Blog - Dying For Bad Music

Mark Fosson
Solo Guitar

2017 # american primitive, solo guitar

Digging in the Dust, the reissued demo tapes by Mark Fosson that he sent to Takoma Records in the late 70s, was one of the first records of a rediscovered American Primitive guitarists I've ever heard. Sure, there was Robbie Basho, Peter Walker, but …

dfbm #97
Morning Raga Pt. 16

2017 # american primitive, mixtape

All strings considered. A new mix with most recent and almost forgotten solo acoustic and electric guitar work. tl;dr Tim Pilcher & Monica Lord released their debut on the label Dismal Niche a label from Missouri who also released a new Scott Tum …

Kevin Henry
Last Thoughts

2017 # american primitive, folk

Kevin Henry's album Last Thoughts is the soundtrack to a documentary and road movie he produced in 2006. In this award-winning documentary, filmmaker Kevin Henry retraces the travels of his grandfather Rob, a former rail-riding hobo who tape-record …

Rick Deitrick
Gentle Wilderness + River Sun River Moon

1978 # american primitive, private press, folk, solo guitar

Tompkins Square just reissued another gem from the treasure trove of their Imaginational Anthem Vol. 8 compilation, while the next one1 is already in the pipes. On that compilation, record collector Michael Klausman and Brooks Rice shared the most ob …

dfbm #96
Songs of Wild Nothing Pt. VII

2017 # folk, psych folk, singer-songwriter, lo-fi, experimental, mixtape

After some silence I worked through my stacks of music to compile a new edition of Songs of Wild Nothing. tl;dr Starting off with an exclusive song by Simone Romei aka Desmoines. He recorded a beautiful folk album that should be of interest for every …

P.J. Phillips
Colder Days

2017 # american primitive

It's summer and yets it's cold right now. Either it's a glitch in the weather pattern or it's the nuclear winter looming ahead. Let's hope for the best. Cold Days is the first album by German/American guitarist P.J. Phillips hailing from the Ruhr are …

Harry Taussig & Max Ochs
The Music Of Harry Taussig & Max Ochs

2017 # american primitive

In 1965, Harry Taussig got invited to spend one hour in a studio to record his self-taught style of guitar music, that was influenced by Elizabeth Cotton, John Cage, and Stockhausen. The result was the self-published album Fate Is Only Once. Taussig …

Youngkvist
Forms

2013 # american primitive, folk, field recording

I love field recordings. Recordings of environmental sounds were my photographs. I used to record the sounds of water, nature, and places and embedded them in my own music, like pasting photographs into a photo album. I loved the effect of mild confu …

Hayden Pedigo
Greetings from Amarillo

2017 # interview, american primitive, ambient

"Greetings from Amarillo is a musical postcard but also an invitation to look around and spend some time in the audio rendering of the Texas Panhandle." That's how Hayden Pedigo describes his new album - a mix of cosmic electronica, hints of pop musi …