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Record Reviews » Folkways
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Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico
Great record of field recordings that I’m happy to have finally recently acquired. It’s of an Indian woman sitting around eating mushrooms with her friend. Her friend seems much more helpful than mine was the time I ate mushrooms. We put them on cold pizza & sat around drinking tea & listening to a Zombies [...]
Sounds Of Self-Hypnosis Through Relaxation
There’s a lot of words I would use to describe the folkways catalog. But sexy is not one of them. Despite being a rather handsome man himself, Mo Asch resisted the allure of the sexy. And this is probably a good approach for recording the music of indigenous peoples. The Murat musicians of North Borneo [...]
Montgomery Movement: The Montgomery Express
Amazing deep, DEEP soul! Released in 1974 on Folkways, this sounds like something that could have been on a label like Goldwax in the late 60′s. There are a couple almost Meters style instrumentals on here, but the ballads on this record just rule! THEY RULE!!! Just listen to “Gotta Make A Comeback” if you [...]
Nancy Dupree – Ghetto Reality
Absolutely compelling music made by little black school children. I often see this described as a “funk record”, but I feel that is somewhat misleading and probably has some people expecting a Jackson 5/Sylvers type thing, which it isn’t. What we do have here is far more interesting. Just Dupree on piano & the kid’s [...]
Craig Kupka – Crystals
Follow up to his “Clouds” lp. Same deal here – music intended to be played in old folks homes & drug rehab clinics. This one is all echoed out trombones, or at least one whole side is. I like Clouds a bit better, but this one is still very, very cool.
Craig Kupka – Clouds
First of all, I’d just like to say that I celebrate this dude’s entire catalog. But, this may very well be my favorite. I believe I once described this to a friend as Brian Eno meets spiritual jazz. Released on Folkways in 1981 or so, this along with it’s sister album “Crystals” was intended as [...]
Kenneth Patchen – Reads Jazz In Canada
I am a sucker for both word jazz and Folkways so I figured I’d give it a try. Glad I did! Crazy beatnik vibe the likes of which so many records with wild covers promise but rarely deliver. The Alan Neil Quartet is backing him on this, and are super tight, but in no way [...]