Abendlandung # 161 - Electric Eden Special, Part 5 19.08.2024
Cashmere Radio
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Description
The Electric Eden saga is continuing! The fifth part focuses on the occult songs of Mr Fox and Dave & Toni Arthur, the bucolic psychedelia of Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett, the fantasy worlds of Tyrannosaurus Rex, the alchemical meanderings of Third Ear Band, the acid folk of Comus and Spirogyra, and the dark yet hopeful mysterious poetry of Bill Fay.
The Electric Eden series is a radiophonic adaptation of Rob Young’s phantastic book with the same name, an in-depth look into British visionary music from early 20th to early 21st century, with a strong focus on folk and folk rock.
In his groundbreaking survey of more than a century of music making in the British Isles, Rob Young investigates how the idea of folk has been handed down and transformed by successive generations – s...
This show originally aired on Cashmere Radio.
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