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

I've been messing around with a 'Soli' playlist. I've arrived at 49 songs. It's probably kinda safe; feel free to suggest/listen/ignore/hurl abuse if you want: Soli/Solo/Solitude

awesome thanks!

steve's album sounded really cool on first listen, I trust that its disappearance is auspicious

it is :)

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/01/23/william-tyler-new-age-windham-hill/

william tyler has written a nice little overview of this evil music

Nice! "Cosmic Pastoral" sounds a little cheesy to ever sincerely say but I could see myself saying "pastoral instrumental music" if I needed to refer to all this stuff in broader terms.

evil music! dunno, i think the most damning thing you could say about the windham hill thing is that it's "inconsequential." but maybe that's wrong, too. there's plenty of stuff on the label that i don't really need to hear, I'm sure, but some of it is definitely worth exploring

odd he doesn't mention George Cromarty who was on Winston's label and (imho) the most successful merger of Am Primitive and new agey vibez

cosmic is a bit of a stretch unless you are at popol vuh level guitar shit imo
if that is where we're at, point me in that direction

yeah ppl throw around cosmic a lot though maybe they mean in the gram parsons' "cosmic american music" vein?

Isasa (from Madrid) was one of the sleepers at 1000 Rose fest....his new thing sound pretty cool, droney am priv w/some euro/spanish influence, unique player

https://isasa.bandcamp.com/album/insilio?fbclid=IwAR3F3GoyZkhkKUPaS-HSoYYW1AGQAhP4gsJ8-uZkbXB-d0RZ2TDYpfFjQzM

yeah maybe
i never thought that music was esp cosmic either tbh :)

i like spanish influence!

cosmic is a dumb and meaningless word to apply to music anyway imo (except maybe Sun Ra, who gets a pass, being from Saturn and all). I mean, if the definition of "cosmic" music is music that sounds like it was produced by something not of this earth, then Autechre is a million times more cosmic than corny ass Gram Parsons. This is an adjective that needs to die

Cosmic post

lol

lol!

I always took cosmic music as trying to connect with and contemplate the depths of the universe, to aim for infinity. I'd say that's closer to the truth than any connection with farming

a maggot's inconsequential until it's in your apple! fahey insisted that george winston cld secretly play well but never aired the good stuff in public. I think that means they got drunk and had a good time.

big release day! William Tyler and Sarah Louise

new sarah louise is pretty bizarre! (but good, i think)

yeah it's def not a safe record, pretty gutsy to make it just at the point where she seemed to be on the verge of breaking to a little higher level but nuff respect

I think it is pretty clear that Sarah Louise is not looking to win the sweepstakes of instrumental acoustic guitar music. Showing up to 1000 Incarnations Festival and doing an improv set instead of trotting out her collection of excellent acoustic tunes was pretty much a sign of what was coming.

yeah in hindsight definitley, she's really pretty inspirational to me

Oh yeah she is cool and definitely going down whatever roads she wants. Stuff I have heard from this record is pretty wild.

is there singing? cuz I don't really like her singing (/sorry that is just how I feel)

Hey Sleeve, I have not heard the whole record so not sure how much her singing plays a part. I am pretty sure she does sing, but more as a layer / wordless piece as opposed to following on from her song-based vocal stuff. Still, I would need to hear the whole thing to confirm.

I am totally down with that, thanks!

and hey y'all thanks for digging what you heard up there, it's getting a vinyl treatment, we are inking stuff out

i did try to make it kosmic

I really like the instrumental music on what I've listened to from the Sarah Louise. Certainly not what I was expecting but digitally processed solo electric guitar improv is way up my alley. I got some weird Mike Oldfield vibes at one or two moments.

Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars def took a turn away from this thread here but it's still kinda familiar to me and my mid-late '00 love of all those Finnish artists like Kuupuu and Jan Anderzen of Kemialliset Ystävät or Tomutonttu. Also the drawn out vocal humming on top of drones and guitars reminds me a lot of Fursaxa, and I still love all that stuff. TBH all the New Weird musics brought me to american primitive and not the other way around! It's a good album.

hey Neal :)

Yeah I agree, there's kind of an interesting divide betweeen American primitive ppl that knew about it through folk/roots and then ppl that came to it like you did or for ppl like myself that came to it through namechecks from Thurston Moore etc

new tape by Will Csorba & Sandy Ewen

https://blueholerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/csorba-ewen?fbclid=IwAR1TtRdVK3xJpsC14PWF_ZT31gl5UloBm-0YYP0QeS8Tn3xwILP-JOteFvo

nice, i really like that fossil lickers record from last year ...

Hey UMS, hope you're doing well! And Steve too.

Glad to hear that Tyler! It's our first Blue Hole tape to go OOP :)

Working on a new website right now (hopefully) in time for the Padang Food Tigers tape in Feb.

Ah, Padang Food Tigers, nice! Will buy.

Sarah Louise was the artist I saw taking in the most other artists' sets at last year's Pickathon, including Kikagaku Moyo and Milo (the rapper from Milwaukee).

i thought that was cool.

She was exceedingly cool and gracious the one time I got to meet her

"Rime" sounded really good in the van tonight.

this was posted on another board i frequent, really enjoying it. that artist description is a real sweet spot:

we are a trio of keys, acoustic guitars, and violin playing half to fully improvised music, and if you're into john adams, steve reich, ravi shankar, robbie basho, james blackshaw, or just minimal/ambient/acoustic music in general, we think you'll like what we do

https://raqia.bandcamp.com

ooh this sounds nice, thanks for the heads up.
been digging this thing lately: https://flowerroomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/matt-lajoie-the-center-and-the-fringe
a loop-y situation, but done very well.

ha, was just coming to post this ^^

it is lovely

i need more Herbcraft in my life, i think

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2018/09/06/the-lagniappe-sessions-sarah-louise/

I quite like both of these very different covers.

seeing william tyler in NYC tonight with Ryan Sawyer opening... should i care about Sawyer?

Oh damn... what time is the show?

8. cheap tickets too!
https://lpr.com/lpr_events/william-tyler-february-26th-2019/

err should I go? It's so cold but that's a pretty lame reason isn't it.
Would be coming from just across the river

hope you made it! Tyler was funny and clever onstage and I'm entirely taken with his compositions. May have had an off set though, fingering was often a bit clumsy.

I did!

And yeah I did feel like he was a bit sloppy. Maybe nerves.

His compositions are very nice! He's great with melodies but I think his biggest weakness with composing is that almost all of his songs have a very simplistic structure more or less (play this part 4 times, now play this next part 4 times, repeat, then introduce new part x4, end with first part x4). So when he does them raw on acoustic the simplicity stands out even more imo.

Was super cool that Steve Gunn covered Chapman with him and the performance of Whole New Dude was fun and loose.
Mary Lattimore was at a table in the back laughing real hard with Tyler's gf about the Chapman stories they shared.

i agree with you on basically everything there, including the simplicity of the structure. but i dig, as he called them his "placid instrumental guitar tunes"

when i saw William a while back it was at a rustic lodge on a mountain lake in Oregon, with a gorgeous view of water and trees and sunset just outside the giant windows behind him. and he said something along the lines of how nice it was to play such a gig, especially when you spend so much of your life performing to chatty crowds in "dark rock clubs with Reverend Horton Heat stickers on the walls"

i thought that was the funniest thing. you couldn't pick a more perfect band for that line.

anyway ... y'all just jogged my memory.