"Psyche van Het Folk", Radio Centraal, Antwerpen Playlist : new releases and reissues, acoustic related : 2005-10-19 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. folktronica : * Morr Music Múm : Yesterday was dramatic - Today is ok (ICE,re.2005)**** Tr.3, "There is a number of small things" 7 min Tr.7, "The ballad of a broken birdie records" 6 min 13 Wonderful, mostly instrumental music of sweet electronica/keyboards, with clicks and beeps combined with acoustic instruments & voices. Reissue. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/prog13.html#anchor_157 (review will be edited soon) 2. new electronica : * Jenka Music Sofus Forsberg : Udefra (DK,2005)***° Tr.6, "Rumspal" 6 min 19 Another quiet instrumental "sound-track" with clicks and beats and ambient keyboards mostly. Multi-layered rhythmic laptop music. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/prog13.html#anchor_154 3. new indie : * Fatcat Rec. Animal Collective : Feels (US,2005)**° Nervous and chaotic song fantasy inspiration. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/acidfolkreview11.html#anchor_227 * Leaf Rec. Hanne Hukkelberg : Little Things (N,2005)***° Tr.2, "Searching" 4 min Tr.5, "Do not as I do" 4 min 8 -27 Very soulful voice between Billie Holiday and Emiliana Torrini,.. Review : http://singersong.homestead.com/newsingers-7.html#anchor_319 * BubbleCore Rec. Mice Parade : Bem-Vinda Vontade (US,2005)***° Tr.1, "Warm Hand in Farmland" 4 min Tr.8, "Ground as cold as common" 6 min Tr.9, "Ende" 2 min 12 -39 Beautiful independent album with acoustic guitars and some soft "rock" element. (With guest singer from Múm, but not in chosen tracks). Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/psychfolkpopreview3.html#anchor_169 * 4AD Blonde Redhead : Misery is a butterfly (UK,2004)**°' Tr.3, "Melody" 5 min Tr.4, "Doll is Mine" 4 min 9 -48 Perhaps one of the better albums of this pop group, here with an earliest Cocteau Twins influence. Various songs have their own kind of melancholy. "Doll is Mine" uses a Baroque musical theme for the song. Info : http://www.blonde-redhead.com/ * Web Of Mimicry The Tunahelpers : I'll have what she's having (US,2004)*°° "Theatre"-like presentation of female wavepop. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/prog17.html#anchor_177 * St.ofDis.Rec. Supergrip : Songs from a metal can EP (US,2005)***° Tr.1, "Peregrination" 3 min Tr.2, “Dulcet Strider” 2 min Very dreamy & soft music with guitar/keyboards and whispery vocals. Solo project from Dina Carpenito from the duo jerseyturnpike. Review : http://singersong.homestead.com/newsingers-6.html#anchor_294 * Parsifal Orchestre du Mouvement Perpetuel (B,2005)*° Duo (French) singersongwriter and arranger. Review : http://progressive.homestead.com/belgium2.html#anchor_102 4. Acoustic : * Whisperquish Gwendolyn : Ultrasounds (US,1995-1999)***° Tr.2, "Snail Trail" 3 min Tr.7, "Trains" 4 min Tr.9, "Vacuum" 6 min Tr.11,"Insect Perspective" 4 min 17 -68 First song is in hippie psychfolk style, other songs experiment a bit but the style evolve to a more matured singer-songwriter form. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/acidfolkreview13.html#anchor_239 * Whisperquish Gwendolyn : Dew (US,2003)***° Tr.1, "Introduction" 1 min Tr.2, "Somebody Else's Man" 4 min Tr.7, "Dark Mind" 6 min Tr.10,"Lady Strange" 4 min 15 –83 Review : http://singersong.homestead.com/newsingers-7.html#anchor_337 * Whisperquish Gwendolyn : Lower Mill Road (3-track demo EP) (US,2005)? Tr.1, “Lady Belle” 3 min Tr.3, “Drumming Down Water” 3 min 6 -89 * Gnomonsong Jana Hunter : Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom (US,2005)** Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/poor.html#anchor_72 * Dead Western : PVHF live recording -session October 8th- 18 min Info : www.snailonastick.com * Fatcat Rec. Vasthi Bunyan : Lookaftering (UK/US,2005)***° Tr.2, "Here Before" 3 min Tr.3, "Wayward" 4 min Tr.4, "Hidden" 4 min 11 -118 Second album of Vasthi after 35 years without loosing any of the original charm. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/acidfolkreview11.html#anchor_224 * Choice Music Yasmin Levy : La Juderia (IS/SP,2005)**° Tr.11, "Y tu y yo subimos al cielo" 7 min -125 Ethnic folk songs with popular sound or focus on heartfelt ethnofolk songs. This is not with most importance to direct inspiration but to more to "qualitative" presentation. This is my favourite song. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/ethnofolk.html#anchor_47 * Asthm.Ki.Rec. Castanets : First Light's Freeze (US,2005)**° Tr.2, "Into the night" 5 min -130 Post-singersongwriter styled song oriented music with some Palace influence. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/psychfolkpopreview3.html#anchor_178 * Hannibal Rec. The Eighteenth Day Of May (UK/US/S, 2005)***/**** Folkrock with Trees influence, which is a comparable focus to Mary Jane. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/folkrock.html#anchor_49 * MyKungFy Rec. Soft Hearted Scientists : Uncanny Tales From the Everyday Undergrowth (UK,2005)**** Tr.1, "Mountain Palomar" 6 min 136 Musical voyage in folkpop style somewhat comparable to Gorky's Zygotic Minci, or to some 70’s UK groups in original mix of styles like Strawbs or so. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/psychfolkpopreview3.html#anchor_173 If time left : * Drag City Gary Higgins : Red Hash (US,1973)***°° Tr.3, “Windy Child” 4 min Tr.4, “Telegraph Towers” 3 min Tr.11,“Looking for June” 4 min 11 147 Beautiful psychfolk song oriented album with unique sphere which reveals itself after various listens. Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/acidfolkreviews2.html#anchor_55 * B-LR. Rec. Whitelodge (US,2005)**° Tr.8, “My Passing trough the golden apex” 6 min end Review : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/acidfolkreview14.html#anchor_230 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other playlists : http://psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com/2005.html General index page : http://www.radiocentraal.be/psychevanhetfolk More detailed index page : http://psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com/index.html Receive weekly this playlist before the radioshow with additional audio links, with new reviews and additional comments : / ontvang wekelijks playlist vòòr de radio-uitzending : Subscribe / schrijf u in : psychevanhetfolk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com