Think Ogmor is right, looks like a large barrette, the cheap kind you can get at CVS etc.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
coupla good tashi things over on the FMA: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tashi_Dorji/
― tylerw, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
for the record here are my fave ilx-brigade kinda things of 2014. the usuals!
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band - Intensity GhostNathan Bowles - NansemondSteve Gunn - Way Out WeatherDaniel Bachman - Orange Co. SerenadeWilliam Tyler - Lost ColonyTashi Dorji - s/tDon Bikoff - Hallowed GroundMike & Cara Gangloff - Black Ribbon of Death, Silver Thread of LifeAlvarius B. / Sir Richard Bishop - If You Don’t Like It … Don’t! Bill Orcutt - VDSQSir Richard Bishop - VDSQAnthony Pasquarosa - VDSQRobbie Basho - Art of the Acoustic Steel String Guitar 12 & 6Smoke Dawson - Fiddle
more singer-songwriter-y things, but joan shelley (feat. nathan salsburg on some tracks) and ryley walker LPs are recommended too!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
shit i forgot about bikoff
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
also you might say me and global are slightly excited about playing this show
http://first-avenue.com/event/2015/01/americanprimitive
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
nice! yeah, if you ignore the bikoff cover art, it's a really nice record.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
that amy in quebec track is so close to wine&roses/red pony/approaching of the disco void its almost a cover
― ogmor, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
was watching some fahey live on youtube last night...here's an 81 gig, with apparently Michael Hedges opening (sorry folks no records available didn't get pressed in time)...Fahey is being really smarmy in his banter, the set itself verges from awkward to hypnotic, found his flopping down combover hair kind of distracting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP08Y3DsJvs
this is a 2000 set, he does a lot of dicking around/joking around at the beginning, but about the 7:40 mark on he gets going and it's actually pretty coolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5jXrutGt2U
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
We going the "https:..." route to skip embeds? Not that I don't love opening this thread to shots of Fahey at his weirdest ....
― grandavis, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
oops sorry
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
A leaner/meaner thread for 2015 I guess. I'll miss the Fahey gut though.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
Transmissions Fest footage is new to me, awesome. I wish more people openly talked about his later work without full on the talk of "well, I don't know about this, but look at what he used to do." The only thing that I can't fully grasp is the Hitomi material, some of it is played in that Transmissions Fest video. Kinda feel like it goes down easier when you get to watch him play like that, on record is another thing. There is another noodley electric gig on youtube that actually does have a lot of syncopation; and getting to hear old styles on an electric is pretty nice. There aren't many artists that went so far in the other direction, let alone an instance where you get to watch past material with a new technique. Defiantly would rather have had Fahey do all that then not. I dig The Mill Pond lots. It's not too different than some of the stuff that is out there today. Womblife gets so zonked in parts you can't help but grin.
― Neal Cassady, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link
Loving this Glenn Jones tune, "The Teething Necklace (For John Fahey)"xxx.youtube.com/watch?v=6qd7pWITPQQ
― Neal Cassady, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
Couple things I put together,
John Fahey's Adelphi Sessions, the Dance of Death outtakes. Uploaded as MP3's, posted on my blog:http://broadcastsfrompoorfarm.tumblr.com/post/105403178308/john-fahey-adelphi-sessions-the-dance-of-death
Scanned my copy of the mail order catalog from Fonotone Records, interesting curio. Includes the numerous early Fahey comps Joe Bussard curated for Fonotone.http://broadcastsfrompoorfarm.tumblr.com/post/105401770173/fonotone-records-mail-order-catalog-pdf-booklet
I finally put together some new lapstyle material and wanted to share it here. "Blue For al-Watawit of Yashkur" sits as is, in a sorta demo state. I didn't want to forget all the new ideas I've been having, yet also told myself I wouldn't record again until I bought a nice microphone. Of course, I got impatient, so here we are. Before they find a home somewhere, I do want to properly record them.http://raglore.com/album/blue-for-al-watawit-of-yashkur
Link for the MP3's are posted here,http://broadcastsfrompoorfarm.tumblr.com/post/105403934713/rag-lore-blue-for-al-watawit-of
― Neal Cassady, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 02:51 (nine years ago) link
Look forward to checking this stuff out
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 03:28 (nine years ago) link
Cool, thanks Neal! Actually already listened to your "Blue For al-Watawit of Yashkur" tracks (Mr. Avant Ghetto threw them up on twitter yesterday), really enjoyed them. First track sucked me right in, so yeah make a recording you are happy with and I am on board!
― grandavis, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
neal - or others - what microphones/mic pres do you guys use? this coming year i need to get serious about recording an album
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
like your new stuff neal
the only Tashi Dorji song on Spotify is a cool little curio, electronic remix featuring his guitar of a song by some psychey dude name Al Lover
http://open.spotify.com/track/2HxzI5VuTvgdbTGolZ7x7G
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
Thanks dudes, I have always just been using a portable digital Tascam recorder from B&H Photo that I bought a while back. It fits in your pocket so I've used it while out and walking around, but it's not a good choice for recording guitar at this point, I loved it at first bc of how much of an improvement it was over using the internal MacBook mic. I sold my two amps (+all other musical electronics) years ago during collage, which I regret now. As I would like to record traditionally with a mic and amp set up. Either using the sound hole or install a pick up. How about USB mics? Been talked about here before I think. Decent clarity from the models available now?
― Neal Cassady, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
I think the solution is to just meet someone in town with a set up :) - that way I can avoid all of this.
― Neal Cassady, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
I've posted things upthread recorded with the Blue Yeti (120 new but you can def find a ton of these used on ebay, got mine for 80 on craigslist)http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=857749&gclid=Cj0KEQiA8MSkBRCP5LaRlcOAusMBEiQAiqldkgFeoLzZuCr_Hg1GQ03TBk1qSggFdqEqo5fQpNn1jLgaAgF98P8HAQ&is=REG&Q=&A=details
you can hear the stuff i've done, which is minimally processed, a bit EQd and maybe compressed slighty with some audicity plugin reverb on it, but overall I'd say USB mics have come a long way
of course, I'm just plotting about how I want to get a USB DAC/Mic pre unit and a better XLR mic so I suppose one is always unsatisfied.
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
gonna check out yr new thing neal! i've dug the rag lore things i've heard so far. just got hipped to this thing via soft abuse's twitter -- maybe it was mentioned on the old thread? https://moonbros.bandcamp.com/album/frijolillo - kind of low-key/dreamy/fieldrecording-y/acoustic action. i like it!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
Neal there is also a USB model of the Blue Spark which is supposed to be great on acoustics
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 December 2014 00:48 (nine years ago) link
Nice yeah, I remember reading a while back about you UMS using the Blue Yeti for your material. If you search a phrase like 'USB mic acoustic guitar' on youtube the Blue Yeti seems to comes up the most, also something called the Snowball. Though, I think based on the sound samples the Yeti comes out on top. I'll look into that Blue Spark too.
No other time than now to get a project down. Should defiantly put together something. Stick it on a tape and send it to people, flinging around links is nerve racking sometimes though.
I used to work at the main public library of Virginia and was hired at the perfect moment where they were getting rid of all the old analog stereo equipment and vinyl records. It was a dream to hoard of that kind of stuff. I got a working reel to reel, but haven't yet grabbed any tape to use it. Would love to have it up and running.
― Neal Cassady, Thursday, 18 December 2014 03:31 (nine years ago) link
Reel to reel would sound great
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 December 2014 03:41 (nine years ago) link
Grandavis did you end up heading to the hometown Daniel Bachman gig in Fredericksburg? A full video of it was posted a few days ago - includes some of the new material that should be coming up on the Three Lobed Record.
vimeo.com/114599709
― Neal Cassady, Thursday, 18 December 2014 04:34 (nine years ago) link
Nah, I had to skip it as it was early in the day and I had too much to do. Watched the video already though! Wanna reiterate that I really like the new tunes that'll be on the next record. Bachman is chugging along into some sweet territory. The lap stuff is a real joy live too.
― grandavis, Thursday, 18 December 2014 13:03 (nine years ago) link
listening to that new Bachman right now, loving it, getting some sweet "Paris, Texas" vibes off of "Coming Home"
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Friday, 19 December 2014 01:07 (nine years ago) link
btw global is gonna be opening for bachman in mpls in the new year!
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 December 2014 02:59 (nine years ago) link
Very good shows happening in mpls these days, would love to catch that Metzger one (w/ Global and UMS) as well. Have fun with that.
― grandavis, Friday, 19 December 2014 13:25 (nine years ago) link
Pretty nice playlist here from John Mulvey (his Uncut series). Lots of stuff hit up in this thread, but throwing more kudos towards Neal's Rag Lore "Blue For al-Watawit of Yashkur" tracks. Cool to see folks from here getting out there and bringing it. Hope you get that record made this year UMS!
― grandavis, Friday, 19 December 2014 13:28 (nine years ago) link
my goal is to upgrade to a small basement studio, been scoping out gear and i think i get get a good setup going for less than $500
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 December 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
so easy to get obsessed w/researching gear/recording stuff but you also gotta remember that you won't ever make anything 1/2 as a good as a blind blake record that was recorded at less fidelity than the microphone on your iphone
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 December 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
i use my phone to record and i think it sounds pretty good!
― vigetable (La Lechera), Friday, 19 December 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
for a basement recording with a device not built intentionally to record music
― vigetable (La Lechera), Friday, 19 December 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
i am usually amazed by how good those iphone recordings come out. i mean, obviously not pro quality or anything... but good!
― tylerw, Friday, 19 December 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
fwiw I once again voice my preference for separate threads for making this music / listening to this music. I'd frequent both, but these threads get p unwieldy as it is without microphone reviews and stuff.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 19 December 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
merry christmas guys
"hello there, uh John Fahey here.."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrJQystmyl8
― Neal Cassady, Friday, 26 December 2014 04:04 (nine years ago) link
I thought "https" was supposed to block video embeds?
Oh well :/ still wishing well to everyone here anyway!
― Neal Cassady, Friday, 26 December 2014 04:07 (nine years ago) link
Alright, ventured into test threads.
Both "http" and "https" will embed viewable youtubes for me in Safari and Chrome.If I use "www" as well as no URL prefix at all, the video won't embed.
Though, if I head back to the old thread, "https" links are still the way they were: not embedded.That's all I've got, maybe this isn't the case for everyone else, but I'll leave out all http(s) going forward.
― Neal Cassady, Friday, 26 December 2014 05:09 (nine years ago) link
Always nice to spin the New Possibility during Xmas
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 December 2014 12:15 (nine years ago) link
this track here sounding awesome. wish records from these folks weren't so expensive to get shipped to the states... they're all so great!!
http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2013/12/10/black-dirt-oak-wayawanda-patent/
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 27 December 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
http://www.thefader.com/2014/05/01/another-country-folk-newcomer-myriam-gendron-sings-the-heartbroken-poetry-of-dorothy-parker
hey my wife came across this LP bc she's a massive dorothy parker fan and we mail-ordered it, it's music set to lyrics taken from parker's poetry. i think it would appeal to a lot of you guys.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
heh, i just sold that to somebody. i liked it, but found i wasn't returning to it very often.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
was listening to "the new possibility" last night and realized i don't really like it all that much. it seems very staid and unexciting compared to other fahey albums of the era. not the same heady mix of influences except in a few isolated passages. how to fahey fans rate those xmas albums anyway?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
i think it sounds like a good idea on paper but it's a bit flat overall. especially as he kept on doing more and more of them. i think definitely an attempt to get some crossover money from the windham hill/leo kottke 'hot tub music' crowd.
don't really need to listen to it when i've got the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
the crossover money must have worked for him, pretty sure every single fahey section in used record stores around town is stocked with multiple copies of those. i'm always hopeful when i start to rifle through and then i see a dozen xmas lps and one battered to shit copy of 'after the ball'...
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
The second Fahey christmas album is way better than the first because it sounds less like a christmas album and more like a proper Fahey album.
― austinato (Austin), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 00:37 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i do like that one better... ironically (?) that one is harder to find, i think it's OOP.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link
Speaking as a fan of Fahey and a fan of Christmas music, I don't listen to them much either - they sound too dry, austere to bring me much joy.
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 00:53 (nine years 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 (four 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 (three months ago) link
ohhhhh yeah. chaz is always pretty great — might be a little underrated.
― tylerw, Monday, 26 February 2024 22:25 (three months ago) link
wow that's great, healing
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 09:57 (three 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 (three 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 (three months ago) link
this Itasca record is beautiful, thanks for the recommendation
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 08:52 (two months 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 (one month ago) link
Sorry, *Drag* City News, not "Frag," since this ain't the Vietnam War.
― dow, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 22:33 (one month ago) link
this sounds really promising! thanks for posting
reminds me a bit of george cromarty
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 May 2024 16:55 (one month ago) link
tangentially related to the thread but pedal steel player Chas Smithwho is on that California Sigh record, just passed away a couple days ago.this is a good interview with him:https://www.fretboardjournal.com/features/steel-legend-chas-smith-remembered/
― bryan, Thursday, 16 May 2024 17:53 (one month ago) link
yeah he has a lovely 10" record I was listening to yesterday
https://coldbluemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-10-inch-series-from-cold-blue-cold-blue-music-daniel-lentz-peter-garland-chas-smith-michael-jon-fink-rick-cox-barney-childs-read-miller
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 16 May 2024 17:58 (one month ago) link
Thanks! Pedal steel is still such a minority niche, but at least we've got Dave Easley, Susan Alcorn, Greg Liesz, and records like this.More upcoming from Drag City
:SHACKLETON & SIX ORGANS ALIGNWhat might appear to be the most unlikely collaboration of 2024 proves also to be one of the most invigorating listens of the year! Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance are in full aural/metaphysical alignment on Jinxed by Being: a no-brainer fusion of Shackleton’s bass heavy cosmic dread and Six Organs’ ritual folksong, out June 28.Longtime listeners know that both Shackleton and Six Organs of Admittance have been unafraid to pursue their muse into any and all encroaching depth of darkness or outer boundary of potential dissonance. They also share that ol’ maverick psychedelic ritual transcendental music vibe, don’t they? And a fascination with repetition and cycles. And a mutual inspiration drawn from alternative tunings and literature… all this considered, it’s been basically inevitable that Ben Chasny and Sam Shackleton would work together. Jinxed by Being finds Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance delighting in this synthesis, reveling in unique sonic textures, esoteric deliveries, and new reinventions. Sam’s vocals — a rare occurrence — find melody with Ben’s on several tracks; elsewhere on the record, drum samples by Chasny (recorded in Six Organs’ embryonic stage) are re-sequenced anew by Shackleton.The first single, “Stages of Capitulation”, captures Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance’s timely meeting in a marvelously organic playground of world beats, with acid guitar and deep bass oozing throughout. As they chant an arcane ritual, a widescreen stereo image of their exotic environs expands into a mix alive with details, flashing from left to right and back again. Chasny’s music video provides a potent incense to burn through the track’s seven-minute runtime
What might appear to be the most unlikely collaboration of 2024 proves also to be one of the most invigorating listens of the year! Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance are in full aural/metaphysical alignment on Jinxed by Being: a no-brainer fusion of Shackleton’s bass heavy cosmic dread and Six Organs’ ritual folksong, out June 28.
Longtime listeners know that both Shackleton and Six Organs of Admittance have been unafraid to pursue their muse into any and all encroaching depth of darkness or outer boundary of potential dissonance. They also share that ol’ maverick psychedelic ritual transcendental music vibe, don’t they? And a fascination with repetition and cycles. And a mutual inspiration drawn from alternative tunings and literature… all this considered, it’s been basically inevitable that Ben Chasny and Sam Shackleton would work together. Jinxed by Being finds Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance delighting in this synthesis, reveling in unique sonic textures, esoteric deliveries, and new reinventions. Sam’s vocals — a rare occurrence — find melody with Ben’s on several tracks; elsewhere on the record, drum samples by Chasny (recorded in Six Organs’ embryonic stage) are re-sequenced anew by Shackleton.
The first single, “Stages of Capitulation”, captures Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance’s timely meeting in a marvelously organic playground of world beats, with acid guitar and deep bass oozing throughout. As they chant an arcane ritual, a widescreen stereo image of their exotic environs expands into a mix alive with details, flashing from left to right and back again. Chasny’s music video provides a potent incense to burn through the track’s seven-minute runtime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ERSbUwGWT4
Against the categorization of perceived genre rather than intention, encounters like Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance may never have found themselves sitting next to each other, beyond alphabets and other institutional organizing principles. Rearrange your libraries (vinyl and streaming, that is) on June 28, 2024 — or you might miss getting Jinxed by Being!
― dow, Saturday, 18 May 2024 01:09 (one month ago) link
I’m seeing Gwenifer Raymond tonight at Public Records in NYC! Saving the new Daniel Bachman record for my drive down the 101 next week, thanks everyone for the recommendations.
― toycrossbow, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 15:18 (two weeks ago) link
she's great live, have fun!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 15:20 (two weeks ago) link
Latest from Drag City
ITEM OF THE WEEKEND:ALASDAIR ROBERTS' PANGSDrag City's ITEM OF THE DAY program provides an amazing insider discount on a different Drag City release each day, exclusively for mail order customers! Every one of your favorite Drag City artists is eligible: it's up to our tireless selection committee, using a complex series of algorithms to pick a new one every 24 hours!Friday items hang around all weekend and this weekend's item is Alasdair Roberts' Pangs! Following the acoustic austerity of his self-titled 2015 release, Alasdair’s applied himself to electric guitar and band once again for his ninth album, Pangs. While similarly broad in range, Pangs brings different forms of song-craft and modes of collaboration again.
Drag City's ITEM OF THE DAY program provides an amazing insider discount on a different Drag City release each day, exclusively for mail order customers! Every one of your favorite Drag City artists is eligible: it's up to our tireless selection committee, using a complex series of algorithms to pick a new one every 24 hours!
Friday items hang around all weekend and this weekend's item is Alasdair Roberts' Pangs! Following the acoustic austerity of his self-titled 2015 release, Alasdair’s applied himself to electric guitar and band once again for his ninth album, Pangs. While similarly broad in range, Pangs brings different forms of song-craft and modes of collaboration again.
― dow, Saturday, 8 June 2024 20:45 (one week ago) link
Can also listen to some of it on bandcamp, along with tracks from his other DC releases:https://alasdairroberts.bandcamp.com/album/pangs
― dow, Saturday, 8 June 2024 20:52 (one week ago) link
Really enjoying the new Kevin Coleman album on Centripetal Force:https://kevincolemancf.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-conversations
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 16:14 (one week ago) link
Closing track on this is magnificent. Thanks for the heads-up.
Makes me weirdly think of East River Pipe (maybe I just mean 40 Miles).
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 16:39 (one week ago) link
damn, yes it is.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 19:07 (one week ago) link
Glad to point some people to it! I think it's a great record and, yeah, that closer is just amazing.
Not sure if this is the thread where we talk about Myriam Gendron, but her new album is also fantastic. Might be my favorite of hers yet. A few tracks with Jim White and Marissa Anderson, plus a Zoh Amba appearance that works really well!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 19:23 (one week ago) link
Kevin's playing is really great sounding, thanks for sharing. A long, long time ago I think had one of those moments you see someone and wonder what kind of music they'll be putting out in ten years, it's good to see it a reality! I'm pretty sure I used to see him around at a lot of shows in the Fredericksburg area.
― Neal Cassady, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 22:51 (one week ago) link
Was gonna put this on the Hipster Kisses (for long-lost ladies of thee canyon etc.), but might not be appropriate for this pilgrim lady:
On August 30, Drag City presents the first official reissue of Dorothy Carter’s 1976 debut album, her folk-music exegesis: Troubadour. It’s been 20 years since Dorothy’s passing — but thanks to last year’s reissue of her second album, Waillee Waillee (1978), and this edition of Troubadour, her music is surging forward ever more powerfully. Today’s announcement comes with a visualizer for the first single, “The King of Glory”, a hypnotic hymn hammered by Dorothy evoking western medieval music.In her lifetime, Dorothy Carter, a self-made traveling musician and folklorist, brought forth masterful evocations on hammered dulcimer and psaltery from a myriad of times and places. Following a childhood spent around New England, Dorothy Carter traveled abroad for her higher education and found herself in Mexico during the late 1950s, intent on becoming a nun at the Cuernavaca monastery. Instead, she fell in with a group of expats including David Demby, his soon-to-be-wife Constance Demby (her moment of New Age musical breakthrough still three decades hence), and aspiring artist and musician Bob Rutman. In the early ’70s, this bunch would together form Central Maine Power Company: a troupe of almost feral improvisers playing on a combination of self-made and found instruments, with live video feedback to boot, performing across the Northeast at planetariums and even MoMA.Dorothy had been playing music for decades by this point, but it wasn’t until 1976 that she’d record any of it. That year, she went to Cambridge’s Studio B with Rutman and friend Steve Baer at the console, with Constance and Sally Hilmer accompanying her. The performances captured there were released later that year as Troubadour: a record where, in addition to hammered dulcimer and psaltery, Dorothy played the flute and sang. She chose songs from all over: Appalachian folk tunes (“Shirt of Lace”), old and ancient psalms and hymns, Scottish, Irish, French and Israeli melodies (“The King Of Glory”), with a few of her own songs for good measure (“Masquerade”). They all flow together effortlessly under Dorothy and friends’ hands in a syncretic space that we can identify today as a garden of world musics — a highly energized, alternately meditative and proselytic recital whose vitality has only burgeoned in the decades since it appeared. As it should be: the music of Dorothy Carter is akin to a portal, linking her and us with the eternal.The mythos and arcana Dorothy Carter pursued in relative obscurity is now inspiring an audience larger than she ever knew — and now, a long-held family dream comes true with this reissue of Troubadour, out August 30, 2024. The vinyl edition reproduces the original album package, adding an insert adorned with additional photos of Dorothy and her collection of instruments, as well as notes from reissue producer Eric Demby exploring the era—his childhood—from a vantage point of some 50 years. After all: wherever his parents David and Constance took the family, there too was Dorothy, as she lived and breathed, playing her hammered dulcimer.Dorothy CarterDrag City: https://www.dragcity.com/artists/dorothy-carterBandcamp: https://dorothycarter.bandcamp.com/album/troubadourPre-order / Pre-save Troubadour: lnk.to/troubadourFor more information and press requests, please contact:Bailey Davis | Drag City - baileyd at dragcity.com
In her lifetime, Dorothy Carter, a self-made traveling musician and folklorist, brought forth masterful evocations on hammered dulcimer and psaltery from a myriad of times and places. Following a childhood spent around New England, Dorothy Carter traveled abroad for her higher education and found herself in Mexico during the late 1950s, intent on becoming a nun at the Cuernavaca monastery. Instead, she fell in with a group of expats including David Demby, his soon-to-be-wife Constance Demby (her moment of New Age musical breakthrough still three decades hence), and aspiring artist and musician Bob Rutman. In the early ’70s, this bunch would together form Central Maine Power Company: a troupe of almost feral improvisers playing on a combination of self-made and found instruments, with live video feedback to boot, performing across the Northeast at planetariums and even MoMA.
Dorothy had been playing music for decades by this point, but it wasn’t until 1976 that she’d record any of it. That year, she went to Cambridge’s Studio B with Rutman and friend Steve Baer at the console, with Constance and Sally Hilmer accompanying her. The performances captured there were released later that year as Troubadour: a record where, in addition to hammered dulcimer and psaltery, Dorothy played the flute and sang. She chose songs from all over: Appalachian folk tunes (“Shirt of Lace”), old and ancient psalms and hymns, Scottish, Irish, French and Israeli melodies (“The King Of Glory”), with a few of her own songs for good measure (“Masquerade”). They all flow together effortlessly under Dorothy and friends’ hands in a syncretic space that we can identify today as a garden of world musics — a highly energized, alternately meditative and proselytic recital whose vitality has only burgeoned in the decades since it appeared. As it should be: the music of Dorothy Carter is akin to a portal, linking her and us with the eternal.
The mythos and arcana Dorothy Carter pursued in relative obscurity is now inspiring an audience larger than she ever knew — and now, a long-held family dream comes true with this reissue of Troubadour, out August 30, 2024. The vinyl edition reproduces the original album package, adding an insert adorned with additional photos of Dorothy and her collection of instruments, as well as notes from reissue producer Eric Demby exploring the era—his childhood—from a vantage point of some 50 years. After all: wherever his parents David and Constance took the family, there too was Dorothy, as she lived and breathed, playing her hammered dulcimer.Dorothy Carter
Drag City: https://www.dragcity.com/artists/dorothy-carter
Bandcamp: https://dorothycarter.bandcamp.com/album/troubadour
Pre-order / Pre-save Troubadour: lnk.to/troubadour
For more information and press requests, please contact:
Bailey Davis | Drag City - baileyd at dragcity.com
― dow, Thursday, 13 June 2024 19:20 (five days ago) link