Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 21 January 2017 CE 

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Dog in fog D
Dog in fog Jan 22, 2017 16:26:04
Replying to 1001realapes

CDs

Samandtheplants - "The Eft" Beautiful lo-fi folk+
"Number 3"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZU--mf0WD0

Paavoharju - "Yhä Hämärää" As Samandtheplants above, beautiful folky indie electronica-y gentle music.
"Syvyys"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5IfzsVJEK8

Peter Howell and John Ferdinando - "Alice Through The Looking Glass"
"Through Looking Glass Wood" It's wonderful in there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JgOW3YnFWQ


DVD

"The Changes". Excellent children's BBC TV series from the 70s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changes_(TV_series)


Soundcloud

Folk Radio UK - Winter Solstice Mix by Michael Tanner
https://soundcloud.com/folk-radio-uk/winter-solstice-mix-by-michael
Wonderful, featuring many a Tabor, Collins, Waterson, Carthy, Prior and the sweetest Deller...
My favourite is Steve Ashley's "Candlemas Carol"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dno_pqAjJ8
because I'm a nut for major/minor and also for recorders, flutes and whistles.

Fair Folk Podcast
The "Iceland" show. Well researched and presented folk music radio programme by a Canadian woman. I'm fascinated by how old a lot of the music sounds, putting you in mind of plainchant etc. Also, I'm intrigued about the reasons for the performance style of Rímur ('sung' epic poems) as explained/claimed in an interview during the programme. The poems are to be sung A capella by a lone singer, only within a range of about four tones. So there are no harmonies and melodies or sounds from other voices or instruments to distract the listener. Yet these poems can by 1,000 stanzas long - they say here that they've performed shorter versions of 300 stanzas for concerts of an hour and a half. I think the rímur must have been kept in this primitve form to enchant and 'drug' the Icelanders through their harsh winters.
https://soundcloud.com/fairfolkcast/iceland
Edit - but it's more likely that it's because the Icelanders seem/ed to put great import onto keeping their language and heritage 'pure' from outside influence and changes. I have heard that Icelandic as a language is still quite close to the original old Norse.

Folklore Tapes - all of them from this channel
https://soundcloud.com/folklore-tapes/dftiv-rituals-practices
An interesting mix which flows pleasingly and eerily through experimental folk music, sounds, stories, poems.

and finally, last night's bedtime story -
"The Children Of Green Knowe"
https://soundcloud.com/brian-sibley/the-children-of-green-knowe
The TV adaptation from the 80s is very good, too. It's on Youtube.

D Danica Boyce
Danica Boyce Jan 25, 2017 04:50:10
Replying to Dog in fog

Hello!
Thank you sincerely for sharing my podcast (Fair Folk)! I do love to make it and when strangers appreciate it, it's all the more satisfying.
The Iðunn Society (named after the goddess of eternal youth, appropriately) has a website with lots of information about the rimur tradition, and they are also available by (English-speaking) email. I found a couple of English language articles about rimur on JSTOR, if you have access to that...
Sounds like you have great taste in general. I'll have to check out some other of your suggestions!

M Monganaut
Monganaut Jan 25, 2017 07:53:05
Replying to Dog in fog

[quote="Dog in fog" and finally, last night's bedtime story -
"The Children Of Green Knowe"
https://soundcloud.com/brian-sibley/the-children-of-green-knowe
The TV adaptation from the 80s is very good, too. It's on Youtube.
[/quote]

My kids loved that story when they were weeny. It's a bit like 'Tom's Midnight Garden', but with more spirits.
The Terry Nation (inventor of the Daleks no less) book 'Rebecca's World' was a big fav' of the tiddlers as well. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1782359.Rebecca_s_World

Chapter 11 (only??) fer your listening pleasure here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9_XeLAbPYU