Official 60's/70's Acid Folk "Now Playing" thread

Early 80's okay too, i guess.

 

There's definitely more psychedelic than this one, but it's still pretty weird. Kind of like Linda Perhacs but more wild. From Canada 1968.

 

Fabulously unhinged female vox? Oh, yes. Yes. Yes Yes. Merci. 50 years this...

 

Staying now with the strange unsettled theme from lovely France. Recorded 1977. Enjoy.

 

Love Catherine Ribeiro...

This one here is a classic ... recorded in Italy by a 20 year old English guy and original copies sell for crazy prices.

 

May wyrd sisters sail the airy seas to The Sabbat! Away from me. Who cares be turned into an ugly worm?!

 

Always like some some femme vox psy-folk.

 

Easily best ever version of this trad Scottish ditty. Witchy outcast vibes a plenty.....

 

Wyrd Time Out-esque time signature here. Dublin, Eire 1972 original release year. Fab stuff entire album.
In fact one of the best of the original era genre ever.

 

Some live TV beauty from 1972.

 

And now for something live at the BBC, but different.

 

Dino Valente mono vinyl by Tompkins Square 2013 (orig. release 1968)



Not much of a fan of his quicksilver outing but this solo release is killer. One of my favorites of the genre. I'm wearing this sucker out.

 

Also try Pentangle title track of the Reflection album. Some spacey fem vox and goes for an instrumental wander.

 

Norwegian "Cruel Sister"

 

Twangy strings in there.

Reports yesterday of idea from Norway that they abandon timekeeping during the permanent light of the northern summer and just do things 'whenever'.
How's that for psych!

 

A bit twee for Mancs but brilliant.

 

Can really hear where Led Zep got their UK trad folk influence for the III + album/s with some of this.

 

Back to a lovely, magical moon child. Wyrd sisters rule this.

 

Scottish outfit in. Prolly me fave of all.

you that create the diversity of the forms
open to my words
you that divide and multiply it
hear my sounds
I make yield league to you
ancient associates
and fellow wanderers
you that move the heart
in fur and scale
I join with you
you that sing bright and subtle
making shapes that my throat cannot tell
you that harden the horn
and make quick the eye
you that run the fast fox and the zigzag fly
you sizeless makers of the mole and of the whale
aid me and I will aid you
I make a blood pact with you
you that lift the blossom and the green branch
you who make symmetries more true
you who consider the angle of your limbs
who dance in slower time
who watch the patterns
you rough coated who eat water
who stretch deep and high
with your green blood
my red blood let it be mingled
aid me and I will aid you
I call upon you
you who are unconfined
who have no shape
who are not seen
but only in your action
I will call upon you
you who have no depth
but choose direction
who bring what is willed
that you blow love upon the summers of my loved ones
that you blow summers upon those loves of my love
aid me and I will aid you
I make a pact with you
you who are the liquidness of the waters
and the spark of the flame
I call upon you
you who make fertile the soft earth
and guard the growth of the growing things
I make peace with you
you who are the blueness of the blue sky
and the wrath of the storm
I take the cup of deepness with you
earthshakers
and with you the sharp and the hollow hills
I make reverence to you
round wakefulness we
call the earth
I make wide eyes to you
you who are awake
every created thing both solid and sleepy
or airy light
I weave colours round you
you who will come with me
I will consider it beauty

BEST.ACID.POETRY.EVER.

 

This 3CD box should appeal to viewers of this thread, methinks:

Various - Dust On The Nettles (A Journey Through The British Underground Folk Scene 1967-1972)



Here's a peek at the wonderfully thick and fully annotated booklet that comes with the set:

 

Magnet - "Willow's Song"

 

Bridget St John - "Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity"

 

itslostitsfound: Lammas Night Laments

The hallowed and very DIY Lammas Night Laments are the comps that first turned me on back in the late 90's/early 00's. (Good luck with the links...prolly long unavail.)

 

And yes, i own the original gangster 1971 UK LP. Stunning.

 

This retail avail only on a very few rare comps. Smack yo mama OG wyrd acid folk ~1969 psychedelia goodness.

I'm giving waaaay too much away too damn easy. Work for it....you lazy point and click SLAGS!