FOLKWAYS RECORDS

From the liner notes: "Ingenious use of echo, artificial reverberation and electronic alterations gives the music in this category a weird, spooky futuristic, 'out of this world' quality, well-suited...

Doc Tate Nevaquaya (1932-1996) expressed his Comanche heritage musically through the Native American flute. His compositions and arrangements of a variety of Native American vocal genres have...

From Milford Graves' guttural experiments with percussion and the body to Mary Lou Williams' jazz combo interrupted by atonal "fungus," this compilation of new (1970s) music makes for an eclectic mix...

Trumpets and trombones twist through dense pockets of sound in Lucia Dlugoszewski "Angels of the Inmost Heaven"; the voice of a lone guitarist punctures the silence in James Fulkerson's "Patterns" II...

Noa Ain gives US a surreal portrait of violinist Yoko Matsua in "Used to Call Me Sadness," Joel Chadabe encourages a solo percussionist to interact with an automated electronic system in "Echoes,"...

Longtime Folkways recording artists The New Lost City Ramblers perform 17 period songs about liquor, bootlegging, and Prohibition (1917-1933) in the traditional style of southern mountain string...

This omnibus album combines the Earth is Earth 7 recording FWFF369, a collection of bawdy songs by the pseudonymous New Lost City Bang Boys, with four songs from The New Lost City Ramblers' 7 The New...

As Southern mountaineers and farmers moved into an industrialized era of coal mines and weaving mills their rural songs evolved to express the confrontation with new modes of life and the ensuing...

Dubbed a "trio of insidious crusaders for 'old-timey' music" by Sing Out!'s Pete Welding, The New Lost City Ramblers helped bring old-time music to wider audiences through their performances as a...

Dubbed a "trio of insidious crusaders for 'old-timey' music" by Sing Out!'s Pete Welding, The New Lost City Ramblers helped bring old-time music to wider audiences through their performances as a...

Dubbed a "trio of insidious crusaders for 'old-timey' music" by Sing Out!'s Pete Welding, The New Lost City Ramblers helped bring old-time music to wider audiences through their performances as a...

Dubbed a "trio of insidious crusaders for 'old-timey' music" by Sing Out!'s Pete Welding, The New Lost City Ramblers helped bring old-time music to wider audiences through their performances as a...