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

Yep, exactly. The outro/coda is just an amazing touch. REALLY hope I get to see him live next year (and that tune in particular I would love to see in person). Maybe I will campaign with him directly!

little bit of pr blurb from thrill jockey:
Fleeting was recorded in a house on the banks of the Rancocas Creek in Mount Holly, New Jersey. Jones and his recording engineer Laura Baird made no attempts to soundproof their environment, instead incorporating the sounds of crickets and birds into the recordings.

Haven't posted one of these in a while, but gonna throw up a recent live set of my duo Grand Banks. Takes a bit to get going, but some actual guitar playing in there here and there (between the prepared guitar and more abstract passages). Pretty into this one though, but I am of course biased:

https://grand-banks.bandcamp.com/track/grand-bands-live-12-05-2015

Man, sure wish I could have that Glenn Jones record for Christmas i.e. right now. Would be very useful.

yeah that preview track is fantastic, pretty much perfect.

Yeah man, I like how it just jumps in with an upbeat tempo right away, no long intro or anything. Just an instant mood-enhancer.

totally.
saw joan shelley + nathan salsburg tape an etown radio show last night -- so good. can say without a doubt that their concert tomorrow will be the greatest gig ever played in my house. as i told davis, there's still time to book a flight out to colorado.

Hah hah, can you send the Aquarium Drunkard jet?

can you periscope it?

getting into this grand banks, like the twinkly sounds so far, is that prepared guitar or another instrument?

Oh cool man. Twinkly sounds at the beginning are a music box played into the pickups of my guitar.

can you periscope it?
i've never persicoped anything before ... you do it with ... a phone?
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130203191446/simpsons/images/d/d9/500px-abraham_simpson.png

yeah, i've only used it once when greg fox had a drum cam live from portugal or something and i'm pretty sure he used his phone. i used mine to tune in. when the streaming worked, it was really cool!

you can log in through a twitter account, i think it's actually pretty easy? honestly the whole idea of periscope kinda makes me sick because i always imagine the worst, but i couldn't pass up a drum cam from portugal at no extra charge to me.

How did it go?

Amazing! Great turnout, great sounds ... Think they actually made a pretty decent amount of money too. Both Joan & Nathan were super nice.

cool must've been so cool so them in such a small setting

this was the scene:
https://40.media.tumblr.com/64489ac3b3ae51c240e4bd21547ca214/tumblr_nzcsrweV0T1qzy30io1_1280.jpg

Oh man, that looks great! Good job man, glad that it went well all around.

yeah, even the kids behaved for the most part! that was the part that was stressing me out the most ... but even the ones who didn't want to sit still for it were mellow in the other room (until the music was over, then they went nuts).

mmm snacks

so many snacks

Hah hah, we had snacks at our Grand Banks show, it was certainly appreciated (ours did not look as good as yours do though!). A couple of kids too, but not as many as you had. It is always more stressful to put on a show than attend one, but very gratifying when it ends up going well.

here's a pic a friend sent of my dog attempting to get a belly rub from salsburg mid-show
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWJ-FHFUkAAaLNI.jpg

IKEA Expedit shelves are def in the hall of fame

most influential shelves of all time

Hah hah, that is great! Man, my dog would be doing the same thing, or just sitting and staring at Nathan with a look that says "I am here, right here. Still here ...."

yeah, hard to tell what's going through his head except "holy shit there are kids dropping food everywhere and how many of these people want to pet me?"

"Voice of the Golden Retriever"

what do people's end of year lists look like here?

steve gunn's new one was okay. as is joan shelley's.

hmmm... i mostly listened to things not released this year. as far as this 'genre'... nathan bowles? i think that was last fall though. dbh has a new one that is good. that abba gargando on sahelsounds is a keeper. daniel bachman "River" is quite good even if the first track kind of overshadows everything else on it.

this was probably my favorite non-2015 discovery though:

https://___.youtube.com/watch?v=_jxvBSxuLFU (fill in the www)

oops, should have posted this... that's a good one but this is probably a better intro, the first half of the first track on the album

https://xxx.youtube.com/watch?v=6o9TPEPssiM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitares_D%C3%A9rive

holy moly guitares derive sounds amazing, what a find!

this is like the lost platonic ideal of airy, pulsing layered guitar lines; a previously unknown ancestor for the likes of electric counterpoint & sung tongs era animal collective

looks like it might be a little tricky to get hold of but it's too lush to pass on

very nice, reminds me of some League Of Crafty Guitarists moments

o wow this is a reissue of a Shandar label LP, no wonder I love it

Definitely some League of Crafty Guitarists moods to this. A little more organic somehow, but yeah nice stuff.

The Salsburg/Elkington record is my #1 this year in this genre as far as 2015 releases go

Bachman, Elk / Salsburg and Tom Carter all got alot of play around here, but Joan Shelley is my #1 2015 pick

Joan might become that but I still haven't been able to pick it up yet! I'm never caught up with the years releases by the time the year is ending.

salsburg/elkington has been steadily rising in my estimation with every play -- at first it seemed almost too clean/polished, but now it just feels deep

Yeah I agree, at first it sounded like sterile computer-family-photo-slideshow music, but then it started to really get into my brain.

yeah just tons of little mindbending bits packed into each tune.
might have already mentioned it here, but this record is a great similarly styled duo guitar record
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rcrandell2

Seeing them live recently also helped!

Oh wow, thanks for the recommendation. Just by a few samples alone that has skyrocketed to the top of my want list.

yeah i really like it a lot ...

I can't figure out whether Joan Shelley looks similar to Joan Baez or if it's just a similar genre + identical first name thing?

agreed on the elkington/salsburg album, it sort of suffers at first because sometimes i feel like in these internet days and times records that don't have any strong hook or "narrative" tend to suffer, like what is it? two dudes that are good at guitar playing some tasteful guitar, but like the differences are in the melodies, the arrangements, the playing itself. those two are a bit like glenn jones to me like they seems to have mastered guitar to the point where they don't strain to show off but everything they do can seem completely effortless, completely within themselves, everything they want to do they can do without stressing about it

i always wish i could achieve that kind of mastery, who knows maybe i'm just projecting anyway

this is cool

https://www.mixcloud.com/dyingforbadmusic/dfbm-78-morning-raga-pt-vi/

digging this SRB mini-set

http://the-attic.net/video/1610/sir-richard-bishop-_-in-the-attic.html

haha also damn you sleeve this is a rabbit hole i have very specifically been trying to avoid going down for like 20 years

very nice, reminds me of some League Of Crafty Guitarists moments

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