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I WANT MORE MUSIC LIKE..... (krautrock and experimental folk fans unite)

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Can - Future Days
Can - Tago Mago
Neu - Neu
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun (sorry - I did see the other thread that someone just made, but this is just being included in the list as a reference)
Animal Collective - Feels
Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian
Incredible String Band - Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

Hopefully there's SOME KIND of unifying theme there. Basically anything along the lines of experimental krautrock and folk, but hopefully someone out there will have some kind of suggestions that combine the two in some way (out of those on my list, the Boredoms album comes the closest with the rhytmic drumming and odd chanting/psychedelic guitars). Whatever, I'm really open to any suggestions right now (on topic, of course).

― I am Who I am and that is All that I am, Monday, 28 November 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

Amon Duul II- Yeti
get an album by Circle
Faust- Faust IV
Brainticket- Cottonwoodhill
Necronomicon- Tips Zum Selbstmord
Brast Burn reissue
Popol Vuh "Nosferatu" sdtrk
the Wicker Man soundtrack
the first Espers album or the new one "Weed Tree"
Buffy Sainte Marie- Illuminations
Linda Perhacs- Parallelograms


― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Monday, 28 November 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

tim buckley's starsailor wouldn't look out of place on that list. he's the only person I can actually listen to and say, "ah-HAH! animal collective!"

do you have Black Dice's Beaches & Canyons?

Also, miles davis' in a silent way and tribute to jack johnson.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 28 November 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

These may not be the exact same style, but....I like a lot of the same stuff on the original list, and when I'm in that mood I also listen to:

Earthless - Sonic Prayer (instrumental San Diego trio. This is more of a classic rock sound, but the structure is improvised/open ended)

Damo Suzuki and Cul de Sac - Abhayamudra (a worthy companion to Tago Mago)

Fly Pan Am - 1st s/t (minimal, beautiful, obsessively repetitive, much reverb)

Popol Vuh - Letzte Tage Letzte Nachte (comes close to a new age style sometimes, but it's a great album that transcends genre)

― cheshycat, Monday, 28 November 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

If you only buy one album that is krautrock + folk let it be Amon Duul - Paradieswarts Duul.

Workshop - Es liebt Dich und Deine Körperlichkeit, ein Ausgeflippter
is something else in this vein that I don't see mentioned around here enough.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 28 November 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

Brast Burn reissue

and the contemporarily reissued karuna khyal alomoni 1985 album.

seconding the paradieswaarts duul recommendation and adding the s.y.p.h. album - i think it's the third one from 1981 - with the longer, weirder jams onit.

oh, and sergius golowin for the folk side.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 28 November 2005 07:57 (twenty years ago)

linda perhacs is an excellent call
the other neu albums if you havent listened to them yet
maybe: the books, lost and safe

― jmeister (jmeister), Monday, 28 November 2005 08:23 (twenty years ago)

plus catherine ribeiro & alpes paix...

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 28 November 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

this one does me fine things :

http://melodic.co.uk/melo031.htm

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 28 November 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

harmonia - both albums
la dusseldorf - 1st
comus - first utterance
tony caro and john - all on the first day

― zappi (joni), Monday, 28 November 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

"The Lark in the Morning" which is a 2cd compilation of the 1st three Steeleye Span albums (the only one's you really need by them.) It can be got really cheap.

― Raw P at work, Monday, 28 November 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

Yay, I'm real glad about this thread. I've listened (and thoroughly enjoyed) each one of the albums the thread opener posted and was looking to ask a somewhat similar question. Things get done without me asking, how wonderful is that?

― Jibé (Jibé), Monday, 28 November 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

john fahey - volume 4: the great san bernardino birthday party
tyrannosaurus rex - unicorn
amon duul - disaster
charalambides - union, market square
grateful dead - live/dead
ash ra tempel - join inn

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Comus is wonderful as well

― Rizz (Rizz), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Yay, I'm real glad about this thread. I've listened (and thoroughly enjoyed) each one of the albums the thread opener posted and was looking to ask a somewhat similar question.

Ditto! Weird. I'm glad to see live/dead make the suggestion list as well, as I've been trying to find a copy of that all weekend (which wouldn't be difficult, one would think).

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

OOIOO - Gold and Green (awesome, boredoms member! just issued in the US!)
Ash Ra Tempel - First, Join Inn

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

ian OTM about t.rex's unicorn!

if you like hangman's beautiful daughter and those two animal collective albums, it seems like youd love 5000 spirits... by ISB, and it also seems like youd love AC's sung tongs, but i have to imagine youve heard sung tongs, if youve heard the others. the best precursor to some of the animal collective stuff is the holy modal rounders' indian war whoop. also, ive FINALLY listened to wooden guitar today, and it ruuuuuules.

― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

get the Homosexuals 3 CD collection on Hyped2Death ASAP.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

aside from general awesomeness, what makes you think the poster will love the homos, dan?

― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 28 November 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

I second the Harmonia rec - necessary stuff.

Pete - I've heard quite a bit Animal Collective, and everything by ISB, and I don't hear the connection (although I've read plenty about the connection). What should I listen to side by side? Or is the connection less literal than I'm making it out to be?

― TRG (TRG), Monday, 28 November 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

hmm - i think it's mainly a sung tongs - 5000 spirits connection for me. they start out from different source material, but they both have a vocal/acoustic guitar drone that binds them in my mind. they may be more than one degree of separation away, though; maybe that holy modal rounders album (indian war whoop) is a good bridge between the two, although i DEFINITELY like the HMR album way less than either the AC or the ISB. maybe the connection isnt all that literal, but they definitely feel like yelpy-vocals-acoustic-freak-drone-kindred to me in those incarnations.

― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 28 November 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Thank - who knows, maybe it'll suddenly hit me. Yeah, that HMR album (which I like, but the least of all their stuff) is their strangest.

― TRG (TRG), Monday, 28 November 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

I always say this, but get the Masaki Batoh solo stuff.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 28 November 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

ooh - ive been meaning to check out batoh! thanks for the reminder, nick!

― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 28 November 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

you might like this..

http://www.alexdeliverymusic.com

― nikbjawerf, Monday, 28 November 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

I like Ufomammut and Pharoah Overlord a lot.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Monday, 28 November 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

I think the Homosexuals are a unique mixture of british psych folk, british punk rock, and krautrock experimentalism. Listen to a song like "Total Drop" which has all of the above.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 28 November 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Vibracathedral Orchestra - My Gate's Open Tremble by my Side, &/or Hex Hostess

― autovac (autovac), Monday, 28 November 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I totally second the recommendation of that Masaki Batoh Collected Works CD and I totally second the Homosexuals recommendation. I recommend C.O.B.'s Spirit of Love album.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Tivol - Early Teeth. A compilation of the eps.
Awesome stuff. Ash Ra Tempel meets Pharoah Overlord.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Gong - You
Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Magical power mako box set

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

ooh yeah! hawkwind is a great idea! everything they did between ISOSpace and warrior seems relevant here.

― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of Masaki Botoh, you should probably check out some Ghost. Like the most recent one and Lama Rabi Rabi. Also, Alan Silva's Skillfulness.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

les rallizes denudes 'live 77'
tower recordings 'the galaxies incredible sensual transmission field"

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

maybe... MAYBE.. the first pentangle album.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Caetano Veloso - Aruca Azul (kind of like Sung Tongs meets Faust)

Franco Leprino - Integrati...Disintegrati (think Animal Collective in acoustic mode doing breezy instrumentals + synths)

Cosmic Jokers - Planeten Sit-In (spacier aspects of your list)

Makoto Kawabata - Jellyfish Rising (softer, trippier side of your criteria)

Ash Ra Tempel - Inventions for Electric Guitar (ditto)

Steve Reich - Drumming (like Vooredoms minus electronics or vox)

L.Voag - The Way Out ("Bedroom" practically is an Animal Collective song)

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Drumming / Vo0redoms comparison OTM.

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

Caetano Veloso - Aruca Azul (kind of like Sung Tongs meets Faust)

This sounds too good to be true! I love the first several Veloso albums but never heard this one.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

it's a great album, really really underrated, though maybe don't expect as much song-type songs as on Sung Tongs

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

Araca Azul

― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 28 November 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

my friend who told me about araca azul told me this story about how he put it on in the video store where he works, and some woman came up to him, exasperated, and asked if he was trying to torture her. if THAT aint a recommendation!

― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 28 November 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

this show has great odd folk stuff....and sometimes total poop..but..

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/17162

i think you can go into the pentagle realm. but yr bound to hate someof it.

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 28 November 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Amazon has 1 used copy of Araca Azul for $49.99

Argh

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 28 November 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

The Araca Azul connection is a good one. Jon, you can order it from dustygroove for $15.

Tom Ze's Todos Os Olhos is similar but more songy and less experimental than Araca Azul.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 28 November 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

It might be a bit of a left turn for you, but for me at the same time I was getting into all of the old krautrock stuff I also was getting into some late 60s and early 70s mystical jazz kind of music.

Alice Coltrane - Journey to Satchidanda
Herbie Hancock - Sextant, Mwandishi
John McLaughlin - My Goals Beyond
Pharoah Sanders - Thembi, Tauhid
Lonnie Liston Smith - Astral Traveling

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

Ha, I posted to that Araca Azul thread! Oh well. I don't actually like Sung Tongs all that much, but Dominique your AC/Faust description is super intriguing.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

Great recommendations thus far -- also by all means seek out the reissues of the swedish band TRAD GRAS OCH STENAR as well as their related bands PARSSON SOUND, INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER and HARVESTER, who each have one CD reissue out... Wonderful, wonderful stuff.

And maybe that Sonny Sharrock LP on Three Dudes with Beards??
--Wither and Westrupp?
--Holderlin?
--the Akron/Family collab. with M. Gira?

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

john fahey - volume 4: the great san bernardino birthday party

when they attribute the organ playing on "will the circle be unbroken" to Flea, what exactly do they mean?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 1 December 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

Wither and Westrupp?

Not really

Holderlin?

No

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Thursday, 1 December 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

But yes to Sergius Golowin! But mostly just for that track, "Die Weisse Alm", or whatever it's called. Popol Vuh of course... but you knew I was going to say that.

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Thursday, 1 December 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

James Yorkston said he wanted his music to sound like a cross between Can & Planxty, which on paper fits your needs pretty well. The results don't quite live up to that, though maybe his last CD on Fence was getting there.

Also maybe Tunng?

― bham, Thursday, 1 December 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...
I'll happily send my copy of Workshop - Es liebt Dich und Deine Körperlichkeit, ein Ausgeflippter to a more appreciative home. If anyone is interested in it, send me an email.

― patita (patita), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

i'd recommend Tape. Either Opera (their first) or Rideau (latest). Rideau was produced by Markus Schmickler, whose Pluramon lps i'd also recommend to you! The first two Pluramon lps feature Jaki Leibezeit on drums.

The Tape lps sound to me like vaguely folky/pastoral krautrock with lots of field recordings.

― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Broselmachine.

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Saturday, 4 February 2006 02:28 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

James Yorkston said he wanted his music to sound like a cross between Can & Planxty, which on paper fits your needs pretty well. The results don't quite live up to that, though maybe his last CD on Fence was getting there.

Was going to reccommend the Pat Kilroy Light Of Day & New Age All Around cds after reading through this thread anyway. Now I've read that description I think they might fit it a bit better though the Ethnic ingredient is more raga than sean nos. Kilroy was of Irish extraction though, not sure if it shows through at all on either lp.

There's a great lp by a singer/multi-instrumentalist called sylvia Moore that i really must have another go at ripping. A mix of traditional Northern English folk songs played on instrumentation like kora and other mainly african stuff. i picked it up cheap in the miscellaneous section of my old local second hand record shop years ago.

There's also odd bands like Long Fin Killie , Bugblot, Butterfly Child, A.R.Kane and Disco Inferno (1st lp at least) & possibly 3 piece era Bark Psychosis that I'm reminded of by reading this thread.

plus Popul Vuh, Kalacakra and a few others, maybe the solo David Crosby lp's less rocking bits & Mu too

― Stevolende, Thursday, 10 March 2011 22:56 (fifteen years ago)


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