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

"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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we'll all be "Crafties" soon enough

lol UMS, just get the "League Of Crafty Guitarists Live" LP and be done with it, that's all you need imo

I have some funny stories abt a friend of mine who did that program, I'll try to write them up

Slippery slope UMS, slippery slope .... go with Sleeve here.

Yes Sleeve, please do!

don't you have to literally like lock your guitar in a closet for 6 months to get some distance from all your sub-Frippian poor playing mechanics? then you can start down the path of enlightenment

ok ok...

this was way back when I was in my 20's, but Fripp was already doing the LCOG stuff and there is like a camp in West Virgina where people can go for like a 2-week program. my old high school friend went to one, he was already a pretty good guitar player.

first of all, everything had to be tuned in that Fripp tuning, I think it's equal temperament? there were a bunch of kinda mindfuck zen exercises that they were subjected to. one day, Fripp came in and said to the class "oh hey I booked you guys for a gig at a local bar tonight, you better work up a set." so they practiced all day long and kinda got something together. the class all goes over to the bar and sets up for their gig. it turns out that the entire audience, more or less, was composed of guitar school alumni who proceeded to loudly heckle and harass the class throughout their entire performance. I remember my friend saying "and Fripp himself threw a piece of ice at me! it hit my guitar!" basically it was a lesson in how to keep your composure onstage under pressure.

he drove all my friends crazy when he came back from the camp because he insisted on playing in the Fripp tuning at any casual jam session...

I know there was at least one other funny story but I can't remember it right now...

hahah omg that is so much better than i could have hoped for, please write your friend for more!!!!!

now i'm going to pretend like i'm not opening up a window to google "equal temperament tuning"

lol that is great. the first lesson of the League is ... public humiliation at the hands of King Fripp!

I think Fripp's tuning drops the low E to C or something and then tunes every subsequent string to the 5th (so the B string is not a fourth). Some shit like that.

Oh well, couldn't resist googling, and holy shit the Wikipedia page calls it the "New standard tuning". C2-G2-D3-A3-E4-G4

Did Fripp write that page himself, or is this part of the duties of joining the League?

I think Vice interviewed some past members that were able to escape.

http://www.guyguitars.com/eng/handbook/Tuning/tuning.html

fucking NATURE really fucked up, should have thought about how that was gonna affect this guitar tuning when you created the universe God!

This is not the fault of the guitar. It is not designed to play perfect intervals (except for octaves and unisons) in any position, or any key. It is designed to play the equal-tempered scale, and it is perfectly possible to adjust and intonate almost any well-made guitar so that it plays this scale pretty accurately. The problem with equal temperament, though, is that it is artificial, a mathematical construct, and it conflicts with the physical properties of real-world strings.

Real-world strings produce harmonics which are pure fractions of the speaking length of the string. The ancient Greeks and Chinese knew about the pure intervals, and constructed their musical scales around them. But Nature throws a spanner in the works by making the natural tone row irregular, so instruments tuned in this way cannot modulate to different key signatures without adding more intervals to the octave.

I think Robert Fripp throwing ice at me might be a top 10 life accomplishment tbh

hahahaha -- Fripp camp! His "From Good to Great" is one of the best motivational speeches (granted also one of the only) I have ever heard. So simple and funny and useful. I'm on step 3 now. I'd love for him to throw ice at me.

Nice to see someone rep for a Crandell album that isn't that first one that Tompkins Square reissued (which is great, of course). Oregon Hill is even better than In The Flower of our Youth imo, and way underrated. I'd say it's long overdue for a ressiue, but it can still be found super cheap. I snagged an autographed copy on Discogs for only $20.

Never really got into Crandell's comeback albums with the mbira though.

was talking to a friend who saw crandell in the not so distant past (00s, I think) and he said he was a bit of space cadet and couldn't really play anymore ... which is a bummer! But yeah, Flower and Oregon Hill are pretty amazing.

iirc he had some debilitating disease (or injury?) that rendered his fingers almost useless (which is why he switched to thumb piano). And space cadet I definitely believe

holy shit at elkington and salsburg's cover of reel around the fountain

(by the way, thanks guys! just listening to this album now and it sounds nice)

kinda connected - came across this a few weeks back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GUCqMEeaRY

for sure. marr has never shied away from speaking about his folk influences. it's not immediately apparent to those not really into the smiths, for obvious reasons

i'm on track 10 of elkington and salsburg's album, so i'll listen to that after this

elkington and salsburg's ambsace definitely sounds like just tasteful guitar superficially as ums said, but the real treat is listening to the beautiful singular notes ring on a nice pair of headphones. i strongly believe music like this needs to be heard on a nice pair of cans because the guitar production sounds so pristine. clean guitars that are mic'd really close are so nice to hear on headphones because it allows me to hear all the colours. the intertwining guitars are also a huge part for me. while there is no strong sense of melodies like you guys have said, there are almost contrapuntal melodies running through it which, again, sounds really nice when listening up close on headphones.

it's a beautiful album.

incidentally, i stopped playing piano and guitar six years ago but someone gifted me a keyboard this month. this album makes me want to play guitar again, though i always preferred the soft attack of a plucked nylon-string note, to the punchy ones on this album. i bought a nice condenser mic so, who knows, maybe i'll get back into writing and recording tunes again.

sorry to share my pain but 2 things #Jorma is probably the most underrated electric and acoustic classic guitar player ever and 2) this combo of a "classic" Ovation and a chorus pedal (or I suspect a Roland Chorus amp?) is just HORRID tone yikes

like just to contrast it with the elkington/salsburg album which is so gorgeous without verging into crap like that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLyPH4fLt-w

wow that is pretty awful

Ovations are the most evil guitars

my friend in elementary school had an ovation, seemed insanely cool to 10-year-old me.

that sound totally hasn't "aged" well.

it boggles my mind how people can be quite good at the guitar but allow themselves to have the worst tin-canny tone. it sounds like he is playing a plastic guitar.

i feel like the whole 80s acoustic guitar was mostly this sound though, with this being an extreme example

I have a soft spot for the 80s Windham Hill guitar sounds. So digital and pristine, but they still sound like guitars. It's like ECM-level clarity, unfortunately usually played by the kind of guys who don't really play with what I would consider a lot of character or style (Ackerman is one exception, I think). In 2015, I'll take sterile-sounding-with-minor-chorusy-effects over conspicuous and phony "field recording" fidelity any day!