Psych Folk suggestions needed

Hi All. I'm brand new to this forum. I'm looking for psych folk albums from the UK or US that are in the vein of the Incredible String Band's Hangman album, Donovan's A Gift from a Flower or Pink Floyd's Piper or solo Barrett. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Thanks ever so, Lendit

 

these are good >pearls before swinene nation underground (1967) and balaklava (1969) -- dr strangely strange:kip of the serenes (1969) and heavy petting (1970) -- the incredible string band:the 5000 spirits or the layers of the onion (1967) --

 

have you tried Fairport Convention?

 

I'd only recommend their debut for psych folk. Steeleye Span - Now we are six is a good one as well. Also try Magna Carta - Lord of the ages. Hope you dig them!

 

Holy Modal Rounders
Strange acid folk

 

Serpent Power! Only made one album but it's a doozy, especially the last track.

 

Jefferson Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow"

 

Trees - The garden of Jane Delawney
Spiro Gyra - St. Radigunds

 

some good recent stuff is devendra banhart (good but kind of overrated in my opinion), vetiver, six organs of admittance, destroyer, mystic chords of memory. Vetiver is absolutely amazing and the best band currently out there in the psych/folk scene.

 

Ditto - Trees and Sirogyra
Also check out this page - could be very rewarding
http://lysergia.blogspot.com/

 

I recomend...

White Magic
Vetiver
Mountain Home

My latest discovery is all due to the link I list below. Her name is Catherine Ribeiro. French Avant-Garde psych-folk. It is like nothing I've ever heard before, really.

Check out this Live Journal community, its members post some of the craziest stuff I've heard in ages. And they post a nice mixture of new and old stuff.

http://community.livejournal.com/psych_folk/

 

Comus
Faun Fables

 

I don't know if it's the the vein you want, but Noe Venable's album "The World is Bound by Secret Knots" has some pretty psychedelic folk songs on there and it's pretty awesome.

 

Do you self a favor and dive straight into Current 93's - "Thunder Perfect Mind" it's one of my faves and they are influenced by the Incredible String Band. Also check out some Mellow Candle!

 

Definitely check out White Magic and Devendra Banhart like some others suggested. I'd like to add in Vashti Bunyan, Joanna Newsom, and Josephine Foster.

One of my favorite bands is Akron/Family, and they have some psych-folk elements sometimes... check out "Ed is a Portal" by them.

 

Check out Robbie Basho. Another unusual treasure from the early era. I think I met him in a guitar shop in 1973. He played one chord to(for?) me and changed my life.

 

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Trader horne, morning way
Salyangie, children of the sun, can't believe nobody mentioned this, hell of an album!
Heran, st
Pleased to see the king gets it for fave steeleye span record
both trees albums
jade, fly on strange wings
got to check out Vetiver now! for new stuff I think midlake, dark dark dark and trembling bells are my current faves

 

Its Heron and I deem his solo lps to be uninteresting.

Robin Williamsn solo lps - and with group - however are excellent. My favs being " AGlint at the kindling", "Ten of Songs".
His first, "Myrrh" is perhaps the quirkiest and closest to "wyrdfolk"

 

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