folk

Mumford & Sons, been hearing about them for some time, was kind of guessing that they were the annual Fleeting Foxes. So their new video Winter Winds is not surprising in that sense, but It is totally repellant with massive amounts of rural beard-o-cliche.

Cardiff based cratedigger and visual artist Pete Fowler’s bag of goodies is a 27 song deep bag (if you count the interludes) of folk, exotica, guitar based psychedelia and synth music featuring artists such as Ghost Box faves Belbury Poly & The Advisory Circle, Luke Vibert, Gruff Rhys of the Super Furry Animals, Cherrystones, Circulus et al.

A five song compilation made from 5 star material from my itunes.
+ The Alps a side project of Tarantel’s Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
+ French Zeuhl/Prog band Eskaton
+ Bibio and Reigns from UK
+ Finnish psychfolk from avant guitarist Keijo Virtanen.

Ghost Box is one of the most cherished labels here at undomondo thanks to their nostalgic soundscapes and the hauntology inspired conceptualism. Their new release by Belbury Poly is out and we’ve been listening to it since a few days.

Those nice folks at Nicepromo has sent undomondo a new split LP by Russian soundscape artist Alexey Devyanin aka Gultskra Artikler and Leeds drone outfit Lanterns.

Another strange piece of work in tune with the Ghost Box aesthetics of being half-remembered/half-there is by the “The Guild of Funerary Violinists“. The guild founded in 1586 has protected these obscure classical solo violin pieces dating back from the late 17th to the early 20th century.

15 Battles – Mirrored (Warp Records) : Everybody’s been talking about “Mirrored” this year, and they kind of deserve it for getting their oddtimed dissonant music to find strange acclaim from mainstream circles as well as mathheads.
14 Deejay OM – Reheated Naan and Curry (Galapagos4) : A fine hybrid of Indian samples mixed with beats. Somehow liked it much more than Madlib’s take. Past

Men-an-Tol’s Static Caravan release of 200 pieces just sold out but thanks to internet I’ve gotten hold of this 4 tracker, and believe me this is golden.