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17 posts tagged acid folk
The Savage Rose - Evening's Child
Since I’m basically just studying for language exams this semester, I headed to the record store to stock up on some new listening material for the coming flash card hell and to be shamed for my musical ignorance.
The Savage Rose is a Danish psychedelic rock group that features the store owners’ long time front-woman crush, Annisette Koppel. Her voice is a raspy wonder and the arrangements by her husband, Thomas Koppel, are expert. The band, despite personnel changes around this core couple, has released records consistently since the late 1960s, the last being released in 2007, even after Thomas’ death the year prior.
They put themselves in a media-proof vortex in the 70s and 80s, reducing the band to a political acoustic trio, playing in Palestinian refugee camps and releasing those years’ 8 records only on independent labels, so understandably they’re not the best remembered band outside of Europe, and their internet presence is incredibly tiny. So if you like this, spread the word as there’s a lot of this band to dig into.
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Carolanne Pegg - A Witch's Guide to the Underground
Carolanne Pegg put out this charming folk rock album in 1973. She’d just split from her husband and the band project, Mr. Fox, that they’d begun together, so a lot of the songs are autobiographical about the tough time she had as a single mother. The record alternates between country-rock ballads and British folk arrangements led by Carolanne’s fantastic fiddle playing. She also dabbled in witch-craft when she was a busker, providing the inspiration for this song, A Witch’s Guide to the Underground. Unfortunately she didn’t manage to break into the industry, and when her musical aspirations didn’t pan out, she pursued a career in academics, studying Mongolian history.
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Spirogyra - The Further Point
I thought I’d throw some more Spirogyra up onto Tumblr since I’ve never posted from their third album, Bells, Boots and Shambles, despite it being my favourite of their records.
Spirogyra was a 1970s psychedelic folk band from England that formed at the University of Canterbury. They put out three intense albums, adding a harder edge with each release.
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Caedmon - Ten Maidens Fair
Caedmon is a music collector’s wet dream. The self-titled album was produced in 1978 as a modest Scottish folk band’s farewell project before splitting up. As such, only 500 copies were originally released. But those records made it into the hands of just the right kind of pushy music lovers, and, because of its breath-taking instrumentation (sans drums), they’ve been preaching about it ever since.
This resulted in a 1994 CD reissue which let the former members know about the cult following they’d gained, which in turn spurred them to reform in recent years and put out a new album called, A Chicken To Hug. They also put up a website so you can obsess over the historic details of one of the rarest and greatest psychedelic folk albums ever made. The closest sounding folk act I can think of would probably be Spirogyra.
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Leonda - Zono My Bird
Some crazy how Woman In The Sun, even through it was released through a major label, not only didn’t manage to catch on, but became one of the rarest records around. Leonda is a gorgeous 60s singer-songwriter. I didn’t really find our where she was from, just that she’s Native American and that her backing band were Canadian (The Paupers). The record just seems so freaking marketable, being a healthy mix of fantastic psychedelic folk and blues songs with just tinges of Native American folk influences. And she’s gorgeous!
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Judy Henske & Jerry Yester - Horses On A Stick
This one of the albums I came out of the record store with on the weekend. The owner remembered a bunch of the albums I’d been pestering him for and had set them aside in a nook for me. It made me feel pretty awesome.
Judy Henske and Jerry Yester’s Farewell Aldebaran is wonderful bit of 60s strangeness. This married psychedelic folk duo, on Frank Zappa’s advice, recorded this 1969 record of Henske’s poetry put to a variety of types of music. The album bounces between psychedelic belters, hymns, and pop parodies while maintaining a death grip on listener’s attention through Henske’s deep and powerful vocals.
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Kim Jung Mi - Wind
Kim Jung Mi was a Korean psychedelic folk band during the early 70s, headed by renowned Koeran guitarist, Shin Jung-hyeon. For whatever reason I can’t find much information about this group other than that. The band’s name very possibly could be the name of the female vocalist. In any case, this is a wonderful psychedelic record that sounds like it was recorded on a grassy hilltop during a 70s summer.
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The People's Victory Orchestra & Chorus - Did You Ever See A Lady Act That Way?
It’s so annoying that there aren’t any decent images of this record on the internet. I think I need to try and do something about this and go troll some forums.
The People’s Victory Orchestra and Chorus was… well no one really knows. They released 3 privately pressed records of inspired psychedelic rock and folk, hailed from Long Island during the 70s, and seem to have placed a high value on their anonymity. Some people think a Rolling Stone was exploring a private side project, and others think this was an album crafted by a musical hippie commune.
If anyone out there know anyone who some crazy how has a copy of this record in good condition, please force them to take a picture of it and upload it!
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Judy Henske & Jerry Yester - Raider
The guys down at the record store tried to say that Judy Henske & Jerry Yester’s Farewell Aldebaran had only one good track on it (Snowblind, which I’ve posted before) but that is all sorts of wrong. This is Raider, another American folk marvel.
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Lindisfarne - Down
About time I tried to get back into the blogging game. I was quite busy for a while there with school and trips to Vancouver.
Recently I’ve been getting really into this English folk band called Lindisfarne. They were a 70s group produced by Bob Johnson, notable for his production work with Bob Dylan. They band is a lot more rock oriented than most of the English folk I listen to like Amazing Blondel and Strawbs, but their debut album, Nicely Out of Tune, covers a wide musical range: up and down-tempo folk, harmonica-heavy country, and bouncy piano rock/pop. Their vocal lines are absurdly catchy.
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