Every two weeks the
Folk
And
International
Roots Album Club will vote for an album that they will listen to and discuss in the coming weeks.
Anyone can vote in this poll, but if you vote, please follow through and be ready to discuss whichever album wins the poll.
These are the candidates to choose from :-
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Originally Posted by fazstp
Talking Timbuktu - Ali Farka Touré & Ry Cooder (1994)
This one's new to me but sounds promising.
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Originally Posted by Jack Pat
This Is Fire (2006) by Spires That in the Sunset Rise
This Is Fire, Spires That in the Sunset Rise's most accessible album, is not only a great entry point for the band (an all-female one at that), but also free folk and avant-folk. Of course, I use the term "accessible" lightly mainly due to the fact that this album is still very experimental... Squeaky/beautiful violins, ominous guitar playing, and vocals similar to that of The Raincoats and (occasionally) the almighty Comus. This band is slowly becoming one of my favorite folk artists... along with Big Blood, Jandek, and Bert Jansch, and I hope we all get a chance to listen and discuss it in the future. 
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Originally Posted by Jack Pat
Desertshore (1970) by Nico
You probably know of this album... So I won't say too much about it. It's experimental, folky, dark, drone-like, and it has very unique female vocals. I'll finish on a few quick notes: she's not tone-deaf (like many claim), she has the most interesting solo career out of all the other Velvets (in my opinion), and this album isn't completely murdered by her harmonium playing (such as in a few of her previous releases).
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Originally Posted by Moshe
"DESERT WIND"-OFRA HAZA
From the late Nineties, this was Ofra's attempt to reach an international market without abandoning her Israeli Mizrachi roots.
A gorgeous album, IMO. Ofra Haza passed away of Aids related illness.
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^ This album has appeared in a total of four FAIR album club polls, but it has never scored very well. So, following the club rules, this is its LAST CHANCE week: if it´s not voted for in this poll, it´ll be stood down.
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Originally Posted by fazstp
Colour Green by Sibylle Baier (Recorded 1970-73, released 2006)
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^ “ Haunting, intimate, fragile“ are the words that turn up elsewhere on the internet to describe an album which is far removed from the usual commercially-inspired exercises. In fact it was apparently recorded at Sibylle`s home, just for private circulation, and was only released 30 years later, at her son`s insistence. Can`t get much better Folk credentials than that.
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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
This is Americana that takes a little from Dylan, a little from Springsteen, but still manages to carve out a territory, and individual voice of it`s own.
Like the cover photo, the music has a striped-down, somber beauty; usually mournful, but sometimes erupting into raucous celebration.
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Originally Posted by Argento
Compilator (it's a seal, not a person): Putumayo
Album's name: African Odyssey
Year: 2001
Samples can be listened on Amazon:
Amazon.com : Music Sampler
I nominate it for those songs:
Sinama Denw - Habib Koite
Mar - Augusto Cego
Kecu Minino Na Tchora - Bidinte
Raki - Oliver Mtukudzi
The Well - Seydu
Fundo Di Matu - Manecas Costa |
Sorry the poll is a little late opening this week - I hope it´s worth waiting for : seven albums, one of which is fighting for survival in the deadly waters of the FAIR album club poll. Is anyone going to throw Ofra Haza a line ?