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

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.

Omg, Sarah Louise CD arrived with the hand-drawn packaging and hand-written envelope. I didn't realise it was so twee. Beautiful!

VDSQ one or Field Guide? I think they both have CDr editions

VDSQ

Saw Rob Noyes last night at the small record release show at Blue Bag Records here in Cambridge. Glenn Jones played a set too. Both were fantastic and Rob's lp sounds great too—beautifully recorded and mastered.

I've not posted in this thread in a while but ryley walker's new album might be my favourite out of all his releases

Also not sure if they're relevant to this thread but since they were mentioned, chris forsyth's and heron oblivion's new ones are majestic

i really like that latest ryley walker, i think he's starting to sound like himself, if that makes sense

that's exactly what i was thinking

also marisa anderson, good lord. her guitar work is the most graceful, precise, and delicate i've heard in a long time

yeah she is a treasure

Unsure how long Willie Lane's new one has been up for streaming, but I came across it today while (still!) trying to track down a copy of the lp. Good stuff as always, I'm sure lots of folks here would dig...

https://willielane.bandcamp.com/

this is pretty good, though i really bristle at this new engineered scarcity of the vinyl world bullshit, as if willie lane better than, say marisa anderson albums you could go buy right now, there was some secret squirrel shit with this album i found really annoying like you had to be an "insider" to get it or w/e

if you were looking at my instagram or facebook timeline, you'd think Willie Lane was Bob Dylan
(but I'm glad to check it out on b-camp!)

i read he self-released/distributed it, may not have been intentional but yes overall that's annoying

well hey willie paid for those records himself and he's not online much so he's not exactly a marketing juggernaut. i told him he could have definitely made 500 instead of 350 but its not my money.

i like his stuff a lot and i own almost no solo guitar records. also, he's so good live. one of my fave people to see live. same with tony pasquarosa. i'm really glad they are both around here and that i get to see them play. also two of the nicest people i know.

Tony is indeed extremely nice!

plus, five bucks for a download, that seems fair. isn't that how most people listen to things?

willie lives up the road near the Quabbin. check out this picture my friend Dale took of that neck of the woods...

https://scontent.fbed1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15541679_10155388210002137_141942608503006473_n.jpg?oh=e6a8c0e3152086a02c4418b8f5b11c26&oe=58B8BDDC

Man, I know that would help fuel my own musical output