A season of special events in Calderdale Libraries exploring themes of landscape, folklore, ritual and psychedelia. January 20th-25th 2014.
With live music, author events, film screenings and an airing of some of our more esoteric literature. More Here
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Iasos – Intro – Psychemagik presents Magik Sunrise
Oneohtrix Point Never – Zebra – Robin The Frog’s Wyrd Daze Mixtape
Damien Jurado – Silver Timothy (Official Video)
Sirarcusa – Streap-Tease in the Stars (The Way I Do) – Psychemagik presents Magik Cyrkles
Express Rising – Dainel Firm
The Owl Service – The Stone Bequest- The Bitter Night EP
The Owl Service – The Church Grimm -The Bitter Night EP
Heart – Sylvan Song – Little Queen
Heart – Dream of the Archer
The Andrew Allsgood Experience – Macho Wizard (Heart – Magic Man)
Psychemagik – La Paix Est Une Fleur
Jacky Chalard – Super Man, Super Cool (Extended Version)
The Andrew Allsgood Experience – He Travels Far (2009)
Space Dimension Controller – Chemoreceptor
Space Dimension Controller- Fluorescent Trails
Freddy Reilly-The Love Quadrant (Space Dimension Controller – Alice-wash remix)
Space Frog – Lost In Space (Time Slip) ‘Ruchs Remix’ excerpt
Mount Kimbie – Made to Stray (DJ Koze Remix)
Automating – Hypnogogia (from ‘Somnambulist’) – Made Of Wood & Wire Compilation
K Wilson – Trails (from ‘Alignments’) – Made Of Wood & Wire Compilation
BOK Darklord – Iced Honey (from ‘Lulu’) – Made Of Wood & Wire Compilation
Idee Des Nordens – Riders On The Storm – Secret Moments 1997
The Doors – Riders On The Storm (rare whisper version)
Barry Brusseau – Empty Head – The Active Listener Sampler 12
Steve and Teresa – Catching a Wave – Psychemagik Presents Magik Sunrise
“The folks at Light Sounds Dark are obviously aiming for those demented souls craving something fresh, freakily danceable and previously nearimpossible to obtain”
Wyrd Daze is a zine that originally came out on print but has been revamped for online as an e-zine. Its seriously full of ‘wyrd stuff’ that is totally on the money if you like a bit of glitch folk, ethereal soundscapes and pagan folk-art – and each edition includes loads of downloadable music and mixtapes. Golden Apples recommends.
Wyrd Daze – The digital zine of extraordinary creativity
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: dark folk, Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show, john barleycorn reborn, lammas night laments, mark coyle, wyrd folk
Golden Apples fans can learn in this post a bit about two of THE most essential compilation sets that are required ownership for those into psych folk, acid folk, wyrd folk etc etc …
Lammas Night Laments – as curated by Mark Coyle of Woven Wheat Whispers
Dark Britannica – also more recently known as the Cold Spring Folk Series
Claude Mono: A few years ago I managed to pick up from blog-land two volumes of Lammas Night Laments a sprawling journey into pagan-wyrd-dark folk. They were CD-R issues . I was initially attracted by the art work which captured a certain pagan-folk atmosphere and I was certainly not disappointed with the music and hundreds of folk comps later these are still two of my favourites. At the time looking around a bit more I discovered there were no less than 14 Volumes spanning 1966 – 1980 – that’s a lot of wyrd folk!! – Over a long period of time I eventually tracked them all down after lots of digital digging. I owe a specific debt here to Simon Knight of Hidden Shallows Productions who shared a number of missing volumes with me.
Then I discovered John Barleycorn Reborn…
In a group forum I found an e-mail from 2005 from Mark Coyle the curator of Lammas Night Laments…
“…it’s me that does the Lammas Night Laments series. There are currently 11 volumes and I am currently finalising the last one, volume 12. In due course there will be a modern series called ‘The Green Man Awakes’ but not quickly due to a range of commitments…”
Accompanied by a massive, 16-page booklet of background essays and interpretive guidelines, as well as a lovingly detailed, 24-page track annotation manual, ‘John Barleycorn Reborn’ is an incredible 5½-hour, 4xCD set compiled by Woven Wheat Whispers founder, Mark Coyle for Cold Spring Records. The album explores the mythos of the John Barleycorn legend across more than 60 tracks, divided into three parts: “birth,” “death” and “rebirth”, from nearly as many diverse “artists largely unknown who make unconventional folk music across Britain.”
Mark Coyle: “At heart I’m a collector I think and for years had been exploring the area of unconventional folk music exploring and buying whatever music I could find. I first compiled music from 1960 – 1980 as the Lammas Night Laments CDr series. I had always planned on a modern version done with a label called ‘The Green Man Awakes’. When Cold Spring got in touch, I knew I would now be able to produce such a set. The inspiration was from groundbreaking sets such as ‘Nuggets’ and ‘Pebbles,’ which have themselves run to many volumes.”
…and in 2009…
The compilers of ‘John Barleycorn Reborn’ (2007), faced an embarrassment of riches – a testament both to English folk heritage and the health of the contemporary folk music scene. So here we have the second crop from that original sowing. Originally released for download only, now finally available as a stunning double CD, with every track completely remastered to the highest quality. 33 tracks from the cream of current dark British Folk music.
The above includes Excerpts from a detailed and wonderfully immersive article and interview with Mark Coyle discussing John Barleycorn Reborn at Terrascope.
Right now at Cold Spring Records you can get a bonus pack which contains four amazing compilations:
‘John Barleycorn Reborn: Rebirth’
‘We Bring You A King With A Head Of Gold’
‘John Barleycorn Reborn’
Looks like the Dark Britannica Series may now no longer be available via Cold Spring Records – sad news – this link is still up but not sure if live
Explorations of John Barleycorn Reborn over at ‘A Year In The Country’ a favourite destination of the Golden Apples
I also found an interesting post over on the Folk Horror Revival FB Page asking whatever happened to Mark Coyle – seems to be a few theories – intriguing stuff…read here
A while back James Cargill of Broadcast spoke to The Outer Church about his part in making Berberian Sound Studio one of 2012’s most fascinating films for the interview he put together an accompanying mix of his favourite film music. Golden Apples recommends this Morricone-fuelled delight
Tracklisting:
Ennio Morricone Adonai Ottawa 76 International Animation Festival
Henry Mancini Salem Came to Dinner ‘Watch’
Bernard Parmegiani Suns of Easter Island
Lawrence Crosley The Music Machine A
lessandro Alessandroni Dialogues
Ennio Morricone L’uccello Dalle Piume Di Cristallo Mikre Isha TV Ontario Ident University of the Air – CTV
Nicola Pivani Le Orme Utbildingsradion Ident
Ennio Morricone Canto della Campana Stonata
Eugen Thomass Magic World of the Sea Ontario Educational Communications Authority
Eugen Thomass Frühling Angus Maclise Humming in the Night Skull
Tristan Gibbs is someone who likes to share his secrets and that means lots of eerie sounds and lots of detail on what those sounds are in case you want to further immerse yourself…
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PLAYLIST
The Searching Years – Puppets – Classroom Projects
Shirley Collins and Davey Graham – Proud Maisrie – Folk Roots, New Routes
Harry Forbes – Digits – Tomorrow’s Achievements: Parry Music Library 1976-86
Oneohtrix Point Never – Americans – R Plus Seven
BBC Radiophonic Workshop (Delia Derbyshire) – Mattachin – BBC Radiophonic Music
Belbury Poly and Spacedog- Quiet Industry – Study Series 10: ‘Message and Method’
The Lyttle Folk – Jimmy Whalen – Classroom Projects
The Focus Group – Hocusing loe – Sketches and Spells
Samara Lubelski – Tasting the Candy – Parallel Suns
Jenny Hval – Mephisto in the Water – Innocence is Kinky
Forest Swords – An Hour – Engravings
Rick Miller – Future Directions – Tomorrow’s Achievements: Parry Music Library 1976-86
Fuck Buttons – Prince’s Prize – Slow Focus
Vashti Bunyan – Rainbow River – Just Another Diamond Day
Paul Giovanni – Fire Leap – The Wicker Man OST
Bert Jansch – Angie – Bert Jansch
Jon Brooks – Narrow Lanes End – Shapwick
Giorgio Gaslini – School at Night (Lullaby Music Box Version) – Profondo Rosso OST
Goblin – Profondo Rosso – Profondo Rosso OST
Belbury Poly – Tangled Beams – The Owl’s Map
The Song of the Shadows – Christopher Tophill – Classroom Projects
Espers – Byss & Abyss – Espers
Broadcast – Corporeal – Tender Buttons
Caetano Veloso – Tropicália – Caetano Veloso
Jonny Trunk – SR – Scrapbook
Amon Düül II – Cerberus – Yeti
The Move – Useless Information – Move
BBC Radiophonic Workshop – TARDIS Takeoff – Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Broadcast and the Focus Group – Royal Chant – Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Hype Williams – Untitled – Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite, and Start Gettin’ Reel
Julia Holter – This is a True Heart – Loud CIty Song
Robin the Fog – (Excerpt) – The Ghosts of Bush
The Golden Apples of the Sun 