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Points: 3167 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2016 at 14:39
Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

I think the first suggestion in this thread hit it on the nail. Comus is the epitome of evil folk music, they wrote the book on it.

But since then the thread has certainly gone to some interesting places, including suggestions that are well outside what's usually thought of as folk. In the same spirit I'm going to suggest Älgarnas Trädgård (Garden of the Elks) and their 1972 opus Framtiden Är Ett Svävande Skepp, Förankrat I Forntiden  (The future is a hovering ship, anchored in the past). Characterised here as psych / space rock, which is fair enough, there is also a massive helping of Swedish folk music stirred into the pot.

I wouldn't say the vibe here is exactly evil, but apocalyptic is not a stretch.  This is the sound of crazed pagan hippies enacting their mushroom ritual in the midnight forest, with lightshow provided by a neon UFO flypast.
 
 

Hey yea. This is right up my alley. Thanks!
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Points: 15511 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2016 at 17:51
First Utterance was so brilliant even Comus hasn't come close to it but there is a subgenre called freak folk which is a small niche and one that i haven't explored so much but there is a band called Exuma which is Caribbean freak folk that is pretty cool. I'm hoping some Comus type stuff is in the vault from behind the Iron Curtain waiting to be exposed to the world. 
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Points: 954 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2016 at 11:08

American artist Giles Corey was suggested to the PA' Prog Folk genre by pianoman in March 2013 [the suggestion seems cleared but sadly this amazing prog-folk artist is not added to the PA' database to this day]

 
 
 
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Points: 8856 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2016 at 11:33
^Giles Corey is great. I suppose he might fit into Smurph's suggestions, but he strikes me as more akin to Grizzly Bear or Fleet Foxes, just with a depressive twist. It's also more personal than something like Current 93. But I thought about suggesting him, so I'm glad I'm not the only one.
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Points: 21873 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2016 at 12:25
Originally posted by Komandant Shamal Komandant Shamal wrote:

American artist Giles Corey was suggested to the PA' Prog Folk genre by pianoman in March 2013 [the suggestion seems cleared but sadly this amazing prog-folk artist is not added to the PA' database to this day



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