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Jumblequeen is getting snazzy with weekly playlists! First week is ladies of folk. Please visit the page to hear these gems! Tell It True- Kathy Heideman It's Not Likely- Catherine Howe Morning Dew- Bonnie Dobson Say Goodbye- Dory Previn The Kiss- Judee Sill Cwenc'hlan- Veronique Chalot Banks of the Nile- Sandy Denny Train Song- Vashti Bunyan I Lost Something In The Hills- Sibylle Baier

British singer songwriter Catherine Howe released her debut album "What A Beautiful Place" in 1971. With easy breezy jazz folk inspired arrangements, Howe's songs swell with imagery of English countryside, (On a Misty Morning) honesty and independence (It's Not Likely) and heartbreak (Words Through A Locked Door) with her voice recalling a less primitive Kate Bush. She followed up this release with the 1975 album"Harry" for which the title track received an Ivor Novello Award. After being disillusioned with the record business she retired and went on to receive a degree in History with Religious Studies she has since returned to music playing live shows and releasing the album "English Tale" in 2009. She has also published two books 'Holyoake’s Journey’ and 'Halifax 1842’ . The re-issue of "What a Beautiful Place' can be found through the Numero Group.

DAPHNE ORAM and her ORAMICS machine "My father said that when I was 7 years old I was predicting that one day I would have a marvelous machine that would make any sound I wanted" Daphne Oram would not only make that dream a reality, she would create that machine. She is pictured here with her ground breaking drawn sound machine which she called "Oramics". Daphne Oram born in 1925 in Wiltshire, England grew up with a strong interest in music and electronics and was invited to study at the Royal College of Music, but instead took a job at the BBC as a junior studio engineer and music balancer. In the 1950s she became fascinated with the relatively new invention of magnetic tape and began experimenting with tape manipulation. Her interest and experimentation eventually led her to becoming one of the founders of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop which specialized in innovative electronic music composition and provided sound effects and music for television shows and commercials. In 1959 Daphne left the BBC to open her own studio ,The Oramics Studio for Electronic Composition where she would invent her marvelous drawn sound machine "Oramics", which was a combination of synthesizer and sequencer that used drawings on film to create sound. Daphne explains, " I'm interested in being able to manipulate sound to give every subtle nuance that I want. There seems to be to no real notation system in electronic music. I wanted a system where I could graphically represent what I wanted and give that representation, that musical score effect, through a machine and have from it the sound. I have a number of film tracks going by and on these I draw the graphs for the pitch, I put what we call digital information. It's still evolving, we have a long way to go yet." This conception is miles ahead of it's time when you look at how music is played and recorded today where musicians and studio engineers use visuals on computers to manipulate sounds. In her book "An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics" she even anticipates the the desktop computer a decade before it's arrival. She composed several commercial works on her Oramics machine including the score for 1961 film "The Innocents" and one for a ballet "Bird of Parallax" that traveled the world. She remains one of the most progressive musical innovators of our time. And undoubtedly an electronic music pioneer.

Daphne Oram Oramics Machine unearthed.

Paul McCartney discusses approaching Delia Derbyshire to do electronic arrangements on "Yesterday"

Connie Converse wrote lovely strange songs and mysteriously disappeared in 1974.

Sibylle Baier

German songwriter Sibylle Baier wrote and home recorded a batch of simple stunning folk songs from 1970-1973, plucked out on a nylon string guitar recalling the style and mood of Leonard Cohen. She appeared in the critically acclaimed Wim Wenders' film 'Alice in the Cities' released in 1974. In 2006 her home recordings were passed on to Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis, who managed to get them released on the Orange Twin Label.

Legendary DJ John Peel discovered the lovely Bridget St. John, whom he declared "The best lady singer-songwriter in the country" and signed her to his imprint Dadelion Records in 1969. He released her debut LP Ask Me No Questions the same year which featured the acclaimed acoustic guitarist and songwriter John Martyn, whom she has cited as a mentor. St. John's songwriting is poetic while remaining grounded, she is a fluid and intricate guitar player, her voice a husky sweet whisper. Her major label release in 1974 on Chrysalis Records would be her last for over 20 years, she is quoted as saying, "I think the problem with me and major labels is, they don’t know how to market me because I’m really not ‘product’, I’m me! I’m not about to change the way I look or talk just to suit a marketing plan. But at the same time, they don’t know how to market me and one company said, these songs are great but we don’t know what to do with you. They didn’t understand how to put some one like me in the big machine - and I think that’s probably why nothing happened."(-excerpt from http://www.terrascope.co.uk)

Happy Birthday Moe Tucker!

"Ince Ince" sampled by Mos Def on the song "Supermagic" and hip hop rapper and producer Oh No on the song "Heavy"