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Psych folk or Psychedelic folk is a music genre which began through the blending of folk music and psychedelic music in the 1960s. It is generally acoustic or mixes acoustic instrumentation with other influences, usually something weird or atmospheric. Often chanting or world music influences are used. A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ...
Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ...
Psychedelic music is a musical genre which is not rigorously defined, and is sometimes interpreted to include everything from Flower Power music to Hard Rock and Acid Rock. ...
The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...
Look up Acoustic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary For the study of sound, a branch of physics, see acoustics. ...
A chant is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, either on a single pitch or with a simple notes and often including a great deal of repetition or statis. ...
World music is a term that covers all music that is not part of mainstream popular music or classical music and has some kind of ethnic component. ...
Early examples of psych folk bands were Syd Barrett, The Incredible String Band, and Tyrannosaurus Rex. Syd Barrett in concert Roger Keith Barrett (born January 6, 1946 in Cambridge, England), known as Syd Barrett, was one of the founding members of the psychedelic/progressive rock group Pink Floyd. ...
The iconic cover of the bands 2nd album designed by The Fool The Incredible String Band were (and are) a Scottish acoustic band who way back in the 1960s built a popular following among the British counter culture, and are considered psych folk music pioneers. ...
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It has continued to be performed up to the present day. Other notable psych folk artists are Robyn Hitchcock and Current 93. Robyn Hitchcock (born March 3, 1953) is a rock and roll singer-songwriter and psych folk artist -- drawing upon the tradition of his openly admitted inspiration, Syd Barrett. ...
Current 93 is a British music group founded in 1982 by David Tibet (né David Michael Bunting, renamed Tibet by Genesis P-Orridge sometime prior to forming the group). ...
Since the 1990s, the Elephant Six Collective, with bands like Neutral Milk Hotel has been known to release psych folk records. // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but otherwise retaining the same mindset. ...
The Elephant Six Recording Company was a musical collective founded in Athens, Georgia, USA, by Bill Doss, Will Cullen Hart (both, now formerly, of Olivia Tremor Control), Jeff Mangum (of Neutral Milk Hotel), and Robert Schneider (of the Apples in Stereo), the four of whom grew up making music in...
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The latest generation of psych folk artists in the early 2000s include Animal Collective, Faun Fables, Sun City Girls, Dame Darcy, and Devandra Banhart. (See New Weird America.) Saddam Hussein shortly after his capture Major controversy over U.S. presidential election, 2000 September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on New Yorks World Trade Center and Virginias Pentagon killing almost 3000 people. ...
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Faun Fables is the name of the atmospheric, slightly witchy psych folk music of Dawn McCarthy. ...
Since 1984, the Sun City Girls trio have recorded over 26 critically acclaimed albums from their home base of Sun City, Arizona. ...
Darcy Megan Stanger, known professionally as Dame Darcy is one of the most popular and well-regarded alternative comics artists today -- along side cartoonists like Peter Bagge, Robert Crumb, Tony Millionaire, Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware. ...
Devendra Banhart is one of the more popular artists to come out of the new psych folk music movement that includes performers like Faun Fables, Animal Collective and Dame Darcy. ...
Other types of folk that incorporate world music, strange sounds and trippy lyrics include psych folk's scarier cousins, apocalyptic folk and pagan folk. While these genres are similar, the latter two appeal more to followers of gothic music, while psych folk is more favoured by hippies and psychedelic music followers in general. This relationship could be considered very analogous to the similar subject matter but different treatments of fantastical elements in fantasy fiction (psych folk) and horror fiction (apocalyptic folk). Neofolk is a music genre comprising a wide range of late-20th-century and early-21st-century music with a vague similarity to folk music of various sorts. ...
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For other definitions of fantasy, see fantasy (psychology). ...
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However, the two clearly overlap -- prominent apocalyptic folk artist Michael Gira named his newest project Angels of Light after San Francisco hippy Hibiscus's transcendental theatre group of the same name, and is responsible for guiding the career of new psych folk rising star, Devendra Banhart. Michael Gira was the founder and lead singer in the New York City rock band, Swans. ...
Angels of Light were a rock group formed in 1997 by singer Michael Gira after he disbanded Swans, the group hed founded in 1980. ...
Species See text Hibiscus or Rosemallow is a large genus of about 200-220 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, native to warm temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world. ...
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Ptolemaic Terrascope logo The Ptolemaic Terrascope is a magazine covering old and new music, usually of a psychedelic nature. ...
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