Mixtape
dfbm #101 - Songs of Wild Nothing Pt. 10

“Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

First, the DFBM mixcloud channel won an award for the "Best Online Music Show, Country / Folk / Blues in 2018". Thank you mixcloud! Thank you listeners! Now I can refer to this "shows" as award winning! .

tl;dr

I think the message of the opening quote is clear. If you don't know Dietrich Bonhoeffer, please look him up.

A few words about the music: As on all the mixtapes before, it's a more or less wild mix of all kinds of folk music. A.P. Carter & The Phipps Family is followed by the king of desert blues, Ali Farka Touré and from there it goes up to Norway with Stein Urheim's glistening ambient guitar work.

Also, my biggest inspiration in DIY music that spans folk music, post punk, field recordings and ambient music is reissuing some old albums. Namely The Skygreen Leopards member Glenn Donaldson. Before I got deeply immersed by folk music, I listened and produced a lot ambient/field recording kind of stuff. When I first heard Thuja, I was taken. There was no way to get all the Jewelled Antler releases at that time. Soulseek helped a bit. Later I discovered The Skygreen Leopards and after some time (thanks to music blogs) I was able to connect the dots. Glenn Donaldson and his collective produced and immensive amount of magic. I'm glad some of the music gets reissued.

Because I mentioned A.P. Carter & The Phipps Family - this track is not really good. It's a recording from 1954 and it sounds awfully off. I don't know why. But that's what I love about music. The odds, the mistakes, the unpredicable. The Phipps Family was a Carter Family clone, as you can tell. They released a ton of records on their own label and I have to say, I really like them. I don't all the Carter Fam stuff, but I know all the Phipps Family recordings. The end of their career and lifes is quite tragic:

The Phipps family disbanded in 1991 when Kathleen was diagnosed with cancer. Her health deteriorated and she went into a coma in April 1992. She died on November 4, 1992.[1] Arthur Phipps died on August 30, 1995 when he was brutally stabbed to death in his own home by an assailant during a robbery. He was found outside his house by a son-in-law. Phipps assassin John Mills was apprehended and later convicted of murder, first-degree burglary and first-degree robbery. He was sentenced to death

--Phipps Family - Wikipedia

I found another song of Danny Kulick, a mysterious, homerecording artist who deals with his mental health problems. At least that's what the few reviews say. if someone has the whole album and wants to share it, please drop me a line or leave a comment.

What else. A new Matthew De Gennaro album on Soft Abuse. Another discovery from the glorious days of obscure music blogs. I think I found his first two cdr's on the Mutant Sounds blog. Been a fan ever since. He is phantastic.

Support the artists, buy records or even mp3. The best stuff isn't on those shitty streaming services, the best stuff is stored away in the basements of record collectors and publicly available on bandcamp.

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Tracklist

1. Lucky Luke Simon Of The Desert Simon Of The Desert 2003 discogs
2. Sarah Louise Bowman's Root Deeper Woods discogs
3. The Ivytree Thistle Beds Unburdened Light 2004 discogs
4. Alex Archibald Raspberry Canes and Ravens Guts and Feathers 2017 web
5. Robert Millis/Wica Intina Dedication to the Homefront - Wica Intina Robert Millis/Wica Intina Split Tape 2018 web
6. Ian A. Anderson Paint It, Black The Time Is Ripe 2014 web
7. Buck Curran Dirt Floor (feat. Adele H) Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas 2018 web
8. Max Ochs Cuckoo Live The Thousand Incarnations of the Rose 2018-04-13 discogs
9. Crystalline Roses with The Yankee Entertainer No Depession in Heaven Two Man Cult 2016 web
10. Matthew De Gennaro A Short Ride (for Dan Maister) Conversation With A Roadside Skull 2018 web
11. Scott Tuma This Fall No Greener Grass 2017 discogs
12. Elkhorn Lion Lionfish 2018 web
13. Satya Sai Maitreya Kali Love Is Our Existence Apache 1972 discogs
14. Maurizio Abate Standing Waters (Bonus) Standing Waters 2018 web
15. Itasca Morning Flower Morning Flower 2018 web
16. Golconda FR 572 25 to 40 2017 web
17. the modern folk oh babe it ain't no lie modern folk 666 2018 web
18. Dave Atkinson Fool for You The Beggars and the Sand 1976 discogs
19. Spirogyra An Everyday Consumption Song Bells, Boots And Shambles 1973 discogs
20. The Village Fugs Nothing Sing Ballads Of Contemporary Protest, Point Of Views, And General Dissatisfaction 1965 discogs
21. Skygreen Leopards Soft Dark Birds The Jingling World of 2018 web
22. Kenneth Johnston Phoenicia Instrumental Music From the Horsehead Point Community 2003 discogs
23. Adam Cadell The Bludger's Song Bush Songs 2018 web
24. Des Moines Twenty Years Backwoods 2018 web
25. Donovan Quinn I Wanna Be Your Ghost (Winter Version) Absalom 2018 web
26. Brindley Brae Goodnight Until Today VA - Kermo (ZenBa) (60s-70s psych-prog-hard-folk-rock) @320 discogs
27. Danny Kulick Jones Hollow Jones Hollow Trilogy Vol. 1 2018 discogs
28. The Stonemans In The Plain Dawn Of The Stonemans' Age 1970 discogs
29. A.P. Carter & The Phipps Family Wildwood Flower A.P. Carter & The Phipps Family 1954 discogs
30. Ali Farka Touré Allah Vol. 1 (MM 5001) 1988 discogs
31. Stein Urheim Ustopia - Part One Utopian Tales 2017 discogs
32. Christian Molenaar The Devil Only Expects My Neighbor You Must Choke Off Waste 2013 web