Looking for dark/weird progressive folk
Printed From: Progarchives.com
Category: Progressive Music Lounges
Forum Name: Prog Recommendations/Featured albums
Forum Description: Make or seek recommendations and discuss specific prog albums
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=111087
Printed Date: April 19 2024 at 16:48
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Looking for dark/weird progressive folk
Posted By: eleyana
Subject: Looking for dark/weird progressive folk
Date Posted: May 08 2017 at 02:23
|
I absolutely love albums such as First Utterance by Comus, Sacrifice by Black Widow, St. Radiguns by Spirogyra. I've been looking for music similar to this but haven't been able to find anything that comes close to these albums. By that i don't mean something that sounds exactly the same but music as interesting or as dark as that. If anyone has any recommendations I would be extremely happy. |
Replies:
Posted By: Quinino
Date Posted: May 08 2017 at 04:10
Not sure if it fits exactly your taste, Daniele, but give CATAPILLA a try and report back, I'm curious  |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: May 08 2017 at 11:17
|
If you don't know it, check this out: |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: May 08 2017 at 12:17
|
Check out this article: https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/05/04/folk-horror-music-list/" rel="nofollow - https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/05/04/folk-horror-music-list/ ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 08 2017 at 12:27
|
Try this The Jan Dukes De Grey is an excellent suggestion.
------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 08 2017 at 13:33
|
I have quite a few albums in my collection that fit the description (although some of them rather loosely): Tim Buckley - Starsailor or Lorca Perry Leopold - Christian Lucifer Joanna Newsome - Ys Catherine Ribeiro + Alps - Ame Debout Nya Ljudbolaget - s/t Nico - Desertshore Third Ear Band - s/t Exuma - s/t Wovenhand - Consider the Birds Tom Zé - Todos Os Olhos Gryphon - Red Queen To Gryphon Three Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem - L'incendie Robbie Basho - Zarthus Oh and if you're prepared to lose your sanity completely I recommend you check out Brast Burn's Debon. Madness. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Upbeat Tango Monday
Date Posted: May 08 2017 at 14:24
Gonin-Ish  ------------- Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement. |
Posted By: eleyana
Date Posted: May 08 2017 at 15:10
|
Thanks for all the suggestions. I've listened to a bit of catapilla and i really like it (even though it's pretty different than the stuff i posted). Jan dukes de Grey are great but i already knew them. I'll listen to the other stuff now. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date 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
|
Guldbamsen wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 08 2017 at 17:03
|
Love Comus and Spirogyra, and acid folk is one of my favourite categories. Not mentioned already, but I think you might like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y082empuYrk&list=PLwEkbVL-vNmnHuGnIyGSuNQrvKZEsZgzq" rel="nofollow - 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWtxr-C_LvM" rel="nofollow - 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. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: May 12 2017 at 12:02
|
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). ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date 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". |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date 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. |
Posted By: Warthur
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 11:55
| 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.) |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: May 19 2017 at 09:45
|
------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 10:19
| https://voida.bandcamp.com/album/colour-me-darkness" rel="nofollow - try this ! Also Peter Hammill, Matthew Parmenter (2004), Espers, Six Organs of Admittance, Steve von Till, Scott Kelly, Harvestman, Nick Drake (obviously), etc |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 12:10
|
Something from the USSR, maybe? ------------- "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." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 13:24
|
I think SCHICKE FUHRS & FROHLING's Symphonic Pictures. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: May 22 2017 at 13:24
|
Wolf People- Fain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTuDcoskS5k These guys are very interesting....dark, psychy , folk rock ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: May 22 2017 at 13:38
| ^ Great suggestion |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 22 2017 at 13:39
Good one  ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date 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.
------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: May 22 2017 at 13:51
|
For some dark contemporary psych folk The Hare And The Moon's album Wood Witch is pretty damn good: |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 22 2017 at 15:18
|
Maybe the Norwegian outfit http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7634" rel="nofollow - Tusmřrke may be something for you. They can be listened to on https://tusm-rke.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp . ------------- 
|
Posted By: Kepler62
Date Posted: May 22 2017 at 16:11
|
How about this Norwegian band
|
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 21 2017 at 18:06
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. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: skog_prog
Date Posted: July 25 2017 at 22:18
| 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. |
Posted By: ProfPanglos
Date Posted: July 25 2017 at 22:21
|
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
|