Topic: John Fahey

Guest: 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)