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Old 12-07-2014, 06:14 PM   #348 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by mordwyr View Post
Lisnaholic,

I'd like to recommend Anais Mitchell, too. Sorry if someone else already has. I can't praise this American folk singer highly enough. Her Hadestown is genius.

Here's the first song of that Orpheus-Eurydice folk opera:

No, never heard of Anais Mitchell before, Mordwyr, and I´m very impressed with that track; I´ll definitely be investigating the rest of the album.Thanks.

I´m not a big genre nazi, but once in a while you hear something and you wonder, What genre can that be? My first guess with Anais Mitchell would be Freak Folk, I think.
And here´s a band -or duo, really- whose music is pretty difficult to pigeon-hole too:-

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