midlife crisis and I just wanna quit my job and start a band and make music like global's "Cassini"

― alpine static, Monday, October 27, 2014 10:14 PM (seven years ago)

if only i'd known that mild midlife crisis would blossom into a full-blown existential death spiral fueled by growing older, mortality, parenthood, a job change, loss of identity, climate anxiety, pandemic unease, isolation and general saudade.

but "Cassini" is still a ripper!

Hard to express just how different my outlook on life is now compared to 2014, and how much change I have gone through, though I guess fundamentally I am the same person. But yeah, music has helped. Wouldn't (and at times haven't) feel whole without getting to play it. Not really gonna lay it out here, but most of my music I have made in the last 3-4 years has been an attempt to process it, though that stuff can be lame when spelled out on paper.

Cassini ripped so hard they had to name a band after it :)

Cassini jams sound marvelous ... going to dig into the new Dais Queue next.

Aww thanks Tyler, hope it treats you well. Kinda of a bit of everything I do these days thrown in there.

my outlook is so different now too. i cringe reading my old posts. and been through a lot of harrowing bullshit since i first stumbled on ILX. but i can honestly say this thread has changed my life, far for the better! the insight and encouragement from y'all has been extremely meaningful over this decade (!)

music also makes me feel whole davis... it's also about purging some x factor while throwing some self-actualizing in there for me

thanks for the continued good vibes to tyler and davis and alpine and anyone else who has posted or even read this thread

yeahhhh totally. keep this thread ALIVE.

I'll do my part — have we checked out this "secret" marisa anderson record that slipped out last month? https://ecstaticstatic.bandcamp.com/album/lake-forest-park-soundtrack

I have not checked out that Marisa! She is the best, liquid light just flows out of her guitar, so I am sure I am going to enjoy that when I dive in!

And yeah, thanks to all here who ever encouraged me along the way also, as well as were generous with their time and insights. I will try to float stuff out here when I get an inkling it isn't being covered heavily already.

Just popping up to say to anyone who hasn't listened to the Duncan Marquiss album to give it a go. (He was the guitarist in the Phantom Band and this has bits of Terry Riley, lots of Cluster and Eno, some Tortoise, Big Jim O'Rourke etc). https://duncanmarquiss.bandcamp.com/album/wires-turned-sideways-in-time

Just saw Joseph Allred post on Facebook that Steffan Basho-Junghans has died, so sad

RIP — he was one of the people in the early 2000s (along w/ Jack Rose) who made me realize people were still making this kind of music.

Yeah, a real shame he's gone -- some remarkable albums.

Lovely note from Glenn Jones about him here -- he and Jack and Steffen were all mutual admirers. What I would have given to have been at that one Belgian show featuring all three.

oh geez, he died?! that is sad :(

Cross posting from the NY Film thread for fans of the composers:

SILENT FILMS / LIVE MUSIC at Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey Street in Manhattan
Curated by John Schaefer
No RSVP is required. Seating is first come, first served. Free popcorn while supplies last.

https://bfplny.com/event/electric-appalachia/
ELECTRIC APPALACHIA on Jan 25 at 7:30pm
Scored and performed live by Mary Lattimore and William Tyler.
The Acclaimed Silent Films/Live Music series is back in the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place!
Experience the first evening of the Silent Films/Live Music series with the New York premiere of “Electric Appalachia.” Using found archival footage, the film offers a meditation on electricity and modernity in East Tennessee. Compiled by Eric Dawson (director at the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound – TAMIS) with score written and performed by guitarist William Tyler and harpist Mary Lattimore.

https://bfplny.com/event/the-kid/
The Kid on Jan 26 at 7:30pm
Scored and performed live by Yasmin Williams
The acclaimed Silent Films/Live Music series is back in the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place! Join us for the second evening to watch the world premiere of Yasmin Williams’ new score set to the 1921 Charlie Chaplin classic, “The Kid.” This funny and deeply humane film stars a young Jackie Coogan in his first role and was Chaplin’s first full-length film as a director.

https://bfplny.com/event/passionofjoanofarc/
The Passion of Joan of Arc on Jan 27 at 7:30pm
Scored and performed live by David Cieri.
Join us for the finale of the Silent Film/Live Music series in the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place with a film that is widely regarded as a landmark of cinema, “The Passion of Joan of Arc.” The finale is scored and performed by composer David Cieri with his ensemble of instruments and vocalists.

Guess we hope those are recorded? Quite the line up(s).

I was looking for the thread to say that the latest Imaginational Anthem is lovely (if you dig wide open spaces pedal steel stuff): https://tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/luke-schneider-presents-imaginational-anthem-vol-xi-chrome-universal-a-survey-of-modern-pedal-steel

all 10 volumes of Imaginational Anthem on CD for $70

someone convince me to pull the trigger?

(i'm sure you all got the same email from Tompkins Square)

never mind, lol, i did it

i don't know if this was mentioned but this private press reissue on tompkins square is really pretty

https://tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/river-sun-river-moon

ultra pastoral

I think I picked this up somewhere on the board but should definitely be on here: https://lakemary.bandcamp.com/album/slow-grass-2

Tends towards the ambient end of things, a bit like Scott Tuma, the Old Saw record from last year, but the first track devolves into a gorgeous squall of saxophone (from him off Fuubutsushi).

duo record coming out with one of my best pals- acoustic workouts, space echo tape FX, harmonium. mostly recorded live on reel-to-reel. should have some limited distro in AUS and EU... here's a sampler/teaser accompanied by some super-8 footage from the 60s a friend uncovered from his grandparents belongings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3nIJr0F4J4

should be showing up on this page soonish, officially out march 13th

https://ramblerecords.bandcamp.com/

obviously I'm biased but this record rules

thanks! following that page now

sounds really cool from the sampler

Looking forward to this global!

NICE

Actually meant to post this here for those that would care/be interested. Put up a collection of acoustic guitar tracks for the first time ever. These are all still improvisations, which is generally still what I do playing solo, but ones in which I tried to make little instant compositions/songs by trying to add structure and logic to the places I went while playing.

https://daisqueue.bandcamp.com/album/dont-change

I recorded it all during the same time as my last tape that came out, but very different. Sat on these tracks for a long time, but I am pretty fond of them in regards to the mood and feel of them. But yeah, for some of you that have been checking in with my stuff from time to time you may enjoy them.

^ into it

yeah this sounds very cool, davis — I have to get caught up with the Dais Queue universe ...

Hey thanks you two, I appreciate it. Definitely wasn't expecting to record a bunch of straight acoustic guitar tracks, but I get heavily into that process for a while in a period of heavy playing and just liked it more than I expected to. I have over a hundred of those tracks hah hah, but those sounded like a good little collection to me.

Still have a companion record to my last Oxtail tape I am sitting on. Just gotta figure out what to do with it.

https://slowclarity.bandcamp.com/album/holding-pattern

Slow Clarity is out global and Matt did a fantastic job on this

Still have to get a copy of this. Look forward to hearing it very much.

yeah love this one!