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 Close Up - Fold
Description: Artist: Fold / Audio CD released 1998-04-17 at Orange Sky Records Newest Review: ... for the song and we are off, surfing a wave of dance inspired folk rhythms. Dance is the word here, although a term hi-jacked ... more  ... and now come to be associated with manufactured electronic studio music, this is dance music in the truest sense of the word, music that connects with the heart and the foot and defies you to keep still through out. Whether you experience this live or on the CD it’s a challenge that is hard to resist. “Head” charges off with the same drive and is a much more difficult beast to put a genre too. An eclectic mix of new age experimentalism, folk sensibility and driven back beats and drum shuffles this, almost instrumental...more |
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Close Up - Fold: What folk music did next. (1336 words)
by steerpyke - written on 19.08.06 (Very useful, 111 readings)
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The Fold are a band that have been around since 1994 as a live act but I doubt many of you are aware of their work. In a way they highlight the crime of the music industry, a crime that promotes half-baked fashion bands on the strength of image rather than ability. To be highly regarded by their contemporaries and fans should be enough, but the fact that the rhythm section of this band also moonlight in a tribute band to Jethro Tull, some of the most intricate music of the modern age outside classical composition, gives you an idea of the benchmark that this band works from. The major crime being committed here is that whilst lesser musicians bathe in the glory of the ...
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