This is a mate's new album. Broadly belongs in here, I think. At a conceptual level, it makes me think of Eddie Hazel; sonically, it's more Dean McPhee or Dylan Carlson. Great stuff.
https://suborno.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-eyes-of-eternity
It was all improvised on the day, with this setup.
https://i.imgur.com/7Ev1Y07.jpg
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 8 December 2023 19:19 (five months ago) link
i really dig that!
bachman and now elkington getting prominently reviewed in pitchfork
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/james-elkington-me-neither/
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 December 2023 19:35 (five months ago) link
excited to hear what jim elkington is up to!
(severely overlooked figure imo — right on that pfork is giving him good marks. they were complete dicks to him in the zincs era)
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Saturday, 9 December 2023 01:14 (five months ago) link
the daniel bachman record is good
― budo jeru, Saturday, 9 December 2023 01:48 (five months ago) link
it really is, I need to buy/DL it so I can listen without microgaps between the tracks, it's basically all one flowing thing
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 9 December 2023 01:49 (five months ago) link
cannot believe it's been over 10 years since I saw him do an instore show for Seven Pines, fuck I'm old/how time flies/etc
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 9 December 2023 01:51 (five months ago) link
is it more of the unpleasant noise thing he’s been doing? that last record was just not good listening
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 17 December 2023 20:52 (four months ago) link
Well, I liked that last record so maybe I am not the best person to ask, but in my mind the new Bachman is quite a bit more traditionally "listenable" than the last one. It uses similar methods regarding how the tracks are compiled/arranged but with I think a softer edge to the sound overall. I would give it a try if you care about his playing overall but it is certainly not a return to his straightforward guitar stuff. There are melodic passages though, and layers of him "playing" on it.
― grandavis, Sunday, 17 December 2023 21:08 (four months ago) link
I enjoy his newer stuff but I guess I do have some mixed feelings because I felt like he was uniquely talented at fingerstyle stuff and while I think he is doing some creative stuff I don't know if he's as exceptional at that as he was as a playerbut he's gotta do what he wants to do and I can understand how maybe am priv starts to feel repetitive after awhile (I myself am not really playing anymore for similar reasons)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 17 December 2023 21:16 (four months ago) link
I mean he certainly could return to it at any point, he put this out early last year:
https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/lonesome-weary-blues
In my opinion his latest record succeeds at what it is doing very well, but I mean it is all relative. I just admire his ability to tie "place" and history and topical ideas into instrumental music in deeply personal ways. Maybe some people do one particular side of it better or are more accomplished at the technical aspects, but I find it really impressive how much he puts into this current one.
― grandavis, Sunday, 17 December 2023 21:40 (four months ago) link
I took a little skip through the new one, it seems more my cup of tea— when last year's record came out and I read a description, i was hoping it would feel like the Sacred Harp stuff, but unlike the latter, I couldn't just have it come on in the car and want to enter into it...new one seems more promising.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 18 December 2023 22:26 (four months ago) link
this seems relevant;https://n-t-s.bandcamp.com/album/european-primitive-guitar-1974-1987
― dead precedents (sleeve), Saturday, 27 January 2024 05:22 (three months ago) link
oh wow that looks interesting
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 27 January 2024 14:32 (three months ago) link
crossposting from the ambient thread, this is a 90-minute (!) tape of Arvo Part pieces transcribed for solo guitar, I find it bewitching
https://cosimapitz.bandcamp.com/album/wherever-i-go
― dead precedents (sleeve), Thursday, 1 February 2024 00:30 (three months ago) link
Latest Lake Mary is flat-out gorgeous: https://lakemary.bandcamp.com/album/its-okay-you-can-open-your-eyes-now
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Monday, 26 February 2024 21:36 (two months ago) link
ohhhhh yeah. chaz is always pretty great — might be a little underrated.
― tylerw, Monday, 26 February 2024 22:25 (two months ago) link
wow that's great, healing
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 09:57 (two months ago) link
Seems to be the only thread in which Kayla Cohen has been mentioned before, so I'll throw it here - the new Itasca album is absolutely gorgeous, I love it.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:52 (two months ago) link
yes! one of the best of the year
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 March 2024 18:15 (two months ago) link
this Itasca record is beautiful, thanks for the recommendation
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 08:52 (one month ago) link
from Frag City News--adjust your shades accordingly:
Lee Underwood’s syncretic blend of jazz, folk, and blues was a tremendous force behind Tim Buckley’s genre-stretching late 60s/early 70s music — but his 1988 acoustic guitar opus, California Sigh, has remained a unsung footnote to his story. Until now! On June 28, Drag City is excited to present California Sigh, fully remastered for vinyl and digital platforms. With today’s announcement is the title track, “California Sigh”.Lee Underwood is usually mentioned first as Tim Buckley’s stalwart and lead guitarist — inspiring, accompanying and being inspired by Buckley through the late 60s and early 70s — as well as the author of Blue Melody: Tim Buckley Remembered. If, like us, you ever wondered what became of that trippy picker from those Buckley records, then you too missed California Sigh when it first appeared in 1988: a self-released meditative cassette and a tranquil acoustic journey that was almost too ahead of its time. In the late 80s, Lee found himself increasingly interested in the psycho-spiritual, reading the works of Osho and Alan Watts and listening to New Age greats like Paul Winter, Steve Roach, and Brian Eno. California Sigh reflects these curiosities, along with the musical joys Underwood found surrounded in nature with the love of his life, Sonia Crespi. The two took frequent trips to the Southern Colorado mountains, enveloped in a soundscape of trickling streams, coyotes howling in the night, and the silence of stars — inspiring the serene pool of field recordings sprawling across California Sigh.The lead single and title track, “California Sigh”, blows straight from those Southern Rockies. Strumming a cleansing spiritual path through a swirling gust of wind, Lee deploys crystalline figuration in a synth-swept landscape, ebbing and flowing with bold flourishes and picked harmonics as the song stirs. “California Sigh” reveals Lee’s free-floating acoustic moods, with synths from ambient avatar Steve Roach, as a soulful work of tranquility and transcendence.California Sigh was co-produced by Lee Underwood and the aforementioned Steve Roach, a trailblazer in the New Age realm. The playing of Chas Smith and Kevin Braheny Fortune, on pedal steel and soprano sax respectively, lend additional colors to Lee’s music on several songs, but it is largely the soulful depth of Lee’s guitar figures, limned by Steve’s synthesizers, that elevate Lee’s lovely cycle of songs. California Sigh is “dedicated with love and respect” by Lee to his late wife, Sonia, whose warmth and inspiration shines through all the material.Now, 35 years later, the air around the instruments and the full sonic impact of California Sigh — alternately gentle and mighty, like the natural world that inspired it — is magnified incomparably. Train your ears on the meditations of California Sigh come June 28, 2024!Listen to title Track "California Sigh" https://lnk.to/californiasigh Lee UnderwoodDrag City: https://www.dragcity.com/artists/lee-underwoodBandcamp: https://leeunderwood.bandcamp.com/album/california-sighPre-order / Pre-save California Sigh: lnk.to/californiasighFor more information and interview requests, please contact:bailey at dragcity dot com
The lead single and title track, “California Sigh”, blows straight from those Southern Rockies. Strumming a cleansing spiritual path through a swirling gust of wind, Lee deploys crystalline figuration in a synth-swept landscape, ebbing and flowing with bold flourishes and picked harmonics as the song stirs. “California Sigh” reveals Lee’s free-floating acoustic moods, with synths from ambient avatar Steve Roach, as a soulful work of tranquility and transcendence.
California Sigh was co-produced by Lee Underwood and the aforementioned Steve Roach, a trailblazer in the New Age realm. The playing of Chas Smith and Kevin Braheny Fortune, on pedal steel and soprano sax respectively, lend additional colors to Lee’s music on several songs, but it is largely the soulful depth of Lee’s guitar figures, limned by Steve’s synthesizers, that elevate Lee’s lovely cycle of songs. California Sigh is “dedicated with love and respect” by Lee to his late wife, Sonia, whose warmth and inspiration shines through all the material.
Now, 35 years later, the air around the instruments and the full sonic impact of California Sigh — alternately gentle and mighty, like the natural world that inspired it — is magnified incomparably. Train your ears on the meditations of California Sigh come June 28, 2024!Listen to title Track "California Sigh" https://lnk.to/californiasigh Lee Underwood
Drag City: https://www.dragcity.com/artists/lee-underwood
Bandcamp: https://leeunderwood.bandcamp.com/album/california-sigh
Pre-order / Pre-save California Sigh: lnk.to/californiasighFor more information and interview requests, please contact:
bailey at dragcity dot com
― dow, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 22:32 (yesterday) link
Sorry, *Drag* City News, not "Frag," since this ain't the Vietnam War.
― dow, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 22:33 (yesterday) link