SELDA BAĞCAN

Who doesn't like a bit of Selda...

Fern Knight - The Poisoner

Fern Knight: "The Poisoner" from Derek Moench on Vimeo.

Hölderlin

Holderlin ‘s LP Holderlins Traum has long been one of my favourite German LP’s. More in the folk vain than say alot of their better known contemporaries at the time, but they found a very suitable home with the Pilz label with acts such as Witthuser and Westrupp, and also sit nicely on my shelf alongside similar artists such as Catherine Ribeiro

Here’s some cool live footage



and another track from the LP

Incredible String Band

The facinating incredible string band, Introduced to me at 16 years of age by James "Rohete" Dunford who tragically died last week. RIP man. this is for you..

Ilyas Ahmed

just picked up the double LP Between Two Skies / Towards The Night recently from Plug'd in Cork. Missed these before. Has not been far from my turnatble, but i wasn't too sure about it at first but i keep getting drawn to the minimalism and his haunting vocals. Dig it.

Electric Eden - Unearthing Britains Visionary Music

This is a really great book on British folk music throughout the 20th Century to the present day that focuses on its 60s 70s heyday. It pays particular attention to Folk music as a medium for expressing a peoples relationship with their community and landscape, a response to seminal events such as industrialisation and WWI and ultimately as a lament for a Golden Age long gone or utopian vision never fully realised. Quite a lot of areas are covered from 19th Century Arts and Crafts founder to Warp and The Caretaker.

Here is an excellent primer on the book that was featured as part of Wire magazines Salon series. Its an interview with the author Rob Young and features some great tuneage.