Oh ok I'll check that out! Thought maybe it was secret...
― Evan, Saturday, 12 March 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
grandavis sounding lush here!https://daisqueue.bandcamp.com/album/dais-queue-live-3-9-2016-2
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 16:31 (eight years ago) link
Oh hey, thanks global, I appreciate it. Decided to mix in the electric 12 string. Thanks for tuning in.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2016/03/16/guitarist-glenn-jones-opens-new-possibilities/2rV8OBHka0N3oH9acdr55N/story.html
― Evan, Thursday, 17 March 2016 14:44 (eight years ago) link
Nice to see Glenn get a lot of press for this record. Well-earned for all the efforts he has been involved in over the years.
― grandavis, Thursday, 17 March 2016 15:39 (eight years ago) link
I don’t mind if the birds and the insects or whatever else are bleeding onto the track. I think that really adds something to it, rather than takes away from it.
contentious statements from glenn
― ogmor, Thursday, 17 March 2016 15:47 (eight years ago) link
on that same note, i went to see matmos this week and it reminded me that most of my home recordings have washing machine/dryer/furnace noise on them. it's not birds & wind but it's ambient noise. i kinda like it even if it's not technically as pretty as cicadas or w/e.
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 March 2016 15:52 (eight years ago) link
That approach matches his style. Others benefit from studio environments. Depends on the material and the intention!
― Evan, Thursday, 17 March 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
Really like this run down of playing in an alternate tuning:
"There are guys and gals that have spent their lives playing standard tuning and never have gotten to the bottom of it. It’s an incredible mystery, and there’s just so much theory and so much you can do with it. But I have a hard time composing in standard tuning. Maybe it’s just because I kinda feel like, well it’s G chord but I don’t own this G chord — it kind of was there before me, it will be there after I’m gone. In non-standard tunings I may be hitting on the occasional G chord, but somehow I feel I own that G chord, because I got to it in such a roundabout way and had to dig my way through the underbrush and all that stuff. It’s a different experience. So putting those kind of obstacles in my path, the pieces that I compose become a way of navigating a new and unfamiliar landscape."
Ditto Glenn.
― grandavis, Thursday, 17 March 2016 15:58 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, my own stumbled upon tunings feel proprietary to me. And there's something new and exciting about them, where I don't know what I'm playing but it sounds good. When I hear a straightforward standard tuning folk song played with basic chords and there isn't an atmosphere/energy that is compensating for that generic simplicity than I am usually really bored by it. Alt tunings can provide a bit of magic.
― Evan, Thursday, 17 March 2016 16:02 (eight years ago) link
then*
― Evan, Thursday, 17 March 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
listening to a new danny paul grody tape and it's got some nice birdcall kinda things happening on one track. makes me think of john martyn's "small hours."
― tylerw, Thursday, 17 March 2016 16:22 (eight years ago) link
My god, what a track. The story of its creation only adds to its genius.
This live version is astounding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYLVM560Fok
― Poacher (Chinaski), Thursday, 17 March 2016 16:50 (eight years ago) link
Fack me. I deliberately tried to add that as a 'no embed.' Apologies.
Oh, the new Chris Forsyth is out? :D
― Evan, Thursday, 17 March 2016 19:25 (eight years ago) link
it's pretty good, need some more time with it. solar motel is an all-time favorite though, not sure if he'll top that.
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 17 March 2016 19:49 (eight years ago) link
"High Castle Rock" was a ton of fun. It's all I've heard so far from it.
― Evan, Thursday, 17 March 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
As already stated, the new Glenn Jones is great. Digging the Ilyas Ahmed + Golden Retriever = Dreamboat LP too.
(and it's from last year but I've just found out about that Seabuckthorn album, it's very nice too)
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Thursday, 17 March 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
YES, loving the Dreamboat album!
― alpine static, Thursday, 17 March 2016 23:09 (eight years ago) link
this is the best thread on ilx
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 18 March 2016 00:36 (eight years ago) link
:)
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 18 March 2016 00:47 (eight years ago) link
― grandavis, Thursday, March 17, 2016 11:58 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Can't find the quote but iirc Ackerman said something similar about open tunings, saying it's a more creative way of composing or something
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 18 March 2016 01:35 (eight years ago) link
A friend grew out his beard and looks identical to Robbie basho. It's very eerie..,
― Evan, Saturday, 19 March 2016 01:10 (eight years ago) link
fleeting is so intimate and sensitive. he's gone nuts for that half capo, used on every song, refreshing to hear someone play everything tight and delicate instead of vast reverberating open tunings
― ogmor, Saturday, 19 March 2016 15:09 (eight years ago) link
Spokane River Falls has to be one of his best pieces. Too good
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 19 March 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
this is just gorgeous, keep playing it over&over because it flows so beautifully. I've never loved the banjo as much as the guitar and I've had mixed feelings about instrumental banjo before but it sounds so tender on this record and it bleeds into the guitar so gracefully. I think glenn's written better/grander/more impressive individual pieces on other records but I think this is probably the best album he's done. such a gift. I'm aware of how corny and naive it sounds but I always think it when I listen to him: there is so much humanity in his playing; there is no way a bad person could make music like this
don't want to dwell too much on the idea of a pantheon or w/e but in terms of sensitivity, he's up there with fahey & basho, and sensitivity is the key thing. there's no more inviting guitarist around at the moment, he treats his listeners so well
― ogmor, Saturday, 19 March 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link
Just ordered it from Thrill Jockey on yellow vinyl. Eagerly anticipating next week's mail deliveries now.
― Austin, Saturday, 19 March 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
"I'm aware of how corny and naive it sounds but I always think it when I listen to him: there is so much humanity in his playing; there is no way a bad person could make music like this"
Again, him and his wife were so sweet to us when he played our wedding (she came along). Just two of the nicest people I've ever met.
― Evan, Saturday, 19 March 2016 17:13 (eight years ago) link
Got blazed and listened to Avocet tonight. Nice record, though I'm not sure I love it as much as you guys (yet?). I realize I'm probably not as intimately familiar with Jansch's solo career as some of you, but this one definitely feels like an anomaly to me, what with the chorus effects on the guitar and that one (vibe-destroying) solo piano track (I also could have done without the flutes, but that's a personal bias!). It's a record I will definitely be going back to, as there are some really nice tunes (the aforementioned "Kingfisher," "Kittiwake") and some little corners my ears need to further explore; you'll notice upthread I wasn't immediately sold on Gimmer, either, and now I'm playing it every day. This one feels like a grower, too.
― Wimmels, Wednesday, March 2, 2016 9:26 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
As predicted, the more I listen to this, the more I enjoy it, so much so that I finally bit the bullet and bought a (very expensive) LP copy. I still think the shorter tracks on side 2 are sort of the sleeper tracks--I prefer them to the title track, which is maybe too sprawling in places?--but it's definitely been on regular rotation the past week or so.
Which just confirms my longstanding belief that you can't really make a decision about a record until you've heard it more than once. This gets harder to do every day, but I find, increasingly, that it is the records I make the most time for (even the ones I don't love immediately) that stick with me and don't get shelved after a week or two.
― Wimmels, Monday, 21 March 2016 01:33 (eight years ago) link
yep yep and yep. Multiple listens aren't the fly in the ointment, they ARE the ointment if that makes any sense.
― ulysses, Monday, 21 March 2016 01:59 (eight years ago) link
http://www.city-journal.org/html/half-love-blind-joe-death-14187.html
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 21 March 2016 02:09 (eight years ago) link
This thread (I think?) got me listening to Duck Baker, who provided a gateway to a lot of stuff on the Kicking Mule label. I've found that LPs on this label can be had almost anywhere for $5-$10 apiece, including some really cool instructional ragtime / fingerstyle LPs. I always wrote Grossman off as a guy who understood Fahey's technique, but played with none of his heart or imagination. Recent listening to some of his solo work like Yazoo Basin Boogie and Acostic Music For The Body & Soul (and duos with Renbourn) have me reevaluating a bit. Also, there are a lot of guys on this label I've never heard of (Dale Miller? Leo Wijnkamp Jr? Dave Evans?). Seems like an untapped, err, market. I'm sure there are people on this thread who know far more about this label than I do. Anything I should avoid?
― Wimmels, Monday, 21 March 2016 04:44 (eight years ago) link
i think Paul Metzger has spoken highly of Duck Baker, hadn't even heard of Fahey when he originally started his banjo excursions
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 21 March 2016 14:48 (eight years ago) link
Lots of love for Avocet here, too. It's the space of it, all that baggy, jazzy bottom end. Danny Thompson is pretty extraordinary on it. And it might be heresy but I'm still not 100% sold on Jansch's voice, so this is perfect for me.
― Poacher (Chinaski), Monday, 21 March 2016 16:43 (eight years ago) link
love the duck baker record I have (this one: http://duckbaker.com/discography/duck-baker-solo/theres-something-for-everyone-in-america/)and yeah love that kicking mule LPs are not ridiculously priced -- i've got a couple of the grossmans and renbourns, would like to get more... them and flying fish are pretty good idicators of quality for this kinda stuff.
― tylerw, Monday, 21 March 2016 16:59 (eight years ago) link
definitely have to get this kicking mule LPhttps://cdn.discogs.com/F1drXsA-fuLoOrXkQLoX5uZqz78=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-7254308-1437256786-8399.jpeg.jpg
― tylerw, Monday, 21 March 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link
and yeah, i like Grossman a lot these days -- i feel like if he just had more evocative, darker cover art he'd be huge! but instead: https://cdn.discogs.com/_OUK0oalffspgSs3Bv7Td1L8dF4=/fit-in/600x615/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-2422802-1283234892.jpeg.jpgactually i like this, but you get what I mean
― tylerw, Monday, 21 March 2016 17:15 (eight years ago) link
there's one on kicking mule called 'hologram' by sam weis that's good... awful cover art, probably why it had apparently been sitting in the bin since it was released in the 80s. can't find much about her online, other than that she opened for basho once and eventually started making really bad rock records. i've shared some of it with kyle at grasstops!
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 21 March 2016 17:18 (eight years ago) link
ha, that one doesn't even appear to be on discogs ... see i like this cover too! i'd buy it if i came across it, anywayhttp://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/TCEAAOxy9eVRV195/s-l1600.jpg
― tylerw, Monday, 21 March 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
yep, that's the one. all 12 string instrumentals
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 21 March 2016 17:25 (eight years ago) link
lol Autoharpin'
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 21 March 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link
glenn's new one is really nice
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 21 March 2016 18:14 (eight years ago) link
yeah i think ogmor's term "inviting" really sums it up ... you pretty much want to live inside this new one
― tylerw, Monday, 21 March 2016 19:17 (eight years ago) link
Found this Sam Weis video on youtube, from 2012, there's other vids of some singer/songwriter kind of stuff of hers too. This is newer material it seems from a 2012 album:
xxx.youtube.com/watch?v=XmNJrPqegiA
― Neal Cassady, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 01:45 (eight years ago) link
there's a fairly entertaining live grossman lp that came out on transatlantic in the early seventies
& on the kicking mule tip will rep for both of these:
http://img.cdandlp.com/2015/05/imgL/1509344898.jpg http://www.guitarvideos.com/prodlarge/126coloradscan.jpg
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 08:08 (eight years ago) link
Will rep for that Peter Finger record as well; it's quite nice. I'm also a big fan of a couple of Bob Hadley's records, probably "Tunes From The Well" is my fave.
― ian, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link
yeah i just saw that peter finger record in a shop and didn't get it (heard it via ghost capital a little while ago). i should get it the next time i'm in there... Irish LP looks killer.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 19:34 (eight years ago) link
wondered if this might be the right place for this video?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzxNnJLwsuM
― ulysses, Thursday, 24 March 2016 06:51 (eight years ago) link
very nice new track from Sarah Louise's forthcoming VDSQ LPwww.youtube.com/watch?v=JZvRm1u4oVE
― tylerw, Thursday, 24 March 2016 16:55 (eight years ago) link
and have we talked about this dbh album from last year? http://threadrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/moodkinda great.
― tylerw, Thursday, 24 March 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link