Wednesday, February 13, 2013

"Folksy postpunk: Ebba Forsberg"


Many a voice have been raised to the fact, that 80s postpunk
owed more to Scots' and Appalachian folk than to expected
RnR/RnB. In case, This Mortal Coil/ Cocteaux rendering of
Buckley Sr 'song of siren' (see end of snub).
Seem to be still going strong, these similarities. Here's
Sweden's great Ebba Forsberg, freely Fairporting & doing
Sandy Dennies as good as ever 06-09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn2vxZbXZ80
(boy you owe me)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KU7UVMqkzY (keep it plain)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofFQYJ8qLqA    (most of all)
well, of course she also has her past/ her 'førflutande'. Which
at end of last century was rather on klubbin' side
(well, I'm on a diet- but to hell with it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y75abyXAXQU (cold like hell)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMor2We-Pgs   (committed)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpglCsmET4w   (angelina)
about 05 she joined folk-politico Mikael Wiehe for subsequent
Dylan and Cohen projects 'på svenska', further strengthening
modal-tonal 'folk' strain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K1ikjLqhCI  (har ar det)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXfAcNv9ajI
(allra minst en morgon/one too many mornings)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asA6_tJAffk
(må din vilja ske/if it be your will)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EdHaW2ctjA
(bare om min elskade ventar/ if only my true love)
Swedish showband/dansband- style was ever open for the
right folksy-cowboy tune. No wonder 'only my true love'
stays staple diet on that scene for forty+ years. Pinko
dansband Nationalteatern's version from 73 may be the
better known? (see furter down)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvtqEbbadzU
(ta min vals/take this walz)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKjqrkR2EC0  (johnna)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt_ewcztHZk  (sparv)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GEPrBb5VkE
(bare om min alskade) Nationalteatern
just love that Brecht'ian dansband vocals!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM
this mortal coil (siren's song)
have vivid memories of This Mortal Coil at Expressen
(or was it Venstres Hus?), Oslo 81 or 82. Just Liz Fraser
and that lean 4AD guy on keyboards. My main problem
is that no one else recalls. I may have been daydreaming,
but those dreams rarely came with pints and sig butts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b49YfsjXw5E
tim buckley (siren's)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMTEtDBHGY4
for good measure...Buckley Sr on prog Monkees' 68 show

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