I'd put it in the category of "new age."

New Age? You know, I think that hurts even more than Jim Carroll dismissing efforts at Traditional Balladry as bad pop singing.

Anyway, the music was realised by filtering & looping one of my rubber squeaky penguin toys as a real-time improvisation on my lap-top by way of an analogous folk process. One of the things we used to hear a lot on the old Harvest Home forum was that a lap-top computer was just as valid an instrument for folk music as a concertina. So here we have a single squeaky toy reed transfigured (beyond recognition) into the three elements of Traditional Folk Music (drone, rhythm and melody) to accompany the image of the bestial simulacra as found today on the beach. This sculpture was the the product of nature (sea & wind) rearranging various man-made artefacts (the seaweed notwithstanding) into something with string echoes of certain folkloric & ceremonial ritual masks. Also, I reckon a more extended version of this music would make an ideal accompaniment for a spirited rendering of Child #36. Also, for all us Darkly Wyrd Goth Trad Folk types in the UK, any such obvious a homage to Jonathan Miller's 1969 adaptation of Monty James's Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad is to honour that which is integral to the whole Folk Concept.