woah why did that happen?
― JacobSanders, Friday, 2 March 2012 06:18 (twelve years ago) link
lolvalstein at gmail is my email address
― JacobSanders, Friday, 2 March 2012 06:19 (twelve years ago) link
Ha OK great, thanks! I really appreciate it. I'll reach out to you tomorrow morning.
Thanks for all of the wonderful suggestions so far everyone.
― Evan, Friday, 2 March 2012 06:23 (twelve years ago) link
which, of all of these folk/guitar recommendations, are instrumental?
― nerve_pylon, Friday, 2 March 2012 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
Mountains - Sewnhttp://open.spotify.com/album/18pKOXGuNdWxc7T3mdd4jF
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Friday, 2 March 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
Rameses III - I Could Not Love You Morehttp://open.spotify.com/album/2cCL44jj1J9yIIBQ7rCsjr
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Friday, 2 March 2012 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
Damn I need to get spotify.
― Evan, Friday, 2 March 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
what about Sandy Bull?
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 2 March 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
most of the best basho records are split between vocal & instrumental stuff. suni mcgrath's records are all instrumental, sandy bull's are mostly instrumental (early ones are all instro), pretty sure cromarty & the lang brothers are all instro. kottke's 6 & 12 string guitar record is great too of course.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 2 March 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
not really folky or rural but i have been listening to this record a bit lately:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECov3VX2YTU
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 2 March 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
and steve gunn has some really great extended guitar jammage, electric & acoustic. some of his records have singing.
harry taussig's recently (2009? 2008?) reissued "fate is only once"is a great instrumental guitar record in the fahey style. kind of split between blues & ragtime influenced stuff and "more serious compositions" on the other side..
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 2 March 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
scott key's 'this forest & the sea' is like half instrumental & half sung... i like the sung stuff on it a lot tho.
http://byrds.tistory.com/378
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 2 March 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
i find it really easy to get lost inside the farm band's s/t double LP! it's kinda rural rock with dead-style psych excursions. definitely have moments where i become transfixed and like "wtf IS THIS?"
then i remember..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9htQS_j8r8
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 2 March 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
thanks ian! yep i love Sandy Bull; will investigate the others. really like that Occult Concert above. is it all like that?
― nerve_pylon, Friday, 2 March 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
Wow Ian, I figured you'd deliver! Will report back
― Evan, Friday, 2 March 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
Man Ian I've heard none of the music you recommended.
― JacobSanders, Friday, 2 March 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
NONE OF IT? not even sandy bull!?
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
I've heard a little Sandy Bull, would like to find that Farm Band, I've heard of it but not actually heard it.
― JacobSanders, Friday, 2 March 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
nerve pylon: yeah, that record is all like that. i think he has a few other records of guitar and maybe one of keyboards?? weird guy. the record is for meditation and weird occult stuff. kinda silly but fun.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
jacob, i found my farm band cheap in tennessee--they were based kinda between nashville & knoxville iirc, so if yer ever in that area..
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
idk maybe this is tangential to what yer looking for, also crossing over with the Takoma obscurities thread, but the Mike Auldridge records and the Tut Taylor records are great dobro, often with some neato avant-bluegrass backing.. maybe toooo rural and not dreamy enuff?
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LGt2N5L4JA
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 2 March 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QmEV02oE9I
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 2 March 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kQWrP7IWz8
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 2 March 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa2zQAjlugo
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 2 March 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
Dreamy isn't a requirement, I meant atmospheric in the sense that it creates one that is compatible with that scene I set. I mean cast king is pretty straight forward, but I like bittersweet, breezy, spare arrangements, and often old folk and blues records don't feel as spatial, they're almost pop compared to a track like "hot rail" by calexico as an extreme or a typical fahey number.
― Evan, Friday, 2 March 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
Paris Texas soundtrack by Ry Cooder - my favorite thing of his.
― fully formed adult banaka unit (sleeve), Friday, 2 March 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
LOVE that record.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 2 March 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
evan, are you a fan of Loren Mazzacane Connors? I rate much of his work very highly.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 2 March 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
I never listened! I'll give ry a try too. What do you think of early Utah Phillips?
― Evan, Saturday, 3 March 2012 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
I mean I know ry cooder I just wouldn't have thought of him in this situation
― Evan, Saturday, 3 March 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
Evan did you get my email and were you able to download any of the files?
― JacobSanders, Saturday, 3 March 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
I did get the email! But I am on a trip so I havent been able to open the files. Thanks again!
― Evan, Saturday, 3 March 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://e.imagehost.org/0826/Jim_O_rourke_Bad_timing-1997.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl-Dexcd-eQ
mood music caveat: one of the songs on that record has a kind of silly mariachi horns bit that changes the atmosphere up & if you forget it's going to happen it usually makes you giggle. Playing now, a fine Saturday AM record. no view to speak of here.
― Snop Snitchin, Saturday, 3 March 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oISucGq5dsk
― scott seward, Saturday, 3 March 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
Good call on Jim O'Rourke! I do really like that album but I haven't listened to it in at least 4 years...
― Evan, Saturday, 3 March 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
Ugh why is there no vinyl version of that Roy Montgomery??
― Evan, Saturday, 3 March 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
good call on V Astley scott
and I keep coming back to Music For Airports after almost 30 years.
other records I have gotten lost in for extended periods (more in the electronic/drone vein here):
David Jackman - Sol MaraGas - Koenigsforst and Pop albumsSpacemen 3 - DreamweaponZoviet France - Shouting At The GroundNurse With Wound - Soliloquy For LilithNocturnal Emissions - Spiritflesh
― fully formed adult banaka unit (sleeve), Saturday, 3 March 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
sensations fix - fragments of light (1974)tangerine dream - firestarter OST (1984)relatively clean riverst - s/t (1975)steve hillage - fish rising (1975)dom - edge of time (1972)ashra - correlations (1979)phil keaggy - the master and the musician (1978)linda perhacs - parallelograms (1970)emeralds - the overlook (2009)cocteau twins - victorialand (1986)mirroring (grouper/tiny vipers collab) - foreign body (2012)earthstar - atomkraft, nein danke (1981)
― Chris S, Saturday, 3 March 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
*rivers
― Chris S, Saturday, 3 March 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
robert ashley - private parts!!!!!!
― one dis leads to another (ian), Sunday, 4 March 2012 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
Once I get back home I have some catching up to do on all of this!
― Evan, Sunday, 4 March 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
the two recent albums by Earth
― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Monday, 5 March 2012 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
Of all those recently listed, I have Victorialand. I have to be in the right mood for that record.
― Evan, Monday, 5 March 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GpEr0yzof0
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 5 March 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
Eyvind Kang and the Neti Neti Band "Live Low to the Earth in the Iron Age" usually takes me there.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 5 March 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
But I am pretty sure that is only on cd.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 5 March 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
yeah (also maybe oop), but I agree that it is a towering achievement and a great record.
― fully formed adult banaka unit (sleeve), Monday, 5 March 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
I love some Bardo Pond, some is too post-rocky. I'll come around.
Ian, nobody will tell me, is El Capitan by Utah Phillips a good record??
― Evan, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not the hugest utah phillips fan. that one's on philo right? if yer into folk-revival with a western theme then go for it! those records certainly aren't bad things to listen to.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah it's on philo. There is a sealed copy I can grab for $15 but it's really hard to get a good sampling of the songs anywhere. I saw you had heard it.
― Evan, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
$15 seems high in my opinion. most things on phlo can be found in the $1-5 range with a little luck..
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
i just checked and i don't have a copy anymore, or else i'd sent it to you.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or7EZYAu0ms&feature=related
^^ classic cheapo philo records recording artist!
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
Ok, I'll pass on it then. The owner of my store gets a little overly hopeful about the potential cost of a record if he doesn't see thorough evidence that it isn't going to sell for the price he is dreaming of. He thinks he'll get $50 for the 12" folkways issue (1964) of Dust Bowl Ballads just because it went for that in 2008, despite some recent sales with only slightly less mint copies completing for 30.
― Evan, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
Thats a great song!
― Evan, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
mary mccaslin is the best. pretty sure it was skot who started a thread on her on ILM? or mentioned her on ilm.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link