Psychedelic folk
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
- Acid Mothers Temple
- Anaksimandros
- Animal Collective
- Arborea
- Avarus
- Devendra Banhart
- Birch Book
- Brightblack Morning Light
- Bill Callahan
- Caribou
- Castanets
- Citay
- CocoRosie
- Comets on Fire
- Comus
- Current 93
- Deadboy & the Elephantmen
- Alela Diane
- The dodos
- Dr. Dog
- Dr. Strangely Strange
- Eleven Power
- It
- Espers
- Fairport Convention
- Fresh Maggots
- The Gris Gris
- Grizzly Bear
- Hala Strana
- A Hawk and a Hacksaw
- Heron
- The Holy Modal Rounders
- Honus Floyd
- The Ideal Kings
- The Incredible String Band
- Islaja
- Judge Trev (Trevor Thoms)
- Kemialliset Ystävät
- The Ladybug transistor
- The Legendary Pink Dots
- Lilys
- Annie Lo
- Love
- Magic Lantern Cycle
- Mellow Candle
- Dōji Morita
- Marissa Nadler
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- Joanna Newsom
- Niagara Falls
- Orange
- Outrageous cherry
- Panda bear
- Pantaleimon
- Pearls Before Swine
- Pentangle
- Peter and the Wolf ( Red Hunter )
- Ariel Pink
- Pink Floyd
- Plasticland
- Prince Rama of Ayodhya
- Ryley Walker
- Scorched Earth
- Adrian Shaw
- Six Organs Of Admittance
- The Skygreen Leopards
- Spiers That In The Sunset Rise
- Sun City Girls
- Wooden Wand And The Vanishing Voice
Web links
- Psychedelic Folk Homestead - Internet magazine with Psych folk emphasis (English)
- Ptolemaic Terrascope - Internet magazine with a focus on Psych Folk (English)
- Dream Magazine - Internet magazine with a focus on Psych Folk (English)
- Prog Archives - Internet magazine with a focus on progressive rock and folk (English)
- Contemporary psychedelia: From Transcendence to Immanence - essay on Psych Folk and Spirituality (English)
- Articles on Dirty Linen (English)