Wow... what an amazing band I just discovered! Their music makes me feel like I'm lying down in a mystical forest in Ireland, or something like that. It's so beautiful... Anybody likes them, here?
BTW their album (the only one so far..) is self-titled... Really I think that you people should just check it out, it so great..
Their S/T album was my favourite of 2004, stunning I thought, they have release of covers coming out soon. I also really like Meg Baird's work with her sister Laura http://home.earthlink.net/~thebairdsisters/songs.htm though not early 70's psych folk inspired material like Espers but more traditional Appalachian folk ballad-based stuff. Esper's frontman Greg Weeks' solo stuff is worth checking out too
some other titles I'd whole heartedly recommend checking out if you liked Espers are Hand/Eye's 2CD comp of psychedelic folk from 2002 CD1 "Hand": Amps For Christ - False Knight on the Road, In Gowan Ring - On the Butterfly´s Wing, Peter Scion - Cynthia, Sarada - The Darkest Path, Alasdair Roberts - Willie-O, The Iditarod - The Rowan, Stone Breath - The Blood of the Woven-Vine Divinity, Greg Weeks - Night Must Fall, Currituck County - Paid for Grace, Ring - The Sun is Behind, Witch-Hunt - Two Magicians, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Le Satyre, Prydwyn - Hermit Song (Ianitrix), Fit & Limo - Oh Sphinx CD2 "Eye": Martyn Bates- Seven Yellow Gypsies, Kemialliset Ystavat - Leikattu Nurmikko, Drekka - In Tension, Tinsel - Random Books Floating, Fursaxa - Porpoise Wings, Timothy The Revelator - Always All One, All Ways Alone, Skye Klad - Widdershins, Pelt - Actias Luna Chase or Moth Navigation, Diana Obscura - West Wind, Dead Raven Choir - We will not Whisper, Mason Jones - Can't You See, Salamander - Ghost Riders in the Sky In Gowan Ring's Hazel Step's Through A Weathered Home (2002) Stone Breath's A Silver Thread To Weave The Seasons (1998)
no worries Penny, I'm totally in love with this kind of music, I could talk about it all day I'd also say if you are interested in exploring the roots of very similar music to Espers then an indispensible set of CDRs to get hold of is the Lammas Night Laments CDR series that is available from http://www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk/index_light.html this is a fan compiled series (by the chap Mark who runs the website) put together from late 60's to late 70's psych folk and features many artists like Vashti Bunyan, Linda Perhacs, Stone Angel, Bread Love and Dreams, etc etc. that are a direct influence on Espers and other contemporary psych folk acts. This is the very best overview of classic psychedelic folk available at the moment, there's 13 CDRs now and number 14 is on its way, volumes 1, 4, and 6 are my absolute favourites of the series. Also for an amazing overview of new psych/wyrd folk I'd also recommend checking out the new wyrd folk audio galleries on the same site. Be warned though it's very easy to spend hours on this website
