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

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New Daniel Bachman lp now up for streaming. Haven't checked it out yet, but I dug that first track a bunch:

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/03/500057218/first-listen-daniel-bachman-daniel-bachman

this didn't grab me as much as i wanted BUT i really hate listening to albums on 'first listen' kind of streams. somehow the life is always sucked out of things on those

ha yeah i know what you mean -- i'll check out a song or two, but find it hard to listen to those NPR streams.
I'd say stick with the new Bachman, might be his subtlest record? Like that "Watermelon Slices" slide piece at the end is kind of perfect in a quiet way.

it sounded promising, just nothing as immediately stand-out as 'cross that other shore' from 'river'

Fwiw, the blues at the end of the album right before that cover of 'Farther Along' really gets me going. 'Watermelon Slices on a Blue Bordered Plate', there's the title... it's the type of playing I've wanted to see more of, and I'm psyched that Dan is doing it. There's actually a lot of heavy slide playing on this one, and it's great. The droning slide harmonics + slide improv is also something that needed a proper doing -- and here it is! Thumbs up I say...

There you go, tyler beat me to it. 'Watermelon Slices on a Blue Bordered Plate' is the new ILX track of the moment. I'm into it.

I'm into it. Need to a) grab it and listen to it properly and b) give it another listen or two, but yeah I am into the drone/harmonics pieces (the octatone!) and the lighter-hearted short numbers.

so ready for this

Bachman is my favorite of this loosely defined crew for some reason I can't really articulate, but it might have to do with seeing him live and feeling like we share some scene overlap with noize weirdos (as well as his sound and chops)

overlap with noize weirdos

tbf this is like 70% of these guys

Bachman's tape with Ian McColm from a ways back is a more ecstatic drone/improv/noise side of his playing, which gets trotted out in miniature on some of the new stuff. Very cool if you can track one down in my opinion, but I am a sucker for that kind of thing. I need to hear the new Tashi Dorji/Tyler Damon record too, all reports are that it is a burner.

I gotta say, in my little corner of the world way more people seem to be getting into Bachman with this record than the last couple. Lots of folks hopping on board with "this is incredible" kind of remarks, which is cool. Maybe there is even more of a level for this stuff to get to in re the general populace, but I had imagined we had hit peak "person with a guitar" albums getting much attention. We'll see ....

in other Tashi Dorji news, there's also an upcoming Dorji/Eyvind Kang split LP coming out on Unrock, Kang is a goddamn genius so I am gonna be a sucker and preorder.

saw kang with bill frisell earlier this year and though it was them doing movie theme songs primarily, he played some pretty astonishing things. beautiful sound.

Listening to Fahey today, haven't much in recent months.
But his is a deep well of American sadness that fits my mood too well.

i haven't been able to bring myself to listen to anything. today, i feel like he would make me cry (he already does, sometimes)

Here's one that reaches way down there for me,
Jack Rose - The World Has Let Me Down

hxxps://youtu.be/QXqAinxf0Rg

Went on another Jack Rose listening spree myself yesterday. Certainly hit the right tone for me.

Other right tone was side two of "On The Beach" and some Sade. Warm blanket time.

Finally shelled out for the Sarah Louise VDSQ thing. I'm looking forward to this. The two tracks that have been streaming on Bandcamp sound great.

Does Tashi Dorji fit into this whole thing? I thought of him as more of a free improv guy but I like him a lot. Saw him with Mette Rasmussen in the summer, which was fantastic.

definitely, i believe there's some discussion of him from way back at the reboot of the thread.

finally able to devote full attention to new daniel bachman- the addition of more space suits him well

Dorji is mentioned be Sleeve a bit above (not to be that guy, but yeah, like 8 posts up). I am firmly in the "he fits" category, but it depends on which release/setting you see him in. He definitely does more straight-ish acoustic and guitar soli moves here and there, but all filtered through his specific styles. I love his approach, and seeing him play live is a treat.

i agree- he also plays shows with sarah louise and other people in this style

Yeah, I was asking because I saw sleeve mention him. I think I did originally hear him via VDSQ, actually, so yeah. I picked up one of his ultra-limited cassettes at that gig, which is a treat.

fwiw I really love that Sarah Louise record, I think I talked about this upthread but her 12-string pieces are really something, very distinctive overtones and style

Re:Dorji imo one of this thread's strengths is generally saying yes instead of no to the does x fit? question

You know I was just wondering whether this thread would enjoy at least more on theme moments of Stara Rzeka, since I was just listening to that.

Ha, I did think of Fahey during certain passages when I first heard Cień chmury nad ukrytym polem, the ones that didn't sound like black metal, krautrock, or Sonic Youth.

Just found this LP for $5. It's interesting- kinda puts you in a trance. Obviously the instrumentation is unique (a lute), but there isn't a lot of melodic development or "chops". That seems to suggest that he isn't necessarily a master player on this, but he does seem to have very good taste and if you're a sucker for the sound of string instruments chiming hypnotically, it's nice!

https://jozefvanwissem.bandcamp.com/album/ex-patris

Sorry if that doesn't all sound quite glowing, only just assessing it myself at the moment.

i saw him live (was baked out of my gourd). i enjoyed it overall, but sometimes i could tell he was making mistakes and sometimes it got scary (again, was on over-the-top edible). would enjoy giving another spin. there's definitely a place for this in my little oeuvre

funny fact- he plays in a stoner metal-ish band with jim jarmusch. this was all at big ears festival!

Haha!! I remember that! <3

haha was wondering if you still check this thread!

also gave this a spin today- some really good cosmic moves. lots of chops. blackshaw meets basho? better than i thought it would be, maybe seemed like it came out when there was less attention to this stuff. read some of his interviews, dude is smart

https://www.discogs.com/TOMO-Butterfly-Dream-And-Other-Guitar-Works/release/6234656

Hm, I'm actually really enjoying the Van Wissern while making dinner.

Van Wissem, sorry

TOMO! so weird that i was just thinking of Tetragrammaton the other day and see that name here. so much stuff on Subvalent that i've never heard. the first Tetragrammaton album is WAY up there for me as far as 21st century releases go.

i got my new willie lane albums hand-delivered to my doorstep the other day. better get one quick! he only made 350.

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15267724_10155321487297137_5615390907237386102_n.jpg?oh=0383db37283239b52cae60794fceb831&oe=58FB43E7

can still get them here but probably not for long:

http://www.fusetronsound.com/label.php?whomart=LANE,WILLIE

Cool!

Oh man, thank you v much for the tip, have not been keeping up with anything lately. Willie's 3 solo albums are some of my all-time favs, ordered.

Diving back into the Gimmer Nicholson record. Really good to listen to on a rainy night in central Virginia.

Need to listen to more Willie too.

yeah listened to gimmer nicholson this morning. the guitar parts are really sparse when you pay attention to it. little of that octave/thumb-driven 'chicken pickin'

what's willie lane like? I'm unfamiliar, but it seems like every other person on facebook/instagram is posting about this new one ...

A little difficult to describe, but imagine a slightly more reigned-in MV mixed with the sort of wistful stoner stuff Scissor Tail releases. Both of those are really superficial comparisons--he really does his own thing--but that's as good as I can come up with. It's weird, there's also this very '60s' quality in his playing I can't really place, like I feel like he's spent a lot of time listening to, like, Clarence White and Dillard & Clark and things like that. But that's just a guess. He's pretty outside any 'idiom' or scene too which is refreshing

sounds worth checking out, thanks!

just got a note about this, which may be of interest (Coley sometimes needs to be taken w/ a grain of salt, haha, but I like him):

Feeding Tube Records presents the debut solo LP from guitarist Eric Arn (Crystalized Movements, Primordial Undermind, Outsideinside).

"Near the end of his days, John Fahey told me he was sick and tired of solo guitar records. . . . He seemed genuinely bored by most guitar players, especially those who were traveling in the shoes he'd first worn on his own early records. That said, I'm pretty sure he woulda loved Eric Arn's Orphic Resonance.
"Eric moves through vast style-fields with absolute surety. He can generate massive drone-throbs that would make even that old crank Fahey smile. He can play with sound-sheets in a way that moves even deeper into experimental realms. He can play acoustic fantasia sprawls that would have made Fahey swear. He can throat sing better than John ever did. Which makes for one hell of a dandy album."
--Byron Coley, 2016

Watch an excerpt of a live performance by Arn at the Fanø Free Folk Festival in Denmark on July 22, 2016, here: https://youtu.be/njBurrlq76E?t=12m6s

Stream album track "Pas d'une Hélice" here: https://soundcloud.com/eric-arn-sounds/pas-dune-helice-from-orphic-resonance-feeding-tube-2016

I love byron coley. not sure about the arn but I'll check it out when it's out. the van wissem is economical in a way I really appreciate, it's interesting that more people don't go for such a steady tick tock rhythm like that, mb says something about guitar vs lute etc.

a fellow here in mpls (nic garcia) does some throat singing along with his v hypnotic playing, it's a great effect. will check that out

playlist is updated.

Saw Xylouris White over the weekend and can draw a parallel between Jim White and our pal Nathan Bowles performance-wise -- they both have an unusual way of gazing intently into the audience. Musically they are both responsive and versatile, characteristics I admire in drummers.

Also caught Marisa Anderson and especially enjoyed her riff on The Demon Lover. She's great.

nic is great

xylouris white + marisa anderson is a total dream bill. both of their 2016 albums are favorites this year.