Jazzy D's Soul Notes

I recently finished  off the biography of John Peel and just going back  a few pages i remember one section when he and Sheila had Forest stay at their pad. John asked them all to have baths as they were som smelly.

Forest were an acid fol rock band in a silmilar style to Trees.I would never claim that Forest were as powerful as say The Trees or The Fairports but they definitely have a place in anyone's acid folk collection - they verge on the ethereal all in a very good band.

Here is their debut 1969 album in full -

Forest - Forest (1969) full album



A1 Bad Penny




A2 A Glade Somewhere




A3 Lovemaker's Ways




A4 While You're Gone




A5 Sylvie (We'd Better Not Pretend)




A6 A Fantasy You




B1 Fading Light




B2 Do You Want Some Smoke?




B3 Don't Want To Go




B4 Nothing Else Will Matter




B5 Mirror Of Life




B6 Rain Is On My Balcony

Four lumps of quality music for your ears -

Shirley Collins - The Unquiet Grave



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COplJ1MiU0k&list=PLhSp1I0HhFFdNWj6P6b98CzbtUc1w-kIx&ab_channel=ThePsychedelicGarden

Damh The Bard - The Cauldron Born



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELoi1zLo3Pk&ab_channel=KeepMusicPagan

Mark Fry - The Witch



Eerie psych-folk epic 'The Witch' from Mark Fry's classic 1972 LP 'Dreaming With Alice', with images from Oliver Postgate & Peter Firmin's 1965 animated series 'The Pogles', banned from repeat showings because the BBC deemed the witch too frightening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQi6_ZSU4SI&ab_channel=flashbackcaruso

Midwinter - Thc Sanctuary Stone



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzZYy5Rh1VA&ab_channel=WhackaWhacka

Enjoy.

A couple more wierd folk tunes before the witching hour -

Paarvohaju - Syvyys



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ks3NOekl8Q#Paavoharju


Kemialliset Ystävät - Kivikasan rauhassa



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF-oB1gm__A&ab_channel=FonalRecords

Enjoy.

Another selection of fine strange music but this time with teh flavour of the States -

First, the wonderful Joanna Newsom , whom i saw live in a pokey Kemp Town church when her debut album came out , but the track i have chosen is from her follow up , Ys.. I find her music so fascinating and is a mesmerizing live artist.

Joanna Newsom - Emily



Newsom was born and raised in the small town of Nevada City, California. Her mother, Christine (née Mueller), is an internist, and her father, William Newsom, is also a doctor. Newsom's family includes her brother, Pete, a fellow musician, and sister, Emily, who inspired her song "Emily" (and contributed backing vocals).


Newsom at her harp.

Next up,
Josephine Foster And The Supposed - Worried and Sorry



She comes from Colorado.

Here is another strange folky groove -

CocoRosie - Werewolf



CocoRosie is an American musical group formed in 2003 by sisters Bianca "Coco" and Sierra "Rosie" Casady. The sisters were born and raised in the United States, but formed the band in Paris after meeting for the first time in years. Their music has been called "freak folk", and incorporates elements of pop, blues, opera, electronica, and hip hop.
CocoRosie began as a duo, with Sierra singing, playing the guitar, piano and harp, and Bianca singing and manipulating various children's toys, electronic and percussion instruments, as well as other exotic noisemakers.

Finally, more heavier in the experimental rock vein -


Cul De Sac - Homuncuius




Cul de Sac are a rock music group formed in 1990 in Boston, Massachusetts and led by guitarist Glenn Jones. Their music is primarily instrumental. Jones and keyboardist Robin Amos have been the only constant members.

They have been classified by some as post rock, but Jones has expressed some discomfort with the term. He states that Cul de Sac is the most "musically satisfying" group he's been involved with; a group that is the "closest to being the band I'd dreamed of forming. It allows me to combine my love of open-tuned guitar, played fingerstyle, with my love for electronics and noise, all placed within a rhythmic rock framework." Jones occasionally plays "The Contraption," a prepared lap steel guitar.

Enjoy.

The morning song is by Linda Perhacs and the track called Parallelograms from 1970.



Enjoy.