Non-metal folk recommendations

[spaffe]

Fantastic swedish folk music, with the swedish bagpipe playing a prominent role http://www.myspace.com/draam -- "Fransosen" would be a good track to start with

It has a great melancholic touch which I really like, it feels like it captures the mood with must have been pretty widespread a few hundred years ago in the great silent forests here in the North; it's far to the next cottage, your only company are the cows that you are set out to watch for and the girl you love is far away...

Oh, and it seems they're coming to the States

Oct 24-25 Dusty Strings Harp Symposium, Seattle, US
Nov 1 Concert, Sylvia Woods Harp Center, Glendale, US
Nov 8 Festival of Harps, Rohnert Park, US

 

[Det Som Engang Var]

fidelius

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=918568190

What's the name of the instrument that man plays at the begging?

I really like Falkenstein.

myspace.com/falkensteinfolk

Especially Heileiger Wald.

 

[EricT]

It's a Bombarde.

 

[Vittra]

Of The Wand & The Moon
Sol Invictus

These 2 are probably relatively obvious though. I don't listen to much folk out of whats made by metal bands myself (I should.). Going to check out the stuff in this thread!

 

[MajestikMøøse]

Also, lol at the term "non-metal folk." I have to go listen to non-jazz hip hop now.

This still makes me laugh.

BTW - I still would consider all the old World Serpent Distribution stuff as more a post-industrial subgenre than a folk subgenre for reasons that other people have explained better than I have. (grazim I think?)

 

[MFJ]

Fantastic swedish folk music, with the swedish bagpipe playing a prominent role http://www.myspace.com/draam -- "Fransosen" would be a good track to start with

It has a great melancholic touch which I really like, it feels like it captures the mood with must have been pretty widespread a few hundred years ago in the great silent forests here in the North; it's far to the next cottage, your only company are the cows that you are set out to watch for and the girl you love is far away...

Oh, and it seems they're coming to the States

Oct 24-25 Dusty Strings Harp Symposium, Seattle, US
Nov 1 Concert, Sylvia Woods Harp Center, Glendale, US
Nov 8 Festival of Harps, Rohnert Park, US

This stuff reminds me of the folk sections on the first three Vintersorg releases, especially "Fransosen". Enjoyable.

 

[spikes77]

Yea the Dråm is good stuff spaffe. The rebec (violin like instrument) really shines in the first and forth tracks. "trilltrall" is probably my favorite track, as the melodies are wonderfully melancholic. Sucks they're only touring on the west coast