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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #50 on: 13 Jan 2011, 18:41 »
I wouldn't have really called Jackie-O Motherfucker folk. Surely if they are, then Sun City Girls also?
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #51 on: 13 Jan 2011, 20:25 »
Quote from: KharBevNor on 13 Jan 2011, 18:41
I wouldn't have really called Jackie-O Motherfucker folk. Surely if they are, then Sun City Girls also?

Kind of what I was saying, though, as always, I could have been clearer. The influence is there, albeit more of the Appalachian variety than the European one found underlining most of the groups you'd previously listed. But that's not the key difference; that would be the element of free improvisation-as-composition. Nurse With Wound have it (the Faust influence), but Death In June and their ilk - true to their (post-)punk roots - seem quite averse to it. Which is perfectly cool, but it lends a whole different air to the proceedings.

Ironically, Richard Bishop's solo work does have a certain alien folk quality. Sun City Girls, however, are Sun City Girls, and nothing else.
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #52 on: 16 Jan 2011, 08:56 »
"alien folk", now there's a fine genre name.

Might upload some more albums this evening, get this thread rocking again.
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #53 on: 23 Jan 2011, 13:33 »
Man, this thread has actually made me really depressed. Like sometimes a dude just wants to talk about music he loves with people he likes, but then everyone either totally ignores everything or starts talking about something completely different.

This thread was a pointless waste of time so I guess now you guys should make it about some post-hardcore band you like or whatever so it actually gets talked in.
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #54 on: 23 Jan 2011, 13:54 »
Quote from: KharBevNor on 23 Jan 2011, 13:33
Man, this thread has actually made me really depressed. Like sometimes a dude just wants to talk about music he loves with people he likes, but then everyone either totally ignores everything or starts talking about something completely different.

This thread was a pointless waste of time so I guess now you guys should make it about some post-hardcore band you like or whatever so it actually gets talked in.

Maybe consider the possibility that you don't like good things
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #55 on: 23 Jan 2011, 14:21 »
Dude just cold took you out.

Plus, you like Converge, so the argument is pretty much over before it starts yes?
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #56 on: 23 Jan 2011, 14:26 »
I like Krauka. "Wierd" is a pretty vague definition, but I think they belong here. Danish band, playing northern european folk music. They build many of their own instruments, and the music is for the most part very rootsy, songs are often extremely simplistic, with only a single repeated melody. They have incorporated both modern instruments (electric bass) and electronic influences into their music as well.

I've seen them live, and they did not perform any songs of their albums, they (along with some people who I know not to be in the band) formed a drum circle around an audience of like 20 people, and after a while some of the drummers started singing or playing flutes. Hearing live drumming/music coming from all directions was actually pretty amazing, made a simplistic beat feel really intricate. They also do proper performances of their songs.

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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #57 on: 23 Jan 2011, 20:30 »
Quote from: David_Dovey on 23 Jan 2011, 13:54
Quote from: KharBevNor on 23 Jan 2011, 13:33
Man, this thread has actually made me really depressed. Like sometimes a dude just wants to talk about music he loves with people he likes, but then everyone either totally ignores everything or starts talking about something completely different.

This thread was a pointless waste of time so I guess now you guys should make it about some post-hardcore band you like or whatever so it actually gets talked in.

Maybe consider the possibility that you don't like good things

Man whatever Cromagnon is the best thing I've heard this year.
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #58 on: 24 Jan 2011, 00:56 »
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #59 on: 24 Jan 2011, 17:06 »
It's cool that you like this thread and all, but all you're doing now is masturbating to an image of it you found in a recent Hustler.
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #60 on: 25 Jan 2011, 01:10 »
It's cool that you're a twazzock and all, but you suck off nine hundred goats a day and support international fascism.
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #61 on: 25 Jan 2011, 01:16 »
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #62 on: 25 Jan 2011, 19:22 »
I'm okay with this.
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #63 on: 29 Jan 2011, 09:30 »
I haven't ignored this thread... I've just been off the forum in general! Plus, I don't have a lot to currently contribute that anyone hasn't previously heard of in the whole "weird folk" oeuvre.

I can blather endlessly about what I know, though!
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #64 on: 29 Jan 2011, 11:11 »
That is exactly what I would like.

How do you like them Current 93, that play the music?
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #65 on: 29 Jan 2011, 20:02 »
Man people on last.fm went mental about that whole thing. It was pretty disgusting actually. Like a lady can't have sex for money then bust some singing chops on a C93 album. What happened to transgression.
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #66 on: 30 Jan 2011, 09:07 »
But isn't David Tibet supposed to be a Christian now?

How can he be friends with a sex worker! Jesus would've flipped.
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #67 on: 31 Jan 2011, 10:49 »
It's actually really bizarre that I don't have anything to offer this thread, since 'weird folk' is exactly what I like, just not something I actually listen to.

I'd actually second that National Lights album, though it's less weird musically than lyrically; it sounds like folk-rocky love songs until you realize they're about murdering and chopping up and eating yr girlfriend.

I guess the oddest thing I listen to would be Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat.
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #68 on: 31 Jan 2011, 10:55 »
I love the Current 93 song on The Seven Seals - "The Song of Solomon and How She Sang it to Me". Probably one of my favourite songs.
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #69 on: 31 Jan 2011, 11:39 »
Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat is fucking brilliant. I will always have a soft spot for him anyway because it was his brilliant reimagining of 'Beyond the Tanarian Hills' that first got me to check out Rudimentary Peni. He reminds me a lot of, say, Joy of Nature with a touch of Lux Interna or Pantaleimon, there's that interplay of quite clean guitar and vocals with those massive spacey drones. Very dreamlike atmosphere; I often put on If The Sky Falls, We Shall Catch Larks when I'm smoking. I particularly love the song 'Nihil, as in Nihilism'. I'm still listening to the new album...it takes me ages to get to grips with an album these days, mostly because I can rarely find the time to sit down and give an album a proper listen. I normally listen to music whilst I'm doing something else, or often whilst I'm going to sleep, if it's the right sort of music.
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #70 on: 01 Feb 2011, 06:01 »
Khar sometimes I feel like whenever you post the names of a bunch of the bands you listen to there's always one made up name and we're all supposed to guess which one it is.
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #71 on: 01 Feb 2011, 14:37 »
How do all the neofolk bands I like have the same accent?
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #72 on: 01 Feb 2011, 22:36 »
Quote from: Inlander on 01 Feb 2011, 06:01
Khar sometimes I feel like whenever you post the names of a bunch of the bands you listen to there's always one made up name and we're all supposed to guess which one it is.

It's not the one you expect!
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Re: Weird folk
« Reply #73 on: 02 Feb 2011, 12:46 »
Quote from: KharBevNor on 31 Jan 2011, 11:39
I particularly love the song 'Nihil, as in Nihilism'.

I seriously almost linked to that song. Probably is my favourite.
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