where is the nu-freakfolke love for alan stivell?

Why Isn't Rosalie Sorrels Hip With Hepcats??? She's Great!

There's a lot of old folkies who lack profile in the current scene (Tim Hardin, Roy Harper, heck even John Martyn), but I think a lot of the problem it that the fans (like me) are really young, and there aren't very many labels dredging out the old stuff for us to hear.

Perhaps it's not nu-freakefolke love, but Current 93 used Eliz Iza in it's entirety on the Imperium album (which I believe is almost entirely made up of "borrowed" music?)

Don't worry, I think the nu-folk hipsters will be forgotten about next year.

i don't know why i care what people listen to. i just want people to hear good stuff!

Tim Hardin should be on a friggin' postage stamp, if you ask me. he is a god to me.

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Tim Hardin "It'll Never Happen Again" is in my top 20 songs of all time, I think

re: current 93- i just meant that she has been a true hipster namedrop for years and those dudes put her on a record and stuff years back.

i would think that younger ISB or Pentangle fans could dig Stivell.

I can understand not liking the freak folk schtick of say, Joanna Newsom, or something, but what is the problem with people who do like freak folk? Why can't I listen to stuff like Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Animal Collective, Vashti Bunyan, etc.? Dare I say it: rockism?

I don't know...he gets kind of jazzy and veers more toward Terry Callier at times, which might hook some.

which one is that? obv. i don't have it.

love the idea of vashti as "new" folk.

i really love his Chemins de Terre album, which are the other good ones?

is there any connection between this guy and Malicorne?

both the yacoubs appeared on the above album before forming malicorne, think gabriel yacoub is also on the live album from around the same time? i've been looking for their pre-malicorne album without any luck.

my favourite stivell is def the reflets album. e langonned has some crazy sped up and layered bagpipe stuff from memory.

You used to be able to get a box containing Olympia 72 & harpe celtique on cd pretty cheaply. Somebody shared some slightly later 70s lps that were less psych/prog/whatever on Pirate Bay recently which might still be up.
As far as I remember I first heard him through krsna friends in Dublin in the mid 90s.
It was weird seeing the bassist from AMT go into sean nos when they played Galway a few years ago. First thing i thought of was Stivell. Is La Novia celtic/breton folk based at least in terms of melody?

Looks like that Stivell box came out in 2005 and contained the 1993 reissues of the 2lps.

This looks interesting, if it isn't way to late
http://www.amazon.fr/Horizons-Celtiques-Alan-Stivell-Braz/dp/B00E8WL40Q/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1385202963&sr=8-3&keywords=stivell

I think those krsna heads had a video of him live in his heyday. So I assume he must have played Pop2 or Rockpalast or something. Might be worth looking around to see if it is available.
I can definitely put performance visuals to his music in my head so I must have seen them somewhere, either there or on late night tv somehwere else.

both the yacoubs appeared on the above album before forming malicorne, think gabriel yacoub is also on the live album from around the same time?

o rite, this makes sense, thanks!

It was weird seeing the bassist from AMT go into sean nos when they played Galway a few years ago. First thing i thought of was Stivell. Is La Novia celtic/breton folk based at least in terms of melody?

yeah definitely. kawabata said as much at the time. took me a while to get round to listening any stivell and then as soon as i heard it a big light bulb went on in my head as regards to what he was talking about. btw and slightly ot: someone said on twitter the other day that amt have started doing a version of all around my hat in their live set? got out of the habit of going to see them but heck do i wish i'd seen that

(sounded like a terrible idea tbh but shit i bet it was fun)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmHYEMz49eA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_4-dx03sso

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leC5Vth0KQk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZry6qIG9JU

That was a treat to watch. Thank you!

My experience with Stivell's work is admittedly limited.

I had a formative experience of my mum sometimes playing a strange song sung in a language I didn't understand off a compilation of French hits from the 70s she owned when I was really little.

I carried the song around in my head for years to the point I didn't know if maybe I'd just invented it. I couldn't have told you what the style was. When I was little, I imagined it sung by eerie cowboys around a campfire late at night.

It was only until I decided to track down the compilation on Discogs one day that I learned it was Alan Stivell's "Suite Sudarmoricaine", a bawdy Breton song about goung to hospital with gonorrhea and throwing one's castrated penis out the window, only to have it devoured by a passing wolf.

As chance would have it, it wouldn't be long till I went to visit my partner's parents for the first time, and it turned out my father-in-law had just recently bought a couple of Alan Stivell's albums. We got talking about them, and it inspired me to buy two albums secondhand, Renaissance Of The Celtic Harp and a live concert from 1973.

Anyway, both of them are very good and extremely nice to just have on on the background.

I especially like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBMLoaKaf1Y

Yes, classic album. His first album (as Alan Stivell) is particularly good but doesn't seem to get mentioned much.

https://i.discogs.com/wzqFGaznrrg9kc6kKnkENTFOW2D6NFOxdyObd6ATTLU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:584/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQzNDE2/NzgtMTYzOTkxMTI4/MC0zNDg4LmpwZWc.jpeg

TIL that "Marig ar Pollanton" is St Etienne "Former Lover"

i'd never heard him - "gaelic waltz" is lovely