Quixodelic
9.2
9.2
/Psych-folk, Weird folk, Indie folk, Alt-folk, New Weird America, Psychedelic, Spoken word, Avant-folk/
Comment: these 8 pieces by Simon Piler and Brendon Hertz, Scarytoes, Def Mute, Emerson Betchkal, and Lt. Spark are all about folk music, though, the combo used to outreach the average, stereotype-obscured understanding of it. Strumming guitars are blended with chanting, at times even hysterical sort of singing. All of that is present within the open-ended yet somewhat warped atmosphere. Indeed, it symbolically hints at a vast array of possibilities so characteristic to this publication. The group`s guitar works are used to come across close to the aesthetics of John Fahey, Leo Kottke and other representatives of American Primitivism and on the other digging out lots of inspiration from the tradition of 60`s hippie and psych-folk seeds. At times these chants are variegated with spoken word interludes and found sound records. In a nutshell, all these projects related to the umbrella of Quixodelic and Daydream Generation do not disappoint the listener.
