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Interactive poll No. -46 2/3 - the folk music poll
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Poll Question: Nominate one track and vote for three
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
4 [11.11%]
4 [11.11%]
3 [8.33%]
1 [2.78%]
6 [16.67%]
1 [2.78%]
2 [5.56%]
1 [2.78%]
2 [5.56%]
2 [5.56%]
1 [2.78%]
3 [8.33%]
2 [5.56%]
4 [11.11%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
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My mini - reviews

1) Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn - "The Roving Cowboy: long song (perhaps a little too much), evocative, refined, with a rarefied atmosphere, which gives its best with the voice of the two singers alternating with the two ethnic instruments, whose sound manages to mix and alternate in a very convincing way.

2) I think I have already voted once, in a distant prog poll, for Gordon Lightfoot, excellent singer, present here with a very nice almost tribal folk, wow, with a great work of arpeggio on the acoustic guitar. Great song.

3) The Witch: psych-raga-folk, wonderful mix, sophysticated arrangements, It recalls me the sound of the Third Ear Band. Another great song.

4) Obscurus.... I am happy to have met this song because, despite being flawlessly arranged, perhaps due to its great impact and saturation of the sound it sounds excessive to my ears. Not bad, eh, mind you, indeed, very well done, but it's not my cup of tea. I'm happy, why? Because at least there are some that don't compete for the podium!

5) Espers... another wonderful songs with an excellent female vocals... wow!!!





Edited by jamesbaldwin - April 01 2021 at 13:36
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Ok, and here's to you my podium:

1) The Roving Cowboy (competitor until the last minute: The Witch)

2) IPA-Gubben (competitor until the last minute: Rosemary Lane)

3) Black Day in July (competitor until the last minute: You Were There)


Sorry for not being able to vote for them:

- Banks of the Nile

- Woodcat

- Cold Blows the Wind

- Hejtok Lányok


Honorable mentions to all the others, I like all the songs selected, I guess this one was one of the best polls ever.


Edited by jamesbaldwin - April 01 2021 at 13:39
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Thanks Raff and Nickie.  I'm glad to see that you both have been discovering Fovea Hex and their wonderful music.  Their music is so exquisite!  Hard to believe that Clodagh Simonds has been around in the music business since the 60's, and hardly no one knows who she is.

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Originally posted by TCat TCat wrote:

Thanks Raff and Nickie.  I'm glad to see that you both have been discovering Fovea Hex and their wonderful music.  Their music is so exquisite!  Hard to believe that Clodagh Simonds has been around in the music business since the 60's, and hardly no one knows who she is.

Yes, Mike, interesting music, I've marked her name.
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Out of these 14 there are at least 10 good enough to motivate me to look further into the work of these musicians, what a great selection! Some tough preselection decisions can boil it down to... four, as always. So these are Tunng, Fovea Hex, Milladoiro, and Wung Fei and Abigail Washburn - although it hurts me to not mention Vaesen (this reminds me very much of my favourite stuff from the Danish String Quartet), Espers, Obsrucus Orbis, and several others... by the way I had heard a bit of Stormy Six before but hadn't been able to get into them, but there's definitely some potential, I'll surely give them more time.

OK, coming to the top 4, the Tunng one took some time before it took off, at first listen I didn't think I could vote for it, and still it takes until some time in that I really start to love this, I like how this leads me in a very different place from where it starts. Fovea Hex is the definition of sublime really, meditative but really powerful, now way to vote around this. Milladoiro is exactly the kind of melody that will not let me go, I just love this. Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn are a bit at a disadvantage by the fact that my heart has already settled on other things when I heard this for the first time. Instrumentation and atmosphere are awesome though.

OK, Fovea Hex and Milladoiro will take the first two spots, and the third vote goes to... ah, each time I listen to one of these I think that must be the one, also both have three votes already, which doesn't give me an easy way out... finally I'll settle for Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn on grounds that I had heard something (though not this one) of Tunng before, and that one's a bit closer to my listening habits.


Edited by Lewian - April 01 2021 at 17:34
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Out of these 14 there are at least 10 good enough to motivate me to look further into the work of these musicians, what a great selection! Some tough preselection decisions can boil it down to... four, as always. So these are Tunng, Fovea Hex, Milladoiro, and Wung Fei and Abigail Washburn - although it hurts me to not mention Vaesen (this reminds me very much of my favourite stuff from the Danish String Quartet), Espers, Obsrucus Orbis, and several others... by the way I had heard a bit of Stormy Six before but hadn't been able to get into them, but there's definitely some potential, I'll surely give them more time.

OK, Fovea Hex and Milladoiro will take the first two spots, and the third vote goes to... ah, each time I listen to one of these I think that must be the one, also both have three votes already, which doesn't give me an easy way out... finally I'll settle for Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn on grounds that I had heard something (though not this one) of Tunng before, and that one's a bit closer to my listening habits.
  Thank you, glad you enjoyed them, Lewian.  I find the melody very haunting, there is a feeling of antiquity in it to me, or perhaps just a song of human condition and searching the stars for answers.
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My votes are going to:

1-) Mark Fry - The Witch (Logan)
2-) Fovea Hex - You Were There (TCat)
3-) Espers - Rosemary Lane (dr wu23)

Edited by Shadowyzard - April 02 2021 at 03:50
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In alphabetical order by band:

Obscurus Orbis - Kost Ar C'hoat
Stormy Six - Il barbiere
Väsen - IPA-gubben
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My votes:
Stormy Six - Il barbiere
Fotheringay - Banks of the Nile
Vasmalom - Hejtok Lányok

Honorable mentions: Most other songs!
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my three votes went to

Vasmalom - Hejtok Lányok
Gordon Lightfoot - Black Day in July
Tunng - Woodcat
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