Doom-folk from Barn Owl's Jon Porras

I posted last year about Bay Area duo Barn Owl's hypnotic, droney doom-folk guitar. Barn Owl's Jon Porras has a solo LP titled "Black Mesa" coming out on the Thrill Jockey label next month. The song featured in the video above, titled "The Black Tide," isn't included on Black Mesa but I'm told it is in the same vein of fuzzy, meditative California guitar weirdness that flows through the new record.

Jon Porras: "Black Mesa" (Amazon)

Jon Porras (Thrill Jockey)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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Aside:- is it just me or do the otherwise great team of BB’ers often miss video game references such as ‘Black Mesa’? The sheer volume of awesome they come up with perhaps leaves little time for games…
- David Pescovitz
  
  I admit that I didn’t get that reference at all. Just looked it up. Thanks. And yeah, I honestly haven’t played video games since Pac-Man… but I was an absolute master at that. : ) Rob and Mark play a lot though! And Rob just IM’d me that he got the Black Mesa reference.
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    Pac-Man skills never go disrespected Dave! I love the overwhelming variety on BB but games (being my passion) are not heavily featured, then again I basically want my huge cherry-trifle cake and to have it fed to me – what can I say, we Welsh are demanding.
    - David Pescovitz
      
      We’re actually hoping to amp up our game coverage in the coming year!
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I was so ready to see people who dress like things from Doom.
- http://aqfl.net Ant
  
  DOOM. ;) Hmm and Half-Life.