A very cool, if very sombre, album from self-proclaimed 'blackgrass' band Wychwood out of Ottawa, ON.
About the band, from Bandcamp: We identify only half-jokingly as “the world’s first blackgrass band.” We play old murder-ballads and other spooky traditional folk songs, with some bright and sentimental spots thrown in for contrast. Some days we’re acoustic purists. Some days we like to corrupt traditional folksongs with bits of black metal, ambient, and noise music. We’re trying to make folk music dangerous again.
About the album specifically, because I think it's a great concept. Also from Bandcamp: Songs for the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki [...] We hope you enjoy the music, and that it strengthens and inspires you to to do what you can as the tides of war and dehumanization are rising once again. Please share it around if you believe in it [...] everything from this album is licensed as Creative Commons (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike), which means you can use it however you like and make your own things with it, so long as you give us credit and aren't trying to profit from it.
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Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 65d
Incidentally, if you dig dark folky bluegrassy stuff, you could do worse than dig through the bands who've played at the Black and Bluegrass Festival in the Ottawa Valley, or check out this year's edition in person once there's more details!
Hummingbird@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 40d
I don't think I've listened to this type of music much before. I did like it.
Definitely a dark topic, though given the direction humanity seems to be headed, maybe more people should hear and think about historical events like Hiroshima. The lyrics seem pretty blunt and straightforward about the topic--not really any obfuscation in the meaning. Probably being too 'clever' with the topic would be disrespectful anyway.
I particularly enjoyed that spoken-word track.
There was a static sound on some parts. Intentional, I think?