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

i'd say that he foregrounds rhythm as a sonic component
i'm sure he doesn't do the same thing every time, but he uses rhythm in addition to like, idk, notes or melody or whatever else there is besides rhythm :)

think he's said he considers himself first and foremost a percussionist, so that probably fits into the rhythmic thump he has going on the banjo

exactly, he is a banjo-playing drummer <3

Banjo is basically a drum with an unnatural growth anyway

the only track i am not into is the vocal one- i don't mind his voice but the instrumentation doesn't work for me. excited to get a copy thought!

i like it as a song but i think it's a bit at odds w/the rest of the album's feel

I mean, clawhammer is a specific style that is really percussive, so a natural fit. He is playing a style though, and it is what drives that thumpy approach (and keeps it from being the alternating/picking version so many bluegrass and guitar fingerpickers go for).

Sorry, that didn't come out like I wanted it to. I have thought to myself that I should try playing guitar in a clawhammer style though hah hah, as I have hamfists and could maybe adopt it more easily than other styles.

Not sure quite where Papa M belongs on here, but it's great to know Pajo is alive and well and producing music again: https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/papa-m-walking-on-coronado

Not convinced about that drum machine on this, but liking the tone of his guitar.

Late to this party, but I love the new William Tyler album. Gorgeous and contemplative and I love the way the songs really stretch and expand even when they're just three minutes or so. (I told my wife it's "music for feeling like you're in an indie road movie," which is probably underselling it but still true.)

I could swim and float in the guitar tones on "The Great Unwind."

Belatedly occurs to me that one of the THREE full-length albums which will be available in stores on Cassette Store Day on October 8th and digital service providers everywhere on October 14th.
http://cassettestoreday.com/, which I just pasted from a Northern Spy press release to thee Ingest All etc psych thread, might also be particularly relevant over here:

Between them, British folk phantasms Padang Food Tigers (Stephen Lewis and Spencer Grady) and Norwegian harmonium player Sigbjørn Apeland have recorded for illustrious imprints such as ECM, Hubro, Bathetic, Scissor Tail and Blackest Rainbow. These past offerings are engrained with a rich devotion to various branches of traditional composition – church music, country and folk – yet seek to dissemble those well-worn forms under the aegis of extemporisation. Both parties are collating a formidable canon of après organic ambient, venturing beyond the all-prevailing placebos tailored by so many sleep-starved somnambulists. These guys offer up genuine alternate atmospheres with an emotional pastoralism that speaks with a deep heartfelt feeling, undeniably immediate and open. Theirs is a music inviting, or rather insisting, upon a listener’s self-projections – aimed inward towards the soul, outward in boundless leaps of imagination.

Bumblin’ Creed, this collaborative venture for Northern Spy, finds these kindred spirits revelling in their new-found alliances. A shared vision now bears its artistic fruit, borne of an unshakeable belief in the beauty of the passing moment and the intrinsic need to harness precious seconds in the slow-motion passing of a reductionist blues, a child’s plaintive plea or the creak of an old wooden chair (listen, you’ll hear it). In theory it can get pretty Cageian, in reality the academy never gets a look in. The nine pieces on this highly-emotive suite – each built up from an embryonic kernel ceded by Apeland or the Tigers and developed in cherished association – seduces the space between every well-judged note, while hanging on their ebbing word. Tones react to the muttering of memory and recollection (before vanishing, lost forever), or to the artist’s respective environments (a picturesque Norwegian village, a lost river found buried at the end of a suburban garden, a stone sphinx blanketed in snow watching over the relics of a crystal citadel).

As influenced by Messiaen’s ecclesiastical organ works as Uncle Tupelo’s last round of alt.country cuts, as energised by the non-idiomatic innovations of Derek Bailey as the Delta deviations of Loren Connors, Bumblin’ Creed is an extraordinary piece of enchantment that ranks right up there alongside the best material these guys ever produced, a slow-motion country crawl, the soundtrack to your spiritual baptism: listen close, and be born all over again.
http://padangfoodtigers.bandcamp.com/album/bumblin-creed

I got that mail too and this looks really intriguing. I've never heard of this band but that press release definitely piqued my interest

Ready Country Nimbus is a lovely little record, sort of in the same tradition as Bruce Langhorne's Hired Hand - all simple, sighing folk miniatures.

Playlist is up to date.

three lobed hopscotch extravaganza streaming over yonder: http://wxdu.org/
whole lotta good stuff -- sarah louise playing w/ a percussionist right now.
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daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn

baird/lattimore is a cool combo

though it's funny man no one really ended up liking that Heron Oblivion album huh? It was almost trying too hard at particular aesthetic

no one liked it? i loved it!

haha sorry! i liked it fine but felt like it just kinda came and went w/o much talk

my older brother keeps a low internet profile but if he was on here, everyone would be asking him to shut up about Heron Oblivion.

i thought it was boring tbh

I tried and failed with it. It just didn't touch the sides on the way through.

maybe i just have an unusually high blown out wah pedal tolerance

i go see them live tho, bet it'd be nice and loud

Yo folks the WXDU stream of that Three Lobed Hopscotch show is happening now!

http://wxdu.org/

75 Dollar Bill just ended ... but more to come!

Oh, linked above already, but yeah, get on it!

Bachman/Toth duo up next!

it's all been amazing so far -- missed most of watery love, but have been pretty into everything else.

Thankfully there will be the NYCTaper archives to get to at some point ....

seems that the toth-bachman duo are covering "war pigs"

Wonder who the "secret guest(s)" is/are. Hear more than two folks ....

meg baird on drums maybe?

Yeah, could be

this is cool

Will have to wait for the NYC tapes. Hell of a lineup, though.

Really nice piece by our man Tyler here:

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/09/13/spirit-in-the-house-jack-roses-enduring-legacy/

Sure would like to imagine all of those choice alternate versions of tunes that Jason Meagher is sitting on may someday see the light ....

thanks dude! was pretty easy -- these musicians also happen to be solid writers.
meagher mentioned that there's been talk of pulling together some Jack Rose odds-n-ends (possibly including outtakes) into a comp sometime in the not so distant future. which would be cool!

oh and hey, as a little bonus, check out this great Jack Rose mix of 20s/30s folk/jazz/blues: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/150357336032/spirit-in-the-house-jack-roses-enduring-legacy

Whoa, thanks! I sure hope Meagher and co. pull that off down the line, seems like a very worthy cause.

can't wait to read that!

also the new Daniel Lanois album is fucking amazing wooooow

does anyone konw who Rocco DeLuca is besides a mob boss in a bad movie?

Bachman/Toth set now up:

http://www.nyctaper.com/2016/09/bachman-toth-band-september-9-2016-three-lobedwxdu-day-show-kings-raleigh-nc/

Psyched to revisit this, was one of the only things I caught in real time but man that was a crazy day and I was not ready for it hah hah. Now know that Ian McColm was on drums! Great dude and great musician (he has a duo tape with Daniel that came up at one point, a really cool guitar/drums set and different side of Daniel's playing, a very cool tape if you can track it down imo).

Marc Masters for bandcamp. Similar approach to Tyler but some different folks weighing (along with some of the same). Nice way to revisit this stuff though:

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2016/09/16/the-blooms-not-off-jack-rose-in-remembrance-and-retrospect/

Some really good stories in both of these! A joy to read imo.

Essentially living in "Sundogs" today. So damn good.

Just listening now. Blimey - a full on string-scraping droneathon. This stuff is shamanic. Making me want to dig out my Pelt records.

Many good reasons to pull out Pelt recordings, but yeah, I love this stuff and what Jack did in Pelt (obviously).

Not to detract form the Jack reissues (which are the most welcome reissues of the year) but I'm surprised there's not more talk about this new Imaginational Anthem comp (discussed some upthread). It's great.

yeah it really is a blast -- i'd be surprised if anyone on this thread didn't love it. wrote a quick thing about it here: http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/09/15/imaginational-anthem-vol-8-the-private-press/