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

Happy almost birthday!

xp well, i'm also really lazy

thx!

you're not lazy, you have a kid! you're exhausted. i don't have kids. i am finding that i need to explain this to people more frequently because that is a major expenditure of time and energy most people my age have that i don't. and hb!

ha, yeah, the kid thing does make it challenging. i'm trying to get my band rolling again and two of us have kids, and we are both wiped by the time we actually get it together.

have a tentative little tour planned here... if anyone reading this has any insight on these towns feel free (please!) message me on here. DIY venues or bookstores or record shops even... not too picky and am open-minded

(all dates in April)
Iowa City- 8th
Chicago- 9th
Columbus- 10th
Lynchburg- 11th
Chapel Hill- 12th
Greenville- 13th
Asheville- 14th
Knoxville- 15th
Louisville- 16th
Minneapolis- 17th

new solar motel!!! :)

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/17922-chris-forsyth-and-the-solar-motel-band-high-castle-rock/

digging it -- this one is one of the more familiar rave-ups on the album, but there are a few very cool stylistic curveballs too.

buncha cian nugent tourdates:
3/07 – Allston, MA – Great Scott*
3/08 – Hudson, NY – The Half Moon*
3/09 – Brooklyn, NY – Union Pool*
3/10 – Philadelphia, PA – Boot & Saddle*
3/11 – Washington, DC – DC9*
3/12 – Durham, NC – The Pinhook*
3/13 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl*
3/16-18 – Austin, TX – SXSW
3/20 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar*
3/21 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo*
3/22 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom Of The Hill*
3/24 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios*
3/25 – Seattle, WA – Barboza*
3/26 – Vancouver, BC – Media Club*
3/28 – Calgary, AB – Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club*
3/29 – Edmonton, AB – Brixx Bar & Grill*
3/30 – Saskatoon, SK – Amigo’s Cantina*
4/01 – Winnipeg, MB – The Good Will Social Club*
4/02 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th St. Entry*
4/03 – Chicago, IL – The Empty Bottle*
4/04 – Bloomington, IN – The Bishop*
4/05 – Lakewood, OH – Mahall’s*
4/07 – Toronto, ON – The Garrison*
4/08 – Montreal, QC – Casa Del Popolo*

* = w/Nap Eyes

digging the track and the artwork

yay cian isn't skipping mpls!

dunno if he'll have a band or what, but his new one is so good! he really makes the tricky transition to more straight-ahead singer-songwriter look like a breeze.

Hope he brings the drummer from Born w the Caul!

that's the drummer on the new record, i believe. he is great!

3/22 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom Of The Hill*
3/24 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios*

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guess I should bug some booking friends

new Chuck Johnson (electric) album in February

http://adhoc.fm/post/chuck-johnson-treads-darker-territory-i-stand-coun/
http://www.troubleinmindrecs.com/chuck-johnson-velvet-arc-lp/

ladies and gents, I know present you with a band apparently made specifically for this thread....

https://www.subpop.com/news/2015/10/06/sub_pop_signs_heron_oblivion_to_worldwide_deal_debut_lp_coming_in_2016

The San Francisco based group, featuring Meg Baird (Espers), Noel Von Harmonson (Comets on Fire, Six Organs of Admittance, Sic Alps, The Lowdown), Ethan Miller (Comets on Fire, Howlin’ Rain, Feral Ohms), and Charlie Saufley (Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound), will release their label debut worldwide in the spring of 2016.

.....
Ultimately, Heron Oblivion fused song craft to its improvisational leanings. What materialized is a mesmeric compilation of English folk rock and earthy West Coast psychedelia spiked with feedback and explosive dissonant elements. The sum of these elements will make up their Sub Pop debut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UzE97Xdz5c

yeah been looking forward to this! when i sent my brother one of their tunes last year he said: "THIS IS THE EXACT BAND I WANT."

haha i know it's almost hilarious:

esmeric compilation of English folk rock and earthy West Coast psychedelia spiked with feedback and explosive dissonant elements.

is basically mission statement

i loved espers, but sometimes wished they'd loosen up and rock out a bit more. and this is that, it seems.

I knew this would happen if we waited long enough. They're going to need opening local bands when they inevitably schedule their tour...

Lol @ "need", other way around more like, haha

just a few dates coming up, would love to see 'em

SUN, Feb 7 Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR (Sabertooth Music Festival!)
THU, Mar 3 Starline Social Club, Oakland, CA
SAT, Mar 5 Resident, Los Angeles, CA (w/Morgan Delt)
SUN, Mar 6 Til Two, San Diego, CA
FRI, Mar 11 Marfa Myths Festival , Marfa, TX Tickets
FRI, Apr 29 Carson Creek Ranch , Austin, TX (Levitation Fest!)
SAT, Apr 30 Carson Creek Ranch , Austin, TX (Levitation Fest!)
SUN, May 1 Carson Creek Ranch , Austin, TX (Levitation Fest!)

Ha! I was gonna say if they're not already bumping around on the festival circuit! I feel so demographically targeted :-/

mesmeric compilation of English folk rock and earthy West Coast psychedelia spiked with feedback and explosive dissonant elements.

bleeurgh

carry on

haha

heh heh.
did we know about this? new to me: http://lightintheattic.net/releases/2218-christopher-idylls
samples are gorgeous - kinda like big star on wyndham hill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT6ZwtLMmM0&list=PLJXxdfjsMlG1uJVHnOLW9s9FnAWuKwBfl&index=1

This is gorgeous, thanks for the heads up. Gotta pick this one up immediately.

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/01/22/michael-chapman-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/

yeah, nice interview! chapman seems like he'd be a good guy to hang out with at the bar...
maybe i mentioned it before, but that last tompkins sq. LP of his, Fish, is really nice (as is his contribution to the 3 Lobed parallelogram thang).

& let me reiterate -- everyone should check out that gimmer nicholson LP posted above: http://lightintheattic.net/releases/2218-christopher-idylls
kind of unbelievable!

Listened to the whole thing yesterday. Loving it.

Did you get the Big Star connection partly because: "Album cover by William Eggleston (Big Star, Alex Chilton, Spoon, Silver Jews)"?

yeah, and it was recorded by Terry Manning at Ardent Studios -- definitely an explicit connection to Big Star there. liners say that at least chris bell was familiar w/ it.

Yeah, it's definitely of the same universe with regards to the general vibe and atmosphere.

yeah, nice interview! chapman seems like he'd be a good guy to hang out with at the bar...

― tylerw, Friday, January 22, 2016 11:54 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i did get to kick it w/him at a bar for about 1/2 hour and he's about as down to earth as it gets

http://hilobrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/MichaelChapman-HiLo.jpg
ha, i guess the answer is YES

Mmmm, this Gimmer Nicholson thing is sounding really nice...

Gimmer is a cool name, and yeah that is super nice.

So the photos in this Basho e-book on Grass-Tops are nice and all but Richard Osborn's notes are kinda bullshit. I feel like Osborn trivializes Fahey's accomplishments, calling him "more of a stylist" than an innovator. He also accuses him of "stay(ing) between the fences of double-thumbing," moans that he "constantly references old blues musicians" and that Fahey "operated within Western folk and blues traditions, and most obviously the 4/4 rhythms of double thumbing fingerpicking and typical song chord changes which greatly limit melodic development." Huh?

I mean, of course, some of that is true, especially if you've only heard one or two Fahey records, but seems to me this guy should know better.

Also, it's not like you have to choose between them. I know the personal (and professional?) relationship between Fahey and Basho was uneasy, but they weren't adversaries; it's not an either / or proposition, especially given how completely different they are as composers / players.

Basho came off like the most pretentious, phony dingus in Dance of Death. Love guys music though

Also that's really dismissive of folk and blues and kinda pisses me off (the quote from the essay not Basho)

it's also implying that 'melodic development' is necessary to quality music somehow

richard osborn! I haven't read the notes and didn't know he'd put out an album in november but he put some great stuff up on youtube a few years ago. a more practical investigation of fahey's style. I recognise this is a pretty niche interest bit of music but I loved it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLDsyRfIH0A

in the description there he calls fahey the 'masterful old paranoid' which sounds about right

the double thumbing fahey is always going to loom largest and there is something restrictive in it, I'd say some of JF's best stuff is his most formally restricted and minimal tho cf dry bones in the valley or similar

i also love the way fahey deploys more cliche blues turnarounds etc., I guess you could call it smug almost (or ironic if you really don't get it) the way he slips them in with a wink, but he treats his own material in just the same way, it's the way he plays, it's organic. the way he can subtly reset something, even just through right hand timing is just gorgeous, using old material to whip up something exquisite before your eyes. & his treatment is much more subtle than the way osborn plays with faheyisms above in the video I just praised (and maintain is v fun!), but no one's in JF's league for that stuff, no shame there

if you don't love JF for being truly, beautifully laconic then you don't truly love JF imo

haha totally. pitting basho vs. fahey is understandable but misguided I think. hard to put into words, but the more i listen to both, the more it seems like they were after completely different things.

this richard osborn album was sounding good until I got distracted with that post and now I'm listening to god time & causality. prime bit of fahey squeezing something transcendent out of familiar materials

https://richardosborn.bandcamp.com/

yeah i really dig osborn's album

there is something in how completely fahey and basho diverged that makes them pleasing to contrast in some ways tho. basho as exoticist and escapist, of everything including himself, fahey as becoming more and more familiar, always going deeper into himself

That's a great read on their differences. Totally agree

Yeah if they weren't associated personally and business wise, honestly I wouldn't really put them in the same zone, not like comparing, say Fahey and Kottke or Lang where all three are different but more aligned in general