I'd forgotten there was a new Padang Food Tigers album this year. I'd also forgotten it was released on a label owned by Neal Cassady! Just bought the digital - any plans for a vinyl release? What a gorgeous wee band.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Sunday, 22 December 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link
Thank you for the nod! Blue Hole Recs is Will Csorba and I here in Houston just doing our own thing and trying out best. It is great to have worked with PFT on that as Blackest Rainbow was one of the first modern labels that I got really into back in the late 00s and I remember 'Born Music' having an instant classic feel. There still aren't many other groups who had done it or continue to do it as good as they do.
I do agree though, I am hoping more people keep learning that PFT had put out new material because I've heard the same comment a couple times during this current end-of-year season. The Blue Hole cassette was originally supposed to be released at the same time that Death Is Not The End (UK) would drop the vinyl but it looks like as of October—PFT was looking for someone to do the vinyl version. It would be cool to see someone close to our community do it, like Three Lobed or something.
― Neal Cassady, Monday, 23 December 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
this sounds cool, glad you and will are putting out cool stuff though not surprised. merry xmas Neal!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 23 December 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
Merry xmas UMS and all!
― Neal Cassady, Wednesday, 25 December 2019 03:25 (four years ago) link
:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrJQystmyl8
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 25 December 2019 04:24 (four years ago) link
This is something I think everyone esp ogmor should check out
https://resonatingwoodrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/p-dsak-lede-nepalikus
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 28 December 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
^this rules, the sixth track has the best ending of anything I heard in 2019
― ogmor, Friday, 17 January 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
Does anyone know what Steve Gunn is doing to get that great feedback at around 12:50 of this vid? Immediately after he takes off his capo and he takes his hands off all the strings. He allows it to come back in at the end of this sort of outro section. If it’s not a pedal, was it just good old normal unplanned feedback? Bc it sounds v nice and mostly intentional.
hxxps://youtube.com/watch?v=BEbwrfWsuYQ&t=12m50s
― Neal Cassady, Saturday, 18 January 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
don't know if this has been discussed here (what a big-ass thread), but joseph allred's album O Meadowlark from last year is great:
https://www.popmatters.com/joseph-allred-o-meadowlark-2639613038.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
― idgaf (roxymuzak), Saturday, 18 January 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
He's great! We haven't discussed it enough, but yeah he is a one of a kind
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 18 January 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
xpost funny idgaf said that, i was just thinking the other day that maybe it's time to move this thread to a part iii.
― alpine static, Saturday, 18 January 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
he played at my wedding!
― idgaf (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 11:47 (four years ago) link
Will this be the new fahey brigade meme? How many of us can get primitivism stars to play at our weddings?
― Evan, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
Tom Lecky wrote a song about the place I got married! Does that count?
(I think I've mentioned him on here. He records as Hallock Hill. The Union and A Hem of Evening are both stellar. https://hallockhill.bandcamp.com/album/a-hem-of-evening )
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
anyone heard this?
https://www.strandedrecords.com/collections/morning-trip/products/william-eaton-music-by-william-eaton-lp
― let's talk about gecs baby (sleeve), Monday, 3 February 2020 21:15 (four years ago) link
Yes, I have an original copy and it's a prized possession. Happy for a reissue so I don't have to play my copy so much. It's nowhere near as new-agey as the description and photos of the instruments would suggest (though I can't say the same for the few of his later albums and collaborations I have heard, which are nice enough depending on your tolerance for, umm, Narada Equinox and the like). I'd compare the music to that Gimmer Nicholson album in some ways. I mean, they sound nothing alike (except both albums share, to my ears, a slight classical bent), but it has a similar "third way" quality about it that makes it seem very much apart from anything that came before it. There's zero blues and zero folk. As far as I remember, it's all improvised, and mostly with homemade instruments. You should grab it, it's pretty amazing.
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 3 February 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
thanks!
― let's talk about gecs baby (sleeve), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 00:49 (four years ago) link
i had both the fall and Fahey lined up in separate tabs, so for the first minute of "hip priest" i thought it was fahey, and entered an terrifying alternate universe for as a result. Thanks ILM! nice to be back.
― Lumli, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 03:27 (four years ago) link
Joseph Allred, who we've talked about upthread, posted this video today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_ZrHAK5iDQ&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3LbSH_RjtB9CU26V5S2UwsXNdMCk0-XQWRpcbHcfi5z4MZF5_QSI7T0Sg
fun(?) fact(s): he played at my wedding, which was in Cades Cove and which inspired this suite!
― idgaf (roxymuzak), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:50 (four years ago) link
he's so great, that's an awesome story about your wedding! do you know him?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:22 (four years ago) link
many of you will already be aware but a certain steve palmer's album useful histories has been released on some v hot looking vinyl and it's a heady fusion of psych jams & takomaish picking with some wild delay pedal action and it's a work of major genius so if the big man won't post about it here then it's my solemn duty to ensure it gets a mention!
https://stevepalmer-sob.bandcamp.com/
― ogmor, Saturday, 8 February 2020 12:39 (four years ago) link
Allred is such a sweet guy
― Evan, Saturday, 8 February 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link
Our man Global really knocked it out of the park on this record, Ogmor is completely on the money here. Everything I have heard from it is beautiful and deeply rendered, just really well synthesized moves and approaches to "shit that sounds great for a guitar to get up to." Proud of our dude for getting this out there.
― grandavis, Sunday, 9 February 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
awww, thanks you all <3 <3
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 9 February 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
Useful Histories is fantastic, turned out so well
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 9 February 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
Hoping to hear some Cassini moves down the line. Quite a crew in that band! But yeah just ordered my copy of "Useful Histories" today.
― grandavis, Sunday, 9 February 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
Inspires me to get something out there as well, someday! Fantastic record
― Evan, Sunday, 9 February 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, February 7, 2020 6:22 PM
yes! he's a longtime bud
― idgaf (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
cool yeah I think he's one of the best right now, seems like a real gentlemanin other news, Krist Novoselic of an old Seattle band called Nirvana dabbles in American Primitive, pretty good!https://youtu.be/ExOFuzZr-tE
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
seems relevant
Jim White and I made this record together and I’m so excited to finally get to share it with you. Release date is in May, preorder here - https://t.co/O0SqNpiKasCover image by Anna White pic.twitter.com/jiffh757VX— Marisa anderson (@Marisamusic) February 28, 2020
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 28 February 2020 01:44 (four years ago) link
OMG OMG OMG YES
― sleeve, Friday, 28 February 2020 04:24 (four years ago) link
What we’ve all been wasting for!!! And released in May, the best month! Anticipating.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 28 February 2020 13:44 (four years ago) link
Just listened to a couple of Marisa Anderson records this weekend. I have no doubts this will be great, definitely looking forward to it (and would LOVE to see this live, hopefully we all get a chance at some point)
― grandavis, Friday, 28 February 2020 13:57 (four years ago) link
so excited two of my fav musicians on the planet together
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 February 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link
If anyone needs some listening today, the two tracks available for streaming here are really nice:
https://waterlesshills.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-mountain-lp
C Joynes on guitar and DBH on violin with a rhythm section. C Joynes is a great and tasteful player, but really delivers this for me is DBH's fiddle, really expressive and beautiful playing. I imagine that the whole record delivers (unfortunately sold out despite not even being officially "released" yet).
― grandavis, Friday, 28 February 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
oh wow cool combo, C Joynes is one of those players that probably doesn't get enough attention on the scene
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
yeah i'm digging waterless hills! finally really got into that Matthew J Rolin record from late last year and it's very strong, too.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link
has there been a proper DBH record lately?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
i think the last one was Mass (2017-ish) ... but I could be wrong there.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
also — do we think "The Quickening" is a reference to Highlander or Art Bell? OR BOTH.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
Chuck Johnson/Golden Retriever collab coming up on Thrill Jockey:
http://thrilljockey.com/products/rain-shadow
― Dinsdale, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
will have to check the waterless hills. as I mentioned upthread dbh has been playing a couple of looser almost bossa nova-ish pieces, v keen to see where that leads. speaking of which, I am v excited to learn that fabiano do nascimento has got a new album coming out in may, all original compositions, featuring collaborations with.... madlib?!
https://www.nowagainrecords.com/announcing-fabiano-do-nascimento-preludio/
― ogmor, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link
produced by Mario C! interesting.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
can't front on that
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
heyo — https://shop.realgonemusic.com/products/robbie-basho-songs-of-the-great-mystery-2-lp?_pos=1&_sid=f97a1f36a&_ss=r
― tylerw, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
new william tyler for the soundtrack to First Cow; sounds great on first contacthttps://open.spotify.com/album/0tR03kuqV6R2AVIRjE9g5h?si=Vu-g9_7DSKe4kvWdVVY3kw
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 6 March 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
C Joynes is one of those players that probably doesn't get enough attention on the scene
Yes, i have always loved his stuff. He was doing this thing last year where he was re-upping old OOP releases of his to bandcamp for pay what you want. I followed along all year.
Similarly I have been thinking about Evan Miller recently—does anyone remember him? Before he did that more 'out' record in 2009 called Transfigurations On Lap-Steel Guitar, he had a couple tape only ones on Night People throughout 2007 and 2008, and it was all really good. I don't think he was ever included on those early Imaginational Anthem releases either, though the timing seems perfect for that to have happened.
He's also got this reworking of Furry Lewis' Turn Your Money Green on Beeswax Ephemera (2007) that feels pretty ahead of it's time looking back on it, with some blown out electric guitar soloing towards the end that fades out into some collage stuff. Some of his material is on youtube, but here's a blog post with mp3's for my fav Night People one, Three Spells For Six String Guitar:
https://the-mesmerist.tumblr.com/post/38308167155/evan-miller-three-spells-for-six-string-guitar/amp
― Neal Cassady, Friday, 6 March 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
Aw man, I guess those streamable mp3s for Three Spells For Six String Guitar are dead now. Anyway, I just spent this morning listening to all the stuff of his I've collected over the years so I'll just share my own link below—please enjoy, all of this has been out of print for a long time. I wonder what he has been up to recently.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tic4gm5dgaelloo/AACK7ufcI9cPrM-PyspplLD-a?dl=0
― Neal Cassady, Friday, 6 March 2020 21:05 (four years ago) link
I need to check that Evan Miller out. Sounds very much up my alley.
― grandavis, Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
First track for this is now live:
https://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/album/the-quickening
Really looking forward to listening to this record.
― grandavis, Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link