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Kai:
Any fanbase looks pretty awful if you base it off of the top youtube comments, though.

KharBevNor:
@ OWW: I dunno, post some shit!

From what I know of your musical taste there's probably gonna be a pretty big amount of stuff in this vein you will probably like. In fact there is stuff I think just about anyone who likes music will like. Not necessarily aimed at you, here are some choice cuts by some of the most accessible people involved particularly in the modern neofolk milieu, or at least two people I've had a lot of success with getting people to like.

First B'eirth. Dude doesn't like to be called neofolk but if he didn't want that association he shouldn't have done that split with fucking Blood Axis. He makes music which is just exceptionally beautiful. Dude is like a virtuoso player of renaissance stringed instruments who wanders America doing old-school romantic bard shit. He comes in two configurations, there is In Gowan Ring which is more psychy:

Hazel Steps
The Wind That Cracks the Leaves
Morning's Waking Dream
To Thrum a Glassy Stem

And there is Birch Book which is some nice singer-songwriterish sort of stuff:

Young Souls
Feet of Clay
Empty Corner of the Page


Wow, that was nice wasn't it? Now here is Matt Howden, another virtuoso (this time violin and cello). His work as a record producer actually makes him, weirdly, one of the most commercially successful dudes in neo-folk. His real heart though is Sieben, which is his solo project which mainly involves him using pedals and such to build up loop upon loop upon layer of gorgeous, powerful, erotic stringed wonderfulness.

Love's Promise
Desire Rite
Virgin in the Green
Ogham on the Hill

Also very much worthwhile for TRU FANZ to track down all his many collabs with Tony Wakeford. As well as being a fully paid up member of Sol Invictus on and off they've worked together as Duo Noir, Howden/Wakeford and if my memory serves me well there's more. Plus I'm fairly sure Howden is also in L'Orchestre Noir. What can I say, boy's a genius.


@Nodaisho: Dude, youtube comments. I am fairly active in the neo-folk scene and like yeah, there's some nazis, but no more than there are in black metal. People I've corresponded with and met have run the total spectrum of political and religious beliefs; atheists, anarchists, christians, conservatives, pagans, liberals, communists, primitivists, none of the above. It's a very diverse crowd.

onewheelwizzard:
Pelt was a super-droney acoustic band that Jack Rose was in before he did all his solo guitar stuff.  They used a lot of sitar drones, Tibetan singing bowls/bells, and weirdly tuned acoustic guitars, with some American primitive/ragtime thrown in.  Pretty dense stuff but I think they might be right on your level.

kwami42:

--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 07 Jan 2011, 13:15 ---Man you are not endearing yourself to me at all!

I just posted a load of albums in the MFFFF thread why not start with Looking For Europe and the Current 93 live album?

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 :-D

Nodaisho:

--- Quote from: Kai on 07 Jan 2011, 16:34 ---Any fanbase looks pretty awful if you base it off of the top youtube comments, though.

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Yeah, but not as bad. Most bands the top-rated comments are along the line of "[band] rocks, [popular singer] sucks dick", or "[female member of band] is soooo hot". While stupid, that is not nearly as bad as comments about how brown people have ruined England. I'm not surprised that some people say it, but when that is the most popular sentiment, it is disturbing. I just hope that they are 12-year-olds sitting at home on youtube, rather than people actually crazy enough to do anything.

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