Genre: Free Folk
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About Free Folk
Free folk is an experimental form of Drone-heavy Psychedelic Folk originating primarily in the 1990s alongside Freak Folk as part of the New Weird America scene. The term refers to music that is psychedelic, often longform and unstructured, and makes frequent use of repetition and improvisation. Free folk is heavily reliant on influence from American Folk Music and American Primitivism, along with other genres such as Krautrock, Jazz, and Free Improvisation. Read more on Last.fm.
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Free folk is an experimental form of Drone-heavy Psychedelic Folk originating primarily in the 1990s alongside Freak Folk as part of the New Weird America scene. The term refers to music that is psychedelic, often longform and unstructured, and makes frequent use of repetition and improvisation. Free folk is heavily reliant on influence from American Folk Music and American Primitivism, along with other genres such as Krautrock, Jazz, and Free Improvisation. Free folk also commonly incorporates elements of rāga, the modal system of South Asian Classical Music.
The name was coined by journalist David Keenan following 2003's Brattleboro Free Folk Festival, a close-knit gathering of artists mostly from the rural Northeastern United States, including Dredd Foole (sometimes seen as the genre's progenitor), Sunburned Hand of the Man, Charalambides, and Jack Rose. Artists tend to have a DIY ethic, releasing music on CD-R or cassette tape, often handmade and on labels owned by members of the scene, such as Manhand. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
The name was coined by journalist David Keenan following 2003's Brattleboro Free Folk Festival, a close-knit gathering of artists mostly from the rural Northeastern United States, including Dredd Foole (sometimes seen as the genre's progenitor), Sunburned Hand of the Man, Charalambides, and Jack Rose. Artists tend to have a DIY ethic, releasing music on CD-R or cassette tape, often handmade and on labels owned by members of the scene, such as Manhand. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.