DEVANDRA BANHART is one I recently discovered...reminds me of 60's freak folk...Holy Modals etc....or Tom Rapp
Banhart's music is often associated with the New Weird America genre, along with Vetiver and Joanna Newsom.[27] The New York Times has called his songs "free associative work"[7] and SPIN magazine has written that "Banhart's albums offer ashram-appropriate guitar strums, trippy-hippie tone poetry."[28] Various publications have described his style as psych folk,[29] avant-folk, freak folk,[7] Lo-Fi, hipster folk revival,[30] and alternative folk.[8]
Many notable reviewers, including AllMusic, The Times, and Mojo, have pointed out similarities between Banhart's songs and production with that of the early 1970s band Tyrannosaurus Rex (an early version of Mark Bolan's T. Rex). In a May 2004 interview with Arthur magazine, Banhart claimed that he was unaware of the music of Tyrannosaurus Rex until after he began writing and recording songs.[36] Devendra Banhart has downplayed Bolan's influence on his music, and instead prefers to credit Vashti Bunyan, Karen Dalton, Caetano Veloso, Simon Diaz, Fred Neil, Nico, Donovan, Six Organs of Admittance and certain albums such as David Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name among his main influences.
On Jools..."a beautiful psychedelic minstrel"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cig2Ep-4udg
My Dearest Friend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q261rVZm ... re=related
Autumn's Child
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJtxtCm0 ... re=related
Lazy Butterfly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WECiqOHs ... re=related
Freak folk
....is a genre of folk music associated with contemporary artists such as Faun Fables, Ariel Pink, Animal Collective, Davenport, Devendra Banhart, CocoRosie, Panda Bear, Kelli Ali, Joanna Newsom, Bowerbirds, Woods, Greg Weeks, Hecuba, Akron/Family, Rio en Medio, Birdengine, Sufjan Stevens, Sean Hayes, and with artists of the 1960s and 1970s such as Vashti Bunyan, Comus, Holy Modal Rounders, The Incredible String Band, The Godz, and The Fugs.
Freak folk draws from traditional folk music and uses mainly acoustic instrumentation, but introduces elements of avant-garde music, baroque pop and psychedelic folk, often featuring uncommon sounds, themes, and vocal styles.
New Weird America
The term is generally believed to have been coined by David Keenan in the August 2003 issue of The Wire, following the Brattleboro Free Folk Festival organized by Matt Valentine and Ron J. Schneiderman.[1][2][3][4] It is a play on Greil Marcus's phrase "Old Weird America" as used in his book Invisible Republic, which deals with the lineage connecting the pre-World War II folk performers on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music to Bob Dylan and his milieu.
Musical style
The musical style described as New Weird America is derived mainly from psychedelic rock and folk groups of the 1960s and 1970s, including American performers Holy Modal Rounders and English and Scottish groups, such as Pentangle, The Incredible String Band, Donovan, and Comus.[4] It also finds inspiration in such disparate sources as heavy metal, free jazz, electronic music, noise music, various ethnic musics, musique concrète, tropicália, and early- and mid-20th century American folk music. Another primary inspiration is outsider music, often played by technically naïve and/or socially estranged musicians, such as The Shaggs, Roky Erickson, and Jandek.
Other genre classifications with similar aesthetics are psychedelic rock, psych folk, freakbeat, and freak folk.
The music has been covered extensively by L.A.-based Arthur, which ran in-depth pieces on Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, CocoRosie, Animal Collective, and Six Organs of Admittance, released the compilation The Golden Apples of the Sun, and curated the ArthurFest (2005) and ArthurBall (2006), featuring a variety of artists from the movement.
Associated bands and artists
This list represents a small cross-section of many different types of music produced within the last 10 years.
* Akron/Family
* Arborea
* Baptist Generals
* The Bastard Fairies
* Bon Iver
* Brightblack Morning Light
* Caroliner
* Castanets
* Charalambides
* Comets on Fire
* Danielson
* Davenport
* Alela Diane
* Entrance
* Espers[4]
* Faun Fables
* Feathers
* Josephine Foster[4]
* Fursaxa
* Adam Gnade
* Grizzly Bear
* Hala Strana
* Jana Hunter
* Hush Arbors
* Jewelled Antler
* Bryyn
* The Mountain Goats
* MV&EE
* No-Neck Blues Band[4]
* Grant Olney
* Jack Rose[4]
* Sunburned Hand of the Man[4]
* Town & Country
* Vetiver
* White Magic
* Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice
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Freakbeat is the name used for rare, collectable, and obscure British Invasion records, particularly from between 1966 and 1967.[1] Elements of the freakbeat sound include strong direct drum beats, loud and frenzied guitar riffs, and extreme effects such as: fuzztone, flanging, distortion and compression or phasing on the vocal or drum tracks. Often used to describe the European counterpart to the psychedelic garage rock of American groups like The Seeds, The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, and The Standells, freakbeat is most often applied to music originating in the UK, although many artists on the European continent also contributed to the freakbeat style. Some of the best-known examples of the freakbeat genre include the British hits "Take a Heart" by The Sorrows, "Making Time" by The Creation, "Atmospheres" by Wimple Winch, and "I Can Hear the Grass Grow" by The Move. Much of the material collected on Rhino Records's 2001 box-set compilation Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond, 1964-1969 can be classified as freakbeat.
The term "freakbeat" was invented (after the fact) in the 1980s by the music journalist Phil Smee, to retroactively describe a music style that has been described as a missing link between the early to mid-1960s mod R&B scene and the psychedelic rock and progressive rock genres that emerged in the late-1960s with bands such as Pink Floyd. Freakbeat music was typically created by four-piece bands experimenting with studio production techniques.
So glad to see the freak flag still unfurled...
