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Folk Horror Revival Spotify Playlist

This playlist was initially created by Jim Peters for his personal listening pleasure but has now become an ever-growing collection of tracks suggested by members of the Folk Horror Revival group. It is now curated by Jim and is becoming more diverse, educating and entertaining with every recommendation from the group.

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Folk Horror is a beast without definition – it is a personal understanding and reaction by the participant to a multitude of different creations that all appear touched with tinges of the supernatural, the folkloric and the shadowy side of our past and landscape.

The music of Folk Horror is a very difficult `genre’ to quantify being as it is itself a non-genre. The music that is considered Folk Horror has become so due to its subject matter, its atmospheres, instrumentation and inspiration – inviting individual tracks from Acid Folk, Hauntology, Traditional Folk Music, Soundtracks, Psychedelic, Ambient, Drone, Murder Ballads, Classical and Electronica to join the Folk Horror fold.

This playlist was initially created by Jim Peters for his personal listening pleasure but has now become an ever-growing collection of tracks suggested by members of the Folk Horror Revival group. It is now curated by Jim and is becoming more diverse, educating and entertaining with every recommendation from the group.

The quest continues to create the ultimate Folk Horror playlist…..come join us – from the forest, from the furrows, from the field….

(https://open.spotify.com/user/jimofleon/playlist/4bTgHJWcWQDl9ELHY9btL1)

The Hare and The Moon at Wyldwood

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The Hare And The Moon are this week’s featured artists at the excellent Wyldwood Radio. Their music will also be featured on their splendid live shows on Tuesday and Thursday from 8pm GMT. Hark!

http://news.wyldwoodradio.co.uk/artist-spotlight-the-hare-and-the-moon-17th-24th-january-2016/

Wood Witch by The Hare and the Moon. ©The Hare and the Moon

You can find out more about The Hare and the Moon (and have a listen) here: https://soundcloud.com/thehareandthemoon

and find out more about the label and projects here: www.reverbworship.com

Follow on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Hare-And-The-Moon-171694486200726/?fref=ts

Unearthing Forgotten Horrors Radio Show – 18/1/01

Unearthing Forgotten Horrors’ is an hour-long delve into the darker recesses of the musical underworld. A chance to immerse yourself in obscure horror soundtracks, dark drones, weird electronica, freaky folk, crazed kosmiche and some of the most abhorrent and twisted psychedelia ever committed to vinyl, CD or cassette.

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Unearthing Forgotten Horrors’ is an hour-long delve into the darker recesses of the musical underworld. A chance to immerse yourself in obscure horror soundtracks, dark drones, weird electronica, freaky folk, crazed kosmiche and some of the most abhorrent and twisted psychedelia ever committed to vinyl, CD or cassette.

Hosted by Darren Charles – sound-smith at Equestrian Vortex & The Dead End Street Band and administrator of Folk Horror Revival.

The latest show airs tonight – Monday 18th January from
19:00–20:00 UK time.

Listen online at
http://www.a1radio.co.uk/

Give your ears a treat. 🙂

Melmoth the Wanderer – Folk Horror Mixes

Shadow master and guardian of the weird and wayward, Melmoth wanders the outer reaches of The Field Bazaar collecting sounds, snatches of spoken word and music that seems as old as the timeworn paths he treads. When the burden of these sounds becomes too much for our devout and religious miscreant he visits the insomniacs and those truly alone offering his harvest as comfort from the silence.

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Shadow master and guardian of the weird and wayward, Melmoth wanders the outer reaches of The Field Bazaar collecting sounds, snatches of spoken word and music that seems as old as the timeworn paths he treads. When the burden of these sounds becomes too much for our devout and religious miscreant he visits the insomniacs and those truly alone offering his harvest as comfort from the silence.

The Melmoth the Wanderer mixes are the result of these nocturnal visits to their creator by Jim Peters – a self-confessed Audio Relic Hunter locked into the sounds of the night, the light and the half-light.

`I’m pretty jealous of the vibe that Melmoth creates, and it’s as if Halloween is every day (only with more nightmares and less Pokemon masks)….Melmoth has caused me to delve past the music to try and find the information behind the music, search the artists, and figure out why and how they created what they did. All while wearing goose bumps. I would have to say that Melmoth’s music is not for the casual listener, and that’s a very good thing. Every mix demands your attention and your mental focus as it urges you to wrestle with your uprising innermost fear.

This is music that chooses to invoke a reaction. These mixes get better every time I hear them, and like anything meaningful create a good story along the way. Melmoth will get a reaction, rest assured. Enjoy the fear, my friends.’ – Ambient-transmissions.blogspot

Melmoth also has a presence on Facebook.