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Weird folk
kwami42:
Which of the multitude of bands you mentioned would you consider the best place to start? There's a lot of material there.
SWOON! at My Gravitas:
Fantastic timing on this thread, I have been wanting to get into Current 93 but his discography is about the size of all the other discographies put together, which is pretty intimidating. Is there a good place in particular to start with his music?
Scandanavian War Machine:
Not sure if I'm doing exactly what you said not to or not, because I don't really know what you're talking about, but these are a couple things that instantly came to mind when I saw the thread:
Larkin Grimm. appalachian mountain music by some insane chick. mildly disturbing at times
Tobacco/BMSR's old stuff is very folky...and completely weird. acoustic guitar tape-loops with an out-of-tune recorder and a dirtbike vroom. awesome.
Jason The Swamp, another contemporary solo artist, might actually my favorite anything of....forever. He is excellent. I'm told it's sort of like Animal Collective's early stuff but I can't corroborate that. I know it's 100x better than any Animal Collective song I've ever heard, but I haven't heard many. Jason The Swamp is brilliant. Particularly his apparent concept album "As Is The Sun" which starts out with some soft acoustic guitar and light whispy singing, which gradually builds until it explodes with some crazy percussion and other sounds i can't identify. This album is built on that surprising period of transition between something really soft and pretty, and something loud & raucous. But it retains it's folky, dreamy qualities throughout. It's a very impressive album.
I'm definitely gonna look up a bunch of that stuff from the OP today, if I can, because I love folk music and (particularly) all of it's bastard incarnations. I listened to some Current 93 once and it didn't really do anythign for me; it was like a weird single or a split or something though, so I don't know if that's indicative of the rest of their music, or not. Plus, that was a while ago, I'm probably a totally different person now.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: SWOON! at My Gravitas on 06 Jan 2011, 15:13 ---Fantastic timing on this thread, I have been wanting to get into Current 93 but his discography is about the size of all the other discographies put together, which is pretty intimidating. Is there a good place in particular to start with his music?
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If you want an overview then there's some excellent live recordings. I personally got into C93 through the Cats Drunk on Copper live album which I still think contains some of the most definitive versions of certain songs. For actual albums traditionally accessible points would probably be All The Pretty Little Horses, Thunder Perfect Mind or Soft Black Stars. Soft Black Stars is probably the most accessible, but conversely probably the least representative, as it essentially just Dave Tibet and a piano.
Some Current 93 exemplar songs which show how varied their career has been:
Oh Coal Black Smith!
Antichrist and Barcodes
Black Ships Ate the Sky
Vuk:
Awesome, I was only into stuff like Rome and Death In June for a while, but I've progressively been getting more and more into this type of music. For instance, I love this Current 93 song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlUOMUcaXWU
What material of theirs is like that?
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