The most Christian I ever am is loving the super niche musical field of "private press psych-folk" cause most of those trippy privately recorded and released psychedelic folk or Americana albums were made by former hippies in the Jesus Freak movement and the music rules, proto dreampop stuff.
#70s #psychedelic #folk #folkrock #dreampop #privatepress #indie
Waillee Waillee by Dorothy Carter, released in 1978 on Celeste.
Grayson Haver Currin wrote for Pitcfork:
"..The imaginative music she made with them has long been hidden away on 1978’s Waillee Waillee, a private-press gem coveted by crate diggers and Discogs hounds that has at long last been reissued, salvaged from nearly five decades of obscurity. It is the start of a loving and stepwise quest to get her prescient records—and her compelling story, in book form—into public view at last. A seamless hybrid of clarion folk arrangements and coruscant drones, Waillee Waillee functions as a signal flare for that effort, its strange permutations articulating the shapes that acoustic and new-age music would take together in the coming years. A beautiful, sad, and bemused record, Carter’s opus is a joy to behold, as alive and vital now as it was then..."
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/dorothy-carter-waillee-waillee/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P_rKKccLAw&list=PLI4Ej6aD_bJpqKYs_c0cSf1PSxGzVa2EO&index=1
#dorothycarter #folk #privatepress #psaltery #dulcimer #WailleeWaillee #1978inmusic
Private press records have a special charm for collectors because they offer honest snapshots from times when mainstream routes were not an option. Bands like Phantasia and their later form, Trizo 50, perfectly capture that passionate, underground creative spirit of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Phantasia, born from the creative urgency of John DePugh ...
I have a weird thing for late 60s and 70s #privatepress or #outsiderart albums, particularly psych-folk and the like. So many of these artists were part of the Jesus Freak subset of hippies that I have an unexplainable amount of technically Christian music that sounds kind of like of like 00s freak folk or indie psych-pop bands saved to my master playlist
‘Shattered Dreams & Broken Songs’ is definitely not your typical ’70s record. It’s a jumbled mix of late-night recording sessions and offhand jam ideas. The album is a straightforward nod to the messy, imperfect moments that made it. Every song carries the weight of nights spent tinkering with loose equipment and frayed dreams, yet somehow, ...
Reposting this from 2023:
Geert de Koning, master printer at ‘Factotum Pers’, challenged himself to print his own colourful version of Alphabetum Romanum (Felice Feliciano), using polymer plates and letterpress printing. Expected Spring/Summer 2025.
I did some research on constructed capitals to use in the introduction I wrote.
#alphabetumromanum #felicefeliciano #factotumpers #privatepress #letterpressprinting #letterpress #typography
Warsaw's Private Press is back on Ben Sims' Hardgroove imprint after three years with the five-track Very Cosmic EP. #music #privatepress #verycosmic #hardgroove
I've had a nearly lifelong aversion to #psychedelic stuff as I came of age with punk-minded shit that was its antithesis, but my fascination with #privatepress albums of the 60s-80s has softened me to a least psych-folk stuff because that is SO much of the best stuff to come out of the sort of proto-indie private press scene.
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