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Milkweed: Folklore 1979 review – tantalisingly strange folk vignettes
The duo’s third release clocks in at 10 minutes but packs in zithers, traditional pipes and a perennial feeling of dread
This time aroundan academic folklore studies journal provides strange tales, editors’ letters and obituaries, set against the sounds of zithers, traditional pipes and softly hit drum skins. Giddy phrases leap out of her mouth, like “the breath became the storm and his voice became thunder” in The Snake In Chinese Belief, or “hearing as a boy that the bloodroot’s juice was the dead man’s blood” in The Tree As a Kinship Symbol. Heisk ’s Headstrong (The Bothy Society) has cover art that recalls Ze Records in its early 80s pomp, and this six-strong all-female band mix accordions, fiddles and electro harp with occasionally disconcerting perky pop.
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