Archive for the ‘Folk’ Category

Beauty

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

“When you are concerned with aesthetics, with images of beauty, you are always exploring. You’re always remaking them, adding to them. They are basically slow-growing things, like plants, and the explosions are rare, but so far as man’s mind is concerned, this is all part of the system.”

Alan Lomax, 1975 — from the Cultural Equity research pages.

Feel the Spirit — Other Worldly Folk Music Gems and Psychedelics

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

Finally got a hold of this beautiful but rather obscure compilation by Mark Pritchard, containing the title song by Heaven and Earth which I first heard on some of the Amorphous Androgynous DJ sets around 2007. This personal note by Mark says it all:

According to Discogs this is only one of two releases on Optimum Sounds Limited at the moment and I wonder if it even still exists. There’s no metadata in Musicbrainz yet and the CD seems to be going for a ridiculously low price, for less than 10 bucks it’s yours. Here’s the tracklisting: