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

Monty Hall is making a name as a great venue for solid artists and cheap tickets but ya gotta take the PATH to get there.
The Ex have a show there soon too.

yeah that's insane, i just picked up the reissue of songs for the gentle man for $12 on clearance....
shit is so fancy it makes bryter layter sound like the stooges, gorgeous arrangements, such a pure voice

chapman is quite a character and man he still plays amazingly well

PATH is not THAT bad. The worst thing about it is that it can be pretty infrequent on the wrong day or time-of-day. However, not a problem for me in this case as I'll be driving from 5 minutes away in Hoboken.

She is classic! Wish I could go to that.

Some Gunn & Black Twigs to warm up for the show: http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/09/steve-gunn-the-black-twig-pickers-september-11-2015-hopscotch-music-festival-raleigh-nc-flacmp3streaming/

omg i am so psyched to see the ex

i lived in jersey city for a decade; i am super well acquainted with the path. i don't mind it when i have to.

and I am so jealous xp

I saw them at a small club about 8 years ago and they were awesome

Fugazi/The Ex/Shellac at the Congress Theatre in Chicago was one of the best shows I've seen

There are some really nice moments on this Gunn & Black Twigs live set. Some beautiful stuff.

yeah checking that out now ... "seasonal hire"! so good. these pickers should definitely be making an album a year or something.

[not that there isn't more than enough to keep up with all their various projects ... ]

Hah yeah, agreed. They don't all live in the same city any more, and most of them tour for chunks of the year (well, Nathan seems to be constantly on tour these days at least), so I think it if probably tough for them to get time to record.

On the "more than enough" front, Mike & Cara Gangloff have finished a record with a bunch of musicians (the only one I definitely know is Tatsuya Nakatani) they are calling The Great American Drone Orchestra I believe. Sounds pretty great to me based on the title/premise alone!

And yeah, "Seasonal Hire" was top notch.

nice, really liked that last Mike & Cara Gangloff record. Great American Drone Orchestra! Sounds ambitious.

Tashi on NPR, with link to pre-order the split LP with Marisa Anderson:

here

Looking forward to this record. Tashi tune is pretty great, tuneful in its own fractured way. Just love how he incorporates the incidentals/interjections so "musically" amidst the short cyclic melodies and themes. Quite a trick.

Doesn't sound like he has any preparations on the guitar for this one, is maybe just straight acoustic guitar.

Hey guys, hope it's okay to share some recent bits I recorded with the phone. Lately I've been honed in on exercising restraint. It's been more rewarding (fun) to slow down than it was to speed up in the first place.

https://soundcloud.com/raglore/october-01-2015

Please share, I like hearing what ppl are up to

Just got back from a wedding reception, Nathan Bowles and Michael Chapman both played in addition to some other bands, man Chapman is a force of nature

Man, this thread becoming the "wedding's to envy" location of choice. Nathan Bowles AND Michael Chapmen ehh? Damn!

haha, no kidding.

Neal, like that recording! Nice and moody, enjoying the restraint too.

also the Renderers? Psych band never heard of from NZ really good.....Pigeons, Matthew De Gennaro, band called Jantar

(this was mr soft abuse's party btw so that's why the all star lineup)

oh lookedd them up they were an old flying nun band!

and a great one, jealous!

yeah they were great live gonna track down some albums

has Richard Osborn come up in this thread? apparently an old student of Basho just releasing his 2nd album ever?

http://soundcloud.com/canvasmediapr/richard-osborn-night-sidewalks

yeah i checked that record out, need to listen more, but pretty good (and yeah, very basho-y).

friend just passed this one along -- sounds solid: https://voyager-golden-records.bandcamp.com/album/johnny-young-ii

Tashi Dorji solo set from Hopscotch now up. Love this dude:

http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/10/tashi-dorji-september-11-2015-hopscotch-music-festival-raleigh-nc-flacmp3streaming/

New Tom Carter on Three Lobed is excellent stuff! He has played some of this stuff live over the last few years, but it is an excellent representation of him firing on all cylinders (imo). Recorded at Black Dirt live w/ no overdubs, which is kind of scary. He must be triggering a lot of samples/loops in real time or something:

https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/long-time-underground

If you are into diving into a deep one, go with track 1, "August Is All", which is just a beautiful long piece that takes up a side of an LP. If you want a slightly shorter take on it one of my other favorites is "Into The Out Of", which goes from a lovely pretty straight guitar tune into a fuzzed out sonic meditation that is lovely and overloaded but not really harsh at all. Great stuff.

Wish I knew how he was getting that tone/sound to be honest.

yeah this record is pretty incredible

ooh that might take care of my Charalambides jones, I've been missing them

Yeah, not sure when/if another Charalambides record will surface, but definitely some of the magic from "Exile" on this. Hope they put another one out, but Tom is definitely free to keep putting out solo records this good too.

Fallen in love with the Salsburg/Elkington album, so fluid and easy with those two reminds me of the John Renbourne/Stefan Grossman album. Also that Smiths cover arrangement is gorgeous

Funny, I just saw them open for Steve Gunn yesterday! They were fantastic. Initially the brighter moments on the record felt too sterile, like it was just pretty background music to sync with a slideshow on your computer. Once that slight cynicism wore off I really fell in love with it (especially when leafing upstate or visiting parents house).

However, seeing them play it live puts it on another level. It's one of those times you really nerd out about proficiency. These guys are so perfect at the most insane guitar parts, so tight together, tunings that never match each other and change for each song yet they know each one so well they've created beautiful duets and even improvise if need be. I just don't understand how they can be so impeccable at guitar and NOT be pulling amazing new songs out of their ass every day; it'd be so easy and they'd consistently be miles above any of the songs I've conjured and lingered with for months or years. I hope I am someday as familiar with my own face as they are with their way around a guitar.

But yeah, the songs were lovely live! They were also very funny in between- Nathan read excerpts from a book of insults of the 1800s.

my pal tony a couple of weeks ago and then last night with one of his bands. a man of many moods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuT_Jh0DCKo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbSRtcsFfE0

Pasquarosa seems like an interesting guy. Need to check more of his albums out.

Glenn just mentioned to me that he just finished mastering his new album on Sunday. Released slated for March.

Yes! Great news.

oh hey check it out

http://grasstopsrecording.bandcamp.com/album/portrait-of-basho-as-a-young-dragoon?mc_cid=2b6505684d&mc_eid=87b77e7c5d

https://media.giphy.com/media/yWQNG57XtqasM/giphy.gif

I'm finding Matthew Mullane - VDSQ (vol.4) to be probably one of my all-time favorite solo instrumental records right now. I could listen to it over and over and over.

yeah it is great... only prob is that one side of my LP has a nasty defect! a huge vibe killing pop. vinyl, what is it good for?

I'm listening to it right now - for the first time in ages. It's fabulous.

I've got to pick up "Hut Variations" ASAP as well. I'd totally forgotten about it.

don't know what other thread to put this in. this be worth seeing? a little expensive for me but he's a legend

http://first-avenue.com/event/2015/12/richardthompson