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    Posted: June 23 2024 at 14:21
Just wondering what your favourite bands/albums from this genre would be?

There is just something about this genre at this time of year. Especially with it being Midsommer recently. The sound of getting back to nature and away from all distractions. 
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Originally posted by Lofty Lofty wrote:

Just wondering what your favourite bands/albums from this genre would be?

There is just something about this genre at this time of year. Especially with it being Midsommer recently. The sound of getting back to nature and away from all distractions. 
I like Midsommer too, but I prefer Midwinter. Smile

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Spirogyra
Jan Dukes de Gray
Gryphon
Roy Harper






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Comus - First Utterance
Lula Cortes e Ze Ramalho - Paebiru
Hölderlin - Hölderlins Traum
Osamu Kitajima - Benzaiten

(even I think this thread should be started in General Music Discussions)



Edited by David_D - June 25 2024 at 08:21
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Borders can blur with 'acid folk' (psychedelic folk...) but....I'm a fan of...
Roy Harper
Robyn Hitchcock
Circulus
Espers
Trees
Fuchsia
Forest
Gryphon
Spirogyra
Dando Shaft
Broselmachine
Mellow Candle
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Fresh Maggots

........many others fall into this area but also crossover into more mainstream folk rock music like Fairport Convention.
Steeleye Span, Nick Drake, etc.




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Neutral Milk Hotel 
Tim Buckley
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Acid Folk from the Emerald Isle 

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 3 stars 1969: Dr. Strangely Strange - Kip of the Serenes - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH-Z9W9MZCGHxefqNPIBYB2DSQPeNFK3n
 4 stars 1997: Dr. Strangely Strange - Alternative Medicine - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nV23fb-zQeSIO-F6wLlr_3JTuHiFBlTac
 3 stars 2007: Dr. Strangely Strange - Halcyon Days
 3 stars 2022: Dr. Strangely Strange - Radio Sessions - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kKLGHutWBYlB2xNSpBinJq2UkiRGaFEJ8

 3 stars 1975: Loudest Whisper - Maiden of Sorrow - http:///www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6PNW14rrlQ

 4 stars 1972: Mellow Candle - Swaddling Songs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufE5NuNY9QM

 4 stars 1973: Mushroom - Early One Morning - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bdGrmxg-ho

 3 stars 1971: Tir Na Nog - Tir Na Nog - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh8_-vL-E1s
 4 stars 1973: Tir Na Nog - Strong in the Sun - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1A3C0AB0AF6C1CB3


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More of laundry list than I had wanted but I love acid folk.

Akron/Family - s/t
Tim Buckley - Lorca & Goodbye and Hello
Comus - First Utterance
Lula Côrtes & Zé Ramalho - Paêbirú
Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind, Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre
Donovan - The Hurdy Gurdy Man
Espers - The Weed Tree
Extradition - Hush
Exuma - Exuma and Exuma II
Forest - Full Circle
Mark Fry - Dreaming With Alice
Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld
Sergius Golowin - Lord Krishna von Goloka
Gongjoong Doduk - s/t
Roy Harper - The Sophisticated Beggar
The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Jan Dukes de Grey - Mice and Rats in the Loft
Kikagaku Moyo - House in the Tall Grass, Forest of Lost Children
Osamu Kitajima - Benzaiten
Perry Leopold - Christian Lucifer, Experiment in Metaphysics
Douji Morita - A Boy
Natural Snow Buildings - Daughter of Darkness, Snowbringer Cult, The Dance of the Moon and Sun and Shadow Kingdom
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pearls Before Swine - The Use of Ashes, Balaklava
Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes - s/t, N°2
Buffy Sainte-Marie - Illuminations
Spirogyra - St Radigunds & Bells, boots and Shambles
Tea & Symphony - An Asylum for the Musically Insane
These Trails - These Trails
Third Ear Band - S/t
Trees - The Garden of Jane Delawney
TwinSisterMoon - When Stars Glide Through Solid
Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth, The Outside Room
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Some rather good Acid Folk obscurities from Great Britain


 4 stars 1970: Accolade - Accolade - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxX2adcIhJo
 4 stars 1971: Accolade - Accolade 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIRbQ_rNMnQ
                  
 4 stars 2020: Afforested - Before the Beech Mast Begins to Fall - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0r1pDUyL0g
 4 stars 2022: Afforested - Ancient Healing Oakwood Journeys - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apHXgXVKVYI




 4 stars 1971: Amber - Pearls of Amber - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2227F7DEEE1C3D6C


 5 stars 2012: Autumn Chorus - The Village to the Vale - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwtBr2RTqtU



 4 stars 1970: Paul Brett's Sage - Paul Brett's Sage - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5KgyxJ3iOA
 4 stars 1971: Paul Brett's Sage - Jubilation Foundry - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZa9DWRu7nQ
 4 stars 1972: Paul Brett's Sage - Schizophrenia - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rM5zKZoOW0

 4 stars 1968: Duncan Browne - Give Me Take You - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL77A2ECCCB10E1A30

 4 stars 1969: Roger Bunn - Piece of Mind - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JickIOtYSw0
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Pearls Before Swine 
The Incredible String Band
Jake Holmes
Comus


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Some of these are arguable, as they might be more associated with the psychedelic era.  But I contend they belong also to the Acid/Wyrd/Freak Folk genre:  

Older Days:
Pearls Before Swine
Donovan
The Byrds (arguably)
Tim Buckley
Country Joe and the Fish (arguably)
Incredible String Band
CSN, CSNY (arguably)
Roy Harper
It's A Beautiful Day
H P Lovecraft
The Jefferson Airplane (arguably)
Joseph Pusey
Traffic
Kaleidoscope (US)
Nick Drake
Yellow Autumn
Ars Nova

More Contemporary:
Vincent Carr's SUMIC
The Owl Service
Azam Ali
Dead Can Dance
Offa Rex
FAUN
Burd Ellen
Midlake (arguably)
Lyrre
Richard Wileman
Espers
MOURA
Harp
Meg Baird
Edenya
The Decemberists
Ryan Shirlow
Magick Brother and Mystic Sister



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More Rare Songs and Albums from the Acid Folk of the British Isles

 4 stars 1991: Sonja Kristina - Songs from the Acid Folk - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIQdLS8BnePR0ZsyX2yyYZx

 4 stars 1970: C.O.B. - Spirit of Love - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMwneeEb-zE

 4 stars 1978: Caedmon - Caedmon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMWo_uXtR2Y

 4 stars 2000: Candidate - Taking on the Enemy's Sound - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m-qWA-F72Gfj7AjofjOpo19-8pTadpj6U

 4 stars 1973: Carmen - Fandangos in Space - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vxbwqRL18o
 4 stars 1975: Carmen - Dancing on a Cold Wind - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=381LUfWBcDE
 4 stars 1975: Carmen - The Gypsies - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5h22JzLHSQ
                  
 4 stars 1986: Stephen Caudel - Wine Dark Sea - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LU-F3fNVek

 4 stars 1977: Chicken Shed - Alice - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRvaMqUhwQA

 4 stars 1969: Chimera - Chimera - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO77wUADBQg

 4 stars 1999: Circulus - Giantism - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdn89NKY0UE
 5 stars 2005: Circulus - The Lick on the Tip of an Envelope Yet to Be Sent - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUpu10Gl93I

 3 stars 1970: Clark-Hutchinson - Retribution - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPf1TqlgSWA
 4 stars 1971: Clark-Hutchinson - Gestalt - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS0pMIB7I6Q
 3 stars 1994: Clark-Hutchinson - Blues (Recorded in 1968) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzUAZTzUL0c

 4 stars 1971: Comus - First Utterance - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFmqHiHMC1Q
 4 stars 1974: Comus - To Keep from Crying - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgqv0ZabGd0

 4 stars 1971: Chris Coombs & Lightyears Away/Thundermother - Gagalactyca - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIlRDEzdR8Q

 4 stars 1972: Cosmic Eye - Dream Sequence - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCPfZA2EIBg

 4 stars 1972: Keith Cross & Peter Ross - Bored Civilians - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nCX2JxXse3T1DD5bPGq13QMtlerHf6Drk

 5 stars 2001: Dancer - Tales of the Riverbank - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WtitA1jS2Q



 5 stars 1971: Diabolus - High Tones - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAm-gWj5ydQ

 4 stars 1970: Dulcimer - And I Turned as I Turned as a Boy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05TP5-Ls1bY
 4 stars 1992: Dulcimer - Room for Thought - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4oTPnlx9lQ

 4 stars 2004: Judy Dyble - Enchanted Garden 
 4 stars 2006: Judy Dyble - Spindle
 4 stars 2006: Judy Dyble - The Whorl
 4 stars 2017: Judy Dyble & Andy Lewis - Summer Dancing - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l3IMFfGEsh_WuVOue7MBGfQSsu7nnD-dg

 5 stars 2020: Dyble Longdon - Between a Breath and a Breath - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lqjryyDtDMJbW2BA8yGRJ657pveZ5CPmQ


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Spirogyra
Jan Dukes de Gray
Gryphon
Roy Harper
Trees
Fuchsia
Emtidi
Broselmachine
Fresh Maggots
Ripaille

modern (XXI C):
PG Six
Espers
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This thread has made me think some more about the distinction between Psychedelic and Progressive Folk.
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


This thread has made me think some more about the distinction between Psychedelic and Progressive Folk.
I may have blurred that distinction further with my long lists of folk albums. Smile


Edited by Psychedelic Paul - June 25 2024 at 08:54
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I think the distinction should be blurred, it's a blend, after all.  
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Originally posted by Snicolette Snicolette wrote:

I think the distinction should be blurred, it's a blend, after all.  

There's definitely a substantial overlap between Psychedelic and Progressive Folk, but it also seems to me that many albums can be clearly labelled as one or the other of these two subgenres.
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Even more British Acid Folk and Prog Folk overlapping like waves.


 4 stars 1995: Energy Orchard - Pain Killer

 4 stars 1970: Fairfield Parlour - From Home to Home - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVvqgURy2L9clPUxeHAh1kBFtW98p6zyb


 4 stars 1970: Bill Fay - Bill Fay - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is2xETC5QlI
 4 stars 1971: Bill Fay - Time of the Last Persecution - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lSCIyg234X-_guwELJ6fHVb0K1uCsG06M
 4 stars 2005: Bill Fay Group - Tomorrow, Tomorrow & Tomorrow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mNy22A3uK3utoIbHkaxyfYh2nNBpXKVEU

 3 stars 1969: Forest - Forest - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGW2GdH4fPs
 3 stars 1970: Forest - Full Circle - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYNjjU1zorA

 4 stars 1970: Fotheringay - Fotheringay - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QmMr1RfdVw
 4 stars 1970: Fotheringay - Fotheringay 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UfdZSCvqVE


 5 stars 1971: Fuchsia - Fuchsia - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTZ2Zs0JxWs
 4 stars 2006: Fuchsia - Fuchsia, Mahagonny & Other Gems
 3 stars 2013: Fuchsia - Fuchsia II: From Psychedelia to a Distant Place - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mZDzevYt7ZCLdUcwYZD6jBoLtwoCgUb0A
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I may have blurred that distinction further with my long lists of folk albums. Smile

I've extended my original listing too, so it now includes: 

Comus - First Utterance
Lula Cortes e Ze Ramalho - Paebiru
Hölderlin - Hölderlins Traum
Osamu Kitajima - Benzaiten

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Not sure if these guys were mentioned already but Ghosts of Jupiter's album Keepers of the Newborn Green is kinda acid folkish
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