Folk Is Not a Four Letter Word

Folk Is Not a Four Letter Word

Track Listings

1. It Takes So Long

2. It's Love

3. Brigitte

4. Hey, Who Really Cares?

5. Warm Up My Lips

6. Cefalea

7. Shadows On My Wall

8. By The Sea

9. My Aunt Edna

10. Jenny

11. You Used To Think

12. Man On Box

13. Scarborough Fair

14. Gobiath

15. Ar Goll

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
15 tracks compiled by Andy Votel! Andy has done remix and production projects with Death in Vegas, Lamb, and Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough). His debut album Styles Of The Unexpected came out in 2001. This 15-track compilation features tracks from Kathy Smith, Sarofeen & Smoke, Brigitte Fontaine, Linda Perhacs, The Poppy Family and more. Delay 68. 2005.

Tracks:

Intro: Winter - Carol Batton
Balladen Om Belfast - Midsommar
Night in the City - Y Triban
Of Broken Links - These Trails
Flying - Chuck Perrin, Mary Perrin
Number 33 - Jan & Lorraine
Heksenkring - Elly & Rikkert
Paint a Lady - Susan Christie
Dialogue of Wind and Lover - Paul Parrish
Apres Londee - Emmanuelle Parrenin
How Do? - Naomi
Son of God - Parchment
Sunrise - CCS, Alexis Korner
Grey Today - Woody Simmons
Dime Felix - Vainica Doble
Waters of Babylon - 11.59
Maids and Gentlemen - Midwinter
I Saw an Angel - Pentangle
Softly - Sibylle Baier
Song - Turid
Predje Dagen Uppstna - Turid

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Folk des bois
An Array of Old, Odd, Great Folk

Folk Is Not a Four Letter Word
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Delay 68
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0006ULVRU
Release Date: 2005-01-31

Tracks:

Bee-Ing (Intro) - Carol Batton
It's Taking So Long - Kathy Smith
It's Love - Sarofeen & Smoke
Brigitte - Brigitte Fontaine
(Hey Now) Who Really Cares? - Linda Perhacs
Warm Up My Lips - Breakout Blues
Cefalea - Musica Dispersa
Shadows on My Wall - The Poppy Family
By the Sea - Wendy & Bonnie
My Aunt Edna - Bonnie Koloc
Jenny - Heaven & Earth
You Used to Think - Erica Pomerance
Man on Box - Audience
Scarborough Fair - Roundtable
Gobaith - Angklung Sidan
Ar Goll [*] - Angklung Sidan

Album Description

15 tracks compiled by Andy Votel! Andy has done remix and production projects with Death in Vegas, Lamb, and Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough). His debut album Styles Of The Unexpected came out in 2001. This 15-track compilation features tracks from Kathy Smith, Sarofeen & Smoke, Brigitte Fontaine, Linda Perhacs, The Poppy Family and more. Delay 68. 2005.

Album Details

Eclectic Folk Compiled by Andy Votel.

Customer Reviews:

Folk des bois.......2005-09-16

Décidément, la fin des années 60, et le début des seventies sont une malle sans fond d'où l'on ressort régulièrement d'insensés trésors musicaux, qui ravissent à chaque fois les amateurs éclairés de pop music. Sur cette compilation, publiée par Delay 68, sous-label de Cherry Red (Rev-Ola, RPM..., les connaisseurs apprécieront...), Andy Votel, DJ mancunien, producteur, fondateur avec Badly Drawn Boy du label Twisted Nerve, nous propose ainsi une visite personnelle des recoins les plus obscurs de sa discothèque, que l'on imagine forcément démesurée.
Très vite, ce périple se révèle étourdissant : personnellement, l'identité de la quasi-totalité des artistes présents m'était inconnue jusqu'à ce jour !... Une première écoute un peu hâtive fait penser à un genre de psyché-folk, agrémenté de touches de musique traditionnelle - Roundtable qui reprend cette vieille scie de Scarborough Fair. Mais reconnaissons que ce sont ces dames qui s'en sortent le mieux, leur apport oscillant entre l'américaine Anne Sarofeen, accompagnée de son backing-band Smoke, dont les élégants traits de guitare slide sont capables de rappeler les fulgurances opiacées d'un David Crosby, la française Brigitte Fontaine (dont la présence n'est pas du tout incongrue) pour un titre fantomatique, somptueusement hanté par sa voix éthérée, le folk futé de Linda Perhacs, dont l'unique album "Parallelograms" est hautement recommandable, l'onirique By The Sea, comptine mémorable de Wendy et Bonnie Flower, deux surs américaines âgées respectivement de 17 et 13 ans (!) lors de l'enregistrement de leur unique album, et dont la mélodie vocale a été utilisée par les Gallois dérangés Super Furry Animals en ouverture de leur "Phantom Power", jusqu'à la subtile Bonnie Koloc, qui pourrait passer pour une cousine éloignée de Judy Collins...
Bref, ce disque nous balade de plaisantes découvertes en révélations essentielles, et nous permet ainsi de goûter aux sources de jouvence où sont venus s'abreuver les jeunes loups de la scène pop-folk actuelle (Broadcast, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Devendra Banhart, Stina Nordenstam et autres Beth Orton...). Le livret fourmille d'anecdotes richement documentées, regorge de noms (Richie Havens, Rotary Connection, Ellen McIlwaine, Feminine Complex, Martin Carthy...) dont l'évocation laisserait perplexe la majeure partie de nos contemporains, quant à l'uvre picturale qui illustre la pochette, elle mérite à elle seule l'achat du disque...

An Array of Old, Odd, Great Folk.......2005-03-31

Recent years, particularly when it comes to Folk, has seen the re-issuing of a number of albums that were lost in the shuffle of bigger marketing machines dedicated to other genres.
From Karen Dalton to the Incredible String Band, slowly but surely, CD editions have finally done justice to works that despite their substance and audacious creativity, remained confined to the mad search of old vinyl copies often at exorbitant prices.
This apparent settling of old Folk accounts have given us CD access to unarguable beauties such as Vashti Bunyan' and Linda Perhacs' thirty-plus albums.
"Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word" is another valuable example of this turn of events, thanks to the careful "curating" of Andy Votel, a musician in his own right and force behind the Twisted Nerve label.
What Votel has done is unearth, really, a number of artists who, by the most part, were not even that recognized back when these songs were recorded, defined his search for Folk songs beyond the typical array of Brit and American rarities, and presented us with a collection of tunes that proves the unbridled imagination that was at work in this genre many -many!- years ago.
Among the diverse and substantive selections, there is a number of tunes worthy of attention, that showed that Folk was a larger pan-cultural event than the Greenwich Village small clubs or Nick Drake's bedroom.
To start things off, Kathy Smith's `It's Taking So Long' rides on deeply funky bass and pre-Mahavishnu Jan Hammer on Fender Rhodes, showing some of the breadth of exploration contained here.
Brigitte Fontaine, a legend in France, offers "Brigitte," a song that may remind you that Keren Ann or Benjamin Biolay are not musical test-tube babies. Think of a French Marianne Faithfull in her youth, as much as comparing UK and France should ever be appropriate.
From her album Parallelograms, which deserves to be owned in its own right, Linda Perhacs's "Hey, Who Really Cares?" follows. A jewel of "psych-folk" years before Devendra Banhart was even born, and there was a need for such specific label.
Speaking of sheer and un-jaded Folk gems, San Francisco's sisters Wendy & Bonnie's "By The Sea" -taken from Genesis, their sole album from 1969- ranks as one of the most remarkable tunes here, infused of gorgeous harmonies and a level of maturity hard to believe, given that Wendy was 17 and Bonnie only 13 when they recorded their album.
Other songs that deserve praise and stretch the geographical borders of the music offered in this album are "Warm Up My Lips" by Breakout, a Polish combo that may remind you of songs on a any David Holmes soundtrack. Or, "Cefalea" by Musica Dispersa, a Catalan band that will strike a similar chord in your heart than the Incredible String Band might have in their early albums.
The rest of this album does not stay behind in potential discoveries although there are, to my taste, a couple of oddities that may not fare a better fate than being remembered as charming misfires. The Roundtable's version of "Scarborough Fair" played mainly with medieval instruments while indulging in free-jazz moments is not exactly a lost masterpiece. Something similar can be said of both tunes by the Welsh group Sidan -"Gobiath" and "Ar Goll"- with their proverbial flute solos and high-pitched voices, although you may not find them entirely discardable.
All in all, this is a collection that should be praised and, hopefully, only one of many Votel's anthologies to come. Think of this album as the work of the unknown ancestors to the above-mentioned Banhart or Joanna Newsom, among new and important practitioners of the boundless possibilities of Folk music.