GEFF and Proud of it

Subject: RE: Folklore: GEFF and Proud of it
From: glueman
Date: 15 Apr 08 - 09:49 AM

Thanks for the lesson. Curious software, but no matter, I'm getting the hang.

Subject: RE: Folklore: GEFF and Proud of it
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 15 Apr 08 - 11:54 AM

I'm getting Kate Bush, slowly but surely, especially after Aerial which I love unreservedly; Rapunzel's a big fan, so in our household it's difficult to avoid. In return, she now sings along with Oily Way when I insist on listening to Gong in the car!

She's lately got me into Sigur Ros which didn't take much to be honest, the sort of music that fits like an old shoe.

Now where's the equivalent to that in the professional folk world I wonder? Or am I missing the point? Otherwise, eschewing the tasteless holiday-home conversions to be found in the Imagined Village, it's back to John Barleycorn Reborn I'm afraid...

Subject: RE: Folklore: GEFF and Proud of it
From: Brian Peters
Date: 15 Apr 08 - 12:16 PM

'Oily Way'.......

Now THAT'S what I call music!

Subject: RE: Folklore: GEFF and Proud of it
From: glueman
Date: 15 Apr 08 - 12:36 PM

There was a time when, like Powell and Pressburger, I thought I was the only one who got Kate Bush, now everyone from John Lydon downwards cites her as important. That isn't to say I like all, or even that much of her music but I do reckon she's important in all the right ways.

Someone - can't remember who - called her the last prog rocker which is stretching a point but I know what they meant. Completely uninhibited and getting worse (or better IMO) as she gets older. She was a huge admirer of P and P and was going to work with Powell when he died, she had the Red Shoes.
A neo-romantic, magical realist sensibility that England once excelled at producing.

Subject: RE: Folklore: GEFF and Proud of it
From: glueman
Date: 15 Apr 08 - 02:42 PM

Stretching the thread waaay of topic but here's another groove I dig.
Harrison Birtwistle

Subject: RE: Folklore: GEFF and Proud of it
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 15 Apr 08 - 03:22 PM

IIRC, Ali Anderson was playing concertina, backing Kate Bush on Top of the Pops....

Kitty

(that's English concertina, of course!)

Subject: RE: Folklore: GEFF and Proud of it
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 15 Apr 08 - 03:33 PM

Nice; I was heavily into Peter Maxwell Davies when he had The Fires of London & still have some of the vinyl; lots of folk & medieval crossovers which has much appeal, Birtwistle likewise, as this video demonstrates. Thanks for that.

Meanwhile, getting back on thread: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKh1G5sMN9s

Subject: RE: Folklore: GEFF and Proud of it
From: Rasener
Date: 15 Apr 08 - 04:14 PM

Was Bobby Darin GEFF

If I were a carpenter

Simple Song Of Freedom

Unfortunately not the original versions