Renfair psychedelia

Malicorne came out of Alain Stivell's band or at least some members did. His electric early stuff has a bit of a psych/prog feel in places.

I'm not sure about the Medieval thing with Albion Band but I find their Battle of The Field has an internal glow I find very lysergic. & it always reminds me of Kosmische music.

I've tended to find there is an indigenous folk element to most european early 70s prog that I've heard. to echo the comment by whoever that is above. Seems to be one element of the melange that makes up the sound.
Not sure when rock became formularised as something that ceased to sound like a melange of other elements, you can hear the mix in a lotof the early stuff from 50s-70s jazz, folk, r'n'b, and whatever other elements.

listening to malicorne right now! they were awesome. not psych but buy their records anyway.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10169216_10153737117277137_8503431178719778013_n.jpg?oh=bffbecdbc67f33a7752922bbac6ee91c&oe=558F1809&__gda__=1430938732_4c22187153ecc0cc1fb54c71210e6d4a

there is rock guitar in places.

oh that looks nice, would buy it if i saw it

third ear band should probably be mentioned here right?

i need to give those spriguns albums a go i guess. i had the mandy morton album 'magic lady' at one stage, but i couldn't really get into it - was kind of bumbling folky pub-rock iirc?

All of William D Drake's albums are essential. Not just for ren folk devotees, but in general.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apxzwkO8nnM

I should also mention this wonderful Bob Stanley-compiled collection from a few years back. The Mellow Candle track was a particular revelation.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61s2E4OJ%2BAL.jpg

Was waiting for the Cardiacsy crossover. William D Drake is a hero!

i think i'll pass on the william d. drake. but mellow candle are always top of the heap! also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkSFlJubQU8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1jNLR9tjXE

also, did nobody mention...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuJSC0o_egI

also a big fave of mine. the dunhill vinyl is cheap as dirt. (i love this band in general. your mileage may vary. as they say.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdJngJgljSk

i think i'll pass on the william d. drake.

Why? I mean, I know musical taste is subjective and all that, but I've had so many experiences of others dismissing this stuff out of hand(or worse, total disinterest) and I just don't get it. What is it that turns people off that I can't hear?

it's too.....something for me. i didn't want to play the whole thing that's all i know.

Gryphon, motherfuckers

always wanted to hear midnight mushrumps just based on the cover, and spirogyra, yes!
straying outside the bounds of psych again, love the first john renbourn group lp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eejS-nVrmks

xxxxxp he also did another one that i've got, its great - http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/913/MI0000913966.jpg

"Gryphon, motherfuckers"

psych, though, really?

A bit more prog? Good though.
Wish I still had the 2fer of the 1st 2 lps but it disappeared on me.
& the Sanctuary anthology is tracked non chronologically and I'm not sure if it has everything from those lps on anyway.
Do wish the tv appearance from Magpie would turn up in good condition.

Definitely prog but impossible not to mention

Why? I mean, I know musical taste is subjective and all that, but I've had so many experiences of others dismissing this stuff out of hand(or worse, total disinterest) and I just don't get it. What is it that turns people off that I can't hear?

― Pheeel, Thursday, 26 February 2015 20:54 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's too knowingly cutesy and twee for me, and I am a HUGE Cardiacs fan.

The William D Drake linked upthread is just all wrong, it might be that I'm just not interested in modern recreations of this sound but it needs to be wide-eyed and kind of naive and informed by loads of drugs and it being the late 60s, OR it needs to be creepy and sinister and informed by loads of drugs and it being the late 60s/early 70s. The William D Drake feels like a genre exercise.

It doesn't help that in that video you can see them in a record studio and one of them is literally smirking in places.

Ougenweide?

I have the idea in my head that there is a strain of elizabethan/jacobian referencing post punk, some of it Derek Jarman connected/inspired? The first two albums by The Passage maybe, what other stuff?

It doesn't help that in that video you can see them in a record studio and one of them is literally smirking in places.

That's because they're a bunch of close friends having a good time playing music. Personally I like the interplay between the drummer and bassist on these videos, but whatever.

The William D Drake linked upthread is just all wrong, it might be that I'm just not interested in modern recreations of this sound but it needs to be wide-eyed and kind of naive and informed by loads of drugs and it being the late 60s, OR it needs to be creepy and sinister and informed by loads of drugs and it being the late 60s/early 70s. The William D Drake feels like a genre exercise.

See, now this is bullshit. If you'd said "I don't like his voice", I could understand that, but I can't hold with such an absurdly narrow and arbitrary criteria of musical worth. It's just dogmatic nonsense!

I also think it's worth pointing out the original recording of this song is almost as old as that venerated 70s era acid folk(recorded sometime between 83-4), and to my ears has that creepy, naive vibe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhTYgRaA60E

the American band Chrysalis were on another Saint Etienne related complilation, they seem pretty foppish and lute-playing, I'd always thought they were british

the Chrysalis album is a masterpiece.