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looking for stuff that is sorta in the folky singer songwriter spectrum, but plays with elements of jazz, modern classical, non-western musics, disonance, electronics, etc.

some things i've been listening to:
late 70s Joni Mitchell like "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter" & "Hissing of the Summer Lawns"
David Sylvian
Tim Buckley's "Lorca" & "Starsailor"
Robert Wyatt
later Talk Talk & solo Hollis
Scott Walker's "Tilt"
Arthur Russell
Van Dyke Parks "Song Cycle"
John Martyn
Arto LIndsay
Brigitte Fontaine, etc

definitely on the mellow, darker side, open and airy with loose melodies

thanks.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

rodruigez "cold fact"

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

rodriguez i mean

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Movietone -- "The Blossom Filled Streets"

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Sixto Rodriguez - that used to be on one of my lists. i'll have to search for it again.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

james yorkston & the athletes "moving up country"

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

caetano veloso

― greg chappell (gaz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

the new greg davis album

― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

what about astral werks?

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom Ze, Slapp Happy & Art Bears, Kate Bush, Linda Perhacs, Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

ha, I read well

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

is astral werks a typo? or a band i've never heard of?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

that perlac record looks great. is it still available anywhere?

talk to me about slap happy. it's a RIO type band, or off shoot of Henry Cow in any way? i've seen that Wyatt sings on one of theirs?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Not an RIO band, and not an off shoot of HC, though HC did play on their Desperate Straights album. More like off-kilter cabaret pop. The one with HC their most "experimental" (and my fave). Not sure if the Perlac record is still in print, but it should be pretty easy to find.

Dagmar Krause was Slapp Happy's main vocalist, and she was also vocalist for Art Bears, who *were* a HC offshoot.

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

going through the stacks, i thought of some more records like this that i'm into

Tuxedomoon, John Cale's "Music for a new Society", Blue Nile, some of the Solo Fred Frith records

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Dagmar Krause was Slapp Happy's main vocalist, and she was also vocalist for Art Bears, who *were* a HC offshoot

ok, that's where i got confused. i have Art Bear's "Winter Songs" and i like it tons, but i guess i'm looking for more introspective stuff.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

uh, some more things along these lines

Gastr Del Sol
Karen Krog (i swear this sounds like Tortoise was her backing band even though it was recorded in the 60s & 70s)
and not to embarrass you dominique, but i downloaded a bunch of your mp3s a long as time ago off your mp3.com site and really enjoy them

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

astral weeks (yes a typo)is a van morrison album, haha. shouldhave specified i guess. and typed correctly.

jim orourke definitely fits into this i think though.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Slapp Happy is MUCH MUCH more poppy and delightful then Art Bears and/or Henry Cow. Look for the Henry Cow Concerts CD w/ Robert Wyatt and Dagmar doing Gloria Gloom/Little Red Riding Hood Hits the Road, surely a high point of human culture.

Some more of the jazzy/rocky folkies like Fred Neil's later stuff and Tim Hardin's early stuff.

The LInda Perhacs was recently put back in print remastered w/ bonus stuff. Great stuff.

The Homosexuals, 3 CD set out soon, there's more "introspective" and just plain different stuff then what was on the Recommended CD, he says again and again and again.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Noriko Tujiko "Make Me Hard". i love this record. mego-glitch w/whispery japanese girl vocals. thanks gygax

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The first Henry Cow album, for "Nine Funerals of the Citizen King" alone.

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

...which is not to say that I don't like the rest of the album.

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah! Kevin Ayers first 3 records absolutely! He's all over the place from twee Syd Barrett psychelia to jazzy pop songwriting to Soft Machine proto-prog rock, tape experiments, all kinds of avant-garde craziness, and wonderful beautiful pop songs.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The new Destroyer album, maybe?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Shearwater "Winged Life"

― Kevin Erickson, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I am enjoying that new CocoRosie album quite a bit and I think it would certainly fall into this category.

Also, Todd Rundgren's "A Wizard, A True Star" has been like my favorite album recently and was the first thing to pop into my mind when I saw "out pop," but it's more schizo-psych-musique concrete-pop than the stuff you mentioned.

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom Waits: Blood Money
Bob Drake: The Skull Mailbox
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Barafundle

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The last Dean Roberts album, Be Mine Tonight, could well be worth your while checking out. I s'pose it's *sort of* a lo-fi Spirit of Eden, it's got that same reverent sense of hush about it, but it's rather more nocturnal and downbeat in feel and shading.

Also check out some of the quieter Ghost albums (Second Time Around, Temple Stone) or perhaps some of Masaki Batoh's solo stuff.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"River" by Terry Reid. More "out" than any of his other albums, though "Terry Reid" is a great alamgram of pop, singer-songwriter, blooze-belting and garageband rock.

― lovebug starski, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

A record I always wind up recommending: Julie Tibbets' Sunset Glow. Open, airy, loose, dark & mellow -- it's all those things. Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom is out in that territory, too, I think.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

prince - sign of the times
brian eno - another green world (more open than the first two, although i like those better...)
richard & linda thompson - pour down like silver (not as out, but really great...)
os mutantes - a divina comedia ou... (not as hyper or fuzzy as the first two - all three are awesome, though)
nico - the marble index (if you like scott's tilt...)

also, linda perhacs is OTM.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

and not to embarrass you dominique, but i downloaded a bunch of your mp3s a long as time ago off your mp3.com site and really enjoy them

hey thanks - not embarrassed (unless you really hate them, in which case, it's more shame than embarrassment)

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

gal costa's first album

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Lots of stuff on VHF might do the trick.
I especially like Richard Youngs "Airs of the Ear"
and L's ""Holy Letters."
Also, Six Organs of Admittance is a perennial favorite. He kicked much ass at a recent Kansas City performance.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Cornelius
Natural Calamity
Water Melon
Kathryn Williams vs Pedro - Demons In Cases EP
Alfie - 'You Make No Bones' Andy Votel Remix
Kings Of Convenience - 'Wining A Battle, Losing The War' Andy Votel Remix
Andy Votel - Styles Of The Unexpected
Andy Votel - 'Girl On A GoPed' Minotaur Shock remix
Badly Drawn Boy - any remix

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

m m o'hara
vols 6 & 7 of ethiopiques [mahmoud ahmed's]
roy harper
betty carter [i am thinking of "finally" and the early 70s stuff which followed]
barbara [her first couple of records are nigh perfect dark cabaret]

― mig (mig), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Locust's last album on Touch, perhaps

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone heard anything about Lily & Maria?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 17 June 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

Kevin Ayers OTM

also Mayo Thompson solo

― Tolaca Luke (admrl), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 17:55 (fifteen years ago)

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