'71 Acid Folk: Comus, Jan Dukes de Grey, Spirogyra
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Topic: '71 Acid Folk: Comus, Jan Dukes de Grey, Spirogyra
Posted By: Logan
Subject: '71 Acid Folk: Comus, Jan Dukes de Grey, Spirogyra
Date Posted: February 25 2019 at 07:31
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Please choose your favourite of these albums. Of course there is a ton of other folk music such as: Roy Harper's Stormcock Leonard Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate Joni Mitchell's Blue Hush's Extradition Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes's Ame debout Cat Stevens' Teaser and the Firecat And Fabrizio De André's Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo (thanks for the recommendation) Strawbs' From the Witchwood C.O.B.'s Spirit of Love Bröselmaschine's self-titled Françoise Hardy's The Question Tudor Lodge's self-titled Fuchsia's self-titled Tír na nÓg's self-titled Robbie Băsho's Song of the Stallion Bert Jansch's Rosemary Lane John Fahey's America Shelagh McDonald's Stargazer Pentangle's Reflection etc. What an amazing year is 1971, but I have listed what I consider to be three big albums of the year of the Progressive Acid Folk persuasion. For those who don't know all three albums, some samples: Comus' "The Herald" (eerily beautiful) Jan Dukes de Grey's "Sun Symphonica" Spirogyra's "The Duke of Beaufoot" ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 25 2019 at 07:47
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Jan Dukes de Grey. I love the string section in Sun Symphonica. ------------- 
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: February 25 2019 at 08:15
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Nothing is better than COMUS. Probably a top five album of all time.
However the other two albums are big time faves as well. -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: February 25 2019 at 10:00
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Comus for sure, but I'm getting to know the other bands. ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: February 25 2019 at 10:55
| This isn't close. Comus' First Utterance is one of the greatest prog albums ever. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: February 25 2019 at 10:58
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Comus for me. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: February 25 2019 at 11:49
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Sorry for St. Radigunds which is a minor masterpiece in its own right - but literally nothing compares to First Utterance |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 25 2019 at 12:03
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I went with Comus also...due to it's legendary status and 'influence'? But I ofen play others on that list, including St Radiguns and Stormcock, much more than Comus.....so lets let the opinion wars start .
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: February 25 2019 at 13:32
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Definitely Comus. The other two are not comparable in my mind. (Meaning in terms of quality, not in terms of type of music, obviously) ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: February 25 2019 at 23:14
Love all three albums here, but 1st vote for Spirogyra - can’t resist the beautiful Barbara Gaskin and that manic bass of Steve Borrill 
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Posted By: CristauxFeur
Date Posted: February 26 2019 at 14:51
| Gettiing into Comus recently so Comus |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: February 26 2019 at 15:17
| Spirogyra takes my vote, out of these three fantastic albums. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 26 2019 at 16:45
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Of these three, Comus. But as Greg noted in his original post, there are far greater folk albums from that year (Cat Stevens, Roy Harper, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, etc.). ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: February 26 2019 at 16:47
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TCat wrote:Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: February 26 2019 at 17:42
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Comus. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: February 28 2019 at 23:13
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Jan Dukes de Grey ------------- A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now) |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: April 18 2020 at 11:23
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Comus ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 18 2020 at 16:12
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Hadn't seen this thread in its first life 
This is a very interesting video, which I wasn't aware of. Obviously a time piece, but it's not the pastoral girl scenes I find most interesting, but there are short trafficked snippets of the band filmed ...   Can you tell me if there are more of these or these were taken from a different source, please?
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 18 2020 at 17:46
I din;t make the video, it's Picnic at Hanging Rock mixed with band footage, but looking closely at the video, I don't think that's Comus. There a double-bass and the line-up does not like right. I think it's Pentangle. I looked up some live concert footage of Pentangle, and compare to this: ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: April 18 2020 at 18:50
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The video of The Herald looks like snippets from Picnic at Hanging Rock. Nice place, The Grampians. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 18 2020 at 18:59
It is, with some footage of Pentangle I believe. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 18 2020 at 19:32
I do think that these are three of the greatest progressive Acid Folk albums of the year, and they are three of my favourite albums of the year. Hush's Extradition, Fresh Maggots self-titled, Bread Love and Dreams' Amaryllis, Tír na nÓg's self-titled, C.O.B.'s Spirit of Love, and Bröselmaschine's are some other favourites of mine of this ilk. I love psychedelic folk, and folk music more generally, but I am often particularly attracted to the psychedelic side of things, and I tend to appreciate the strange. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: April 18 2020 at 22:29
| I like all of these, but Comus is the one I love. That album is on my alltime 20 best albums list. |