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

the two-parter that opens side 2 is incredible -- probably his most gorgeous tune yet.

Freeform Freakout Foxy Podcast featuring Grass Tops records:

https://soundcloud.com/free-form-freakout/fffoxy-podcast-57-in-studio-session-with-kyle-fosburgh-christoph-bruhn-of-grass-tops-recording

got to play a show with Christoph Bruhn on Wednesday...he's amazing and Nic Garcia was on the bill as well

also on the bill was John Zuma Saint Pelvyn, who I was not aware of! Anyway, he's on the more deconstructed side of things (weirder Bishop stuff and Orcutt), but really cool....he has a theramin that he uses while he's playing guitar, he'll be playing, then stick his headstock close to the theramin to get it to squeal while he's playing....anyway easier to see than to explain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNqdHJ3IFjw

^ was a cool set

i think the DBH track was my favorite on IA7

and this new one is really great... scratching a certain itch i've had lately, been looking for some upbeat but wistful acoustic stuff. this is perfect

does DBH play nylon string guitars? can't quite tell i think so though

stop the presses, there is a Wilburn Burchette reissue!

http://www.discogs.com/Wilburn-Burchette-Opens-The-Seven-Gates-Of-Transcendental-Consciousness/release/6892895

afaik dbh started out on electric but yes mostly classical guitar now. he has a great ear, a composerly touch and is v good at lush & idiomatic arrangements of all sorts of source material on his beloved nylon-stringed guitar. if you're curious he has videos spread over a few youtube accounts playing a lot of popish stuff like blondie, hendrix, kate bush, whitney houston, reo speedwagon... this is one of them https://youtu.be/ZhvFg64_Gis

there's also a dbh tab book out there which was put together without his knowledge by some local superfan, no idea if it's available anywhere but it's v satisfying stuff to play

New Bachman streaming now on NPR's First Listen:
http://www.npr.org/2015/05/10/404239750/first-listen-daniel-bachman-river
(New O'Rourke on there too)

Whoa, REO Speedwagon. Also, an embarrassment of riches on NPR this week music-wise. Kind of crazy.

REO Speedwagon are playing a song with Imagine Dragons on some late night show lmao

New Bachman is good... I'm still not sold on the whole thing (haven't had the time to really let it sink in) but the first track is a stunner. Anybody else notice a little gain/clipping throughout? I know string buzz is a big part of his sound (which I dig) but the digital and vinyl both have it I think

Haven't checked the Bachman stream yet, but that would be a big bummer if there is clipping. I am fully into string buzzing though.

Now I'm craving an album consisting only of string buzzing and fingers moving across the fretboard.

pretty sure there's a Jandek album like that

(j/k, I love Jandek)

I sure love the early Six Organs where he hammers the hell out of those low strings and generates all kinds of string buzz. Large chunks of Tashi Dorji essentially sound like exercises in using string buzz and sliding and all kinds of incidental guitar sounds to create very successful pieces. It is supremely satisfying to me.

Nice track from the upcoming Andrew Weathers Ensemble record. This guy is pretty interesting to me, though I haven't heard a ton. Have generally liked everything I have checked out though.

https://andrewweathers.bandcamp.com/album/fuck-everybody-you-can-do-anything

cool... this was my bandcamp discovery of the week: https://ruvennunez.bandcamp.com/album/evening-prayer
long, meditative loop-y electric guitar things. i like it.

Nice, will check that out. Jamming the Bachman stream on NPR before it goes down right now. So good.

looks like i'm getting close on getting chuck johnson a show in st paul :) :) :)

Nice!

nice, would love it if he came out here, but not holding my breath...

this stuff is incredibly awesome. from what i can tell this guy generally plays in just intonation but this is an album on weissenborn with heavy improv elements + tape delay/heavy FX. i've been looking for music like this:

https://chrisrainier.bandcamp.com/

Oh man, that basically sounds like my shit right there! Thanks!

could've sworn someone posted that on the last thread... or somewhere... maybe markus from dying for bad music was talking about it. anyway, hadn't listened but it looks great!

ya i found it from marcus

ah ok, knew it looked familiar! dude has his ear to the ground...
wsa just checking out this forthcoming thing he has. don't think this will actually be the cover but lol.
https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/tueByzdAC4-CxncOAu27fiFeIZ4v79FcbKklvPodRt0OL2zTImKlpPeF7e4uRDVQx3p_tI9Hmf-2o4okmK6Sc56d6UYXxFXGFrbWZCgMHy6zId96oz39i0NSiUdeNxyIjmIFaIz0pNmfy1ndrJ93TA=s0-d-e1-ft#http://dyingforbadmusic.com/img/cmsimage.php/1024x800/81d8eac0584c1cde0c339fd097287bc3.jpg

Yeah man, Marcus rules. Have trouble keeping up, but try to check out what he is throwing as much as I can.

you doing another release with him, global?

not on this upcoming batch, maybe in the future! just taking my time right now to figure out what to do in coming up with new stuff and trying to let things happen naturally

some of the tracks/sounds on 'unblinking sun' were like three or four years old so i guess i like to let things germinate

That Chris Rainier is really nice. Thanks for posting it here, saw it before but just forgot to check it.

As far as letting things germinate, I have been making tracks out of recordings that are like 5-10 years old recently. It is one way to do things hah hah.

I'm sure lots of us here are follow Steve Lowenthal on Facebook, but if you don't or happened to miss this, it's a good one!

The Library of Congress asked me to write an essay about John Fahey's debut album. My biography on John, Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist, came out a year ago and I'm thankful for all the support it received. I imagine this will be the last time I post about it but if you haven't picked up a copy yet, the book is on shelves. And Fahey is on the shelf, part of the canon of great 20th Century American Music, where he belongs. My work here is done. You can read the essay for the LOC below.

http://www.loc.gov/programs/static/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/Fahey.pdf

nice!

4th week of new job starting today i've been out of touch with thread, gotta catch up

been messing around with an electric guitar....be curious how you guys think this sounds because i sold out to the dark arts of AMP MODELING PLUGINS :/

feels dirty but this stuff seems to have come a hell of a long way since the bad old days of those early Line6 Pods back in the 90s

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/in-miniature

new chuck johnson song!

http://adhoc.fm/post/chuck-johnson-deer-and-snake/

i can't remember if i posted marcus eads on here before, but his soundcloud is great

https://soundcloud.com/marcus_eads

live peter walker thing via third man. thank u jack white.
http://thirdmanstore.com/featured/peter-walker-live-at-third-man-records-12-vinyl
also, a quick report on 2015 thus far, guitar soli-wise: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/120049972917/guitar-soli-roundup-2015-so-far-its-been-an
so much good stuff!

nice! Third Man sponsored a William Tyler show here in Mpls I wasn't able to attend (it was a "mixer" for a literary/small book press conference) but that's cool if Jack can throw some of that weight behind the scene

got a VERY EXCITING SHOW I've organized in Minneapolis and I really couldn't be more excited about going to and also playing:

http://first-avenue.com/event/2015/07/metzger-johnson-PSHtrio

PAUL METZGER, CHUCK JOHNSON, and PALMER/SOWELL/HELGESON TRIO
Monday, July 6, 2015 at 7:30pm

me, global, and Matt Sowell are going to be doing a three-guitar improv set before Chuck and Paul

could not be more excited to see Chuck

(interestingly, in planning this he informed me he's only going to be playing electric!)

Wow UMS, heavy bill! Wish I could make that. Try to get someone there to tape it.

yeah if I get ambitious i might try to, but that would involve setting up my laptop etc at the venue

Finally got to see Tashi Dorji live last night, and it was A+ good. He moved through most of his "modes", beginning with a long electric-looped-gamelanish thing, switching to an acoustic nylon string afterwards and playing a really cool and wild passage (at which he retuned strings liberally while continuing to play and still made every note seem "intentional"), then finishing with a really beautiful and fairly simple harmonic-laden melodic come-down. Wonderful stuff, can't recommend seeing him live enough, once he got going it was really cool to see him work through stuff in real-time.

that's exciting i would love to see him

saw global last night we practiced for our improv/jam trio w/matt sowell from philly/mpls coming together pretty well

btw for Spotify folks, the RSD reissue of the first William Tyler album is up now

Nice, that show sounds so cool. You guys covering Molly Hatchet or Skynyrd?

was riffing on 'Dreams I'll Never See' in our DADGAD bit

Hah nice. Three guitars to rule them all.

Grand Banks is playing our first out of town gig in years in Blacksburg, Virginia, at the Farn House. If anyone knows folks in Blacksburg tell them to head out! Also playing a very cool show in Front Royal, Virginia, tomorrow at an outdoor spot with a swimming lake and a handmade wood-fired pizza oven. Definitely my speed these days. If for some reason any of you folks know someone in that neck of the woods that is into that kinda thing, hit me up.

aw man, good luck, wish I was there!

Thanks! Should be a cool couple of shows, hopefully.

hey all - this album isn't totally core ILX brigade stuff but the new Olivia Chaney album - The Longest River is out and boy is it gorgeous, like a new Sandy Denny, and plenty of really great fingerpicking on it

Nice man, will try to check that out.

Just wanna say that the Grand Banks shows were generally a total blast, though the Front Royal set was a rain soaked one and thus was cut a little short.

Really excited to say that in Blacksburg Nathan Bowles sat in for the whole set on banjo (and my buddy Adam Busch played with us as well). Was a very cool group improv with Nathan playing banjo throughout. Lots of extended techniques/moves (bowing, slide drones, scraping etc.) and a very good fit with what we get up to overall, total blast and pleasure to get to play with him. Wish I got to play with other folks more often.