Feathers - Feathers
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Artist: FeathersEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-04-11
Music Label: Gnomonsong
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Free Music Review: Yes, sitar + folk music = freakfolk
Hit: 5 Stars
I enjoy this CD quite a bit, but then again, I love the music that influences this sound. Music like Devendra Banhart's last two albums, 1966 Donovan, Germany's sitar folk music from the early 1970s (bands like SAAT, or Krokodil, Dyzan, etc.) If you enjoy music with surreal, poetical lyrics, crystaline plucked acoustic guitars, sitar leads, wordless backing vocals flowing thru the mix, recorders (those wooden flutes), and fluid bass lines, then this is for you. The some songs on the album, don't have the richness of texture, that other songs have. However, by the time the song IBEX HORN starts to play, with its long trippy jam, you are flowing out on some astral plane waving to Donovan, Brian Jones, George Harrison, Sandy Bull, and other 60s modal/raga-folk innovators. So, does that mean that this music is merely retro, or worse, just derivitive drool? No, unless you are cynical, sarcastic, and bitter, then this music will seem exactly what it is suppost to be: an Homage to the great psychedelic folk music from the 60s, yet contemporary as any anti-war folk protest. Bands like Vetiver, Iron and Wine, Espers, Nick Castro, and Dev Banhart, are showing us that nothing that is really honest, can be trite or derivitive. This musical dicotomy allows it to be down to earth, yet concurrently, spins off into the stratosphere. Maybe its that tension between earthy and cosmic, western folk and eastern sitar scales, drones and melody, that produces music which is simplicity itself, yet sophisticated and deep when nessecary. Sadly, music with such a narrow audience appeal, will probibly never be popular like Jewel, or Beck. And I, for one, am always grateful for the DIY, independant, underground music. And i support it.
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