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

damn hell of a house show!

There are a couple of Itasca instrumental albums out there. Think they were cassette releases (and probably linked somewhere in the two monstrous threads we have for this stuff, pretty sure she has come up from time to time).

itasca's really good — I liked her first paradise of bachelor LP a lot but feel like she's going to put out a total masterpiece at some point ...
and yeah, she just put out a kind a low-profile tape that is more on the instrumental tip: https://itasca.bandcamp.com/album/morning-flower

that intrigues me b/c most of what she played when I saw her was ssw type stuff, I don't remember any instrumentals at all

I don't know how much she focuses on instrumental vs. sung compositions, but this one for instance is all instrumental and really enjoyable:

https://itasca.bandcamp.com/album/anns-tradition-2015

the open to chance LP is all singer-songwriter type stuff — I think that's been more what she's focused on the last few years

Mysterious Basho LP for sale, distributed by Gnome Life. No tracklist, very little info. Anyone know anything about it?

https://www.gnomeliferecords.com/zzz/5869483

never heard of it, i feel there are some dodgy bootleggy releases going around re: basho

billy faier 'banjo' album (1973) is astounding, highly recommended. virtuosic but not flashy or showy. just good

Only skippers for me are the two Max Ochs ragas, which I'd somehow never heard before; they just sound like inept, out of tune slide guitar to me. I remember enjoying other things by him but this is a curious inclusion imo.

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haha and i liked the max ochs ragas for the reasons you didn't... he was a bummer live though, would barely even finish a song, his singing was dire and he generally seemed like he was winging it

Hmmm that Basho thing... very intriguing because the director of the documentary (screening at the festival) made mention of seeing/hearing rare career spanning tapes that were in possession of some of his Sufi friends I believe? Everyone seemed to be clamoring over them but they were supposedly closely guarded and/or their fate in general was uncertain (due to condition and their owner's will etc.).

Wondering if that comp has anything to do with any of this...

There's definitely some Basho releases of....unclear origins, to put it kindly, get the sense the estate is weird too

I went for it and ordered... We'll see what happens.

Please report back! I'm tempted but RSD wiped me out

i'm deejaying the steve gunn solo/willie lane show tomorrow night. i always just want to play blackfoot records but maybe i should spin more refined sounds. i got a ton of nice armenian folk records in at the store. those might sound cool loud at the bar.

i'm not actually that familiar with steve gunn music.

just got a sweet original pressing of this album too. gonna bring it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJriTVPFY6U

Damn Scott I would be into that show. Steve is cool solo, but if you wanna hit the sweet spot with his music you should go with the Gunn/Truscinski duo stuff (imo):

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/03/606091941/first-listen-sarah-louise-deeper-woods

That Paredes is nice (so far). Gonna enjoy the rest of this today.

Also, new Sarah Louise available via "First Listen":

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/03/606091941/first-listen-sarah-louise-deeper-woods

I have NOT listened yet, but look forward to doing so. I imagine it'll be vocal tunes, but I dug the House and Land record plenty and imagine this is gonna hit some of those zones.

Let me know how the Steve Gunn show is, Scott. I probably won't make it out but I'm half-considering the Somerville gig tomorrow.

steve gunn was great! he's such a cool guitarist. definitely made me want to see him with a group/duo. willie was great too. and willie sang a song! that surprised me.

i totally played blackfoot too. really loud. a live version of "train train" into "keep on chooglin'" by ccr.

Cool, thanks. In the end, it was probably a wildly optimistic idea that I could make it there but it does sound like a really good time.

i'm always really surprised and happy when someone with an acoustic guitar sings songs that they wrote and i am not bored. doesn't happen every day.

of course it helped that he did really cool stuff with his guitars. more people should try that.

yeah gunn is great

willie lane's set at the 1000 rose fest was really excellent

i probably should have bought one of those duo albums he was selling. i'd probably dig that stuff. he had one reissue that was two albums in a double album package. he had a tour-only album too. though in the online age that might not mean as much. you can probably find a copy on the web.

Yeah, I bet he had Bay Head with him. I want it!

Anyone grip that Basho thing? I saw the titles and it looks like it's stuff from Bouquet, which, if the same recordings, is not exactly "unreleased" material

I got it! I can't listen to it because my player is boxed up for next week's move to our new place.

I noticed some familiar track names but I'm assuming they're unreleased performances...

Ah! Interesting. I may have to pull the trigger on one of these, as I'm sure they're pretty limited...

Glenn said that Kyle from Grass Tops purchased Basho tapes (rarities) from him but abandoned the project of reissuing them. Unless this is it after all?

Dug the Sarah Louise album. Liked the song arrangements, lots of flute! Need to listen to it a few more times for it to sink in, but a good direction in regards to sticking with the vocal front.

New Bachman tune up now as well. Think this is gonna be a heavy album:

https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2018/05/08/609093816/daniel-bachman-ushers-in-his-next-phase-at-a-new-moon

just started Sarah Louise...really great so far, she's taps into that kinda old world, spooky singing of jean ritchie or the watersons

Yeah, her vocals with these arrangements really work for me. Had a tougher time live when it was just her and the guitar, but of course that is a lot of weight to handle on one's own. Josephine Foster came to mind for some reason as well, though that is kind of a lazy comparison. I really like Josephine though, and this hit the same sweet spot for me.

The Bachman tune linked there is the one he closed his sets with all last year FYI. I love it, but I mean it hits a lot of notes for me: field recordings + organ drone + very emotive slide playing.

louise is really going her own way i think (in a good way) didn't expect to hear a song that was just fender rhodes and synth pads, but it works great

Yeah, that tune was cool. I definitely need to listen more to come up with less lazy things to say about it. She nails a lot of things on this record at first listen, so seems like it will be a good grower as well.

i like josephine foster AND flutes
are there other instruments on the album?

some synth, fender rhodes, and some electric guitar (perhaps more!)

anyway, i liked this on first listen but i think it's also gonna be a grower

Yeah, wow, I was sceptical because I listen to this stuff for the picking but I actually really enjoyed the previewed songs on the Bandcamp page. Not sure yet if I'll pay for it but I might; she's a stronger singer than I expected.

La Lechera I think you will dig it. Hits a lot of territory you are into (and yeah, nice flute action).

I really really REALLY disliked the singing on the House And Land record. I'll give this a try, but I'm not optimistic.

I realize I am the only person on this thread who feels this way...

Voices and vocal approaches/styles are really personal. Pretty much every band that exists can be off limits to me if the voice doesn't connect. One case in point for me: Hiss Golden Messenger. His voice sits in a range and style that I cannot hang with no matter how good the writing/arrangements might be (which I have not explore that much due to the voice ....)

vocals almost always ruin music like this for me. Because it is a music that (largely) treats the guitar like an orchestra, and is often about imaginative playing and (to some extent) virtuosity, imo there's not much place for singing. I mean, you wouldn't sing over Charlie Parker.

well to be fair the House And Land LP is aiming for a much different vibe than her VDSQ solo record, jus tnot a vibe that works for me as grandavis says

Seems to be the thread for Chris Forsyth, the new live EP is so good.

yeah it really rips. wasn't as keen on the album for some reason but it opens up live

I liked the album, but it did fall out of rotation faster than some of his others, the EP perked it back up for me. Love the Neil cover too. I'd love more Forsyth/Sunwatchers stuff.

digging this new 18-minute Elkhorn track (from forthcoming cassette on eiderdown): https://eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lionfish

and yeah the new forsyth EP has some incredible jams ... not nuts about the neil young cover (band sounds good, haven't come around on Forsyth's vocals yet, especially on covers). but the "first 10 minutes of cocksucker blues" achieves liftoff in a major way.

https://wufeimusic.bandcamp.com/

EZ snappin pointed me in the direction of Wu Fei...really fucking amazing music

Wu Fei is a native of Beijing & a current Nashville resident, is a master of the guzheng, the ancient 21-string Chinese zither. She was trained as a Western classical composer, a vocalist, & plays beautifully in the guzheng's vernacular–a musical language which is at least 2,000 years old. She mixes Western & Chinese traditional sensibilities with a contemporary idiosyncratic, experimental dialect

ooh looks good