I’ve got another strange musical discovery to share today – the Russian ensemble Caprice, whose new album “Kywitt! Kywitt!” is… well, very strange. I can’t even say that I like all of it. Rather, I obsessively like two songs on it enough to justify making this post. Apparently this group’s previous trilogy of releases was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘music’
Kywitt! Kywitt!
Posted in Inspirations, tagged fairies, fairytales, folk music, German, Grimm, music, Russian on November 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Bat For Lashes
Posted in Inspirations, tagged music, videos on October 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My newest musical discovery is Bat For Lashes (the stage name of English singer Natasha Khan). She sounds something like Kate Bush in the 80′s. In fact some of her songs so strongly capture the sound of 80′s music – in a non-ironic, beautiful way – that one would swear they were listening to a [...]
Larkin Grimm & Lasher Keen
Posted in Inspirations, tagged folk music, gothic, music, witchcraft on May 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I have been obsessively listening to two things this last week. Maybe you will understand why once you hear them. First, Larkin Grimm‘s dark, rhythmic spell “Going Out” – it builds slowly, but stick with it. “I’m going out tonight, I’m gonna find a new man, I’m going out tonight. He better be strange enough, [...]
Fever and Night Terrors
Posted in Inspirations, tagged animals, animation, England, folk music, masks, music, videos on March 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A few more music videos I’ve found recently that need to be shared… “I Say Fever” by Ramona Falls – completely original, impossible-to-describe artistry in this video, there’s something about it that is reminiscent to me of certain altered states of consciousness, and it’s not the overt strangeness but the subtle things like light quality [...]
Conjoined Twins and Cursed Mummies
Posted in Inspirations, tagged animation, marionettes, music, stop motion, videos on February 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Just a couple of wonderful, artistic music videos to share here… The first is for the song “Evelyn Evelyn” by the musical act of the same name (conjoined sisters brought to you by Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley). Stop motion animation beautifully renders this sad song about the twins’ lives into visual art. The second [...]
Where the devil is that devil of mine?
Posted in Inspirations, tagged England, folk music, music, videos on December 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Fantastic (though possibly seizure-inducing) video for the Moulettes’ Devil of Mine, a winding, fairy-ravished, dreamlike song about a demon lover, one of my favorite themes: I just bought the cd for this very original British band (never heard so much bassoon) and am loving it. Here’s them playing one of my favorite songs in the [...]
Our screaming in the willow…
Posted in Inspirations, tagged music, pagan, videos on November 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
They took him to the gallows He fought them all the way though And when they asked us how we knew his name We died just before him Our eyes are in the flowers Our hands are in the branches Our voices in the breezes And our screaming Is in his screaming Our screaming in [...]
Bone Flutes
Posted in Inspirations, tagged artists, bones, etsy, instruments, music, traditional crafts, videos on November 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Catherine Thompson makes bone flutes and a variety of other instruments from animal parts, all crafted by hand with simple tools. She discusses her process a little in this video, and I found it very inspiring – especially the way she values having a limited range of tools to work with, something you don’t see [...]
Wyrd Folk Playlist
Posted in Inspirations, tagged ballads, fairytales, folk music, folklore, music, pagan, Scandinavian, videos, weird on September 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Among my many playlists on my iPod, I have one devoted to what I think of as “wyrd folk.” Now, I know I didn’t invent that term (though “wyrd” is much less common than “weird”), and I’m not claiming to use it in the same way others might. I’ve never really grasped the finer points [...]
Fever Ray
Posted in Inspirations, tagged animation, gothic, music, Scandinavian, videos on July 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
“Uncover our heads and reveal our souls / We were hungry before we were born” [Keep the Streets Empty For Me] As has happened several times before, my partner recently introduced me to some new music, which I promptly became much more obsessed over than he will ever be. This just goes to show that [...]
