Psychedelic folk

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Psychedelic Folk or Psych Folk is a style of music that was founded and significantly shaped in 1967 by the Incredible String Band . Other representatives were groups such as Pearls Before Swine , Fairport Convention , Love and Pentangle , all of whom came from English-speaking countries.

The sound and the basic compositional structure of the music were in folk , but this was fused with elements of rock and world music . The artists placed electronic, acoustic and at that time completely unusual instruments such as oud , gimbri , sitar and cymbal next to one another, mixed alternating vocals in daring harmonies and solo performance in surprising rhythm changes to ballad-like, psychedelic works.

Psychedelic folk contributed to the spread of mind-expanding drugs , and the spread of mind-expanding drugs, conversely, contributed to the spread of psychedelic folk.

Over the past few years, psychedelic folk has been combined with other genres, all of which are based in the underground , such as: B. Noise or Improv a kind of rebirth. Especially Finland with the genre- defining music label Fonal Records and bands such as B. Kemialliset Ystävät , Es , Anaksimandros , Avarus or Islaja seems to be a center of new psychedelic music. The American singer-songwriter Ryley Walker also sets new impulses, combining the style of American primitivism with elements of contemporary jazz and experimental music in his multi-layered, psychedelic guitar ornaments.

Also the gentler varieties of mostly US-American artists like Animal Collective , The Sunburned Hand Of The Man , Bardo Pond , Charalambides , Six Organs Of Admittance , Pantaleimon , Wooden Wand And The Vanishing Voice and Japanese like z. B. Acid Mothers Temple can be subsumed under the genre Psychedelic Folk. Under a rather broad term of psychedelic folk, musicians as diverse as Devendra Banhart , Joanna Newsom , Birch Book or Angels of Light are occasionally summarized, a classification that is stylistically only partially justified. As far as American interpreters are concerned, the assignment to the related New Weird America phenomenon is more obvious. The border to the Neofolk is also permeable.

Psychedelic folk musicians and related performers

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