Acid, freak, wyrd folk and related - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I've been meaning to drop this on the thread for a while:

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ClemofNazareth wrote:

For some lesser-known but great music check out Faun Fables, Carol of Harvest, Rabbit Rabbit.

Two of my favorite obscure acid folk albums are both self-titled, Justine who were made up of Americans and Brits, and String Cheese which had connections to It's a Beautiful Day.

And while I wouldn't consider them acid, freak or wyrd Errobi's 'Ametsaren Bidea' is a pretty killer Basque folk album with some funky sounds.

Wheeeewwwww... thanks for saving our collective arses Clem, for neither Ken and I had spotted this thread... Embarrassed

well, I guess we educated them enough that such a thread can happen without us, now Approve

I'll counter Clem's Justine with another UK/US duo called Subway

Mortte wrote:

From here mentioned I really like Comus, Pearls Before Swine, Incredible String Band, Tim Buckley and Roy Harper.

Just so you know, Tom Rapp : RIP three weeks ago Cry

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In terms of modern acid/psych/prog folk(-rock) (the wave that was called Wyrd folk), I can suggest the first two albums of PG Six (PG is for Pat Gubler), the whole of Espers (prefer Espers I and II, though) and a couple of early Tunng. I think only the latter is still active/touring as an act, though (fun concerts too). The Espers members are involved in their solo projects.

wow. Thanks for this thread. I have a lot to catch up on. The only Acid Folk I really know is Comus and I love them. Looking forward to checking out some others listed here.

ALotOfBottle wrote:

Have to recommend the self-titled EP by Księżyc - it's a Polish freak-folk cult classic.

A fantastic album (which has had a fairly recent CD reissue). A reformed Księżyc put out a second album, Rabbit Eclipse, in 2015 that is just as good IMO.

Edited by Mascodagama - April 09 2018 at 01:57

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Thanks for posting the Ksiezyc......new for me and definitely strange and wonderful wyrd folk.

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Thanks for posting that Palmer lp.....never knew it existed and I'm a fan of Buffalo Springfield and their offshoots.

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Icarium wrote:

"I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene," says Harper, whose 1960s and 1970s albums, including Stormcock, Sophisticated Beggar and Flat Baroque and Berserk are now considered classics -- and precursors to today's alternative folk genre. "I was too much of a modernist, really. Just too modern for what was going on in the folk clubs. I wanted to modernize music, but more than that to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general. I was involved in trying to bring meat to the folk music, which is a big mistake anyway." Roy Harper

Hi,

To me, this is the biggest issue with some folk clubs around here. It is ALL about kissing as* to a bunch of traditional songs, and you will be damned if you don't have a Farina, or some other oddball song in there. You CAN NOT, in America, create an original song, because no one will listen to it, and will instead go play "Annie got My Gun" ... totally ignoring the work of someone like Roy Harper, and many others along the way.

These days, trying to keep track of some big names in the old days, like Baez, Dylan, and so many others, it's hard to believe that the only one not doing a traditional song is actually Bob Dylan, and he was deep fried for taking things electric, which is where it went, but in a club or two around here or up and down the coast, it is ELECTRIC, but it is not loud ... it has to be soft, so it stays with the theme/idea of "FOLK". But here, the applause is only for a "known" song ... so you trying to bring something else to the table, you will be lucky to have your groupie applauding your effort and everyone else leaving the room!

It is just a sad thing to see, how commercialized and totally brainwashed by the media so many of these clubs are, and I get scared every time I visit many of these clubs around here. And FOLK music is not the only one with the problem ... rock'n'roll's thing is even worse!

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I'm trying to find an audience for an album I recently finished. A ProgArchives member suggested in another forum that it belongs to the neo-folk/wyrd folk genre. Maybe some of you would like to give it a listen. You might hear influences coming from Leonard Cohen, Peter Hammill, A Silver Mount Zion, among others. I hope you like it!

https://grahamjanz.bandcamp.com/album/we-might-look-like-people-for-now

A favourite of mine.

Nick Drake's "Riverman":

Edited by Logan - August 14 2018 at 11:18

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Logan wrote:

A favourite of mine.

Nick Drake's "Riverman":

A perfect song IMO. The combination of Drake's guitar and voice, the brilliant Robert Kirby string arrangement and that unfathomable lyric...true greatness.

I was pretty much obsessed with Nick Drake for a couple of years in my late teens.

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