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previous artist: dreamweapon		there are 3 titles featuring dredd foole in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: dirk dresselhaus

$17.46

new to stock as of
may 4th, 2009

threads:
folk
guitar-themed
free-improvisation

bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 36 cd

dredd foole / ed yazijian “that lonesome road between hurt and soul” compact disc

you feel
overcome
buzzin' fly
freedom
love in the basement
charlestown bue
so high

2009 release ; lively set of basement jams from old friends dan “dredd foole” ireton & ed yazijian ...

bo’weavil press release...

that lonesome road between hurt and soul
dredd foole & ed yazijian

dredd foole (dan ireton) and ed yazijian met while wandering the shadowy corners of the boston 80’s post-punk scene. ed was playing in such avant- rock combos as high risk group and 7 or 8 wormhearts (and the original pre-lp cul de sac). dan had just dissolved dredd foole & the din, tired of rock as a form and the extraordinary loudness of the group. he wanted a chance to do some real singing. ed was feeling a need for something more subtle and embraced the idea of actually being able to hear what he played. they set out to turn the world onto the largely acoustic folk and free improv stew they had cooked up. the rock audiences of boston where not impressed. indifference and downright hostility were the norm. there was talk of an l.p. and some tentative recordings were done. but before anything could materialize, frustration took over and dan decided to retire from performing music altogether. ed went back to rock music with kustomized. and eventually, dan bought a four-track and recorded the lp in quest of tense (which some consider the opening salvo of the free-folk movement) with ed appearing on one track. but by the time it was released, they had gone their separate ways.

years later by a series of coincidences they reconnected (ed was in chicago. dan had moved to vermont) and they found that when they played together again it seemed nothing had been lost. they did a short tour with comrades and friends damon & naomi and eventually played the now legendary brattleboro free folk festival. they found that audiences were now more open to their efforts.

a couple of years passed during which dan released three solo records and a record with a new improvisational din (which included chris corsano, thurston moore and the members of pelt). ed recorded and released his brilliant solo record, six ways to avoid the evil eye and was even caught playing live with folks like richard bishop and sunburned hand of the man.

then, against all odds, february 2008 found ed & dan recording with ed at the helm in foole’s ashram in brattleboro for the better part of a week. that lonesome road between hurt and soul is the result of those sessions. some improvisations are built on dan’s songs played in a totally unfettered manner. one is based on a tune by j. mascis (dan has been playing this one solo live for a while). and some were recorded as they were created. long talked about, long awaited, years in the making the dredd foole & ed yazijian recordings are finally here.

$15.12

back in stock as of
january 27th, 2010

first in stock on
july 17th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
folk
guitar-themed

family vineyard (usa) #fv 56 cd

dredd foole “kissing the contemporary bliss” double compact disc set

dog star waltz (10:14)
above ground friend (7:01)
i wuz born (3:07)
lay lady lay (be) (7:16)
walk right in (11:24)
lips (3:51)
once i was not (3:04)
raga moderne #1 (1:27)
light at the ditch of a spoonful (8:48)
jungle nigh high (3:37)
the jug is glowin' (4:53)
boom boom (for willie alexander) (7:55)
girl from the north country (6:37)
stones in my passway (6:05)
aquarian wind (3:28)
raga moderne #2 (1:25)

july 2008 release ; reissue of dan’s long-gone child of microtones disc ... dredd foole has long been @ the pinnacle of contemporary free-associative psychedelia ; this disc pretty much covers him at his free-zonked best, with aid/abet from the mv/ee duo ...

family vineyard press release...

dredd foole kissing the contemporary bliss

for over 30 years troubadour wailer dan ireton, aka dredd foole, has called upon the spirit of 78 shellac blues n' psychedelic stooges n' velvets to fuel his guttural, pure soul ethos of the song. whether solo or leading mass, foole hints at the classic forms of dylan’s blood on the tracks, buckley’s starsailor and the celestial fug of sun ra’s third-eye vision to create an approach untraveled yet increasingly influential (see: six organs of admittance, sunburned hand of the man).

produced in multi-dimensional spectrasound by matt “mv” valentine (bummer road, tower recordings), kissing the contemporary bliss spans 50 miles of elbow room (it’s a double cd) and kicks up the most outward bound and staggering approaches to gus cannon's "walk right in" and robert johnson's "stones in my passway" while offering ear-popping originals colored by erika elder’s jug blowin’ and coot moon’s ecstatic, reverb dosed banjo. you’ll hear nothing like this in 2008 or beyond. packaged in a mini-lp-styled gatefold book with full color photos of the foole in action.

$13.44

back in stock as of
january 27th, 2010

first in stock on
january 22nd, 2007

threads:
modern-psych
free-jazz

family vineyard (usa) #fv 46 cd

dredd foole “daze on the mounts” compact disc

two faces
signed d.c.
the lion of green
freedom
feed the king
when (the) foole comes out

2007 reissue of dredd foole’s (in this case: dan ireton with matt valentine & erika elder) child of microtones-label cd-r daze on the mounts; a fine slab melding dan’s extended free-psych vox over a bed of tape-echo’ed instrumentation and mystery noises (acoustic guitar, harmonica, synthesizer, & percussion are all listed; but you wouldn’t know by listening to the thing...)

dan’s savage grace has been consistent since his days w/the din in the 80s... he’s a kind, gentle soul (we worked together for a spell) and this comes through in his music in droves; even when he’s howling like a banshee (prior bukowski-meets-sun-ra comparisons still ring true)

an excellent modern-psych burner; easily the best thing i’ve personally heard involving valentine/elder (although; i admit - i haven’t dug all too deep w/this clan...)

family vineyard press release...

dredd foole
daze on the mounts
fv46 cd

hey, smooch! dredd, aka dan ireton, has finally come out and ended a near decade of silence and daze on the mounts, a spiraling three-dimensional crest of the so-called avant-folk expression, is the celebratory homecoming. originally a limited 2004 cdr, this reissue presents the colossal side for all. in collaboration with matt valentine & erika elder (mv&ee/bummer road and tower recordings), two of modern-time's purest interstellar travelers, dredd foole bounds between tim buckley-esque bellow and a hyper-extended take on the song form (a dewy mash of ra-space and vermont-lore) alongside environmental treatments (harmonica, synthesizer, percussion) and his own acoustic guitar work to fully transcend limitations. from the visceral 80s garage days with the din (with members of mission of burma and volcano suns) to becoming a beacon for many a free folk explorer, dredd remains a bona fide master of universal revelation.

released january 23, 2007

previous artist:
dreamweapon

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dirk dresselhaus