Your favourite Progressive Folk-Rock albums?
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Topic: Your favourite Progressive Folk-Rock albums?
Posted By: David_D
Subject: Your favourite Progressive Folk-Rock albums?
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 04:12
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Allright, folks, how about some Folk-Rock albums. What do you say to that? I guess, it might not be as quite so popular as Jazz-Rock, but let us see. So, there we go, with my own list unranked: Algarnas Trädgård (S) - ”Framtiden är ett svävande skepp… (1972) Carmen (UK/USA) - Fandangos in Space (1973) Comus (UK) - First Utterance (1971) Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho (BRA) - Paêbirú (1975) Lin Di & Cool Zone (China) - Ten Days In Magic Land (2003) Haizea (ESP) - Hontz Gaua (1980) Harmonium (CAN) - Les Cinq Saisons (1975) Hölderlin (D) - Hölderlins Traum (1972) Erkin Koray (TRK) - Elektronik Türkuler (1974) Los Jaivas (Chile) - Alturas de Machu Pichu (1981) Strawbs (UK) - Grave New World (1972) For those who are interested in many different Rock styles, I can recommend very much the book Rock Music Styles. A History by Katherine Charlton. And I hope you'll enjoy it!
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 06:38
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Harmonium - Les Cinq Saisons Strawbs - Grave New World Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three Jethro Tull - Aqualung Anthony Phillips - The Geese & the Ghost Carol of Harvest - Carol of Harvest Ragnarök - Ragnarök Los Jaivas - Alturas de Machu Pichu The Pentangle - Basket of Light Judy Dyble - Talking With Strangers
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Posted By: enigmatic
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 06:43
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One album per band, in alphabetic order: Broselmaschine - Broselmaschine - Germany 1971 Comus - First Utterance - UK 1971 Carol of Harvest - Carol of Harvest - Germany 1978 Congreso - Pajaros De Arcila - Chile 1984 Emtidi - Saat - Germany 1972 Fuchsia - Fuchsia - UK 1971 Gryphon - Midnight Mushrumps - UK 1974 Harmonium - Les cinq saisons - Canada 1975 Hoelderlin - Hoelderlins Traum - Germany 1971 Jan Dukes de Grey - Mice and Rats in the Loft - UK 1971 Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood - UK 1977 Lisker - Lisker - Spain 1979 Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho - Paêbirú - Brazil 1975 Malicorne - Almanach - France 1976 Mellow Candle - Swaddling Songs - Ireland 1973 Pentangle - Basket of Light - UK 1969 Phoenix - Cantofabule - Romania 1975 Principal Edwards Music Theatre - Soundtrack - UK 1969 Ragnarök - Ragnarök - Sweden 1976 S Vremena Na Vreme - S Vremena Na Vreme - Yugoslavia 1975 Saint Just - Saint Just - Italy 1972 Spirogyra - Bells, Boots and Shambles - UK 1972 Strawbs - Hero and Heroine - UK 1974 Trader Horne - Morning Way - UK 1971 Tudor Lodge - Tudor Lodge - UK 1971 Witthuser and Westrupp - Trips Und Traume - Germany 1971 |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 07:08
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I guess, I can conclude, Enigmatic, that this is one of the sub-genres you've been not so little interested in - I'm glad to see that.
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Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 09:51
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Not necessarily my preferred music domain, but I was surprised to find some artists/bands that I like very much listed here on PA: - Flairck (I especially like their Live in Amsterdam album, combining the best of the two preceding studio albums!) - Dead Can Dance (Spleen & Ideal, Within the Realm of a Dying Sun, The Serpent's Egg) - Alan Stivell (especially Terre des Vivants) ... A recent discovery: - Faun Fables - Born of the Sun And I'm only recently exploring what is called folktronica (so I'm not at all a connoisseur and I'm open for suggestions...): - Tunng (Turbines, Songs You Make at Night, Dead Club) - Rozi Plain (What a Boost!) ...
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 10:31
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subject near and dear to my heart limiting to one per artist and alphabetical..these are all 5 star albumsClannad - Magical Ring (Dulaman, Fuaim and Macalla are just about as good) Corde Oblique - A Hail of Bitter Almonds Faveravola - Conte dei Cento Castagni Horslips - Book of Invasions Itoiz - Ezekiel Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick Perry Leopold - Christian Lucifer Midlake - Courage of Others (Trials of Van Occupanther is just about as good) Moving Hearts - s/t Pererin - Haul ar Y Eira (Teithgan is just about as good) Alan Stivell - Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique (Chemins de Terre is just about as good) Strawbs - Ghosts (Grave New World, Bursting at the Seams and Hero and Heroine are just about as good) honorable mentions Amazing Blondel - Evensong (Fantasia Lindum and England are just about as good) Avaric - s/t Bernard Benoit - Lutunn Noz Dan Ar Braz - Douar Nevez Paul Brett (Interlife (or Paul Brett Sage or Eclipse) Carol of Harvest - s/t Circulus - Clocks are Like People Dave Cousins - Two Weeks Last Summer Current 93 - Soft Black Stars Daemonia Nymphe - s/t Dancer - Tales from the Riverbank Darnakes - Libra: the matchmaker of Antigone Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth (and Aion) Decameron - Third Light (or Say Hello to the Band) Decemberists - King is Dead (or Picaresque or Crane Wife) Eden - Erwartung Nancy Elizabeth - Battle and Victory L'Engoulevent - L'Ile ou Vivent les Loups Faun - Licht Faun (different group also German) - Wondrous End Favni - Windswept (or Leaffall) Fresh Maggots - s/t Fuchsia - Fuchsia II Galahad - The Return of the Piper (or Myrddin) Garolou - Garolou (Lougarou) Haizea - Hontz Gaua Hexvessel - No Holier Temple Holderlin - Traum Los Jaivas - Alturas de Machu.. Jan Dukes de Grey - Rats and Mice in the Loft Nigel Mazlyn Jones - Ship to Shore Kerrs Pink - Art of Complex Simplicity (or Journey on the Inside or Mellom Os) Clare Louise - Castles in the Air Magdalena - Lanean Sartzen Magna Carta - Lord of the Ages Malicorne - Almanach Brian Malone - Mechanical Voices Merlin Bird - Reason and Rhyme Midnight Circus - s/t Morrigan - Hidden Agenda Mostly Autumn - Last Bright Light Motis - Prince Des Hauteurs (or L'Homme Loup) Mr Toad - Trench Art North Sea Radio Orchestra - I a Moon Gavin O'Loghlen and Cottar's Bequest - Poet and the Priest (or Land of the Vast Horizon or My Mother's Country) Of Wondrous Legends (O.W.L) - s/t Oloferne - s/t Pears Before Swine - Use of Ashes Pentangle - In the Round Pierrot Lunaire - s/t Rebekka - Phoenix Red Jasper - Midsummer Night's Dream Bernardo Rubaja (and Cesar Hernandez) - High Plateaux Sad Minstrel - Flight of the Phoenix Sangre de Muerdago - any of a half dozen albums Secos and Molhados - II Secret Green - To Wake the King Sedmina - II Serpentyne - Myths and Muses Gilles Servat - La Blanche Hermine Seven Reizh - Strinkadenn Ys Jimi Slevin - Freeflight Sorne - House of Stone Spirogyra - you pick from their 4 albums Strange Days - Nine Parts to the Wind Sundenfall II - s/t Tenhi - Vare (or Kauan) Bob Theil - so far Thoby Loth - Cauldron of Life Tir Na Nog - Tear and a Smile Tornaod - Ys 2013 Tri Yann - Belle et Rebelle Viima - Ajatuksa.. Woven Hand - Mosaic |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 11:22
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working by elimination from the two big lists above, but I'm sure I forget a few. Broselmaschine - Broselmaschine - Germany 1971 Comus - First Utterance - UK 1971 Congreso - Pajaros De Arcila - Chile 1984 Emtidi - Saat - Germany 1972 Fuchsia - Fuchsia - UK 1971 Gryphon - Midnight Mushrumps - UK 1974 Harmonium - Les cinq saisons - Canada 1975 Hoelderlin - Hoelderlins Traum - Germany 1971 Jan Dukes de Grey - Mice and Rats in the Loft - UK 1971 Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood - UK 1977 Lisker - Lisker - Spain 1979 Pentangle - Basket of Light - UK 1969 Ragnarök - Ragnarök - Sweden 1976 Saint Just - Saint Just - Italy 1972 Spirogyra - Bells, Boots and Shambles - UK 1972 Witthuser and Westrupp - Trips Und Traume - Germany 1971 Itoiz - Ezekiel Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick Perry Leopold - Christian Lucifer Pererin - Haul ar Y Eira Strawbs - Witchwood Carol of Harvest - s/t Dead Can Dance - Aion L'Engoulevent - L'Ile ou Vivent les Loups Fresh Maggots - s/t Garolou - Garolou (Lougarou) Haizea - Hontz Gaua Holderlin - Traum Los Jaivas - Alturas de Machu.. Jan Dukes de Grey - Rats and Mice in the Loft Pears Before Swine - Use of Ashes Pentangle - Reflection Pierrot Lunaire - s/t Bob Theil - so far Tir Na Nog - Tear and a Smile. Woven Hand - Mosaic Add one Drake, one Martyn, one Stewart, one Harper, etc... ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: enigmatic
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 11:26
| kenethlevine - That's a very impressive list of honorable mentions. I see few my favorites that I missed on my list. For instance, Of Wondrous Legends (O.W.L) and Pierrot Lunaire are really awesome and I listen to them very often. |
Posted By: enigmatic
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 11:39
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Sean Trane reminded me about another missed title on my list. I copied and pasted all 5 of them from my post in Harmonium thread. All 5 are from Canadian province Quebec. Breche - Carapace et chair tendre (1979) Charles Kaczynski - Lumiere de la Nuit (1978) Conventum - A l'Affut d'un Complot (1977) Conventum - Le Bureau Central des Utopies (1979) L'Engoulevent - L'Ile ou Vivent Les Loups (1977) |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 11:51
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Roy Harper - Stormcock Comus - First Utterance Alec K Redfearn & The Eyesores - Sister Death Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick North Sea Radio Orchestra - I A Moon Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun Harmonium - Si on Avait Besoin d'une Cinquieme Saison Jack O' The Clock - All My Friends Jan Dukes De Grey - Mice & Rats in the Loft Gryphon - Red Queen To Gryphon 3 William D Drake - The Rising Of The Lights Moulettes - Constellations Nick Drake - 5 Leaves Left John Martyn - Solid Air------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 12:11
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------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Hewitt
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 12:32
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Nick Drake - Pink Moon Roy Harper - Stormcock John Martin - Solid Air Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick Al Stewart - Past, Present and Future Donovan - A Gift From a Flower to a Garden Sam Lee - Old Wow |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 12:50
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Here, I also delved into some early folk artists who
incorporated rock and also psychedelia, all incorporate electric instruments. Many of these I love much more than the "favourite," listed here. Alphabetical order. I think I got everybody (until I hit "Post Reply," lol). Ars Nova (US) S/T 1968 Azigza S/T 2000 Maire Brenan Misty Eyed Adventures 1995 Buffalo Springfield Again 1967 The Byrds Mister
Tambourine Man 1965 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Déjà vu 1970 Country Joe & The Fish Electric Music for the Mind and
Body 1967 Dave Cousins “Two Weeks Last Summer” 1972 Dead Can Dance Aion 1990 Sandy Denny "Sandy" 1971 Dikajee Forget~Me~Nots 2021 Donovan Sunshine Superman 1966 Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home 1965 Fairport Convention Liege and Lief 1969 Faun Midgard 2016 Flairck Back Alive 2020 Hank Dogs Bareback 1998 Incredible String Band The 5000 Spirits or The Layers of the
Onion Iron & Wine The Shepherd’s Dog 2017 Jethro Tull Songs From The Wood 1977 Kaleidoscope (US) A
Beacon From Mars 1968 Gordon Lightfoot “Gord’s Gold” 1975 Love “Forever Changes”
1967 Lowen & Navarro Broken Moon 1993 Malicorne Almanach 1976 Moby Grape S/T 1967 Phil Ochs Rehearsals for Retirement 1969 Offa Rex S/T 2017 Pearls Before Swine The Use of Ashes 1970 The Pentangle Cruel Sister 1970 Anthony Phillips The Geese and the Ghost 1977 Simon & Garfunkel Sounds of Silence 1966 Jimmie Spheeris Isle of View 1971 Steeleye Span Hark! The Village Wait 1970 Alan Stivell A l’Olympia 1972 Strawbs From the Witchwood 1971 Richard Thompson Mock Tudor 1999 Tri Yann Urba 1978 The Waterboys "A Pagan Place" 1984 World Party "Private Revolution" 1987 Neil Young S/T 1968 ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 13:45
oops, added Dave Cousins to mine. Indispensable wow some great non prog ones here, like Hank Dogs, Waterboys, and the great Gordon Lightfoot. For Hank Dogs, I would pick that album. For waterboys, I pick the delightful "Room to Roam" and for Lightfoot, it would either be the UA collection, "If you could read my mind" or "Summertime Dream"
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Snicolette wrote:Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 13:49
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Very few of these actually «rock» (but they do "folk"), which is part of the reason I like them: Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter Comus - First UtteranceExtradition - Hush Hölderlin - Hölderlins Traum Pearls Before Swine - The Use of Ashes Pentangle - Cruel Sister Ragnarok - Ragnarok Roy Harper - Stormcock Spirogyra - St.Radiguns Arbete Och Fritid - Andra LP Woven Hand - Consider The Birds Jethro Tull - Benefit Perry Leopold - Christian Lucifer Continuum - Continuum Nya Ljudbolaget - Nya Ljudbolaget Strawbs - From The Witchwood Kolinda - Kolinda 2 Kapela Ze Wsi Warszawa - Wiosna Ludu Catherine Ribeiro + 2Bis - Catherine Ribeiro + 2Bis Bridget St. John - Songs for the Gentle Man Zeit - Un giorno in una piazza mediterranea Dulcimer - And I Turned As I Had As a Boy John Renbourn Group - The Enchanted Garden Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms Merit Hemmingson - Huvva! Robbie Băsho - Visions Of The Country Susan Christie - Paint a Lady Trader Horne - Morning Way Turid - Bilder Veronique Chalot - À L'Entrée Du Temps Clair |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 13:51
oops, added Dave Cousins to mine. Indispensable wow some great non prog ones here, like Hank Dogs, Waterboys, and the great Gordon Lightfoot. For Hank Dogs, I would pick that album. For waterboys, I pick the delightful "Room to Roam" and for Lightfoot, it would either be the UA collection, "If you could read my mind" or "Summertime Dream"
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Thanks! This is one of my favourite genres. With the "rock," designation, I made sure there was a useage of electric instruments. I had to pick that compilation for Gordon Lightfoot, as I think it's the only recording "Affair on 8th Avenue," is, which is my very favourite song of his. I toyed with putting Sandy Denny's "Sandy," in here, and maybe should have, as it's a favourite also. ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 14:41
I'm glad to hear that, Snicolette.
It's very fine with me to do it.
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 14:44
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Well, all right, then. Will do. ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 15:16
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To mention a few: Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (UK, 1972) Carmen - Dancing on a Cold Wind (UK, 1974) Harmonium - Si On Avait Besoin d'un Cinqième Saison (CAN, 1975) Clannad - Dúlamán (IRL, 1975) Horslips - The Book of Invasions (IRL, 1977) Tim Buckley - Lorca (USA, 1970) Camelias Garden - You Have a Chance (IT, 2013) Iona - The Book of Kells (UK, 1992) Pentangle - Cruel Sister (UK, 1970) Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief (UK, 1969) Outside the niche: Andy Irvine - Rainy Sundays ... Windy Dreams (IRL, 1980) Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (UK, 1970), not to mention his other albums Planxty - Cold Blow and the Rainy Night (IRL, 1974) Bothy Band - Out od the Wind - Into the Sun (IRL, 1977) Laïs - Dorothea (BE, 2000) ------------- 
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Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 15:39
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I'm not going to do a list (bucket loads of fantastic stuff already mentioned) but i am going to bang the drum (again!!) for the remarkable Mr Fox who's two lps from 1970 and 1971 really created something special. The lp 'Bright Phoebus' by Mike and Lal Waterson is something special too   ------------- |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 16:06
------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 16:13
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"Classic" Era (so many to choose from!): Ptarmigan Ptarmigan Flairck Variaties op een Dame Flairck Gevecht Met De Engel Mike Oldfield Hergest Ridge Anthony Phillips The Geese and The Ghost Harmonium Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison Alan Stivell Renaissance of the Celtic Harp Shakti Natural Elements Spirogyra St. Radigunds Spirogyra Bells, Boots and Shambles Eden Erwartung Strawbs Ghosts Hoelderlin Hölderlin's Traum Fotheringay Fotheringay Bröselmaschine Bröselmaschine The Pentangle Basket of Light The Pentangle Solomon's Seal The Roches Keep on Doing John Martyn One World Bruce Cockburn Circles in the Stream Modern: Corde Oblique A Hail of Bitter Almonds Corde Oblique Per le strade repetute Corde Oblique The Stones of Naples Faun Eden Faun Renaissance Faun Luna Iona Open Sky Iona The Circling Hour Tirill Said the Sun to the Moon Tirill Um Himinjǫður The Moulettes The Bear's Revenge The Moulettes Preternatural Midlake Antiphon Midlake Trials of Van Occupanther Espers II Aalto Ikaro Amarok Quentadharken Fauns Awaiting the Sun Vox Vulgaris The Shape of Medieval Music to Come Needlepoint Walking Up That Valley Ciccada Harvest North Sea Radio Orchestra I a Moon Steve Unruh Precipice Uzva Uoma Gadi Caplan Morning Sun Jack O' The Clock Repetitions of the New City, Part I ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 16:41
By the way, I hope, it wasn't too much trouble for you. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 16:54
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Would the first LP by The Roches qualify? Amazing cast including Bob Fripp, Tony Levin & Larry Fast! ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 17:08
------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 17:15
Mr Fox is great. I LOVE "mendel"...so creepy and hypnotic I also really like their take on "Rip Van Winkle"
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Posted By: Hugh Manatee
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 17:20
It is so good to see Dulcimer's "And I Turned As I Had As a Boy" get a mention. That really is for me at the top of any folk prog list. It is also great to see Clannad get so many mentions. I love that group so much it hurts sometimes. Whether I would consider them prog...hmm...I don't know, but who cares as long as they're being appreciated. ------------- I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 17:41
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Jethro Tull - Songs from the Woods/Heavy Horses Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief Roy Harper - Stormcock Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues Harmonium - Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison Pentangle - A Basket of Light Fleet Foxes - S/T Debut The Decemberists - The Crane Wife Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days Love - Forever Changes Richard Thompson - Henry the Human Fly The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God ------------- ...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: Snicolette
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 17:45
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Just an appreciation for those participating here. Wonderful additions by everyone! ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 18:19
 you liked a few of them so much you included them twice!
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 18:47
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Watching this with interest as I need to do my own list soon. I would include Witthuser & Westrupp's "Trips + Traume" which I consider more Folk than Krautrock. Glad to see Ian mention Jack O The Clock who will be included for sure.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 22:54
I think, that's for you to decide. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: December 15 2021 at 23:28
Sounds like progressive folk-rock to my ears! Lovely Bob Fripp solo! ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 16 2021 at 00:42
RYM classify it as Folk Pop and Contemporary Folk, and I guess, I won't disagree. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: December 16 2021 at 07:03
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Lindisfarne were maybe a little bit on the 'Pop' side of Folk Rock but i love those early lps.. And Alan Hull was such a fantastic writer, singer and all great character.. we lost someone special when he passed.. An off shoot of Lindisfarne were Jack the lad and the 'Old Straight Track' lp is amazing!!  ------------- |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 16 2021 at 07:13
+ I also love Trees - both of their albums (one of the very few folkrock-bands that actually rocks quite well) & also The Trees Community - The Christ Tree
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 17 2021 at 01:50
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 17 2021 at 01:53
Presumably includes The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald? Includes some of the best lyrics I've ever heard.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 17 2021 at 01:54
| Not a genre I'm big on but I do love the album Steeleye Span put out a few years called Dirty Rotten b*****ds. |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: December 17 2021 at 07:49
------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: December 17 2021 at 08:09
Yes that album was called "Summertime Dream" and it has so much more than "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". IMO his last hurrah. My big issue with Gord's Gold is that he recrecorded some of his 60s classics, when nothing could beat the originals. But I will have to check out that song you mentioned, Nicky
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Posted By: Hugh Manatee
Date Posted: December 17 2021 at 08:17
Yes, the first two sides of the original album where rather unnecessary re-recordings but the second two sides are chock full of great songs.
------------- I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: December 17 2021 at 10:17
yes for sure. There were some great songs I hadn't heard till I bought that album, like "Summer Side of Life". It's rather telling that his 1978 hit, the beautiful "The Circle is small" was actually a rerecording of one of his 1960s songs
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Posted By: Hugh Manatee
Date Posted: December 17 2021 at 10:29
Really? I did not know that. It is not included on "Gords Gold" though.
------------- I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 17 2021 at 10:30
Hi, Give me "Playing the Game Pts 1-5" anytime with the guitar duet in the end. Or even some of the stuff in JUGULA+. But that album listed is one for the ages! BTW, does Bruce Cockburn fit? He sure has enough of it.
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: December 17 2021 at 10:36
no it wasn't. Because it wasn't one of his major 60s songs, it did not really suffer by comparison like some of the rerecordings on Gord's Gold. For instance, "Bitter Green" and "Early Morning Rain" were very well known tunes from that period and it would have been hard to parlay rerecording of those songs into hits
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Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: December 17 2021 at 12:41
------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 29 2021 at 05:09
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Finally, after two weeks of dithering and deliberation, here's my A-Z list of Prog Folk favourites:- AGINCOURT - Fly Away (1970) BREAD, LOVE & DREAMS - Amaryllis (1971) CAROL OF HARVEST - Carol of Harvest (1978) DEAD CAN DANCE - Anastasis (2012) ECLECTION - Eclection (1968) FUCHSIA - Fuchsia (1971) THE GHOST - When You're Dead, One Second (1970) HOELDERLIN - Rare Birds (1977) IONA - Open Sky (2000) JADE - Fly on Strangewings (1970) KARNATAKA - Secrets of Angels (2015) LOUDEST WHISPER - The Children of Lir (1973) MOSTLY AUTUMN - Graveyard Star (2021) NORTH SEA RADIO ORCHESTRA - North Sea Radio Orchestra (2006) SALLY OLDFIELD - Secret Songs (1996) LINDA PERHACS - Parallelograms (1970) QUICKSAND - Home is Where I Belong (1974) RAMASES - Space Hymns (1971) SPYROGYRA - Bells, Boots & Shambles (1973) TRADER HORNE - Morning Way (1970) US AND THEM - Summer Green and Autumn Brown (2015) VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS - Voice of the Seven Woods (2007) JONATHAN WILSON - Rare Birds (2018) YGGDRASIL - Yggdrasil (1972) ZAUBER - Il Sogno (1978)
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 29 2021 at 05:27
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Thank you very much, Paul, you surely keep what you promise, and your A-Z list is certainly a specialty. - Maybe even sooner than I expected it, and very nice with refreshment of this thread by the same occasion - I can imagine, Snicolette , among others, will be quite pleased.
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: December 29 2021 at 05:58
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[QUOTE=Psychedelic Paul]Finally, after two weeks of dithering and deliberation, here's my A-Z list of Prog Folk favourites:- AGINCOURT - Fly Away (1970) BREAD, LOVE & DREAMS - Amaryllis (1971) CAROL OF HARVEST - Carol of Harvest (1978) DEAD CAN DANCE - Anastasis (2012) ECLECTION - Eclection (1968) FUCHSIA - Fuchsia (1971) THE GHOST - When You're Dead, One Second (1970) HOELDERLIN - Rare Birds (1977) IONA - Open Sky (2000) JADE - Fly on Strangewings (1970) KARNATAKA - Secrets of Angels (2015) LOUDEST WHISPER - The Children of Lir (1973) MOSTLY AUTUMN - Graveyard Star (2021) NORTH SEA RADIO ORCHESTRA - North Sea Radio Orchestra (2006) SALLY OLDFIELD - Secret Songs (1996) LINDA PERHACS - Parallelograms (1970) QUICKSAND - Home is Where I Belong (1974) RAMASES - Space Hymns (1971) SPYROGYRA - Bells, Boots & Shambles (1973) TRADER HORNE - Morning Way (1970) US AND THEM - Summer Green and Autumn Brown (2015) VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS - Voice of the Seven Woods (2007) JONATHAN WILSON - Rare Birds (2018) YGGDRASIL - Yggdrasil (1972) ZAUBER - Il Sogno (1978) [/QUOTEThat's quite a list, Paul. A quarter of your list, I'm in love with...The rest, I have not heard. I'll ferret through your folk album alphabet during the 2022 overture. Do you count Greek band Ciccada as Folkish? Although categorized as eclectic prog, I feel Ciccad's (Harvest) leans toward Prog folk. A few of my recent favorites. Ciccada- Harvest 2021 Greece Tirill- "Said the Sun to the Moon" 2019 Norway Tirill- "Um Himinjǫ'ur" 2013 Norway Hands Of The Heron- "13 Moons" 2021 United Kingdom Moulettes- " The Bear's Revenge" 2012 United Kingdom Steve Unruh- "Precipice" 2019 USA Tusmørke- "Fort Bak Lyset" 2016 Norway Tusmørke- "Fjernsyn I Farver" 2018 Norway one oldie John Michael Talbot- "The Lord's Supper" 1979 USA |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 29 2021 at 07:31
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^ I'm glad you both liked my A-Z list and I loved John Michael Talbot's "The Lord's Supper". Not surprisingly, the letter "Z" was the hardest letter to find a Prog Folk placement for. I only discovered the Italian band Zauber this morning.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: December 29 2021 at 11:00
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Many of my favorites are already on the lists mentioned ...I would add two others ... Espers and Circulus which might be on lists here already. All the Espers are very good imho and the first 2 Circulus are good. Even though Wolf People are under 'crossover' I could easily put them in 'prog folk' with Tain and Ruins....though Ruins is heavier than most 'prog folk'.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 29 2021 at 11:17
I like Circulus and Espers too, especially Espers' Psych-Folk version of Blue Oyster Cult's "Flaming Telepaths". |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: December 29 2021 at 18:42
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This is my favorite one:  -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: June 07 2023 at 08:22
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Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho (BRA) - Paêbirú (1975) This album doesn't seem to be on PA, neither to be particularly known, but it's a true Prog Folk pearl. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: July 13 2023 at 09:05
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I like this genre very much. Some of my favorites: Harmonium - Les cinq saisons Strawbs - Hero and Heroine Iona - Open Sky Jethro Tull - Songs From The Woods Haizea - Hontz Gaua Los Jaivas - Alturas de Machu Pichu Katalena - Cvik cvak! Lorena McKennit - The Mask And Mirror Some acoustic (not rock) prog folk: Vlatko Stefanovski & Miroslav Tadić - Treta majka Rabih Abou Khalil - Tarab Flairck - Live in Amsterdam |
Posted By: bardberic
Date Posted: July 13 2023 at 14:14
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Ashes Are Burning by Renaissance, kinda by a longshot, too. It just so happens I'm literally listening to it right now, too. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 13 2023 at 14:18
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So many new discoveries for me--thanks in part to this thread--albums & artists I'd never heard of that I've now had time time hear, including these five star albums: LILY & MARIE s/t ***** (Amazing! One of the most maturely composed PF albums I've ever heard!) LINDA PERHACS Paralellograms ***** (Amazing vocalist!) CAROL OF HARVEST s/t. ***** (Beate Kraus is a force!) LOS JAIVAS Obras de Violeta Parra ***** (Even better than Alturas de Machu Picchu) ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |