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No Golden Apples this week due to a live OB from RTRFM’s deluxe annual event In The Pines. So here is a mixtape from 2017. Music from Episode 369 in HD – from The Night of the Hunter to Palmbomen II – from The Soundcarriers to Kriedler – its two hours of sound colors – its a shapeshifting Hypnagogic Hauntological Deep Folk experiment of many things …enjoy the trip
Blog Post with videos, tracklist and mixtape link here
Mixtape direct link here
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Sunshiney folk, sound collages, spoken word, kalimba ambience, ploppy glittery synths, expansive pastoral melodies.
Presented by Emma Daisy
LISTEN: Show restream here
PLAYLIST
2:01:00 Virginia Astley – Out on the lawn I lie in bed
2:06:00 Forward Kwenda Mbira Mazimbabwe – Karigamombe Shiho’s poem
2:09:00 Jamilla woods – Black Girl From Beverly Encounters the Messy Bun
2:10:00 Nika Mo – The devils sooty brother
2:16:00 Woo – How does sound travel
2:21:00 Rabbit Island – The future in your hands
2:22:00 Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams
2:23:00 Grouper – Thanksgiving song
2:26:00 Forward Kwenda mbira mazimbabwe – Tadzungaira
2:34:00 Virginia Astley – Nocturne ends
2:39:00 Lost Girls, Jenny Hval, Havard Volden – Carried by invisible bodies
2:47:00 Rabbit Island – Diamonds and Peanuts
2:50:00 Evelyn Ida Morris – downward
2:52:00 Joanna Macy – I live my life in widening circles
2:53:00 Susumu Yokota – Blue sky and yellow sunflower
2:57:00 Joseph hebst – Simple life feat RaShad Eas
3:00:00 Susumu Yokota – Song of the sleeping forest
3:04:00 bedouine – Sunshine sometimes
3:08:00 Sounding together – Normal (interlude)
3:10:00 The human box project – Deluxe/ love/visions NAMELESS
3:13:00 Shintaro sakamoto – Purging the demons
3:16:00 Generic memory orchestra – Yourestillafraidofme
3:17:00 John fahey – Sligo river blues
3:20:00 Moondog – Trees against the sky II
3:21:00 Moondog – Pastoral II
3:24:00 Fennesz – Rivers of sand
3:28:00 Domenique Dumont – Le soleil dans le monde
3:32:00 Anita barrows – Only as a child am I awake
3:33:00 Margo guryan – Under my umbrella
3:35:00 Franks fish tank – Marron melody
3:38:00 The books – A wonderful phrase by ghandi
3:38:00 The books – Chain of missing links
3:43:00 Colleen – Gazing at taurus santa eulalia
3:47:00 Jordan Ireland with Purple Orchestra – Sunshine
3:53:00 Sam Atkin – Gently
3:57:00 Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds from another planet
3:58:00 Joni Mitchell – Little green
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Folk is not a Four Letter Word
This edition of The Golden Apples of the Sun is a revisit, 16 years later, to the release of Andy Votel’s seminal compilation ‘Folk is not a Four Letter Word’ and its musical surroundings. It’s a return to the source – all wyrd folk, psych, pastoral beauty, and otherworldly electronica.
It was 2005 and the compilation ‘Folk is not a Four Letter Word’ was the debut release on Delay 68 Records, a brand-new label focusing on folk, funk, psych, prog, ye-ye, & beat from across the world. It was compiled by with sleeve notes written by and artwork by Andy Votel who went on to create the fabulous and much-loved Finders Keepers Records.
Looking back it was specail time of convergence and an amazing join the dots of:
- The evolution of Delay 68 Records, Bird Records, B-Movie Music and Finders Keepers
- The beginning of the beautiful album and single artwork that simply overflows with reference points that continue through to the latest releases
- Compilations paying tribute to original psych folk legends like Susan Christie and Wendy Flowers only to see them then appear on albums by Jane Weaver
- Strange nursery rhyme folk and Fuzzy Felt folk crossing over with Hauntology
- The excitement of Vashti Bunyan’s second and third LPs about 40 years after her first
- New folk like Speck Mountain bookending classics
- Bearded Ladies…
- Eastern European folk…
- Further discovery like the Courtyard Music Group and Extradition..
LISTEN: Show restream here
LISTEN: Mixcloud Mixtape Edition here (just the music)
PLAYLIST (Mixcloud Edition)
Brigid Brightfire – Holistic Gong Bath (excerpt) – Weirdshire 2: Burning The Bush
Fred Proud with Hans – Song of Wandering Aengus
Carol Batton – Trees Come Back To Life IN Winter – Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word: Volume 2
Vashti Bunyan – Here – Heartleap
Gary Farr – Don’t Know Why You Bother Child – Take Something With You
Wendy and Bonnie – Children Laughing – Genesis
Speck Mountain – Hey Moon
Writing on the Wall – Buffalo – The Power of the Picts
Catherine Howe – Prologue – What A Beautiful Place
Catherine Howe – On A Misty Morning – What A Beautiful Place
Wendy and Bonnie – By the Sea – Genesis
Woody Simmons – Grey Today – Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word Volume 2
Michele – Believe You – Saturn Rings
Sedayne – Gentle Sisterhood WEIRDSHIRE: Beating The Bounds
Extradition – A Moonsong – Hush
We Are the Wooden Houses & Lorén Clare– Standing Still Departure and Arrival – Unexpected
Courtyard Music Group – Magician – Just Our Way of Saying
Jane Weaver – It’s Only Pastures – Cherlokalate
The Night of the Hunter (Excerpt) – The Night of the Hunter 1955
Jane Weaver – Europium Alluminate – The Fallen By Watch Bird
Jane Weaver – A Circle And A Star –The Fallen By Watch Bird
Jane Weaver – The Fallen By Watch Bird – The Fallen By Watch Bird
Jan and Lorraine – Number 33 – Folk is not a Four letter Word Volume 2
Peggy Zeitlin – Spin Spider Spin – Fuzzy Felt Folk
The Advisory Circle – Frozen Ponds – Other Chanels
The Advisory Circle, – Fire, Damp and Air – Other Channels
Songs Of The Green Pheasant – Nightfall Songs Of The Green Pheasant
James Yorkston – Woozy With Cider James Yorkston – Woozy With Cider
Vic Mars – Villages, Hamlets And Fetes Pt1 and Pt2 – The Land and the Garden
The Hardy Tree – The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath – The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath
Laura J Martin – Spy (The Simonsound Remix)
Starless & Bible Black – Silver Lady – Echoes of the Mountain
Keith Seatman & Douglas E Powell (Featuring Belbury Poly) Mr Metronome – Broken Folk
Jessica Pratt – Night Faces – Jessica Pratt
WANT MORE
Golden Apples of the Sun presents Totally Awesome Psych Folk here
Em Burrows – Exploring the Second British Folk Revival here
Wyrd Folk – What is it? – here
Andy Votel: From Global to Local expansive interview (Superfly Records) here
Jane Weaver studio tour
Very Wyrd… ‘Trust Me’, featuring Rosi Lalor on vocals, is re-imagined by The Simonsound as mythical adventure story, told using analogue synthesisers, Optigan orchestra, home made percussion, pre recorded flute replayed and performed on reel to reel tape machine, and a scattering of voices plucked from the ether.
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