Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: acid folk, Albion, em burrows, freak folk, golden apples of the sun, psych folk, revolver, rtrfm
For RTRFM’s Revolver series Em Burrows presents “A Company of Rogues” exploring over three parts (and nearly 6 hours) the brief history of the second British Folk Revival from the mid-60s through to mid-70s. Full of Pastoral folk, psychedelic folk and electric folk, Albion folk and progressive folk, freak, acid and psych folk sounds, and rounded out by delving into the idea of an “other” Britain.
Check out Planxty, Steeleye Span, Trinity Folk, Fairport Convention, Traffic, Nick Drake, Fotheringay, Anne Briggs, John Martyn, The Bothy Band, Dr Strangely Strange, Mellow Candle, Trees, Incredible Strong Band, Forest, Comus, Agincourt, and the amazing 1976 release from Hedgehog Pie, as well as Tyrannosaurus Rex and of Caravan, Carole Pegg and Comus and more…
Part 1– listen on Mixcloud here
Planxty — Arthur McBride
Ewan Maccoll — The Trooper Cut Down in His Prime
Young Tradition — Wondrous Love
Trinity Folk — Working Man
Steeleye Span — Blackleg Miner
Martin Carthy — Sailor’s Life
Fairport Convention — A Sailor’s Life
Young Tradition — Fire Maringo/Hanging Johnny/Bring ‘Em Down/Haul on the Bowline
Pentangle — Lyke Wake Dirge
Nick Drake — Time Has Told Me
Bridget St John — Early Morning Song
John Martyn — She Moves Through the Fair
Anne Briggs — Living by the Water
Fotheringay— Banks of the Nile
Traffic — John Barleycorn Must Die
Tudor Lodge — Willow Tree
Lesley Duncan — Love Song
Shirley Collins — All Things Are Quite Silent
Steeleye Span — Lovely on the Water
Part 2 – Listen on Mixcloud here
Trees — Fool
Strawbs — Benedictus
Forest — Graveyard
Richard Thompson — Painted Ladies
Sign Of My Mind — Dr Strangely Strange
Mellow Candle — Heaven Heath
Hedgehog Pie — Lambton Worm
Jethro Tull — The Whistler
Horslips — King of the Fairies
Agincourt — When I Awoke
Magic Carpet — Peace Song
Tyrannosaurus Rex — Great Horse
Incredible Strong Band — Painting Box
Fresh Maggots — Rosemary Hill
The Courtyard Group — The Magician
Pentangle — Jack Orion
Part 3 – Listen on Mixcloud here
Lesley Mackie — Opening Music/Loving Couples/The Ruined Church
Carole Pegg — A Witch’s Guide to the Underground
Comus — Song to Comus
Magna Carta — Elizabethan
Quintessence — Sri Ram Chant
Third Ear Band — Stone Circle
Caravan— Winter Wine
Spirogyra — The Duke of Beaufoot
King Crimson — I Talk to the Wind
Hedgehog Pie — I am the Worm
Agincourt — When I Awoke
Magic Carpet — Peace Song
The Strawbs — Benedictus
Steeleye Span — Blackleg Miner
Fotheringay — Banks of the Nile
Traffic — John Barleycorn
Shirley Collins — All Things Are Quite Silent
John Martyn — She Moves Through the Fair
Fairport Convention — A Sailor’s Life
more listening…
The Totally Awesome Psych Folk mixtape on the Golden Apples of the Sun – Listen here
Recommended Reading:
Electric Eden. 672 pages. Faber and Faber. By Rob Young.
Read a detailed review here
Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk 366 pages. Jawbone Press. By Jeanette Leech
Read a detailed review here
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: americana, aor, claude mono, desert stoner rock, freak folk, Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show, rtrfm, yacht rock
‘From the Canyon to the Coast’
Claude Mono’s ‘From the Canyon to the Coast’…is a loosely themed mixtape in the Golden Apples theme way – its a musical journey from Laurel Canyon to Venice Beach but the long way through the desert and the Spahn Ranch…a journey that touches Americana, Freak Folk, Stoner Desert Rock, West Coast Yacht Rock and other hallucinatory sounds – its music that is juxtaposed and thrown out of context with goal of bringing you perfect happiness…
Listen to the show re-stream here – select 15 October 2017
HQ Mixcloud here – just the music
PLAYLIST
Keith Seatman – It’s Now Time to Let Go – Boxes Windows & Secret Hidey Holes
Chelsea Stewart – The Song of Wandering Aengus
Amorphous Androgynous – Meadows – The Otherness
Larry Jon Wilson – Sapelo (YZ Remix)
Air – Ce Matin La (Slowed Down) – Moon Safari
Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb – Wichita Lineman
Link Wray – Fallin Rain – Link Wray
Iron & Wine – Call it Dreaming (Live) – Beast Epic
Neil Young – Down By The River – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Grace Slick – White Rabbit (excerpt) – Surrealistic Pillow
Jonathon Wilson – Desert Raven – Gentle Spirit
America – Horse with No Name (Todd Terje Remix)
Sound of Emptiness – Duke Nukem Time to Kill the Old West
Floating Points – Kelso Dunes – Reflections Mojave Desert
Sun Dreams – Belle Gonzalez – Belle
Jim Morrison – The Hitchhiker – An American Prayer
Trentemoller – Sycamore Feeling – Into The Great Wide Yonder
Manson Family Girls – Always is all is forever
The Family – Ra-Hide Away – The Family Jams
Twelve Thousand Days – Descent (Excerpt) – The Active Listener’s Acid Folk Sampler Volume Two
Golden Animals – The Steady Roller – Free Your Mind and Win a Pony
George Cessna – Leave Me Alone – Sincerely Yours
Speck Mountain – Midnight Sun – Summer Above
Devandra Banhart – Daniel – Mala
Circuit Rider – Old Time Feeling – Enjoy the Experience – Homemade Records 1958-1992
Damien Jurado – QACHINA – Visions of us on the Land
Ned Doheny – Get It Up for Love (Demo) – Ned Doheny
Marvin Franklin with Kimo And the Guys – Kona Winds – Aloha Got Soul
Sugar and Crème – Between Us – WTNG
Jonathon Wilson – Fazon (Live)
The Breathers – Don’t It Make You Feel – Seafaring Strangers
Propquinity – Sea Song – Propqunity
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Devendra Banhart, documentary, folk, freak folk, Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show, video
“Its ok…Vashti digs it”
– Devendra Banhart
It may be 2017 and we may be the last but The Golden Apples of the Sun still likes exploring new weird and freak folk…after all that album was one of the sources for the show’s name
Excerpt from The New Weird Generation – 2010 post over at Notes on Metamodernism
“So, what is New Weird America?
Whoever glances at the programme booklet of the Free Folk Fest will see that the names of Devendra Banhart, CocoRosie, Joanna Newsom, Akron/Family, and Antony & the Johnsons are missing. While these very artists are now called the standard-bearers of the genre, more obscure acts were listed such as the extremely rhythmic, psychedelic freak rock of Sunburned Hand Of The Man, the minimalism of the Charalambides, and the acid folk of Six Organs Of Admittance, among others. The Brattleboro festival nonetheless should be called the cradle of free folk, mainly because many of the artists present at the festival were selected a year later by Devendra Banhart for his limited edition album The Golden Apples Of The Sun, an album he put together at the request of the American art magazine Arthur. On this album, as well as music by direct friends such as the already mentioned CocoRosie, Joanna Newsom and Antony Hegarty, Banhart also selected the music of Jack Rose and Matt Valentine – two key figures at Brattleboro. Matt Valentine of the band Tower Recordings even was the one who co-organized it. The Free Folk Fest, in other words, already contained the binding elements of the otherwise miscellaneous musicians on Banhart’s compilation album. As different as they might be, they belong to the same musical family”.
The Eternal Children Documentary
Part 5
Part 6
On todays show Mark Davies will be your host for your favourite 2 hours of the week and will gently guide you through a smorgasbord of musical delights. He’s got a big box of records as vinyl is really the only format worthy of the show. We’ll be checking out some UK Hauntology, Doom folk from Canada, Scandinavian psych, Argentinian folkatronica as well as taking in some soundtrack and library music from Europe.Sit back and glisten.
Listen to the sho re-stream here (select 27 Nov)
PLAYLIST
Folkazoid – Arabic Hash – Folkazoid EP
GOAT – Bondye – Commune
Grim Tower – Anarchic breezes- Anarchic breezes
Stereolab – Animal or vegetable (a wonderful wooden reason) – Refried Ectoplasm
Broadcast – Accidentals – work and non-work
Pram – Shadows – Helium
Erasers – By your side – Stem together
Juana Molina – Las Edades – WED21
Penguin cafe orchestra Рchartered flight РMusic from the penguin caf̩ orchestra
Dungen – Det du tanker idag ar du I morgon – Ta det lugnt
Dungen – Det Tar tid – 4
Efterklang – Prey and predator – tripper
Alain Goraguer – La Planette Sauvage – Soundtrack La Planette Sauvage
Piero Umiliani – Effetti Musicali – Effetti Musicali
Serge Gainsbourg – Danger – Les annes Psychedeliques (1966-71)
AIR – Napalm love – Pocket Symphony
Damien Jurado – Walrus – Visions of us on the land
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: freak folk, golden apples of the sun, psych folk, wyrd
Claude Mono presents crystalline psych-folk from the Philadelphia psych folk family tree, some Led Zepplin, and the usual Golden Apples wyrdness…
Listen Here (Choose 15 March)
Mixcloud music only mix
Playlist
Fursaxa – Charlote – Mycorrhizae Realm
Helena Espvall – A Tiny Heart Blossoms On My Fingertips
Fern Knight – Silver Fox – Fern Knight
Fern Knight – Silver Fox (Outro) – Fern Knight – First Version
Led Zepplin – The Battle Of Evermore (Mandolin Guitar Mix From Headley Grange) – Led Zepplin IV
Led Zepplin – The Rain Song – Houses of the Holy
Led Zepplin – Babe Im Gonna Leave You by
Ebon Lore – The Owl – Wisdom of the Owl
The Espers – Sightings – Espers III
The Espers – Tomorrow – The Weed EP
Midlake – The Old and the Young (Moullinex edit) – Antiphon
Jane Weaver – Argent – The Silver Globe
Arnold Fish – The Guilty (Il Copevole) – The Active Listener Sampler 29
Amorphous Androgynous – Dead Vapours – The Cartel 2
Amorphous Androgynous – Some Time Later – The Cartel 2
Syd Arthur – Black Planet Eyes (Paradise Lost) – Amorphous Androgynous Remixes
Pamela Wyn Shannon – Moss Mantra – Weirdlore Notes From the Folk Underground
You Are Wolf – Murmurations – Hawk to the Hunting Gone
Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow – 50 Words for Snow
Fursaxa – Donna Plumerae (Mixcloud only)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: freak folk, Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show, hauntology, mixtape, wyrd
Listeners of The Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show on RTRFM 92.1 will enjoy exploring the new mixtape collection here. Not only some fine HQ mixes from the Golden Apples itself but also a vast (40+) personally curated set of favourite mixes of freak-folk, psych folk, pastoral, wyrd, vintage electronica, and hauntology. Music For Pleasure.
Production music, library music – call it what you like – DIY your own freak folk soundtrack … is this is the beginning or the end? … some of these are actually really good…
…more here
…and perhaps for something darker and drone-laden…
Caethua – Her albums weave plaintive, emotionally resonant songs together with field recordings and ambient soundscapes to create vignettes of an alternate and deeply personal universe.She seems to inhabit her narrative albums as a witness herself, or they her as a sibyl. Which is not to say that her songs are the otherworldly sounds of a possessed medium — the opposite is, in fact, the case. Her music is brought to life by the evocative realism of her lyrics and the emotional clarity that carries through her adopted voices. Here
Raf Spielman for Foxy Digitalis
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: electronica, Events, folk, freak folk, glitch, hauntology, new wyrd, psych
ERASERS
ANDREW SINCLAIR and the RITUAL BAND
ERMINE COAT
SALAMANDER
RABBIT ISLAND
ELK BELL
MEI SWAN
Diger Rokwell
Claude Mono
Tristan Gibbs
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The Golden Apples of the Sun 