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

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!

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

― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, January 18, 2023 1:06 PM

100% one of the best things i've heard in the past year. holy smokes, this is outstanding.

meant to plug it here again but been kinda offline the last few days... thanks for the share UMS! matt and i are incredibly proud of it and the labels did a wonderful job with the packaging and mastering. the first track is the best thing i've ever been able to record and probably always will be. i think we nailed the dissonance meets melody very well. plus some trippy liner notes from jen powers of powers/rolin duo. i feel some in this thread would appreciate, i don't want to clog up with too much promotion but i'm just so gassed up about the whole thing

Promote away Global! It is extremely cool to see this come out and anyone who has been part of this thread and the previous one should be excited about it. I for one am always psyched to see what you are up to, but really anyone who has been part of this thread putting out music too. In my opinion it is very much in the spirit of the good parts of the history here (not that we have had much bad history).

So yeah, this album rules. Anyone into anything posted in this thread will find something to enjoy. First two tracks kick things off mightily, just really cool shit.

Secret weapon: I really love the bass playing on the record. Not sure who did it, but it is cool.

finally getting around to Slow Clarity, yeah it's very good. global idk if you know this but right at the start of the pandemic my FB friend Michael Klausman recommended Useful Histories to me and I played it on the radio a fair amount, it was only when Cassini came out that I realized that was you!

someday I aspire to attend a Minneapolis post-Fahey FAP, I bet that would be fun

you should!

wow "The Man Who Owned The Sky" really takes off halfway through, this is great

Yeah that one really goes!

yeah, this album is so good. at the risk of sounding like a suck-up, global's on a tear, man. for real.

Secret weapon: I really love the bass playing on the record. Not sure who did it, but it is cool.
― grandavis, Tuesday, March 21, 2023 11:27 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

that's matt! he's fantastic, very melodic. for various reasons my playing is way more ragged and rough around the edges but i think we complement well as a result. he's kinda the brains and talent of the operation and i'm the sloppy 'lets go for it' guy. he basically taught me guitar, i didn't start out until very late but we've been good pals and music tinkerers for a decade plus now. really special to have something very concrete reflecting what we have done out and have it recieved well

finally getting around to Slow Clarity, yeah it's very good. global idk if you know this but right at the start of the pandemic my FB friend Michael Klausman recommended Useful Histories to me and I played it on the radio a fair amount, it was only when Cassini came out that I realized that was you!
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Tuesday, March 21, 2023 3:40 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

that rules... is this the michael klausman involved with the imaginational anthem private press comp by any chance?

yeah, this album is so good. at the risk of sounding like a suck-up, global's on a tear, man. for real.
― alpine static, Tuesday, March 21, 2023 6:16 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

sadly, *was* on a tear, don't play much anymore. most of the slow clarity stuff is almost seven years old. recorded back in our 'nasty bachelor rental' days. picture a south minneapolis living room that never actually got arranged over two years and still had boxes from move-in sitting in it when we left and elderly black cats our vegan roommate adopted shitting and barfing all over the place and you'll get the vibe. my bedroom was in the basement and had a concrete floor lol

i now live 2k miles away from matt/ums sadly. however, there seems to be a cassini LP on the horizon (?) and slow clarity still has tons of material just sitting there so we'll have something soon, i hope

thank you all for your kind words, this thread is such a great spot. moving cross-country led to a real rough patch which i'm only now getting over so getting some encouragement means so much

is this the michael klausman involved with the imaginational anthem private press comp by any chance?

yep. he used to work at Other Music, iirc tylerw knows him IRL!

Sorry to hear about the rough patch global. Hope things stay on the lighter side of the equation for you for a while. But yeah, you should feel good and proud of this stuff, truly sounds great. Glad to hear about Cassini and whatever else rolls along, I always enjoy listening to what you get up to.

Also forgot to say: cool in re the bass. Adds a really nice layer to the tracks. Good job Matt!

aw global we miss you ❤️

yeah klausman lives around the corner from me. great guy! pretty much every time we hang out, he plays me something I can barely believe.

ha that does not surprise me one bit