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New weird america

New Weird America (New Weird America) - a term that refers to the style of psychedelic indie music of the early twenty-first century. Often, this term describes the rebirth of psychedelic-folk in the United States .

New weird america
DirectionFolk
Origins

Psychedelic folk
indie rock
outsider music
american folk music
free jazz
Electonic music

specific music
Place and time of occurrenceearly 2000s
Related
freak folk

The similar current freak folk does not only refer to American music.

Content

Origin of the term

It is believed that the term was introduced by David Keenan in the August 2003 issue of The Wire magazine, in an article about the Brattleboro Free Folk Festival, organized by Matt Valintyn and Ron J. Schneiderman . [1] [2] [3] [4]

Musical Feature

The style described as New Weird America is mainly associated with psychedelic rock and folk bands from the 1960s and 1970s, such as Holy Modal Rounders , Pentangle , The Incredible String Band , Donovan and Comus . [4] He also draws inspiration from such diverse sources as free jazz , electronic music , noise , ethnic music , concrete music , tropicália and American folk music . Another important source is the so-called. “ Outsider music ”, often performed by technically naive and / or socially alien musicians, such as The Shaggs , Roky Erickson and Jandek .

New Weird America Artists

  • Akron / Family
  • Arborea
  • Baptist Generals
  • The bastard fairies
  • Bon iver
  • Brightblack morning light
  • Caroliner
  • Castanets
  • Charalambides
  • Comets on Fire
  • Danielson
  • Davenport
  • Devendra Banhart
  • Ala diane
  • Entrance
  • Espers [4]
  • Faun fables
  • Feathers
  • Josephine Foster [4]
  • Fursaxa
  • Adam gnade
  • Grizzly bear
  • Hala strana
  • Jana hunter
  • Hush arbors
  • Jeweled antler
  • The mountain goats
  • MV & EE
  • No-Neck Blues Band [4]
  • Grant olney
  • Jack Rose [4]
  • Sunburned Hand of the Man [4]
  • Town & Country
  • Vetiver
  • White magic
  • Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice

Notes

  1. ↑ Maddox, David . Archival sound , Nashville Scene (December 2, 2004). Released on May 27, 2008. (not available link)
  2. ↑ Gross, Joe . Weird as folk, Austin American-Statesman (October 27, 2005). The appeal date is May 27, 2008.
  3. ↑ Hart, Ron Sunburned Hand of the Man, "Fire Escape" (Unavailable ) (not available link) . Billboard (2007). The appeal date is May 27, 2008. Archived February 10, 2008.
  4. ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 James Rutledge. Joanna Newsom and the New Weird America (Neopr.) . BBC (November 5, 2004). The date of circulation is November 4, 2008. Archived March 4, 2012.
Source - https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Weird_America&oldid=94779305


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