gonna try to rep the peter lang 'dharma blues' with some bade cover art and some truly loathsome DI'd yamaha acoustic pickup sound going. actually some great stuff on it, his chops are hot, the songwriting is great, and if you can overlook the CDR digipak feel to the whole thing there are things to love here.
he's one of the most melodic of these original takoma geniuses. he had to stop doing music professionally in the 80s and went to be a computer animator/programmer i think? i'd love to read more about what these sorts of guys getting resurrected musically on tompkins square and whatnot did for their non-musical lives. i'm sure it's fantastic for them to get a little late-life appreciation, not that lang was ever super obscure as far as these things go. outside of the people who read this thread though he kind of is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oisxIINYBo0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ityxip8zODg
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 9 May 2019 06:00 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA5p_bulwVw
Finally bought the Sarah Louise in lossless and it's beautiful. Looking forward to seeing her in a couple of weeks.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 12 May 2019 02:20 (five years ago) link
not normally one to plug my own stuff, but can break the news that I have an LP coming on a very cool psych label in Virgina: http://www.sunriseoceanbender.com/
here are some teasers of the sleeve art, pretty excited. i wish i could share the rest of the art because they did awesome work, but there will be plenty of time. no firm date on release yet
https://i.imgur.com/4pxRX9l.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/UmIs22P.jpg
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
That's awesome! Looking forward to it overall.
― Evan, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
that rules, sunrise ocean bender is a great label
― adam, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
That’s awesome. Play in Chicago and let me (and whoever I can put together) open for you! 😀Tell u what, if/when I have stuff to plug please believe I will be plugging it
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
fuck yeah that looks great
― ogmor, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:27 (five years ago) link
very exciting brigade cru news : )
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
yeah global! congrats, psyched to hear it.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:39 (five years ago) link
That's awesome! Can't wait to hear it.
Really digging that Kinloch Nelson album right now, that almost Neil Young vibe it strikes on a few songs is right up my alley.
Also really excited to dig into a recent (unexpected) Fahey find. I was browsing around Barnes & Noble over the weekend, idly flipping through the CD racks and found a copy of God, Time and Causality.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:59 (five years ago) link
just saw that nyc taper has a recent kinloch nelson show to check out: http://www.nyctaper.com/2019/05/kinloch-nelson-april-8-2019-troost/
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
global's album is so good I'm excited for you all to hear it. *spoilers* while it varies quite a bit over the album the sound is consistently subtly gorgeous, the textures well-worn to perfection; it's an incredibly comfortable and familiar album to inhabit, and it's tied together with a lot of tasty delay, but he pulls off the all-time #1 trick of covering a lot of ground and incorporating a lot of different streams while sounding more & more like himself. there's one big uncanny dance of the inhabitants>>?????? moment of sublime transcendence which feels like your brain folding in on itself that has been v pleasantly haunting my thoughts ever since I heard it
― ogmor, Thursday, 16 May 2019 09:18 (five years ago) link
congrats tetraglobs, fine news indeed
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Thursday, 16 May 2019 11:43 (five years ago) link
Going to see Sarah Louise tonight.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 25 May 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link
Excited.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 25 May 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
Yeah, should be good. I like the few tracks I've sampled.
― jmm, Saturday, 25 May 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
Very psyched to hear Global's record. Thanks for that rundown Ogmor, a good primer (pretty much all sounds exactly up my alley).
― grandavis, Saturday, 25 May 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
Same
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 26 May 2019 13:32 (five years ago) link
I liked Lang's "Lost on the Chainbridge Road" a lot.
Also, Sarah Louise was lovely. More singing and keyboards than I expected. Really nice washed-out 12-string electric sound.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 26 May 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link
New House and Land song is v nice.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Monday, 27 May 2019 03:55 (five years ago) link
a little roundup of some recent/recommended items — https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/05/30/transfigurations-2019-recent-recommended-guitar-soli/
― tylerw, Friday, 31 May 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
That roundup was nice Tyler. A couple of favorites and some new ones too. Obviously I am a Jon Collin fan (as per one of my recent posts) but also I can take all of that kinda M. Morley action that he can put out. I like this mode of his way more than the solo drone records he's been doing lately (which are fine but not this compelling imo). I mean, as a Dead C fan I am wired for it, but that distilled and simplified version really really works for me. You also do a good job of concisely summing up why!
― grandavis, Friday, 31 May 2019 18:52 (five years ago) link
yeah the morley seemed kinda underwhelming at first, but i think it might be my fave out of all of those now ... he's doing ... something!
― tylerw, Friday, 31 May 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
His playing just contains a heavy gravitational pull, whether blasted into the void a la Dead C or more quietly floated out, al la this solo release. The key elements remain and operate on my brain in ways I am super into. I imagine it is not for everyone, but those it works for probably all get similar things out of it.
― grandavis, Friday, 31 May 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
with a bit of time and distance, i think the alexander LP and Sarah Louise's VDSQ release are the best acoustic albums of the last decade.
i don't know if i actually think this but if you haven't listened you are missing out, masters of control and composition
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 8 June 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
I'd throw Glenn Jones's My Garden State in there, never tire of those songs
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 8 June 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
Agree with those sentiments. A) Glenn really nailed it on that album, I can't think of many records like that where the songs get stuck in my head for days and yet the record retains mystery and surprise for me. B) Both the Alexander and Sara Louise VDSQ records are two of my favorites in this realm for sure.
I am lucky in that I am buddies with David (aka Alexander) and have gotten to see him play a bunch over the years, but for like the first 3 years I knew him I had no idea he even played acoustic guitar hah hah, I only saw him play in his droney improv band Nagual. Was blown away the first time I saw him, and then yeah that record rules. That control and composition aspect is key, both of them managing to use the tools but not really sound exactly like any one player I can think of when listening to them. It is always make fun of David's lack of song titles when he plays, cause like they are all untitled/numbered, so you can't intelligently talk about any of them other than to remember what number the track was on the particular album in question.
― grandavis, Saturday, 8 June 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
Yeah My Garden State is the album where the constant remixing of his choice guitar patterns finally coalesced into some incredibly tight melodies. That album never gets old.
For me Matthew Mullane VDSQ is also one of the best of the decade
― Evan, Sunday, 9 June 2019 06:09 (five years ago) link
The Isasa album from that Aquarium Drunkard link is very nice. Feels a little stronger melodically than some of this stuff can be at times.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link
the new jake xerxes fussell is really great and introduced me to his previous two, which are even better. his arrangements and voice are so comforting and warm. great lazy summer evening listens.
― oiocha, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link
yeah he's good!
this thing is nice: https://jonnydillon.bandcamp.com/
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
JXF's What in the Natural World is great, haven't heard the new onegot to see him open for Joan Shelley in front of about 25 ppl and was instantly charmed
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
anyone read that White Tears book from last year? I didn't think it was particularly great, but it did deal with some of that overall mentality.
― tylerw, Friday, October 19, 2018 3:42 PM (eight months ago)
Just read that White Tears novel . Flawed but it does make some good points re how some collectors are...
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 July 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
i liked it....goes a bit off the rails but man he gets the details of the 78s weirdos down really good
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 July 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
this was just posted on FB, Charlie Schmidt's set of adaptations of Fahey songs at 1000 Incarnations of the Rosethis is really beautiful, as global said it felt the closest to seeing Fahey live as you could get, without being just slavish imitaion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuvyCY_43y8
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 July 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
Hey how was the Ilx all stars show?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 July 2019 19:33 (five years ago) link
it went really well!felt good for a first showthe forsyth lineup might been my fav ever, had a more minimal Chicago rock vibewe should have a recording of it soon
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 July 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
sweeeeeti missed the forsyth show when they came through chicago and was bummed bc of the lineup. i haven't met a jaime fennelly musical endeavor that i haven't liked. the mind over mirrors performance at the MCA was esp memorable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGeOc2_ii70
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 July 2019 20:24 (five years ago) link
talk about lineups, geez louise
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 July 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
show was a blast, so fun, felt great
and yeah schmidt explores new contexts of fahey's stuff and embodies the material with unique vigor, which is a totally fahey thing to do. i can see why fahey used him as his mimic for a few tracks
jamie said he was letting mind over mirrors sit for a little while after bellowing sun, i can see why- that is definitely the peak and of everything he had done prior seemed to be leading to that. his additions to the band were subtle but great (maybe partially due to the sound system at the venue but it settled in after a bit)
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 18 July 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
it was great, doug is such a great bassist him and arif from brokeback on drums gave it an almost krauty, motorik feel instead of classic rock
if i had one complaint is that the PA set up was vocals only, so nothing was mic'd and i wish i could have heard the keyboards better, he seemed to be doing some really cool stuff and i wished it would have cut through more
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 July 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
i'm sure it's relaxing to play a more supporting role/have a break after that -- it was a huge endeavor!
my only gripe about the show here is that the lineup (as advertised) provided 0 women the opportunity to be heard and seen playing music.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 July 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
neither did ours tbh :/
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 July 2019 21:00 (five years ago) link
smh :(
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 July 2019 21:09 (five years ago) link
posted to the Fahey FB group, Holden Rush, young kid from Chapel Hill, really refined playerhttps://holdenruch.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-isms-in-an-american-primitive-style?fbclid=IwAR016K1LSM9GWifwBo3BjdFVhwppAfJDGw_h1ukUr6h7uno4MJd0J0hGI-8
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 20 July 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
https://delta-slider.blogspot.com/2019/08/john-fahey-unissued-studio-sessions-1977.html?fbclid=IwAR0eZ3FwJcH4xt_gtXlWUVbHsWkGJF2vURjlviJRBGND973HqpcrNw8hwWk&m=1
!!!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 August 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
― ogmor, Friday, 2 August 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
this is the holy grail
― ogmor, Friday, 2 August 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
holy shit
― sleeve, Friday, 2 August 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link