I know YOU'RE the last person to whom I need to recommend Jill Tracy.
"They spoke of the garrotte and the guillotine / Iron maiden and little-ease / But all I know is how you make me feel today . . ."
Fire * Ice's first [and best] album Gilded by the Sun is half medieval covers and half original stuff that sounds medieval, and Sol Invictus has increasingly been going that way as well
Again prompted by watermelontail, I more or less discovered Sol Invictus yesterday. Currently I am in possession of A Mythological Prospect of the Citie of Londinium (2006), which contains three of their songs—their lyrics will require transcription, but I cannot hate any group that starts off a song called "Old Londinium Weeps" with a sound clip from Carry On Cleo. I may also look into the second group on the CD, Rose Rovine e Amanti. Andrew King, however, seriously annoys me. I think he is going to be haunted by William Blake and A.E. Housman, and I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
but if you're not, run, do not walk, to the record store and buy everything and anything Joanna Newsom.
I have her first album (and the Decemberists' cover of "Bridges & Balloons"); I haven't heard anything from her second. I shall look it up posthaste.
And I swear I've recently heard a song called "Hadrian's Wall", but I'm not turning anything up when googling. Maybe I dreamt it.
If you can confirm you heard it on the radio, I suppose you could call the station? The last two songs I did that with were Loreena McKennitt's "The Lady of Shalott" and Louise Taylor's "Miriam Bell," both of which were worth the time it took to find them. Of course, for one of these I was in high school and the other in college . . .
(Alternately, I could ask you to write it?)
A bit of a lateral jump: Stephen Fearing.
Who I have never heard of, either! You are a library.
Unfortunately, the album I'm thinking of, The Assassin's Apprentice, has been damned hard to find for the last five years or so.
Also, there's the wonderful world of black metal, which is awash in that sort of thing, but really, you have to be able to stand black metal.
nineweaving very patiently listened to me complaining last night that no one, outside of Norwegians performing death metal as Vikings (and maybe some anime), ever seemed to write songs about Loki. It is possible I'm being unfair, or at least confusing my musical subcultures.
And, to go full circle, Moynihan is the founder of Blood Axis, one of the bands on the fringes of the British Dark Folk movement (though he's American, and his music is on the martial end of things a la NON or early Sol Invictus, rather than the folk end).
I have three tracks of theirs, actually, from a concert with In Gowan Ring: "Sea Ritual," "Dead Men's Slip-Jig," and "Follow Me Up to Carlow." I like the first two, although I wasn't inspired to track down their other albums.
(Blood Axis itself, on the other hand... how shall I put it gently... ummm, sucks. They do a mean cover-- their version of Joy Division's "Walked in Line" is phenomenal-- but their "originals", which are comprised mostly of Moynihan quoting authors at length over sampled and looped classical tunes, get really old really fast.)
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"They spoke of the garrotte and the guillotine / Iron maiden and little-ease / But all I know is how you make me feel today . . ."
Fire * Ice's first [and best] album Gilded by the Sun is half medieval covers and half original stuff that sounds medieval, and Sol Invictus has increasingly been going that way as well
Again prompted by
but if you're not, run, do not walk, to the record store and buy everything and anything Joanna Newsom.
I have her first album (and the Decemberists' cover of "Bridges & Balloons"); I haven't heard anything from her second. I shall look it up posthaste.
And I swear I've recently heard a song called "Hadrian's Wall", but I'm not turning anything up when googling. Maybe I dreamt it.
If you can confirm you heard it on the radio, I suppose you could call the station? The last two songs I did that with were Loreena McKennitt's "The Lady of Shalott" and Louise Taylor's "Miriam Bell," both of which were worth the time it took to find them. Of course, for one of these I was in high school and the other in college . . .
(Alternately, I could ask you to write it?)
A bit of a lateral jump: Stephen Fearing.
Who I have never heard of, either! You are a library.
Unfortunately, the album I'm thinking of, The Assassin's Apprentice, has been damned hard to find for the last five years or so.
It seems to be still in print.
Also, there's the wonderful world of black metal, which is awash in that sort of thing, but really, you have to be able to stand black metal.
And, to go full circle, Moynihan is the founder of Blood Axis, one of the bands on the fringes of the British Dark Folk movement (though he's American, and his music is on the martial end of things a la NON or early Sol Invictus, rather than the folk end).
I have three tracks of theirs, actually, from a concert with In Gowan Ring: "Sea Ritual," "Dead Men's Slip-Jig," and "Follow Me Up to Carlow." I like the first two, although I wasn't inspired to track down their other albums.
(Blood Axis itself, on the other hand... how shall I put it gently... ummm, sucks. They do a mean cover-- their version of Joy Division's "Walked in Line" is phenomenal-- but their "originals", which are comprised mostly of Moynihan quoting authors at length over sampled and looped classical tunes, get really old really fast.)
I feel vindicated. : P