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Topic: John FaheyGuest: Lisa (@lisatomic)Long-term friend Lisa joins yeerk to discuss American primitivist and volk guitar virtuoso John Fahey in this most hodological episode of BISTRO CALIFORNIUM, in which the combined Fahey discography + liner notes is revealed as a John Crowleyian narrative achievment of American surrealist mythmaking.N.B. This episode introduces the term 'hodology', taken from Fahey's para-academic liner notes. It refers to 'the study of pathways', whether they be two roads diverged in a yellow wood, or the many thousands of roads one may find along the fretted neck of the guitar."All I have ever done with music has been to depict various emotions in an organised and coherent musical language. Sometimes very dark emotions, but also happiness, health, certain types of ecstasy.""[Fahey's music] seems to speak of real reserves of self-control inside the American psyche"Intro theme by Laz Harding (The Upest Fukist)

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Peter

Thank you for this episode! Been a Fahey fan for a long time, this is one of the most interesting discussions of his work out there. Glad especially to hear his later work mentioned without the usual droll “he fell off” commentary it often seems to receive