we found the light!

1:31PM - Psych-Folk Festivals?

I am wondering if there are any festivals going on in the VT or NH areas anytime soon? I do know that there are many "folk" festivals ( great woods, falcon ridge, etc) in the NY and MA areas, but I am also curious if there are any new-folk or psych-folk shows in VT, Upstate NY/Adirondacks, or NH. I'm hoping that there are some in VT because gas is so insane right now.

6:37PM - Elixirs - Sea of Ends (2008)

Hello everyone,

A new release is up at the blog...

http://elixirsrixile.blogspot.com/

Hope you enjoy.

12:11PM - Marzuki

Does anyone have Marzuki's albums that they could upload? I can't find them to buy or download anywhere and am really curious to hear them.

(Marzuki was Sufjan Stevens and Shannon Stephens band.)

Thank you.

11:49PM - some variety of consensus

Perhaps this isn't appropriate. But, seeing as how there haven't been too many posts in this group lately, I thought I'd just go ahead. Plus, I posted some actual music on here like three weeks ago, so now I feel like I'm a real part of the community! :D


Anyway, I was wondering if there was any "List" of artists within this genre that everyone agrees upon, for the most part. For instance, I was completely ignorant of Vashti Bunyan (even though I liked CocoRosie, Devendra, Newsom, and the like) for far too long. Now, being more aware of "music", Vashti seems like common sense. So, I suppose I'm asking what people see as common sense. What do most psych-folk-kids definitely listen to?

I guess the genre is important to discuss, as well. We call it psych folk, freak folk, new weird america, nu-folk, new folk, and maybe a whole assortment of other names, but even though these names don't seem to fit together, we seem to form this cohesive, as-of-yet-not-well-named genre. Honestly, most of the artists within it probably couldn't be put under a genre simply because of their scope. Despite this, there seems to be a cohesive, agreed-upon list of artists that are "standards" of whatever we want to call this genre. I'll put some of the ones I think here to help give a better grasp of what I mean:

Feathers
White Magic
Vetiver
Six Organs of Admittance
Eliza Douglas
Currituck Co.
Donovan
Fairport Convention
Joanna Newsom
Devendra Banhart
CocoRosie
Vashti Bunyan
The Animal Collective
Josephine Foster
Karen Dalton
Espers
Nick Drake
The Incredible String Band

And so on.... The only guide post I've honestly ever found is Devendra's 'Golden Apples of the Sun' compilation. Perhaps the point of this post is just to open up a conversation about what this genre is, and what is vital to it, and what some of us might be missing. For instance, if somebody listened to maybe 3/4 of the list I put, but not, say, Espers, it would immediately turn into a "omg you have to listen to this i can't believe you haven't heard it yet!!!" situation. Of course, this list isn't nearly perfect. In addition to missing quite a lot, some of you may disagree with some of the people on it. If that's the case, it would be really helpful to bring that up, too. In addition to missing what I'm calling "psych-folk genre standards", we all also have our periphery artists that somehow need to be separated, no matter how awesome they are. Because, we can't listen to everything first.

This post is way longer than I initially planned it to be. Nothing I've said above is anything I mean to be certainly true (I don't want you thinking I'm a pretentious jerk bent on forcing my opinion on you), just the way I perceive it. I would love to have all of your input, so I can see what I've been missing, and so that others can see what they've been missing, too.

kthnkxbye

4:40PM

LET'S CHANGE THE MOOD FROM SAD TO GLADNESS


http://www.4shared.com/file/55795729/224ccdee/GLADNESS.html


josephine_foster_this_coming_gladness

5:26AM - songs by Rosin Fairfield

Moss World By Night.Mp3
Occitania.Mp3
(on rebec and drums)

 

1:44PM - .

Subway is an excellent, supremely strange psychedelic folk-rock group consisting of an American, Irv Mowrey (singer, composer, guitarist), & an Englishmen, Malcolm Watson (violinist). This album was the only one they released, and only 200 copies in France, at that. When the album failed to sell, the extra copies were melted down.

Request
-Any of Richard Thompson's solo stuff other than Front Parlour Ballads, or his work with Linda Thompson aside from their first album.
-June Tabor? I've got her first album, and her albums with Maddy Prior, but I'd love to get some more.

5:27PM

Hello,

I am looking for good spiritual music, along the lines of what Woven Hand, Lungfish and Danielson Famile are about.
I'm hoping for recommendations of specific songs, whether they are old or new, or recommendations for artists who made or are making this type of music.

Here are a couple of mixes that give a good idea of what I've been looking for, though I'm interested in anything you might be able to recommend to me.

http://wayfaringstranger.muxtape.com/

http://downinyonforest.muxtape.com/

Thank you very much, I love this community.


(The painting above is by Dan Higgs)

11:55PM

Hello,

This is the Myspace page of a friend I thought I'd put here,
listen to 'to die in motion', 'the main intention' and 'now's the hour',
if you will, I like it lots

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=233516243

12:55AM

hello,

me again...

last post was my "filk" (which can be found below, posted july 8)...

this is my "folk"...

thanks so much to all of you who responded!

i'd like to know what you think of this.

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(here's the thing: i'm trying to muster up the courage to show my songs to a friend, with whom I'm starting a band. no one outside of the internet knows i write music. i don't now whether or not i want to keep it that way. what sayest y'all? suggestions for "coming out"?)

9:38PM - More fingerstyle DIY stuff for you all

I was experimenting with Open D tuning, which is a favorite of such players as John Fahey, Bert Jansch, Phosphorescent, Bon Iver and others. The tuning is DADF#AD and Capo is on the 4th fret ( for all you players who want to know). I plan to add on this when i get the chance with maybe asking someone to add Dobro and Piano while I lay vocals over the track.

Have a listen and let me know what you think..


http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=92224

1:11PM - Bill Fox

does anyone have Bill Fox's album Shelter from the Smoke? i think he may be re-releasing it in september but i'm impatient and it's impossible to find!
many many thanks.

11:55PM - Garage Sale!

Come to our garage sale!
Happening tomorrow (Sunday, June 13th) 8am - 5pm.

61 Alexander Avenue
...in between Broad & Grove St. (first right after Applegate Farms)

JEWELERY
ELECTRONICS
VIDEO GAMES, TOYS, ANIME
NEW FURNITURE

...and more!

11:38PM

I'm looking for some artist reccomendations for new up-and-coming Fingerstyle heavy pysch-folk bands/solo acts similar to what I am already listening to:

Nick Drake
Phosphorescent
Megafaun
Stephen Basho Jungens
Michael Hedges

6:29PM - Ten Stones

A couple of new Woven Hand songs are up at the Sounds Familyre blog:
http://www.myspace.com/soundsfamilyre