Do any Brits who also like folk music, know the band Synanthesia, Fresh Maggots and Trees?
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Hi! I absolutely love British folk music from the 70s, and I am in love with three bands/duos: Synanthesia, Fresh Maggots and Trees. I was wondering, does anyone know or listen to them? I am an American and I haven’t met anyone irl or online who knows or even listens to them!
DiodeMcRoy@reddit
I'm not a brit but stumbled upon this thread while looking for informations about Fresh Maggots. I've been playing on repeat Rosemary Hill on repeat last year. I do love Trees and Synathesia too. I have a playlist on spotify with that kind of music. Some songs you might like too:
The Rising Storm (Frozen Laughter)
Mark Fry (Song for Wilde),
The Millenium ,
EvenSong, - Gypsy
Forest (Graveyard),
Spirogyra (Captain' log: Old Boot Wine)
Music Emporium (Gentle Thursday)
Pearls Before Swine - Rocket Man
Mellow Candle (Heaven Heath)
Arthur (Open up the Door)
Sanctuary Stone (Midwinter)
Donovan -The river song
Veronique Chalot - Cantique
DiodeMcRoy@reddit
Also the (original) Wicker Man soundtrack is perfect (and a great Halloween film to watch)
antiquemule@reddit
Never heard of any of them. At the time, I was listening to Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, the Chieftains, Planxty, June Tabor... I don't think we are talking about the same kind of folk music.
DevilishLighthouse@reddit
You'd like Trees.
Fred776@reddit
Fairport Convention are probably the closest of the bands you mentioned to the style being talked about by OP. Songs like A Sailor's Life from Unhalfbricking, and some of the songs on Liege and Lief had a slightly psychedelic twist to them. Pentangle were another band that somewhat straddled the different styles.
freshmaggots@reddit (OP)
Yess I love Fairport Convention!
freshmaggots@reddit (OP)
OMG I love Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention!
arsebiscuits71@reddit
Got albums by all 3, the Trees had some lovely 2lp reissues a while back
Comfortable_Ad_4267@reddit
Pentangale, Sandy Denny, Gentle Giant, Nick Drake, Bread Love & Dreams, Maddy Prior, Bridget St Johns, Meic Stevens, Sunforest. British folk can be complicated. Some overlaps with psychic and progressive rock during late 60s early 70s. Pretty much like early 21st Century Free Folk/Weird American scene depends on how folk purist ones ears are.
QuietVisit2042@reddit
I like Trees, they are very similar to early Fairport
Genre-Fluid@reddit
Yes, well I know the second two. Comus are on a similar doom folk thing too. Do much grest music of that time. Fairport, Drake. Whole witchseason thing.
Fred776@reddit
I know of the second two. I have some Fresh Maggots on a compilation and own the two Trees albums on CD. I really like that style of late 60s/early 70s UK folk with a psychedelicish tinge. It's sometimes known as acid folk.
It had a sort of revival a few years ago on the back of some of the stuff coming out of the US like Espers and Devendra Banhart and the rediscovery of artists like Vashti Bunyan.
freshmaggots@reddit (OP)
Omg sameee! I love Fresh Maggots!
ume-shu@reddit
Trees were a fantastic band. Not heard of the other two, though I'll need to check them out.
freshmaggots@reddit (OP)
Yesss
Electronic-Stay-2369@reddit
Got the Trees lps somewhere, not heard of the other two.
freshmaggots@reddit (OP)
Oooh
pecuchet@reddit
Yeah, they're cult acts, but most music geeks know who they are.
freshmaggots@reddit (OP)
Yess
Snickerty@reddit
No, but im off to look them up now.
freshmaggots@reddit (OP)
Yess you should
BristowBailey@reddit
I know Trees from the 1970 compilation album "Fill Your Head with Rock", which included their song "The Garden of Jane Delawney".
The whole album is really good - a lot of bands that you'll definitely have heard of, some you might not have. My parents had it on vinyl.
freshmaggots@reddit (OP)
OMG my favorite song of Trees is the Garden of Jane Delawney!
Alternative_Guitar78@reddit
Yeah, anyone who's into collecting vinyl will be aware of these bands. In terms of the wider musical consciousness Trees got "re-discovered," around twenty years ago, I've got a vague memory that one of their tracks was used on an advert or TV show, and I think they may have reformed and toured...but I could be completely wrong.
freshmaggots@reddit (OP)
Yess
Maximum-Network-7735@reddit
I saw Trees at a lunchtime concert at the Fairfield Halls Croydon.
Celia Humphris was the lead singer, went on to do train announcing for the London Underground amongst other things.
Good band.
freshmaggots@reddit (OP)
Omggg I’m so jealous! I wish I could’ve seen them
stiperstone@reddit
I'm not sure, but I think Fresh Maggots only made one album. Very cool though.
freshmaggots@reddit (OP)
Ikr
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coffeewalnut08@reddit
Never heard of them actually. I do like our folksy music but more religious stuff like Christian contemporary, carols and hymns.
freshmaggots@reddit (OP)
Ooh yess I like those too
AcceptableDebate281@reddit
I like synanthesia and trees, not heard of fresh maggots though!
freshmaggots@reddit (OP)
Yesss