Surrealist folk

Subject: Surrealist folk
From: RobbieWilson
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 08:19 PM

Ivor Cutler
Surrealist folk
I love it
what do you think?

Subject: RE: Surrealist folk
From: Leadfingers
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 08:47 PM

Robbie - If you listen to some early Incredible String Band or , even
better , Roy Harper (Certainly Random , for example) that is SERIOUSLY
surreal !!

Subject: RE: Surrealist folk
From: Eric the Streetsinger
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 02:01 AM

Check out Baby Gramps from Seattle.
His song "Pallindromes" would make
Salvador Dali salivate
(go hang a salami i'm a lasagna hog!)

Subject: RE: Surrealist folk
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 02:47 AM

Any Thursady evening:
Chorlton Folk Club
Southwest Manchester Cricket Club
Ellesmere Road
Off Wilbraham Road
Chorlton
Manchester

More than a bit surreal

http://www.chorltonartsfestival.com/event-detail.php?event_id=38

Subject: RE: Surrealist folk
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 02:51 AM

http://www.chorltonartsfestival.com/event-detail.php?event_id=38

Subject: RE: Surrealist folk
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 02:52 AM

OK I failed at blue clicky things.

Subject: RE: Surrealist folk
From: NormanD
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 03:01 AM

"A man in the forest, he once asked of me
How many black berries grow in the deep sea?
I answered him back with a tear in my eye
How many dark ships in the forest"

....or multiple trad. variations thereof.

I used to think the origins of these lines were lost in metaphor and mythology until I saw this odd (but not deliberately surrealist) film by Werner Herzog, "Aguirre: The Wrath of God", which contains a scene of a boat in a tree.

Subject: RE: Surrealist folk
From: Jos
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 03:31 AM

An 'English'-speaking guide to the church in Utrecht kept talking about the 'ship'. A link with the word 'naval' was the clue that she meant the nave - the roof being like the hull of an upturned ship.
The branches of trees in a dark forest could give a similar effect.

Subject: RE: Surrealist folk
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 09:17 AM

Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band.

Subject: RE: Surrealist folk
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 10:40 AM

http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/surreale.htm

Subject: RE: Surrealist folk
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 01:23 PM

Pete Stampfel and Steve Weber were (are) about as surreal as folk can get. Check out the Rounders' version of Flop Eared Mule.

Subject: RE: Surrealist folk
From: GUEST,Allen
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 01:46 PM

Does Sir Henry at Rawlinson End count?

Subject: RE: Surrealist folk
From: GUEST,Tyranofolkus Rex
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 02:13 PM

marc bolan ?????????????????????????????????????????

Subject: RE: Surrealist folk
From: MBSLynne
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 02:18 PM

Well I've had some very surreal experiences in the chat room.....

Subject: RE: Surrealist folk
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 09:29 AM

... yeah man, they were just su-real folk!

Subject: RE: Surrealist folk festival olympic marathon
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 10:22 AM

i think the sidmoth thread race is pretty surreal

Subject: RE: Surrealist folk
From: Severn
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 12:24 PM

Surrealist Folk-Southern Style


"On our Turpentine Farm", originally done on 78 by Pigmeat Pete & Catjuice Charlie and later revived by the NLC Ramblers, gets kind of bizzarre! Imagine The Katzenjammer Kids raised in the American South with a whole slew of animals and some turpentine to experiment with. It'd make a helluva great animated cartoon and would make the PETA folks foam at the mouth.

The Ramblers also revived Red Henderson & Emmet Bankson's "Automobile Trip through Alabama", which one friend of mine once described as "Folksong as written by Captain Beefheart"

Both can be found on "The New Lost City Ramblers- Vol.2 1963-1973" on Smithsonian Folkways

Subject: RE: Surrealist folk
From: RobbieWilson
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 12:42 PM

I am watching Ivor Cutler's Farewell concert from last year. At the age of 81 he was still a tremendous performer. Bizarre yet deadpan