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.
― ogmor, Friday, 2 December 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
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
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 3 December 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
playlist is updated.
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Monday, 5 December 2016 04:37 (seven years ago) link
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.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 5 December 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
nic is great
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 December 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
xylouris white + marisa anderson is a total dream bill. both of their 2016 albums are favorites this year.
― tylerw, Monday, 5 December 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
Omg, Sarah Louise CD arrived with the hand-drawn packaging and hand-written envelope. I didn't realise it was so twee. Beautiful!
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Monday, 5 December 2016 22:10 (seven years ago) link
VDSQ one or Field Guide? I think they both have CDr editions
― sleeve, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 01:32 (seven years ago) link
VDSQ
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 01:38 (seven years ago) link
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.
― nerve_pylon, Monday, 12 December 2016 01:18 (seven years ago) link
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
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 12 December 2016 03:05 (seven years ago) link
i really like that latest ryley walker, i think he's starting to sound like himself, if that makes sense
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 12 December 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link
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
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
yeah she is a treasure
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
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/
― Neal Cassady, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 04:49 (seven years ago) link
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
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:19 (seven years ago) link
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!)
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:22 (seven years ago) link
i read he self-released/distributed it, may not have been intentional but yes overall that's annoying
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:27 (seven years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link
Tony is indeed extremely nice!
― Evan, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
plus, five bucks for a download, that seems fair. isn't that how most people listen to things?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 17:00 (seven years ago) link
Man, I know that would help fuel my own musical output
― Evan, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
this is sounding cool. and $5 is indeed a generous price ... "Raga For Riding Mower" wins Best Song Title 2016 imo
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, it's hard to find but admittedly it's already two months out from his original blog post, with such a small edition and the ability to grab direct from him, it's not surprising that they have all found homes. I just recall Known Quantity showing up at more than a couple distros instead of this time around where it only seems to have been available at Fusetron. I've seen this kind of turn-around on tape labels a lot, where batches are only available for a week or two, but Cord-Art is almost on a whole other level and everyone seems to love his releases.
I found a live show of his from 2006 hosted by the Autonomous Battleship Collective I must have downloaded a long long time ago. All other links for it are dead, I'm gonna try to share it again. There isn't much solo Willie Lane material out there so it's always good to find more.
― Neal Cassady, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
guess that Rob Noyes LP sold out fast, too ... seems like maybe 1,000 is probably the right amount of copies to have pressed. there are 1,000 of us.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
eh i'm probably projecting a lot of my current gripes with the hobby of Record Collecting which I've never enjoyed less than in 2016 on to a guy who hell, might just have wanted to limit his potential losses...i do enjoy his playing
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:40 (seven years ago) link
i think his immediate goal was to make his money back and to have something to sell at shows. i don't know if anyone ever asks him if they can put out CD versions of his stuff. unlike a lot of guitar people, he's not prolific. that also makes people buy it faster.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
This looks really good
http://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/the-hired-hands-a-tribute-to-bruce-langhorne
― Wimmels, Thursday, 15 December 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
Shit, that's some lineup.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Thursday, 15 December 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, wow.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Thursday, 15 December 2016 23:36 (seven years ago) link
Nommed Sarah Louise for the eoy poll btw.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Friday, 16 December 2016 02:29 (seven years ago) link
thanks, I was going to and saw that somebody already had. let's go, team!
― sleeve, Friday, 16 December 2016 03:35 (seven years ago) link
I can't recall where I first heard this, but keep coming back to it and I think it vaguely fits here... it's by a guy called C. Diab, a denizen of some remote town on Vancouver Island. He describes his stuff as Cascadian guitar music and I'm not about to argue. It's all played on bowed guitar, and it's vast and magnificent. Sort of like Skelton, Scott Tuma, or the outer edges of yer man's Red Cross.
https://injazerorecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-perfect-wave-2
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, this is really pleasant in its spareness. Idk about "virtuosic instrumental technique", really, but an enjoyable listen.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
Loving it!
― Evan, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
It must be interesting to have such an intimate relationship with the general feeling of vast loneliness/calm, given where he lives and his experience producing music that conveys it so well. I wonder if it's ever overwhelming when you're so constantly surrounded by it in both of those ways.
― Evan, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
all the correct reference points are here, but I'm not 100% feeling this yet; some of it sounds like Effects Pedal Demonstration, one of my most hated genres. Guy seems worth further investigation, though
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
haha when i think of effects pedal demonstration i think of youtube demo videos with blues dads in em playing the worst possible music. also one of my most hated genres
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
I just mean guitarists with loop or 'freeze' pedals who overdub themselves in real time, just layering really simple parts until it's just a wash of drone. Some people are good at that sort of thing (Roy Montgomery, Jeff Parker, etc) but mostly when I see people doing this I wonder how there can be anyone left on Earth who's amazed / entertained by watching this process unfold.
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
This is clearly a bias I have, so don't mind me! Don't even get me started on extended technique, ha ha ha
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
That reminds me... did anyone else see that demonstration video Ryley did for Reverb? pretty entertaining, great sounding guitar too
hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcRvo8JrNTU
― Neal Cassady, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 21:09 (seven years ago) link
I like loopers if there are drums too.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 21:52 (seven years ago) link
I think loops can be good or bad! just like anything!
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:43 (seven years ago) link
must have mentioned him before but david daniell has done some v lush looping drones out to the horizon in open C type stuff, some bits on youtube
― ogmor, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:02 (seven years ago) link
Sometime Fred Frith collaborator* Janet Feder who I need to try harder to keep track of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYZMXfzACr0
*well they split an album together--not sure how much they've actually played together
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 22 December 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
If I'd got my shit together, I'd like to have written something substantial about this - the link between landscape and art, broadly, but more specifically about that sense of artists trying to perfect the alchemy of transmuting one substance into another (landscape into music/paint/language or whatever).
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Thursday, 22 December 2016 18:33 (seven years ago) link
Not exactly original, I know, but it's something I keep coming back to.
I'd read it!
In this particular case you don't need to have experience with that kind of environment to be so effectively transported there through the art. Or do you? Why or why not? I only enjoy art that transports me somewhere when I'm interacting with it. But I acknowledge that the places it brings me is only determined by my very specific accumulation of experiences, interests & perspective. If I go exactly where the artist is trying to take me does that reflect badly on the art for lacking a necessary level of depth and interpretation? Obviously overtly cultural music can't be faulted for this.
I've been thinking about starting a thread about the transportive nature of music and whether or not it's something I'm fixated on more than others.
― Evan, Thursday, 22 December 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
that janet feder thing is great, never heard of her but I really like her playing. going to investigate
it's interesting the difference between the landscape an artist lives in and the landscapes they are drawn to. all those fahey pieces about rivers, but he was decidedly suburban
― ogmor, Thursday, 22 December 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link