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

Ahem. I put this on the other thread originally.

I'm basically blaming this thread for not alerting me to the gorgeous new Nathan Salsburg albums. Slowly letting volume 2 wash over me right now. It's sort of a homage to Leyland Kirby, using the ghosts of his vast collection of 78s as a bed for some very minimal guitar explorations. Flailing around for comparisons but in tone and emotional valence it has some similarities with Bruce Langhorne's Hired Hand.

Vinyl already sold out, natch.

thanks for the heads up. have had little to no energy so have barely listened to any music the past 8 months. not great but i cant help it

Thanks for the rec Chinaski, that sounds very promising! One in return: the new Matt LaJoie, 'Paraclete Tongue', is beautiful. It's not even his first album of the year though, I can't believe how prolific he is. But it's def hits the "ringing guitarscapes sweet spot", as you so aptly described him before!

matt lajoie is terrific

highly recommend this bandcamp thing of ilyas ahmed acoustic/electric solo guitar improvs ...
https://ilyasahmed.bandcamp.com/track/how-to-transform-into-complete-total-silence

Sorry you're feeling so listless global. Are you still playing?

Matt LaJoie is indeed fab. Will check his new one for sure - cheers LBI.

Ah man, Kandlebright Grotto off the new Matt LaJoie is just the thing.

https://flowerroomrecords.bandcamp.com/track/kandelbright-grotto

Sorry you're feeling so listless global. Are you still playing?

haha no. glad i have a satisfying and good job and am not sick, about what i can be proud of right now

You can be damn proud of that album you put out last year. It remains fuckin' great!

xpost we got a video dropping soon! 🔥🔥🔥

Oh wow, Salsburg's 'Landwerk' is right up my street, thanks so much Chinaski!

Bit embarrassed to ask this, I did try to find it in the thread (but it's a long thread that crashes my phone), but can anyone link to Global T.'s masterpiece? Would love to hear it!

new dean mcphee, nice video if you like to see a man siting on a hilltop playing a tele

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j_5Lw-RNSM

lbi - https://stevepalmer-sob.bandcamp.com/album/useful-histories

Cheers!

Listening and enjoying very much - thanks for the link!

thanks y'all! fwiw this one leans more heavily on the acoustic/'american primitive' end of things

https://dyingforbadmusic.bandcamp.com/album/unblinking-sun

just learned of this new daniel hecht reissue. already ordered it.

Oh man can't wait! New track is gorgeous.

https://chuckjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/the-cinder-grove

I haven't spent much time on social media lately; just job hunting, news watching, that kind of stuff. Anyway, I'm glad I opened instagram this evening and happened to come across a couple folks talking about a newly uploaded live recording of Basho and Fahey sharing a bill in 1967. The download source was a bit obscured so I put on my Dead tape collecting hat and went through a couple known places, ended up finding it on Dime.

I'm still waiting for my new account to get upgraded so I can actually download the torrent, but I'll post the details below. Thought you guys would appreciate and maybe one of you is already registered on dimeadozen to hear it! Looks good nonetheless.

Robbie Basho
April 8, 1967
Reed College, Portland, Oregon

Lineage: SBD -> Master reel > cassette (1985, mono)

Transfer (2019 by grner1 & zuma11): Cassette > Nakamichi Dragon > Protools 12 (at 24bit/48kHz), tracking & trimming (no EQ or compression) > 16/44.1 > xACT 2.48 > flac

Cassettes courtesy of Steve Halpern
Thanks to grner1 for the transfer help

Length: 45:43

1. Medicine Raga
2. Lost Lagoon Suite
3. Song 3 - "Con saab" or "consob" or "Khan Saab" or ????"
4. Song 4 (cut)

Notes: Basho followed John Fahey at this show. The cassette label indicates this is Set 2.

I'm not that familiar with all of Basho's material. Maybe someone more familiar with Basho can help with 3rd & 4th songs. I figured it was better to get this very old recording shared rather then spend forever trying to properly identify the songs.

A little background on these recordings:

In late 2019, fellow Neil Young fan and Reed College alumnus, Jim B contacted me. He said that Reed College alum Steve Halpern had a group of late 60's/early 70's Reed College recordings of Reverend Gary Davis, John Lee Hooker, John Fahey & Robbie Basho that needed transferring.

In 1985, Steve found the recordings among a cache of reels in a Reed College library backroom while researching poet Lew Welch. It appeared that most of the reels were of official college business - board meetings etc, but others were student run campus events including lectures and music. He borrowed a few of the music related reels and transferred them using a reel to reel player from the library's AV dept, to a radio shack "y" cable plugged the reel to reel's RCA jacks into one of those ubiquitous, small, portable Panasonic cassette player/recorders. He doesn't know if the originals were mono or stereo.

The library was remodeled in 2008. As Steve was later told, most of the miscellaneous contents of the library was stored in bins in another building while the remodeling occurred. Steve thinks the reels, many of which had no labels, may have been discarded afterwords.

John Fahey
April 8, 1967
Reed College, Portland, Oregon

Lineage: SBD -> Master reel > cassette (1985, mono)

Transfer (2019 by grner1 & zuma11): Cassette > Nakamichi Dragon > Protools 12 (at 24bit/48kHz), tracking & trimming (no EQ or compression) > 16/44.1 > xACT 2.48 > flac

Cassettes courtesy of Steve Halpern
Thanks to grner1 for the transfer help

Length: 42:33

1. Song 1
2. Song 2
3. Song 3
4. Song 4
5. Song 5
6. Red Pony (Wine & Roses)
7. Song 7
8. Song 8
9. Song 9
10. There is No East Or West

Updated song list thx to anazgnos.

1. St. Louis Blues
2. The Great San Bernadino Birthday Party Part 1
3. The Great San Bernadino Birthday Party Part 2
4. Requiem for Russell Blaine Cooper Part 1
5. Requiem for Russell Blaine Cooper Part 2
6. Red Pony (Wine & Roses)
7. On the Banks of the Owchita
8. When the Catfish is In Bloom
9. Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Palace Of King Philip Of Spain
10. In Christ There is No East Or West

Notes: John Fahey preceded Robbie Basho at this show. The cassette label indicates this is Set 2.

Steve thinks the reels, many of which had no labels, may have been discarded afterwords.

As a 3rd generation librarian/archivist, this makes me cry.

I'm on Dime, will take a look

also, Neal, I finally ripped that Brightblack Morning Light show, stay tuned

Oh wow thank you, v nice — looking forward to that!

Funnily enough, not unlike tonight I went down a different spiral where I was able to track down a BBC Radio 1 Maida Vale session for Brightblack Morning Light in October 2006. I had to signup on a dance-oriented DJ set trading forum as that was for some reason the only source for it. I'm going to put it up on youtube sometime soon.

fahey + basho reed recording looks niiiiiice. keep us posted!

p4k just repped for Mason Lindahl's Kissing Rosy in the Rain and from my philistine vantage point it sounds great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObiT0_6-gNw

veering more toward shredder territory than maybe accceptable for this thread but sounding real good to me rn

i know the guy who runs the NYGF but i never heard of Yasmin Williams before... they're really good!

She sounds very Bibio. Very cool.

p4k just repped for Mason Lindahl's Kissing Rosy in the Rain and from my philistine vantage point it sounds great.

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Same, it works for me. As a fellow philistine I'd like to point you to Matt LaJoie's 'Everlasting Spring' from last year, curious what you think.

umm all of those Reed college recordings mentioned upthread (Fahey, Basho, John Lee Hooker, Rev. Gary Davis) are in incredible vintage SBD reel recording sound, tylerw or other plz HMU if u need files

Same, it works for me. As a fellow philistine I'd like to point you to Matt LaJoie's 'Everlasting Spring' from last year, curious what you think.

Will check it out and report, dank je!

I put the Reed College show on youtube if it makes it easier. There is a guy on the FB group named Duane that really knows how to dig up old show bills from newspapers, using like microfiche archives and stuff, but it was a no-go for any kind of flyer from this specific show, unfortch. He did have a cool scan of Basho's business card that I used though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX14WJ1CWkc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL792z4uTWw

thanks Neal!

it's just astonishing to me how great these sound

No problem! I need to check out the Hooker and Davis shows too.

Re: the Matt LaJoie is indeed very good, nice and ambient-y. Makes for a great start to the day.

Grozav, ura!

:)

i'd always been curious how much of basho's raga material was compositional vs improvisational, this take of lost lagoon suite suggests a note-for-note composition, pretty interesting to hear. not as versed in live basho as i am with fahey however

i know, separate the art from the artist (and god knows fahey wasn't great) but i think i keep basho at a distance because he seemed like such a fuckin chooch

by most accounts he was an unbearable weirdo

probably a necessary ingredient that contributed to his approach and output!

absolutely!

this untitled third track is pretty hot stuff

yeah this 1967 stuff is GREAT. probably worthy of official release!

I'm trying not to think about what was on the reels that got thrown out :(

haha yeah. oregon archives are delivering, though — have you guys checked this out? https://kboo.fm/media/66141-terry-riley-kboo-archives

I've been digging into a couple of those early pre-Sundowner solo Steve Gunn releases that I hadn't yet heard. I just really like the sort of downer quality his playing had. The two self-titled albums from 2006 and 2007 are interesting in that they came out when GHQ was still an active band. The step up in his playing from 2006 to 2007 is great in that the '07 release is very much in the same voice that he's carried up until now. The 2010 "Camel Throat" cassette is something I've eyed of a while and didn't realize the label has it up on Bandcamp. No duds on that one and it covers all the ground within 5 songs. I also found a 2005 Moongang cassette released by Not Not Fun on my hard drive. Did not know that was a solo Gunn project. Not solo guitar related at all, but more in line with what Not Not Fun was doing at that point in time.

I will continue to group GHQ alongside other top-tier groups active at the time like Pelt. One of their later releases, "Seven & Eight" was a Gunn/Bassett/Orleans line up instead of their usual Gunn/Bassett/Nolan, maybe Peter Nolan had left by that point, I'm not sure. But it's very good, had not heard it up until now.

The Yasmin Williams album everyone's going nuts for right now is very pretty, but I'm having a hard time connecting with it. I feel like I'd like just a tad more rough edge or something. Am I alone on this?

you're not alone, too wyndham hill for me

Going nuts? Not here.

Speaking of Windham Hill, I'm really enjoying this Mason Lindahl LP on Tompkins Square, which definitely has a few WH type pieces

http://www.tompkinssquare.com/lindahl.html