Culture Show "New Folk" - Circulus Tunng Bunyan Vetiver

Culture Show segment on the "new alternative folk" scene, featuring Circulus, Tunng, Vashti Bunyan and Vetiver.

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Music

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• Culture
• Show
• Circulus
• Tunng
• Vashti
• Bunyan
• Vetiver
• new
• alternative
• folk

[Wilmerino]

folk you! just admit your music is BASED in folk music...friggin musisicians..soooo annoying sometimes...wish they would have mentioned The Skygreen Leopards or The Akron Family or the king of indie-psych-folk Wil Oldham aka Bonnie Prince Billy..."I've heard the dragons dance" - Circulus...hahahaha!

[greenplanet2400]

I listen to "new folk" and "pysch folk" ...that's pretty much my favorite stuff! I don't really see what's wrong with the label folk. Ultimately it boils down to marketing, I guess. Artists want to be "beyond labels" or "above genres" in order to separate themselves from the pack. It's a way of saying "I'm better" without literally saying it. Sort of like the exclusive scene of late 70s NY disco.

[HoshiKo11]

@polkacat i saw Vetiver a couple weeks ago and showed up to the table drunk as a sailor but Andy was so nice and helped me out and even signed my shirt. he's truly a lovely gentleman.

[moonsugar1]

Devendra Banhart is a mark bolan wannabe and a pile of pretentious wank.

[pleidean]

'twisted mushroom pixie rock' - love it!

[ubicuoubicuo]

fruit

[181068181068]

I would have liked to have seen a nod to the Incredible String Band in this clip . If you are not familiar with the band , check them out . They were a very innovative psych/folk/acid band from the 60s

[theemusic92]

I don't think the term folk is really a label or genre as of punk or rap because it isn't really one particular sound & style, but it is songs of just the plain people, not a "style" of people & have been passed down as of a family tradition of some kind. It'd be hard to make a song at this very second about anything & just call it folk because how it sounds. I think it'd take time or something? That's why it'd make sense to use the term folk-singer over folk artist in some way?

[TheKamiSutra]

I think it's also because using a label makes it easier for people to visualize what you are doing. Folk=Bob Dylan, Freak Folk=Devendra Banhart. Bad Folk=Joanna Newsome. The thing you shouldn't do is pigeonhold people (DB is tired of the Freak Folk label, apparently...). I honestly wouldn't care if an artist with so & so label pinned to them decided to go down a different direction musically or just switch things up a bit...as long as it's good stuff. People just have to open their minds a bit.

[paisleybabee]

I don't realy consider myself a Folk artist either simply because you are often stigmatised by the term.Most people expect Folk to be traditional and although these artists and myself may draw from some traditional influences the music that is created is not purely a result of this.Here we enter the relms of magick and myriad possibilities!

[polkacat]

wish theyd shown a little more vetiver - they make the most beautiful music ive heard. The band are really nice too