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on kaftans, growing their hair and creating music full of psychedelic strangeness. In Britain another folk revival sprung from Scotland, with Alasdair Roberts resurrecting ancient songs and King Creosote bringing back folk collectives, while artists like Adem and Tunng used their laptops to create delicate musical worlds. It's a folk music committed to modernity, driven by inventive- NO ness - a world away from Morris Dancing, or the Radio 2 Folk Awards - and its spiritual home is The Green Man Festival. Newsom HEY stands out because of her uniqueness and ambition. Bor n in Northern California in 1982 to progressive parents, she picked up the harp aged eight, explored free jazz and NONNY West African music, studying musical composition at a prestigious college before switching to creative writing. I was the worst in my class , she says modestly. But I was Jude Rogers talks to fired up by everyone else's intelligence, by the possibilities of language and form and Joanna Newsom, the of composition. And three years after her loudest bang in the gentler debut, `The Milk-Eyed Mender', `Ys' is the dramatic result of Newsom's new folk boom. intellectual apprenticeship: a 55-minute five- song cycle reviving the idea of folk music as W atching Joanna Newsom live at 2005's nar rative with the song as oral performance. Green Man Festival was like stepping Written as an epic poem, it tells a mysterious into the pages of a fabulous fairytale. Here stor y from five standpoints. I always wanted was a young woman in Red Riding Hood to be a composer, not a songwriter, she says. robes singing in a shrill, unsettling soprano And I wanted to write a drama like William about ghost towns, wicker beetles and bones, Faulkner's `The Sound And The Fury', with her fingers dancing over the strings of a ever y syllable, nuance and phrase drawing classical harp. So eccentric, yet Newsom was you into the story. The story is not a simple a festival headliner. That was a wonderful one - there are chants about meteorites, night, she recalls sweetly. I felt something elegies for birds, peonies nodding in the new was happening . breeze, and the soft whisper of death Now with her second album `Ys' leaving swirling around every song. But with Van critics clawing for superlatives Newsom has Dyke Parks Brian Wilson's string arranger become the pixie-like postergirl for the new and alternative rock legends Steve Albini and folk revival, a movement as avant-garde as it Jim O'Rourke on hand to produce and polish is traditional. It began on the West Coast of ever y glittering phrase, the overall effect is America, home to the children of the hippy unnerving, unsettling and utterly enchanting. generation, with artists like Devendra 'Ys' is on Drag City. Banhart, Espers and Faun Fables throwing 28 Swell Music

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Swell Music

Swell Xmas Message
We Tip Our Hat
Goundswell - Wonder
The Grill - Nikodemus
Groundswell - Acoustic Ladyland
The Stooges
Competition
The Swell Selection
Like what You Hear?
Joanna Newsom
Ghostface Killah
Rude Boys
Deep Water

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