tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20863641865805098182024-03-14T12:52:07.942-07:00The Boojum Pudding BlogHome of The Folk Horror Podcast, and miscellaneous writings by Candle-Ends (Neil).Candle-Endshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00037802833914590614noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086364186580509818.post-30996742919446008892021-02-04T14:16:00.007-08:002021-12-03T20:33:25.454-08:00Unearthing Heron, pt. 9<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrZPDGee-No3LprJH68w88fJpyy9-eAs9UjQ3s9dMI4nKlnlbSsYAO-LJaYyysNYdWlCQNcAwpSoOKO-mI3QrVaprIOk9441dJ9MCNTLTNYAWBq101OO-qtfGAb93sdmdaMBzSjiIQ7Z3I/s408/lordandmaster.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrZPDGee-No3LprJH68w88fJpyy9-eAs9UjQ3s9dMI4nKlnlbSsYAO-LJaYyysNYdWlCQNcAwpSoOKO-mI3QrVaprIOk9441dJ9MCNTLTNYAWBq101OO-qtfGAb93sdmdaMBzSjiIQ7Z3I/s320/lordandmaster.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>I decided to forego my usual diagramming of the song for this one, but I’ll tell you where I think everyone is located. More than any song so far on the album, it feels like the instrumentation and voices haven’t been mixed in the same way that shows where everyone is sitting in regards to everyone else. Plus, this is the only track with additional musicians on it — they asked their girlfriends at the time to sing along.</p><p>Left appears to be Tony Pook’s vocals and I would guess Roy Apps’ guitar. There’s also a little keyboard part at the end, presumably Collins or Moore added it in the studio.</p><p>Center is Apps’ vocals and the girlfriend trio when it joins, which G.T. Moore explained as “Tony’s girlfriend was Rose, Roy’s girlfriend was Helen and my girlfriend was Suzy.”</p><p>Right is Collins’ accordion, and Moore’s guitar and vocals.</p><p>As the first song that I’m writing up after Tony Pook’s recent demise, it seems like a wonderful and potentially elegiac song to be examining. It’s the only Pook/Collins song on the album, noticeably Pook wrote one song with each of the rest of the band: Apps and Pook wrote “Car Crash” and Moore/Pook wrote the brief “Carnival and Penitence.”</p><p>You can never be too sure about reading biographical details into a song, indeed we can’t be sure exactly who wrote what. Yet this song does seem to written by the same person who wrote the lyrics to “Car Crash” – someone more at home in the country then the city. And by the accounts I have read of Tony Pook, he was the one (or one of the band) who didn’t feel that comfortable recording in the studio and pushed for the opportunity to record outside on his family farm. And of all the songs, this is the one with the purest nature-focused lyrics.</p><p>The main character in this song is seemingly some sort of nature god, resting and observing the winter patiently. I’m getting vibes similar to “Watcher of the Skies” by Genesis, or maybe one of their tracks from their Trespass album. This could be a Christian song, with sort of Blakean outlook on the natural world (“to see a world in a grain of sand/and a heaven in a wild flower/hold infinity in the palm of your hand/and eternity in an hour”), or it could be a pagan song.</p><p>Honestly, however, the “lord and master” of the song could just be a regular person, Pook himself perhaps, and the whole song could be a metaphor for a temporary depressive state where Pook acknowledges that he is the only one in control of his situation – “I am the melter of everything/And the snow will flow to the stream.” Seasonal imagery is often associated with the changing of one’s own life, particularly in the folk lyrics of the 60s and 70s (see Nick Drake). We might not know exactly where he was coming from, but I would point out how perfect it was that this song was chosen to be on the 2004 Gather in the Mushrooms compilation (subtitle being “The British Acid Folk Underground 1968-1974”). It’s that sweet spot of paganism and Christianity that works so well in British folk rock music. And who is the “friend of the trees?”</p><p>And while I didn’t know Tony Pook, or really have much biographical information on him, from what I know I feel comfortable thinking of this song, one of Heron’s most popular, as an appropriate elegy for the man.</p><p>Here’s a video of them playing “Lord and Master” in 2005 with their alternate line up and a female singer/keyboard player. Great to see Tony there, shining humbly.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/egAN3sptAMI" width="320" youtube-src-id="egAN3sptAMI"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><i>See the waters drifting by<br />On a winters day in the cold<br />I am the lover of everything<br />And I walk with a friend of the trees</i></p><p><i>The trees softly sing to the waterfall<br />And the water it sings to the soil<br />And the sky it longs for the sun</i></p><p><i>Living alone on the riverbank<br />Watching the fish swimming by<br />I am the maker of everything<br />And I soar with the birds in the sky</i></p><p><i>The elm cries out for the summertime<br />And the oak it calls to the birds<br />But the maker he sits and he sighs</i></p><p><i>The snow will fall on the empty fields<br />And will freeze the heart of the soil<br />I am the melter of everything<br />And the snow will flow to the stream</i></p><p><i>The stream it will flow I don't know where<br />And the time is past and is gone<br />And I just sing with the trees</i></p><p><i>See the waters drifting by<br />On a winters day in the cold<br />I am the lover of everything<br />And I walk with a friend of the trees</i></p><p><i>The trees softly sing to the waterfall<br />And the water it sings to the soil<br />And the sky it longs for the sun</i></p>Candle-Endshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00037802833914590614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086364186580509818.post-68633741982212100972020-10-18T17:41:00.001-07:002020-10-18T17:41:27.381-07:00RIP Tony Pook<p>The official Heron band and Roy Apps Facebook pages have announced that Tony Pook, one-fourth of Heron, has passed away.</p><p>My favorite description of him comes from a commenter on YouTube who said he had purchased a table and chairs from him, and that Tony was a "top bloke." </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNreXRdgyHePLdju38Yud1D9kUza7gJIrivLn5GYeKKaQVvgmRso7NYG_GFJKg9ryDpKGyT3OXMzj8vNRLod2r-WWCIm8q-ElXtwTDMdW0yLJaTBR-q0PM0xaCya92whluPzty_RLhGsDC/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="512" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNreXRdgyHePLdju38Yud1D9kUza7gJIrivLn5GYeKKaQVvgmRso7NYG_GFJKg9ryDpKGyT3OXMzj8vNRLod2r-WWCIm8q-ElXtwTDMdW0yLJaTBR-q0PM0xaCya92whluPzty_RLhGsDC/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p>Candle-Endshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00037802833914590614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086364186580509818.post-69972077774411644822020-09-30T20:01:00.006-07:002020-10-18T17:43:45.914-07:00Unearthing Heron, pt. 8<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRQXen0Lss8QL38rB6ZLmBVt1B4B22cCbeLF8Y4f1Bx_7uWWJevZk4ln9ChI0ef4065MEzDKGUBe8TGqgIDMYhAMAagBZRP11Q8XdIUDK0RxMIUTOYBvRkpBMMKiMfG34zBt3Xw3veSmne/s708/a7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="708" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRQXen0Lss8QL38rB6ZLmBVt1B4B22cCbeLF8Y4f1Bx_7uWWJevZk4ln9ChI0ef4065MEzDKGUBe8TGqgIDMYhAMAagBZRP11Q8XdIUDK0RxMIUTOYBvRkpBMMKiMfG34zBt3Xw3veSmne/w485-h280/a7.jpg" width="485" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This song, with lines like “Sitting in your mother’s garden, smoking Lebanese/Beneath the privet hedge,” and “We walked across the fields of Berkshire, resting in the hay,” shows the freak folk side of the band – the hash smoking, very English, rural guys. To be honest I know very little about their biographies, but that is the suggestion I get from what I’ve read so far.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Regarding the term “Lebanese,” I asked someone I know who lived in England in the 60s and 70s and he told me, “We used to get loads of Red and Gold Lebanese, brought in as kosher cheese.” (Internet research came up with a reference to “Lebanese” from as early as 1969). A privet hedge is a common feature of an English garden, which grows as a thick shrub wall which can often serve as a property border. And Berkshire is a county just west of London, with the largest town being Reading, although the band met up at a folk club in Maidenhead..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">An Apps tune, most of the singing is Roy and Pook, with Moore singing on the chorus. A faint Hammond Organ part compliments the song in the center of the speakers. If I haven’t given enough credit to Steve Jones before, let me be sure to mention now what an important part of the group’s sound he is. Such complimentary keyboard/accordion work, perhaps because he was brought in after the songs were mostly written, that never outstays its welcome.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> The song itself concerns an unrequited love, of a young person getting to know someone in the late summer. Someone trying to interpret romantic signs but ultimately resigned to just realizing that the romance wasn’t going to happen. The word “reflection” in the title has a double meaning, as it can refer to the reflection in the lake mentioned in the song.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Lying by the lake in August, rolling in the leaves</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Down by the water's edge</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Sitting in your mother's garden, smoking Lebanese</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Beneath the privet hedge</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>And though I thought I caught the warmth behind your smile</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>I could have been deceived</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>But with my tear-washed eyelashes</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>I should have been believed</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>And it would be alright now we have said goodbye</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>But you didn't even touch my lips</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>But you didn't even try</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>We walked across the fields of Berkshire, resting in the hay</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>And making daisy chains</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Out along the streams and rivers spread across the way</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>And swelled with recent rain</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Stepping home a little sadly, slipping through the trees</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Much slower than we came</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Till getting home I kissed you once</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>And you just spoke my name</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>And it would be alright now we have said goodbye</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>But you didn't even touch my lips</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>But you didn't even try</i></div></div>Candle-Endshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00037802833914590614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086364186580509818.post-56870150020498271262020-09-23T20:48:00.006-07:002020-09-23T20:51:13.285-07:00Happy 50th Anniversary to Heron's first album.<p> It would be a pity, at this point to not acknowledge that today, 9/23/2020 marks the 20th anniversary of this great album, as posted today by both the official Heron page and G.T. Moore on Facebook.</p><p>What's a good way to pay tribute? Listen to the album probably -- I'm still working on the next article. And watch this little official Heron video?</p>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A traditional song that
Moore had heard from Woody Guthrie, but one that feels right being sung in an
English pasture. I associate gooseberries with England, but apparently they are
eaten in parts of the United States too. Covering this song was the idea of
Moore, who also arranged it (he told me the rest of the band wasn’t that into
the idea at the time). On its surface, the song is about a lost love who you'll give everything up for, even a tasty dessert. In the Guthrie version below you’ll hear this version is
very similar, though noticeably Guthrie sing “had a piece of pie/had a piece of
pudding” while Heron sings “had a peach pie/had a peach pudding.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a perfect illustration of how folk
music lyrics change over time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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they recorded it twice was just because they had done two usable takes and they
needed more content for a otherwise short album, but the song does bookend the
album nicely. This version would’ve been at the end of Side 1 of the original
LP. It’s only about 23 seconds long, but made longer to allow the first side of
the album to fade out on only sounds of outdoors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The song starts with
Moore playing and singing, then Apps joins on the right, and Pook on the left. I
thought that maybe this would’ve been the track where Jones actually sings too,
but it’s just the three main singers, so I’ll have to be baffled over why Jones
has a vocal credit on the album for a little longer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Hank Williams also sang
this song as a farewell song, as did Doc Watson. It’s also often known as a
fiddle tune. But the exact story of what the song is about is a bit of a
mystery. I found a person on ancestry.com trying to figure out if Sally Goodin
was a real person (perhaps with the last name Goodwin). Another person
responded that Sally was a very real person, a slave who had many children with
her owner and was subsequently sold, the song being from the point of view of a
daughter who never got to see her mom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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referring to the Big Sandy River, and that Civil War confederates had renamed
it after a Sally Goodin who ran a boarding house on the river. But again, you
can find all sorts of theories on the Internet, and these are just a few.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that the fiddle player Eck Robertson popularized the song in 1922 and its sort
of known as a rite of passage for fiddle players to be able to play the song.
Eck Robertson would say that the song was about a girl named Sally who had a
fiddle contest to see which boyfriend to marry. She also was said to have many
children, Eck would joke that she had 14 children, so he learned to play the song 14 different ways. </span><br />
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Candle-Endshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00037802833914590614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086364186580509818.post-43648478895493917122020-05-17T20:22:00.003-07:002020-05-17T21:48:14.445-07:00Unearthing Heron, pt. 6<br />
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him to sing. Now that I’m able to pick out their voices, I feel like each one
subtly reveals a personality. I feel like in a more regular band, Pook could’ve
been the solo singer and maybe even a bit of a pop idol. But on the other hand, it seems to be his personality which influenced the band to leave the studio for the field outside Pook's parent's farm.<br />
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This song seems to be about a young friend who’s having difficulties with
growing up and interacting with the world around him. I often picture the
character Phil Daniels played in “Raven,” a boy released from a juvenile
detention center who struggles to fit into with his foster family. Someone who
has tried to do their best but ended up shunned by society. In hearing the song a few time I wondered if the song is a bit of a "telling off" in the same vein as Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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don’t hit” line, but it also seems authentic – like the writer is a little
afraid of this “one time singer, one time loser” and has to insist that he
staggers off and helps himself somehow. Or if you think of the song a different
way . . . the “Little Boy” could be the writer himself, saying the immature
parts of himself need to go away.<br />
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Musically the song starts with Pook hitting the harmonica note played by Moore,
with dual guitars on the left and right and Jones’ piano in the left. After a little bit of looking online I believe that what Jones is actually playing is an electro-acoustic instrument called a "pianet." The Hohner-Pianet N, to be more precise, as featured in their field photo and in this video:</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>Little boy you must be <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">honest</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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Candle-Endshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00037802833914590614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086364186580509818.post-68545626486636824832020-05-16T20:08:00.001-07:002020-05-17T19:36:56.031-07:00Unearthing Heron, pt. 5<br />
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I’ve been really trying to hone my ears on picking out their individual voices but it is tough sometimes. But what I think we have here is a duet between Moore and Apps, with Moore at the left with his mandolin and Apps at the right with his guitar. So nice to hear a collaboration of the two main songwriters in the group.<br />
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This is an Apps song. I get the feeling that Apps has some particular love for the Incredible String Band and Donovan in addition to the almighty Dylan who seems to be a love of all the group. They reunited to do a Dylan tribute album entitled Jokerman in 2016.<br />
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The track “Rosalind” which was recorded at these field sessions, was left off the album and I wonder if it had a lyric that was a little too close to Donovan. “Rosalind says catch the wind and put it in a bag/Made of sea shore sand.” (The song also includes a mention of herons.)<br />
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“Smiling Ladies” includes lines daringly close to Dylan and Incredible String Band. “Turning back my paces” in reminiscent of Dylan’s “My Back Pages.” “The music has no edges” is reminiscent of ISB’s “the song has no ending.” I am not suggesting anything other that if you were writing in the same vein of some of these songwriters, you can’t help but stumble over similar sounds and symbols. Think about how many folk singers had songs about “jokers” (or “harlequins” for that matter) after Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower.”<br />
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Nature imagery and stillness are the themes again, which seem central to Apps songs. Definitely a sadness to this musing about the human struggle of immobility vs. action. It seems like other people are starting the day, while this young daydreamer just wants to think about the beautiful women he’s met<br />
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There’s a long pause at the end with just natural sounds. Interesting to note that the nature sounds were recorded later because they just didn’t get picked up with the microphones enough the first time. But I don’t fault them that, I’m sure it’s roughly the same sounds.<br />
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Here's a great version of "Smiling Ladies," without Moore, with Gerry Power. Lovely accordion from Jones:<br />
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<i>Yes I will be turning back my paces</i></div>
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<i>Yes I will be turning back my paces.</i></div>
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Candle-Endshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00037802833914590614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086364186580509818.post-35545282726683393812020-05-13T13:51:00.003-07:002020-05-13T13:51:25.991-07:00Unearthing Heron, pt. 4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hard to say exactly if I got the above order correct. There’s clearly organ that comes in on the right, and piano that comes in on the left. Apps is credited with piano on the album, as is G.T. Moore. When I inquired from Moore if there had been any overdubs that may have disturbed the perfectness of an album seemingly recorded live in nature, he replied, “I think we/I added a few overdubs in Pye studios that were very minimal. Some Hammond organ and maybe a bit of guitar but almost nothing.”<br />
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The famous picture of the band that graces Electric Eden, shows Jones playing some sort of portable piano, but the piano playing on this track is minimal in the album version and starts with a sort of standard glissando, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it was done by another member of the band instead of Jones. This is a Moore track, but one that he gave over to Pook to do main vocals. He (and later) Apps come in with enthusiastic, almost Dylan-esque backing vocals on the left where Moore’s mandolin resides. “But then the sun comes shining through!”<br />
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This song is like an ambitious mini prog-folk epic, and I’ll say right off the bat that I much prefer the unedited version that was released of this track (also mixed differently). Apparently there was a musical flub in the recording, which I can’t really discern – this is a band which at times can be a bit shambolic – though there does seem to be the sound of a distant plane right after the point where they cut it. And while the album version ends with the band singing loudly “could it be that I’ll never forget her” (which then goes straight into the next song on the album) the full version has much more of a musical journey, with its lengthy instrumental bit and a much more subdued, repeated, fading, “it’s been so long now, I can’t quite remember.” This lyrically fits into a common theme on the album: a comparison of the passing of time vs. the appreciation of a moment.<br />
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There are three “Harlequin” songs in the Heron repertoire, which also includes Harlequin 5 and Winter Harlequin from their second album. I had wondered if it was the less used meaning of the word harlequin as something phantasmagorical or psychedelic, but Moore responded that the use was in reference to the colorful character made popular via Commedia dell’arte, “I’m not only a musician but a painter and it was a tradition Harlequin and Pierrot. Basically it’s a bit stupid but if I had a song that I couldn’t think or didn’t want to think of a name for I just called it Harlequin and I think there was something like five harlequin songs, maybe six. Heron laughed at it but it became a bit of a joke. They were just a bunch of different songs.”<br />
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It may be wrongheaded to look to into the lyrics of some of these songs, when clearly many artists of the time were jotting down hippy stream-of-consciousness lyrics and calling it a day. However, I find that the band’s lyrics of the time remarkably sincere and well-crafted, avoiding obvious rhymes and lyrical pitfalls other bands fall into.<br />
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So what is this song about? I think it’s about how you can live in a fantasy world like a young child, but inevitably you have to face the world. And when moving on from a relationship, is my new reality going to be that I’ll never forget this person, or will it just fade away as a distant memory. The first verse does make me think of Dungeons and Dragons or Minecraft though.<br />
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<i>But then the sun comes shining through</i></div>
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<i>It’s been so long now I don’t quite remember</i></div>
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<i>Could it be that I’ll never forget her.</i></div>
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Candle-Endshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00037802833914590614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086364186580509818.post-71240343796864384292020-04-07T14:07:00.001-07:002020-04-07T14:20:31.029-07:00Unearthing Heron, pt. 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So a little bit of a different mixing – Moore’s guitar comes in the middle at the beginning and then pans over to the left; it seems to sort of pan around during the song. It’s an evocative song, arranged in parts as a round, much like Sally Goodin. With three voices that can sound very similar, a round is an interesting choice for exploiting these similarities.<br />
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Moore explains, “Both Roy and Tony had mid-range voices, singing mainly in unison with Roy singing some lines in harmony then returning to the melody and unison. This with the mid or slow tempos created a thick, almost carpet of sound. When I joined I added harmonies above them to add more color. In those days my voice had a higher tone and we got a blend easily and naturally.”<br />
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Credited to Pook and Apps, the title and subject seem strange for a pastoral setting. Pook particularly had said he didn’t like the initial recording sessions in the studio, and knowing that the album was recorded near the farmhouse where Pook’s family lived, you can hear the rural/urban divide in the lyrics and tone. We go straight from the farm of “Yellow Roses” to “city is all wet again/footsteps in the driving rain,” and the juxtaposition makes me think of a country boy recalling what he saw that day when he visited the nearby metropolis. There is rain, an attractive woman, and a car crash: melancholy, beauty, and (potentially) tragedy. This song also makes me think of Fairport Convention’s tragic 1969 bus crash.<br />
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Music wise, the song starts with bird call, and gentle picked guitar – presumably Apps, then joined by Moore picking a different pattern. When they both come in together, Pook sing in the left and Apps the right. Eventually Apps, then Pook, then Moore perform the song as a round on “Goodbye for now be yesterday/tomorrow will be Saturday.” Jones does not appear to be on the song. The song finishes off with silence and (I believe) Pook saying “there’s little black things all over the place,” to words of agreement by Moore and Apps.<br />
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Here’s Heron playing Car Crash in Bridport in 2009 without Moore, but with Jones, new member Gerry Power, and a violinist:<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">And footsteps in the driving rain</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Strike shadows in the dancing, glancing, taunting pain that frees the air</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">And your eyes take in the ensuing fun and I’ve seen the eyes of the only one for me.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="font-family: inherit;">Seen her eyes, been in her mind,</i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve seen the face I know I’ll find</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">In a tiny room of yesterday, car crash in the street that day out in the city</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes your smile was one that people saw in the garden place I’ve been before with you.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Running damp of raindrops is as water paint to wash away thoughts of you</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">As your fingers play the gentle string that floats on air blown by the wind from sea.</span></i></div>
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Candle-Endshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00037802833914590614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086364186580509818.post-76264289380158534282020-03-30T21:46:00.000-07:002020-04-07T14:18:21.260-07:00Unearthing Heron, pt. 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes, I got an email from G.T. Moore which was so cool. It really felt like a connection with a puzzle that you’re not going to be able to solve by yourself. And he helped me with those few nagging questions I had about figuring out these tracks. So here’s the beginning of the breakdown of Heron (1971).</span><br />
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There is faint birdsong from the beginning. Steve Jones’ delicate piano is on the right of the stereo mix, with Apps’ gentle guitar strumming central, and Moore’s ringing mandolin on the left. The combined fade-in effect is that of walking over a grassy hillock and discovering the band playing in a sun-lit field.</div>
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In delineating their voices, I would characterize Apps’ voice as the smoothest, which comes in central with his guitar. Peter Eden seems to have produced this with a live concert feeling – letting the stereo mix audibly dictate where each band member is, and what they are doing. However, he does not keep the same mix for each song – the band member who is singing lead vocals is usually front and center for the track.</div>
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This song presumably existed when Apps and Pook were a two-member band (before Moore and Jones joined), as it begins with a nice vocal interplay between those two bandmates. Pook joins on the first chorus on the right. His voice can be characterized as occasionally more nasal than the other two singers, though it's actually quite versatile -- I only recently learned that he was the singer on Moore song "The Devil" on their second album.</div>
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G.T. starts humming under the chorus, and then takes the next verse alone, on the left. I’ve had trouble characterizing Moore’s voice on the records – it can be perfectly complimentary and mild when he’s providing backing vocals, or have a freewheeling nature to it when he’s on lead. Mercurial then? Eventually on “Yellow Roses” they all sing together, in a very clever arrangement. The song fades out ending with Jones’ piano and wind and birdsong raising in volume.</div>
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Lyrically, the song seems to be a plea to a woman to accept a man who cannot offer as much as is expected from him. And it’s a rural setting (“there he stands on the farm”) and features the folk music archetype of the poor young dreamer boy, transfixed by windmills and only able to offer yellow (not red) roses – which traditionally means friendship more than romantic love. But his music is what makes him special (“no night bird will sing the songs he’ll sing you), and I wonder if this song originated with “I” instead of “he” as a more personal song from Apps, before it became a band song – it might’ve been odd for Pook to harmonize and say “I” instead of “he.” To tie this into our folk horror podcast, the main character is reminiscent of young, fragile Tom from Tam Lin or Red Shift – someone who needs to be held, because “it’s the only way.”</div>
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Here’s a video of the band performing the song in (I think) 2016. You’ll see that the division of work is similar, definitely an Apps-led piece. Right to left the band is Apps, Pook, Moore, Jones:</div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><i>There he stands on the farm</i></span><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">With his eyes on the windmill</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">And his head goes round and round</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Like the hours of the night will.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><i>Yellow roses may be all he can bring you</i></span><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">But no night bird can sing the songs he'll sing you</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">So when he wants you, you have to stay</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">You have to hold him, it's the only way.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">It's the only way.</i><br />
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<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">And who knows where he hides</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Only somewhere inside him</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">It's the only place he's found</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Where no fences surround him</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">You might find him in the darkness kneeling</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">He's found no reason for this love he's feeling</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">So when he wants you now and again</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Don't let the time slip past you all in vain</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">All in vain.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><i>There he goes through hollow halls</i></span><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Catch him now before he falls</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">As he tries to break the chains</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">That bind what’s gone to what remains</i><br />
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<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Yellow roses may be all he can bring you</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">But no night bird can sing the songs he'll sing you</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">So when he wants you, you just have to stay</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">You just have to hold him, it's the only way.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">It's the only way.</i></div>
Candle-Endshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00037802833914590614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086364186580509818.post-9211960340932254862019-11-23T21:28:00.000-08:002019-11-23T21:28:27.176-08:00Unearthing Heron, pt. 1I went down a rabbit hole with the band Heron, like many people did I assume, after reading <i>Electric Eden</i> by Rob Young. I had been familiar with the book for awhile but hadn't really gotten down to reading it, because I assumed, incorrectly, it would contain the same stories about Nick Drake and Sandy Denny that I already knew. And I had thought that beautiful, sun-lit cover photo of a band playing in a field was of the Incredible String Band. Which it was not.<br />
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The band was Heron, which though a majestic and evocative name for a British folk-rock band, was a name too similar in my mind to the name of Mike Heron of the Incredible String Band. I believe I had previously seen the band name and just assumed it was what Mike Heron called his solo project. (Even more unfortunate is that there's a new band named Heron, who released their first album in 2017. Sorry guys, we have the Internet now, couldn't you have Googled available names?)<br />
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But all that aside, when I finally listened to Heron's self-titled first album from 1970, the one they recorded in the field pictured above, I was entranced. The album opens with "Yellow Roses," a track which makes me feel like I had been hiking the National Trails and come upon a gathering of bards. Key to the album is the allowance (by producer Peter Eden) to include natural sounds from the British countryside: birds, insects, an airplane, the casual banter of band mates between songs. I just wanted to sit with them and listen, which is why <i>Heron </i>became my go-to walking and sitting in parks album.<br />
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This bucolic feeling, combined with lyrics that tied in synchronistically to the book I had been working on (<i>The Druid of Royal Oak</i>), meant that quickly I became hooked on Heron. And particularly the first album. Once I learned that they used bass and drums on their second (double!) album, and it wasn't recorded in the same field (unfair because it was also recorded outside) I wasn't ready for it. I had purchased the entirety of Heron's <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/upon-reflection-the-dawn-anthology/1144160594"><i>Dawn Anthology</i> on iTunes</a> which includes both albums plus bonus tracks, but I used the playlist function to ensure that I would only be listening to the original 13 songs. (As an aside, the bonus tracks and 1971's <i>Twice As Nice & Half the Price</i> are excellent too, and it was a nice treat when I finally decided to listen to them.)<br />
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But after listening to the album for weeks, I realized that I still didn't even know who I was listening to. The <a href="https://www.discogs.com/Heron-Heron/release/2437512">Discogs listing</a> credits G.T. (Gerald) Moore as "Guitar, Mandolin, Harmonica, Piano, Vocals," Roy Apps as "Guitar, Piano, Vocals," Stephen Jones as "Piano, Organ, Electric Piano, Accordion, Vocals," and Tony Pook as "Vocals." And clearly there were several songwriters in the band as there were different people credited with each song. But still on each individual song I didn't knew who was singing. They all had very similar voices. I also realized I didn't even know who was who in the cover photo.<br />
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And much like that feeling you may have gotten when you first listen to the Beatles and maybe initially don't know who's who, I enjoyed the puzzle of trying to discern the differences in their voices. Producer Eden seemed to have assisted a little by separating the musicians left to right in the stereo mix with their instruments, which I also think is part of the reason you get that feeling of being in the middle of a performance when you listen to the album.<br />
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I started to assume that the lead singer for each song (and to be clear, multiple singers chime in on most songs) was the author listed for the song. But did that really make sense? And as I listened, other questions came up as well -- such as when I finally discerned that there were female voices on "Lord and Master." And when I discovered Heron's third album from 1983, I felt like the lead vocalist on two of my favorite songs "Open up the Road" and "Traveller's Song" seemed like a completely different singer than had appeared on <i>Heron.</i> Eventually I realized in order to really figure out the puzzle I would have to seek help online.<br />
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And eventually help arrived, in the form of an e-mail from G.T. Moore!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Griffith Bowen, 1924-2019</td></tr>
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First we do some folk horror news, then we pay tribute to the late John Bowen by looking at his Play for Today episode "A Photograph."<br />
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Some of the folk horror news was old so I cut it from the episode. Most notably, Folk Horror Revival have released their massive two-volume tomes on "The Urban Wyrd" which you can find here: <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/http://www.lulu.com/shop/folk-horror-revival/folk-horrorrevival-urban-wyrd-1-spirits-of-time/paperback/product-24154700.html">http://www.lulu.com/shop/http://www.lulu.com/shop/folk-horror-revival/folk-horrorrevival-urban-wyrd-1-spirits-of-time/paperback/product-24154700.html</a><br />
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Here's "A Photograph" if you haven't seen it. There may be a better version out there.<br />
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Bowen's obituary: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/29/john-bowen-obituary">https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/29/john-bowen-obituary</a><br />
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A little bit of explanation -- Mike and I are often talking about "McGuffins" because early on in our recording (I believe during the Wicker Man episodes) Mike had talked for awhile about something he thought was a McGuffin which in editing I decided wasn't accurate so I removed it. Since then, we often mention whether something is or isn't a McGuffin, particular in regards to John Bowen, who wrote a book called The McGuffin (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/McGuffin-John-Bowen/dp/0871130181">https://www.amazon.com/McGuffin-John-Bowen/dp/0871130181</a>) which noticeably is about a film reviewer.<br />
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The second part of our conversation is now up.<br />
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Here's the trailer for Anchoress, you'll recognize several images from Arcadia:<br />
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We're back and talking about Arcadia. Well, at least starting to talk about the film, you know how we take a little while sometimes. I'm remembering Monty Python's "Summarize Proust" competition in which one chorus of people was only able to sing "Proust in his first book wrote about, wrote about.." repeatedly before time was up.<br />
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Here's the interview with Paul Wright:<br />
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I was hoping before the holiday of May Day (usually
celebrated on May 1) to write a post about the traditional folk ceremonies of
Britain.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Many tourists visit Britain without seeing any of
these.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to get “off the beaten
track” and also check local calendars to be sure to catch one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Watch out for these on the traditional
British holidays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christmas and Easter
of course, but also others such as May Day (May 1<sup>st</sup>), Shrove Tuesday
(the day before Ash Wednesday, in other countries called “Carnival” or “Mardi
Gras”), Guy Fawkes Night (“Remember, remember, the Fifth of November”), the
feast day of St George — patron saint of England (April 23), Whitsun (fifty days
after Easter), Oak Apple Day (May 29) and others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often today the celebration is moved to the
nearest Monday.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The precise details of each celebration of course differ
depending on the particular holiday, but also differ between particular
localities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really could write a
separate post on each one!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some elements
are widespread, however.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is often
a parade of people wearing traditional costumes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Folk dancing is also common, as are
bonfires.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And almost always the
celebration concludes with everyone going to the pub for drinks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, usually drink is consumed throughout
the whole celebration, usually ale--which might be considered the English
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What are some of the specific customs?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Shrove Tuesday, in many villages the women
compete in footraces while flipping pancakes in frying pans, while the young
men participate in the original medieval version of football—a very violent
sport with no limits to the number of players on a team. On various dates some villages have contests
in gurning (the art of making a funny face).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But many say the strangest custom is the Cooper’s Hill Cheese Rolling,
held each year at Whitsun in the village of Brockworth in Gloucester.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A nine-pound cheese is rolled down the hill,
which is the signal for a group of racers to take off after it, running on foot
until the steepness and unevenness of Cooper’s hill makes each racer fall and
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And where did these strange customs come from?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quite a few people want to believe that all
of them come from a time before Christianity came to Britain, and so they are all
left over pieces of much older religion. The supporters of this theory often like to talk about “fertility
rites”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when historians have looked
at the records closely, they almost never find documents going back to
pre-Christian times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More often the
history of the custom seems to have been lost in “the mists of time."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In some places, the tradition has gone on
unbroken for many centuries, but in others the tradition had to be “revived” in
recent decades, often because it was abolished by zealous Puritans or prudish
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<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">They really join in the spirit of the activity:
‘No problem, I’ll wear a mask, ride backwards on that donkey and agree to fall
off it a few times.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Oh, and get us
another pint while you’re at the bar will you, mate?’</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Their tongues are firmly in their cheeks: ‘And
now, please welcome the trainer of this year’s world champion racing snail!’</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Their attitude can be very matter of fact: ‘Oh
look, there’s a man dressed up as a straw dancing bear.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Anyway, what were you saying about the bus
being late?’</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Some of them don’t quite know why they take
part, but no matter.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Their predecessors
did it, so they give it a go too; even if it means getting out of bed before
dawn to deposit a few pennies on a stone at the top of a hill.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">There is no sense of ‘Aren’t we wacky?’: people
participate wholeheartedly, as though it is commonplace to gather in an
orchard, hang pieces of toast from an apple tree and pour cider on its roots.”</span></li>
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It’s important then to note that in no place in these
attitudes are the British thinking about tourists. These customs have never existed to entertain
tourists. Generally, the participants
and the spectators are local people. These events will take place every year on schedule whether or not any
tourists come to watch. But during these
celebrations the already friendly British become even more welcoming to
visitors. They love to meet people who
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So the next time you visit Britain, be sure to keep your eyes open for one of
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Candle-Endshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00037802833914590614noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086364186580509818.post-27902249511043916982019-02-10T15:35:00.002-08:002019-02-10T15:35:12.122-08:00The Folk Horror Podcast Episode 13: Viy (1967), pt. 2<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Hello. We're back. And talking about the first and only Soviet horror movie, Viy, based on the short story by Gogol. This episode is an hour of background discussion, including biographical information about Gogol, of Eastern European mythology, and about Russian and Soviet cinema in general. We'll get to the actual scene-by-scene discussion in part 2.<br />
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Okay, we're back already with the second half of Tam Lin! Actually because we were a little long-winded in the first episode, this is most of our movie recap!<br />
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Wanted to link to this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGX2MWmLurw">documentary</a> I mentioned, which has a good bit where David Vorhaus shows off his Kaleidophon.<br />
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Happy Halloween, and welcome back! Sort of a Halloween episode here, although we had been planning to do Tam Lin for some time. But the original Tam Lin story IS a Halloween story, as shown in Robert Burns' famous version <a href="http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/wjmc/oiforbid.shtml">here</a>.<br />
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You can see the full movie on YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUbcZHxmrzI">here</a> though both Mike and I were much happier with the film once we got our hands on blu-rays of the movie.<br />
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In order the streamline the whole editing process, Mike is my cohost from the beginning. We talk about the Evolution of Horror Podcast and their 17-part Folk Horror series, some Halloween suggestions, and some background on the film -- we even manage to talk scene by scene . . . . through the first few scenes of the movie at least.<br />
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We also feature audio from the difficult to locate introduction to the 1997 VHS release of Tam Lin from Roddy McDowall himself. Thanks to Zoe at <a href="http://barrenspace.com/notjustyesterday/?fbclid=IwAR2jBkpwNhWd64CKKaVVoO47G4Me6gVhbM5SnimfbmA04-NEWyfvUFIAT6o">Not Just Yesterday: The Roddy McDowall Podcast!</a> Some great stills from the set of the movie on her site <a href="https://barrenspace.com/notjustyesterday/index.php/2018/08/23/episode-6-the-ballad-of-tam-lin/">here</a> as well as her take on the movie.<br />
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Also wanted to mention the incredible <a href="http://www.tam-lin.org/">http://www.tam-lin.org</a> which is a rich and wonderful site. There are plenty of screen captures <a href="http://www.tam-lin.org/transformative/movie1970.html">there</a>.<br />
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Here's episode 9. But y'know if you listen on your phone via Apple Podcasts or some other source, then you can walk around outside on a Fall day and listen!<br />
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Mike did most of the heavy lifting for this episode, but I thought I'd provide some movie photos so you can see what films he discusses.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Hagazussa: a Heathen's Curse," Lukas Feigelfeld dir.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil," Paul Urkijo dir.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Beast," Michael Pearce dir.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Valley of Shadows," Jonas Gulbrandsen dir.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Field Guide to Evil," various dir.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Good Manners," Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra dir.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Most Unknown," Ian Cheney dir.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Mountain," Jennifer Peedom dir.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda," Stephen Nomura Schible, dir.</td></tr>
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Here's the audio. But have you heard the good word about <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-folk-horror-podcast/id1376408008?mt=2">apple podcasts</a> or your podcast reader of choice?<br />
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The Folk Horror Revival publication "21st Century Ghost Stories" is now <a href="https://folkhorrorrevival.com/2018/08/07/21st-century-ghost-stories/">available</a>. As is <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/bob-curran-and-andy-paciorek/the-wytch-hunters-manual/paperback/product-23689493.html">"The Wytch Hunters' Manual."</a><br />
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Here are some cool shots from a cool TV movie:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me, her and the Bunty.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Corn goddess.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St Bertoline's Church is in the village of Barthomley, Cheshire. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Discussing imports/exports.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gone badly.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Speaking to the Heavens, or the Earth?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love in the grass.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Changing stations.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artifact.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">*applause*</td></tr>
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Here's the Spotify playlist (which now has music from both episodes):<br />
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<br />Candle-Endshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00037802833914590614noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086364186580509818.post-7662647124040979482018-07-20T17:30:00.002-07:002018-07-21T16:34:54.524-07:00The Folk Horror Podcast Episode 7: Red Shift (1978), pt. 1Done! We talk about the 1978 Play for Today "Red Shift" by Alan Garner. And the book! We talk a lot of background but we do have about 20 minutes of synopsis before the end.<br />
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Here's the audio, but surely you would rather download this from <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-folk-horror-podcast/id1376408008?mt=2">apple podcasts</a> or your podcast reader of choice?<br />
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Here's the Spotify playlist:<br />
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Here's a link to that really good TOR article. The author's name is Jo Walton: <a href="https://www.tor.com/2009/08/18/tribal-far-from-his-tribe-alan-garners-red-shift/">https://www.tor.com/2009/08/18/tribal-far-from-his-tribe-alan-garners-red-shift/</a><br />
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Here's Apaches: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQZaUixmpA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQZaUixmpA</a><br />
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Great short doc about Garner: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D6_kO_4WqM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D6_kO_4WqM</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And yet weren't these shown at night?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A galaxy (quickly moving) far, far, away.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hints of Eden?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Macy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tom and Jan.</td></tr>
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<br />Candle-Endshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00037802833914590614noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086364186580509818.post-56180974981046281222018-06-18T21:10:00.002-07:002018-07-02T17:24:11.371-07:00The Folk Horror Podcast Episode 6: Darren Charles talks about the FHR Witch Cults event<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Y0bl81aZQ8O87kV9YGKVeij9vr7ite54Fbulhy-c63O3sQvoCwrN5npQiZO6txolwN6mkLfXPc9FVGY2JqiTXw2ro9loXpOLP8ZOKXTX92WH_hvwcgSX0BmrBW6pWmpKAyof4x2XC9sW/s1600/wc.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="679" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Y0bl81aZQ8O87kV9YGKVeij9vr7ite54Fbulhy-c63O3sQvoCwrN5npQiZO6txolwN6mkLfXPc9FVGY2JqiTXw2ro9loXpOLP8ZOKXTX92WH_hvwcgSX0BmrBW6pWmpKAyof4x2XC9sW/s320/wc.jpg" width="226" /></a><br />
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Sadly, this event has been CANCELED.<br />
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The poster above shows what the episode is about. We talk to Darren Charles from Folk Horror Revival about the upcoming event and other topics!<br />
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Here's the audio, but surely you would rather download this from <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-folk-horror-podcast/id1376408008?mt=2">apple podcasts</a> or your podcast reader of choice?<br />
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Here are links to the bands we discussed in the show!<br />
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<a href="https://auroraborealisrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/black-goat-of-the-woods">Black Mountain Transmitter</a><br />
<a href="https://georgiaseddon.bandcamp.com/album/georgia-seddon-2">Georgia Seddon</a><br />
<a href="https://nathaliesternmusic.bandcamp.com/">Nathalie Stern</a><br />
<a href="https://theheartwoodinstitute.bandcamp.com/">The Heartwood Institute</a><br />
<a href="https://pegpowler.bandcamp.com/releases">Peg Powler</a><br />
<a href="https://hokano.bandcamp.com/">Hokano</a><br />
<a href="https://elmlodgerecordsuk.bandcamp.com/album/splices-and-phases">Marcus H.</a><br />
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Tickets <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folk-horror-revival-presents-witch-cults-tickets-45698031041">here.</a><br />
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More information <a href="https://folkhorrorrevival.com/2018/06/04/our-final-witch-cults-announcement/">here.</a>Candle-Endshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00037802833914590614noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086364186580509818.post-40407569380383073332018-06-12T06:24:00.001-07:002018-06-16T13:00:55.678-07:00The Folk Horror Podcast Episode 5: Robin Redbreast (1970), pt. 2The red red robin comes bob bob bobbin' along, and so does The Folk Horror Podcast!<br />
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I has some audio problems in the second half, but the good news is that I've set up my studio so that all audio going forward should sound A LOT better.<br />
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Audio snippets were from The Carice Singers (performing Peter Warlock) and Lisa Knapp.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Almost as brutal as Watership Down.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rob considers one last Karate chop.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don't look back.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Village Green Preservation Society.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interesting detail -- blood on Wellbeloved?</td></tr>
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Something we didn't mention is that, if the characters do represent mystical beings at the end that instead of Herne the Hunter, Fisher could be Cernunnos, the celtic god. Though there are possible connections between Herne and Cernunnos anyway.<br />
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Hypnogoria podcast episode on the robin: <a href="http://hypnogoria.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/microgoria-22-christmas-and-robin.html">http://hypnogoria.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/microgoria-22-christmas-and-robin.html</a><br />
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Mike also wanted to share this video from Folk Horror fan Jenny Hval:<br />
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<br />Candle-Endshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00037802833914590614noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086364186580509818.post-87592897262181181402018-06-02T21:53:00.004-07:002018-06-03T11:29:29.916-07:00The Folk Horror Podcast Episode 4: Robin Redbreast (1970), pt.1Forgot to mention it actually IN the episode, but this is the first part of what will probably be a two part discussion of Robin Redbreast!<br />
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The sounds during the letters section is library music by James Harpham, "Nature's World." <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=momk-LbIlJ8&t=1497s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=momk-LbIlJ8&t=1497s</a><br />
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From Mike:<br />
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Play for Today episode guide: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cnhjw/episodes/guide">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cnhjw/episodes/guide</a><br />
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John Bowen bio: <a href="http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4163/Bowen-John-Griffith.html">http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4163/Bowen-John-Griffith.html</a><br />
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Some interesting info on John Bowen and RR: <a href="http://thehauntologicalsociety.tumblr.com/post/135266408219/robin-redbreast-and-john-bowen-by-william-fowler">http://thehauntologicalsociety.tumblr.com/post/135266408219/robin-redbreast-and-john-bowen-by-william-fowler</a><br />
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PDF of The Golden Bough: <a href="http://www.templeofearth.com/books/goldenbough.pdf">http://www.templeofearth.com/books/goldenbough.pdf</a><br />
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From listener John (about Wicker Man):<br />
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- See the Whitby Hand of Glory and Hand of Glories that you can buy!<br />
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<a href="https://whitbymuseum.org.uk/whats-here/collections/special-collections/hand-of-glory/">https://whitbymuseum.org.uk/whats-here/collections/special-collections/hand-of-glory/</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.etsy.com/market/hand%20of%20glory%20candle">https://www.etsy.com/market/hand%20of%20glory%20candle</a><br />
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- The procession tune. See this for more info: http://twm.wikia.com/wiki/The_procession<br />
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- Not only is Paul Giovanni in one of those shots on the cliffs, Anthony Shaffer is in one too! Check out this shot:<a href="https://screenmusings.org/movie/dvd/The-Wicker-Man/pages/The-Wicker-Man-710.htm"> https://screenmusings.org/movie/dvd/The-Wicker-Man/pages/The-Wicker-Man-710.htm</a><br />
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See the man with the green turtleneck behind the woman in the blue top who is behind Howie? That’s Shaffer! His only cameo in the film. The associate music director, Gary Carpenter, dressed up in drag to play the organ in the church scene. You can see a behind the scene shot of that here: <a href="http://twm.wikia.com/wiki/Behind_the_scenes_-_still_pictures?file=Bts_church_gary_and_robin.jpg">http://twm.wikia.com/wiki/Behind_the_scenes_-_still_pictures?file=Bts_church_gary_and_robin.jpg</a><br />
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Hardy’s minister cameo, as far as I know, didn’t make any cuts nor did Gary’s.<br />
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- 'Summer is icummin in' is only heard when they set the Wicker Man on fire, not during the procession or at any other time. It’s the oldest song in the English language. More info on its use here: <a href="http://twm.wikia.com/wiki/Summer_is_icummin_in">http://twm.wikia.com/wiki/Summer_is_icummin_in</a><br />
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- Check out these pictures of a commune that re-created their own Wicker Man. It wasn’t until recently that I found out they their “man” wasn’t one of them made for the film. <a href="http://www.davidstooke.co.uk/green-lane-photo-archive.html">http://www.davidstooke.co.uk/green-lane-photo-archive.html</a><br />
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