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ProfPanglos 
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Joined: July 25 2017 Location: Austin, Texas Status: Offline Points: 624 |
 Topic: Looking for dark/weird progressive folkPosted: July 25 2017 at 22:21 |
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Hedningarna & Hexvessel are both good (weird, dark, folk) bands... sorry, I don't know how to embed youtube vids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6ZO8VXUFCo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrqGc2Q9eNU
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skog_prog
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Joined: May 30 2017 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 65 |
Posted: July 25 2017 at 22:18 |
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May not be exactly what you at looking for but Wardruna is an awesome Nordic folk band that has ambient elements. Very dark sounding but not exactly progressive however definitely worth checking out.
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Logan
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Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: @ wicker man Status: Offline Points: 32698 |
Posted: July 21 2017 at 18:06 |
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I was just trawling through some topics, and came here to see how the recommendations panned out with the topic starter since I have been off and on with this site.
Wow, how I could not know that? I guess because it's contemporary. Not that dark, and modern old-school, but my kids find this a bit creepy. Edited by Logan - July 21 2017 at 18:07 |
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Just a fanboy passin' through.
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Kepler62
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Posted: May 22 2017 at 16:11 |
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How about this Norwegian band
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someone_else
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Posted: May 22 2017 at 15:18 |
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Mascodagama
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Posted: May 22 2017 at 13:51 |
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For some dark contemporary psych folk The Hare And The Moon's album Wood Witch is pretty damn good:
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dr wu23
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Posted: May 22 2017 at 13:39 |
Thanks.....their other album called Steeple(Silbury) is also good...but I like Fain better. I hope they stay around for a while. I haven't heard the new one.
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: May 22 2017 at 13:39 |
Good one
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Ian
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Mascodagama
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Posted: May 22 2017 at 13:38 |
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^ Great suggestion
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dr wu23
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Posted: May 22 2017 at 13:24 |
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Wolf People- Fain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTuDcoskS5k These guys are very interesting....dark, psychy , folk rock
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Rednight
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Posted: May 21 2017 at 13:24 |
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I think SCHICKE FUHRS & FROHLING's Symphonic Pictures.
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Tuzvihar
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Posted: May 21 2017 at 12:10 |
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Something from the USSR, maybe?
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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
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Prog-jester
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Posted: May 21 2017 at 10:19 |
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try this! Also Peter Hammill, Matthew Parmenter (2004), Espers, Six Organs of Admittance, Steve von Till, Scott Kelly, Harvestman, Nick Drake (obviously), etc
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SteveG
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Posted: May 19 2017 at 09:45 |
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Warthur
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Posted: May 13 2017 at 11:55 |
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Lately I have been very impressed by the work of Current 93; sometimes it's less prog, but it's never not dark or weird, and from the late 1980s onwards it's been in a mostly folk mode. Thunder Perfect Mind, All the Pretty Little Horses hit what you're looking for quite nicely and there's some really interesting deep cuts in their discography too. (Horsey even has a Comus cover.)
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Mascodagama
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Posted: May 12 2017 at 12:41 |
I got Oar about 20 years ago and listened a few times, but it never really made much impression on me. Another one to unearth for further listening. |
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Mascodagama
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Posted: May 12 2017 at 12:38 |
This is such a great album! I hadn't thought about it in ages, but now I'm going to have to dig it out, if it can be found amongst the chaos that is my "collection". |
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ClemofNazareth
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Prog Folk Researcher Joined: August 17 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4659 |
Posted: May 12 2017 at 12:02 |
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I've never thought of Nya Ljudbolaget as dark folk, they're actually a little jazzy at times.
Definitely agree with Wovenhand, especially 'Mosaic', also Tenhi, perry Leopold and Exuma. You might also want to have a listen to these: Long Live Death, 'To Do More Than God, To Die' - mostly acoustic, definitely folkish, somber. They skirt the margins of Wyrd Folk with some GY!BE-like post rock leanings. Rasputina, 'Thanks for the Ether' - A couple female cello players in corsets and sometimes a guy who plays drums (and sometimes just Melora Creager solo). The albums run the gamut from goth to cabaret to steampunk to weird covers of classic rock, this album may be the closest to what you're looking for. The music tends to be dark (cello, so...) but the lyrics are what made me list them. Melora Creager loves to tell tragic tales of downtrodden, morbid and cursed souls. If this one appeals to you check out 'Sister Kinderhook' and 'Melora a la Basilica' next. Bruce Lamont, 'Feral Songs for the Epic Decline' - If you like Wovenhand you'll probably like this. Larkin Grimm, 'The Last Tree' - Almost pagan-like at times, Grimm combines a lot of influences including folk, Avant and outsider music. Her most approachable album is 'Parplar' but this one is the closest to the Comus sound. Spires that in the Sunset Rise, s/t - Another Wyrd folk group, heavily acoustic, gloomy and depressing. Rada & Ternovnik, 'Sorrow Sounds' - Russian band so dark is implied, although their catalog is sort of all over the place with darkwave, post-punk, folk revival and even operatic tracks interspersed with dirge-like heavy epics. This is their gloomiest record. Cerberus Shoal, 'Mr. Dog Boy' - These guys are listed as Avant here on the Archives but this particular album (along with 'The Land We All Believe In' has strong folk as well as post-folk influences. Unlike most of the albums listed above, this one is heavily electric including lots of drone. Also unlike Comus and most of the above bands, the lyrics aren't particularly dark, in fact for the most part they are unintelligible. Also of course check out Skip Spence's 'Oar' and anything from the nut-jobs Jandek and Michael Hurley (if you can find them).
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
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Logan
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Posted: May 08 2017 at 17:03 |
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Love Comus and Spirogyra, and acid folk is one of my favourite categories.
Not mentioned already, but I think you might like Fern Knight's Music for Witches and Alchemists Just speaking faves in the acid folk scene that could appeal: As already mentioned, Perry Leopold's Christian Lucifer. I also love Linda Perhacs' Parallelograms, the Incredible String Band you probably know, and another folk album which is more creepy when you know the film is the Paul Giovanni Wicker Man soundtrack. And I've been digging Mark Fry's Dreaming with Alice. For a really weird folk albums, you might want to try Exuma's self-titled (very different, but...) Welcome to the site fellow Vancouverite. |
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Just a fanboy passin' through.
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kenethlevine
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Posted: May 08 2017 at 16:34 |
re Wovenhand, I would put their album "Mosaic" front row center also any of the earlier stuff by Finnish group Tenhi. Not as crazy as Comus or Jan Dukes, but oh so morose
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