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― .... the rest look like Dudley Sutton (Tom D.), Friday, 1 March 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
it had never occurred to me that it could be rum below. that would have made more sense, but in my mind it was a jolly rumble-oh. is rumbelows like rent-a-center?
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 1 March 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
rumblelows is?was? a domestic electrical goods shop. always thought it was rumble-oh, i don't really not what a rumble is though in this context
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Friday, 1 March 2013 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
btw terry-thomas looks like the fat old fox I passed on my way home the other night
WOULD NOT TRUST HIM TO LOOK AFTER MY CHICKENS
it had never occurred to me that it could be rum below
I don't know if it is it just reminded me of Rumbelows, which I assume has gone the way of most high street chainstores. Hey it's folk music, so it's full of hey-nonny-nonsense words that happen to rhyme.
― .... the rest look like Dudley Sutton (Tom D.), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
does anyone know much about toni arthur's folk stuff? i know virtually nothing but looked her up at random on youtube and got this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH5YzId9xB4
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
some otherworldy shit that imo
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
Never heard it but it's supposed to be good stuff
― .... the rest look like Dudley Sutton (Tom D.), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
wasn't quite what I expected really given that i only know her from playaway - that one song there is fucking terrifying
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
That's so weird I was singing Jolly Rumble-Oh to myself this morning on the way to work! Even though I was listening to a different record!
― multi instru mentat list (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
i looked up the dave and toni arthur stuff after reading electric eden. never been reissued? kinda surprising in this day and age.
― tylerw, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
Their Discogs page looks quite incomplete, but as far as I can make out, they had at least three albums:
Morning Stands on Tiptoe (Transatlantic, 1967)The Lark in the Morning (Topic, 1969)Hearken To The Witches Rune (Trailer, 1970)
Looks like the first two got reissued on one CD in the 90s, and the second one is available digitally from Topic (also it's on Spotify). Think it's the third one that's the hardest to find though (that title is just collectors' catnip right?) and that doesn't look like it's been reissued at all.
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
Hearken To The Witches Rune is supposedly the most out-there musically, has Nic Jones playing in it and is on a label I've never flipping heard of: fat chance of ever finding that.
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw9GVgAvCXU
^ good grief wtf is this
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Friday, 1 March 2013 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
^ Mystic Challenge with Paul Ross - Guest Toni Arthur
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Friday, 1 March 2013 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
Toni Arthur was about the first woman I ever fancied due to seeing her on things like Playschool and Playaway. I still haven't heard the 60s lps through though.
― Stevolende, Friday, 1 March 2013 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
The albums with her husband all sound pretty out-there but they are really just doing pretty traditional English folk-singing in that particular unaccompanied style. They do a number of supposed comedy numbers and even they sound pretty terrifying. One is about a football match and documents the rapidly escalating violence. Supposed to be amusing but it's actually quite unsettling.
― everything, Saturday, 2 March 2013 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
I used to have a copy of Harken To The Witches Rune, but I sold it at some point. Had a lot of tap dancing/clogging type stuff on it? I assume there's a proper name for that.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Saturday, 2 March 2013 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
oh MAN! really!? i was already interested but dang, that puts it over the edge. i love percussive dancing!
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Saturday, 2 March 2013 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
there's a new official release of an ISB sounddesk from Fillmore East in '68 through Hux. Saw a review in one of the music rags this month. Not sure if it's the same set taht's been in circulaton before. there's one from a Fillmore that year that's definitely been on th etorrent sites.
Review said the sound was pretty good anyway.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 2 March 2013 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
wasting time today looking at this: http://archive.org/details/balladsweirdwond00choprichBallads weird and wonderful (1912)http://ia700307.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/35/items/balladsweirdwond00choprich/balladsweirdwond00choprich_jp2.zip&file=balladsweirdwond00choprich_jp2/balladsweirdwond00choprich_0011.jp2&scale=4&rotate=0
― tylerw, Monday, 1 July 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
Saw an announcement about this the other day:
http://www.vwml.org.uk/search/search-full-english
― Thelema & Louise (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kk-qkKy6L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
^ I picked this up for a pound yesterday, lots of thee old favourites on it (The Captain's Apprentice, Geordie etc). All a bit more formal than later interpretations as you'd expect, but it's all quite enjoyable nonetheless.
― Filk Hollins (NickB), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
Vaughan Williams' "English Folk Song Suite" is the bomb, he had a real flair for orchestrating tunes without getting all pompous about it
― for many people a really special folder makes a huge difference (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
On the other end of that spectrum, Delius' 'Brigg Fair' is sheer bliss to me.
― Thelema & Louise (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
new book i wanna read --https://www.facebook.com/FolkInCornwall
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
ok question -- has this band been covered itt? i turned on the radio to wash the dishes, heard a clip of them and was like whaaaaa how come no one has ever told me about this or if they did, why did i not listen?! anyway their sound is so cool, i love it.
The English trio S.O.S. — saxophonists John Surman, Mike Osborne and Alan Skidmore — was formed in 1973, and made only one LP for the Ogun label a couple years later. They didn't last long, but they were the first of many horn choirs born in the '70s and '80s, mostly saxophone quartets. S.O.S.'s trio voicings sometimes eerily anticipate the World Saxophone Quartet that came along a bit later.
The trio was tight and maneuverable, changing direction as one like birds in flight. That precision stemmed from extensive rehearsing, close listening on the bandstand and playing a little Bach. S.O.S. might sound like more than three players by moving the voices around, even when two reeds are riffing behind the other.
Tenor player Alan Skidmore is a Londoner, the son of a jazz saxophonist, while altoist Mike Osborne and multi-instrumentalist John Surman grew up closer to the countryside. There was always a strong whiff of agrarian roots and the English folk revival about S.O.S. They might literally break into an Irish jig. Their theme "Country Dance" was perfect for a romp around the maypole. A lot of '60s and '70s English jazz has that bagpipey energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhrP9OT7FU4
― no fomo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 14:59 (ten years ago) link
Heard of them but never associated them with folk music!
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 15:01 (ten years ago) link
they are so good! i love what i've heard so far -- there's definitely a droney folk quality in there, like david munrow crumhorn/EMC/the voice of jantina noorman but then they totally flip out with improvisational stuff too. i love them!
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/20/198076754/looking-for-the-next-one-reveals-an-underappreciated-sax-trio
yup i learned this from npr
― no fomo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 15:04 (ten years ago) link
(xp)Never heard of them before today when I noticed the thing on NPR about them before coming to this thread.
― The O RLY of Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
spooky
when i turned on the radio and heard them i thought there was something wrong with the radio, it was awesome
― no fomo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
also can someone please elaborate on this within the context of british folk? They didn't last long, but they were the first of many horn choirs born in the '70s and '80s, mostly saxophone quartets. S.O.S.'s trio voicings sometimes eerily anticipate the World Saxophone Quartet that came along a bit later.
― no fomo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
Not a lot of chatter on this thread about the Albion Band, which is a shame as Rise Up Like The Sun is top 5 Brit electric folk for me. The interesting thing about that album is that there wasn't as much Ashley Hutchings on it as on other Albions records, it was more down to John Tams who I see hasn't been mentioned once here but is imo a totally unsung hero of Brit folk. After that album he went on to form Home Service which really took up where Rise Up left off, their Alright Jack album is stunning. They spent a lot of time doing stage work like The Mysteries at the National Theatre in the 80s and are thankfully now on the comeback trail.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
I have a late period robin Williamson album on ECM called skirting the river road of which John surman is a big component. That's been my only exposure to him (amazing record) but I think he has also done some mystic-improv John Dowland stuff for ECM too?
― Spot Lange (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
i have that robin williamson album too! i could never really connect with it but maybe that's because i wasn't trying very hard.
― no fomo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link
they were the first of many horn choirs born in the '70s and '80s,
First I've heard!
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
... in the context of folk that is
i think a committee should be formed to investigate this mattermany horn choirs sounds v interesting
― no fomo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
Xxp I connect with that record best by just having it on and doing other stuff tbh. It's more of a mood piece than a moment by moment ride like isb.
― Spot Lange (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
surman has def made a number of recs for ecm and others that incorporate 'british' choral/classical music of varying traditions, inc. folk - but i have never found them v. compelling, i'm afraid, despite jack dejohnette being involved w/ some of them.
rightly or wrongly i think of alan skidmore as a bit of a brit journeyman - a player, a pro, cld be wild, but fundamentally a jazz musician, def not a folkie per se
the mike osborne stuff i know best is his pretty free/fiery post-ornette alto jazz stuff - his debut rec Outback is a scorcher
marcello cld tell us all a lot more, i'm sure
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
titles? recommendations for the most formal and folky?
― no fomo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
L L, i wld just be copying titles from his wiki entry - i used to work in a jazz rec shop and prob heard most of his ecm titles at some point or other, as i said they didn't make a huge impression
in fact the surman/ecm appearance i like best is thimar, by the Tunisian oud player anouar brahem - a different kind of folk music
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
That oud player is great, gotta check that out.
― The O RLY of Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 21:45 (ten years ago) link
oh oki'll look around
― no fomo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
s.o.s. band seems more like terry riley than folk
albion band rules
just picked up an old copy of steve ashley's stroll on, highly recommended to albion band fans
but don't take it from me, the album cover sells it!
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― usic for 18 magicians (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/s/steve_ashley-stroll_on.jpg
i guess i'm talking about stuff like this that (imo) straddles the line between formal classical performance/early music and folk melodies? like anthems in eden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRUkWm1jcSU
― no fomo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
xp that is a super cool album cover
― no fomo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
La Lachera, you might like this, though it has more folk appeal in feel than in any more definable connection maybe (though Dave's bass intro does seem to briefly quote the song I know as "Birmingham Sunday"; seems like Richard Farina might've set it to an older tune). From 1973 the title track of Conference of the Birds (most of the rest of the album is pretty freaky, though I learned to love it, for sure). A string band I used to know in the 70s covered this, in between Grisman and some Irish trad. Anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2uoLafv5c0
― dow, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link