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

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.

tyler just wrote about this new tompkins release...i fucking LOVE THIS

got a real vibed out lazy psych feel, but stately like george cromarty or some of alexander's more stately stuff mixed with....gary higgins or something? kind of offkilter in a cool way

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/03/18/kinloch-nelson-partly-on-time-recordings-1968-1970/?preview=true&_thumbnail_id=64029

also finally really spent some time with the new sarah louise and i really like it, you just have to let go of any expectations of what you thought a "sarah louise record" was supposed to be ....

yeah the kinloch is great, very stony/laid back, but some deep moments lurking in there too.

I thought of Gimmer Nicholson between the 20-30 second mark of that posted track.

yeah def the same vibe w/o the proto-loop pedal stuff gimmer did

also Kinloch Nelson def proto-2019 hipster dude swag, that hat is nice

Apparently dude is coming to play Rhizome in DC w/ Max Ochs:

http://www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2019/4/12/concert-kinloch-nelson-max-ochs

Which by the way I now so happen to spend most of my time in DC.

hi grandavis, I was thinking abt you the other day cuz I read this cool book on Charlottesville music history where you are briefly mentioned:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/rich-tarbell/regarding-charlottesville-music-an-oral-history/paperback/product-23797621.html

max ochs was....pretty rough at 1000 rose fest

Certainly lower stakes at Rhizome. A pleasant way to spend a night but I mean a lot of the time the music is really really great. Maybe Max and Kinloch will be on that night (assuming I can make it, which is not always the case ....)

And hey Sleeve! I have not read, or gotten a copy of, that book yet, but I may get one some day. I know a lot of the folks in it of course, and lived through chunks of it, but as I was not interviewed for it it has kind of been off of my radar. As my bandmate got interviewed I imagine he is the one who mentioned me, but who knows? I was at a lot of shows at a lot of places over the years, but more directly I have booked shows there on and off for many many years and played in bands etc., so who knows? Oddly enough you are the only person who has mentioned that I am in it hah hah. I had no idea!

I know this is not directly related to the "usual stuff" that makes its way here, but I love when Michael Morley (Dead C of course) floats out these completely zoned out minimal acoustic guitar albums:

https://thinwrist.bandcamp.com/album/heavens-idleness-awaits

I mean this is right up my alley for all kinds of reasons, but a lot of it is the endless cycling simplicity of it. A hard trick to pull off (i.e., that trick holding gravity throughout) but it completely works for me.

gd you were mentioned as the person "mostly" responsible for keeping the Pudhouse together :)

gonna bump this other thread if u wanna talk some more

This Week in Charlottesville, VA.

also I gotta check that Morley out!

Hah hah well yes for a stretch I very much was. My official term for much of that time was "the sucker on the lease." I have to get some work done but I will try to go pick that thread up later when I get a chance. Thanks for the heads up that I made it into the book, though there was an odd side of me that hoped I had someone been so under the radar that I didn't make it at all hah hah.

I love the Morley, but I mean I am a sucker for most of what he has done so I am a bit biased.

Hah hah, just realized that the title of the Morley song you can stream literally uses "gravity" in its title (a term I used to describe his music myself before realizing this). Man, guess I listen to a lot of Morley, it is ingrained.

this popped up on youtube for me...it's probably been posted before but I missed it...Rockapalast 78 Fahey performance he's in good form

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPKS_JCK6ok