OK, just a collection of (mostly) obscure folk/folk rock music covering the years 1969-1973. Some elements of prog in 2 or 3 of the tracks, but nothing wrong with prog folk! I was going to do 2 discs, one of English folk bands and one of American/rest of the world... but decided what the hell I'll just try to make it as diverse as possible. And folk is often maligned as men with beards, fingers in the ear, singing songs of the sea or of days gone by etc etc. I hope this mix will tempt anyone who has steered clear of anything folk related to take a listen and hopefully find something to their liking.
01.Fresh Maggots- Rosemary Hill (3:35) from "Fresh Maggots... Hatched" 1971 02.Comus- Diana (4:36) from "First Utterance" 1971 03.Robin Scott- The Sound Of Rain (4:31) from "Woman From The Warm Grass" 1969 04.Mellow Candle- The Poet And The Witch (2:52) from "Swaddling Songs" 1972 05.Subway- All The Good Things (3:57) from "Subway" 1972 06.The Pentangle- Sally Go Round The Roses (3:40) from "Basket Of Light" 1969 07.Karen Dalton- Something On Your Mind (3:23) from "In My Own Time" 1971 08.Ora- Seashore (2:53) from "Ora" 1969 09.Fuchsia- The Nothing Song (8:26) from "Fuchsia" 1971 10.Wizz Jones- Dazzling Stranger (3:05) from "The Legendary Me" 1970 11.Spirogyra- The Future Won't Be Long (4:18) from "St. Radigunds" 1971 12.Judy Henske & Jerry Yester- Raider (5:15) from "Farewell Aldebaran" 1969 13.Alan Hull- United States Of Mind (3:08) from "Pipedream" 1973 14.Gordon Jackson- Song For Freedom (4:52) from "Thinking Back" 1969 15.Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes- Jusqu'a Ce Que La Force De T'aimer Me Manque (2:58) from "Paix" 1972 16.Montreal- What About The Wind? (2:29) from "A Summer's Night" 1970 17.Fraser & DeBolt- David's Tune (3:25) from "Fraser & DeBolt with Ian Guenther" 1971 18.Jade- Mayfly (3:36) from "Fly On Strangewings" 1970 19.Oriental Sunshine- Across Your Life (3:31) from "Dedicated To The Bird We Love" 1970 20.Ithaca- Journey (5:08) from "A Game for All Who Know" 1973
01.Darker My Love-Wake(1:06)from the album'Darker My Love'2005 02.Aqua Nebula Oscillator-Silvermoon(5:14)from the album'Under The Moon Of...'2008 03.The Asteroid #4-Outside(4:10)from the album'An Amazing Dream'2006 04.Amazing Baby-The Narwhal(4:19)from the album 'Rewild'2009 05.Caribou-Eli(3:05)from the album'Andorra'2007 06.Spotlight Kid-There's A Reason Why(4:16)from the EP 'Crystal Dreams' 2010 07.Boris With Michio Kurihara-Fuzzy Reactor(3:44)from the album'Rainbow' 2006 08.The Skygreen Leopards-Hobo Sparrow's Dream(3:03)from the album'Child God In The Garden Of Idols'2005 09.Sic Alps-Gelly Roll Gum Drop(3:16)from the album'U.S. Ez'2008 10.Dragontears-Masters Of War(5:10)from the album'Tambourine Freak Machine'2008 11.The Diamond Center-Dos Fridas(3:50)from the album'My Only Companion'2009 12.Moonspeed-Open Gates(3:16)from the EP'Songs From The Sun'2006 13.Bipolaroid-Transparent Make-Believe(4:27)from the album'E(i)ther Or'2008 14.Strangers Family Band-Strange Transmission(7:03)from the EP'Strangers Family Band'2009 15.Lower Heaven-A Frame In Time(5:01)from the album'Ashes' 2008 16.The Lava Children-The Green Word(5:15)from the EP'The Lava Children' 2009 17.Juan Trip'-Dirty Party(2:53)from the album'Consolation'2006 18.Voice Of The Seven Thunders-Kommune(3:41)from the album'Voice Of The Seven Thunders'2010 19.Sula Bassana And The Nasoni Pop Art Experimental Band-Daydreams(5:57)from the album'Vol. 1'2006
Aqua Nebula Oscillator. A hefty chunk of Europe's prehistoric rockpainting is found on French cave walls and it has to be *nearly* true that Aqua Nebula Oscillator were raised in those very caves. This is *primitive* acid garage punk. The band sound like a hot woman cave decorated with peacock feathers. Dirty, psychedelic garage sounds with an oscillator set to attack.. like Gonn ('Blackout of Gretely') meets '73 Hawkwind.
Spotlight Kid On There’s A Reason Why the band takes shoegazing down the psychedelic meets krautrock path with the girl/boy backing vocals used to great effect. This is a great little EP worthy of some of your listening time.
Dragontears The band used a larger amount of electronics and the eternal quest for hallucinatory experimentation has made the music span a sligthly wider range, transcending musical styles like neofolk, psychedelic, space rock and electronica.
Lower Heaven Absorbing and reinterpreting influences like My Bloody Valentine, Hawkwind, and the Jesus and Mary Chain, the band has been able to defy constraints of genre classification by keeping the song writing, arrangement, instrumentation, and production of their work unconventional and innovative.
Voice Of The Seven Thunders The tone and temperament of Tomlinson's material has shifted, moving emphasis from ornate psychedelic folk to more assertive, electrified rock variants often verging on fuzz-strewn bluesy ragas. 'Kommune' strides its way through a chunk of rollicking '70s kosmische with a slew of searing leads - something continued with even greater period flair on 'The Burning Mountain', a monstrously good track whose modal wah-wah workouts immediately draw up links to the kind of psych-rock Finders Keepers compilations tend to dig up.
Influenced by bands like Pink Floyd (Piper at the Gates of Dawn in particular), King Crimson, early Yardbirds, the Byrds, the Beatles and various blues & psychedelic abands and artists from the '60's, the Moffs, a Sydney band, were around from 1983 to 1989 and they released a whole lot of vinyl on the Citadel label. Their shows were wonderfully laid back - you could easily sit on the floor with your eyes closed and just groove along to their music, or you could take a whole lot of illicit substances and REALLY get into it. They were surreal, atmospheric and groovy; think of jangly guitars, bass guitar octave runs, Farfisa organs and the occasional bells and chimes.
