A surprise package of value has come to us today - a mind-melding trip into the witchy Wickerwoman woods of Olde Englande, artfully crafted by Four Or Five Guy© Bambi, who also engraved the cover art on an old coffin lid.
"So for your consideration," [screeds Bambi - Ed.] "Thirty Minutes with Psylly Psymon, starting quite ‘gently but weird’ at Lillywhites party. We don’t know what is happening but as the music changes a witchy English folk song sets a pastoral feel. You start to feel a bit strange as the drums start, the light from the fire casts shadows as the people move around you, before ‘she’ takes you by the hand for a final dance ..."
Half an hour with Psylo Psybin:
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Hooray! Another half hour! Looking forward to hearing this. Downloading it now...
ReplyDeleteThis is cool, thanks Bambi!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to play this for my friend Gus, we call him Fun Gus, because he's a fun guy.
The mix is I suppose the story of a (psilocybin) mushroom trip at a party, from the arrival ("let's not say what we did", "let's not open that can of worms"), to the 'Witch' casting a spell "for the man I fancy". After the gentle 'coming up', ritualistic drumming music starts up, people moving around you…until the witch finally takes your hand for a 'dance'.
DeleteIt's all European music, mostly English, and much from this century. The only real oldie is the first folky tune from 1973.
Listened to it yesterday, nice indeed, but I must confess I didn't recognize any of the tracks, embarrassing :-(
DeleteNot embarrassing at all
DeleteHere’s the tracklist.
Lilywhite’s Party - The Sea Nymphs - 1998 John Peel session
A Witches Guide to the Underground - Carolanne Pegg - 1973
Magpie - The Unthanks - 2015
Uppmarksamhet - Zopp - 2023
Let It Burn - Goat - 2023
Ha Howa Ha Howa - Sexwitch (Toy and Natasha Khan (Bat for Lashes) - 2015
also a brief ’transitional’ Dragonsong snipet by Dzyan
I was doing this mix as an experiment really for myself, and is probably a bit leftfield, however the 4or5 guys© can probably cope with leftfield.
The Magpie song may be familiar to UK residents who watched The Detectorists BBC TV series a few years ago. Here is how that was used so brilliantly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6gSYHJhuCw
Thank you Bambi, just watched the Magpie clip, beautiful!
DeleteWhat program did you use to make the mix? I remember from long time ago that whenever I tried something similar I ended up having problems with the difference in volume of the various mp3s...
If you'd got your head out of the chalice smoke earlier, you'd have read that Audacity is the way to go. I used it for my Thirty Minutes *curations*. It's free, and endless fun if your idea of fun is slicing up mp3 files. It's reasonably intuitive, fiddly, and endlessly re-doable - you can back up over any number of mistakes. If any other of the 4/5g© want to have a crack, go ahead, but find your reading glasses first (they're probably in the fridge).
DeleteThanks Farq for assisting my weed addled brain, I might give it a try!
DeleteKoen, until three days ago I had only used Audacity for very basic mp3 file editing and struggled with that too. Thanks to a few tutorial YT vids, it started to make some sense, this one was useful
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I’m still learning but my first effort was I think pretty good considering I took the tracks from less than half of my library, and it was for ‘my ears only’. Maybe I should have kept it for ‘my ears only’, but I like weird :-)
Give it a go, if you have the time, I wasted 3 hours getting nowhere initially, but then I 'got it' rather quickly.
oh and in Audacity you can adjust the volume of individual tracks.
DeleteThanks Bambi!
DeleteI feel like I've come to the wrong blog......
ReplyDeleteIs that you, Mr. McDonald?
DeleteThat explains the yacht, I saw anchored just off the th' Fabulous Isle O' Foam© beach.
Delete*reaches for trapdoor lever ... hesitates ...*
DeleteThank you Bambi. This takes the template to a whole different place.
ReplyDeleteThat thirty minutes w/ Frank Zappa certainly was time well spent, so I guess I'd be well advised to invest another half hour here. Thank for telling me what to do. I wouldn't have a clue otherwise.
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