| Influences | MUSICAL: ALL SOURCE RECORDINGS OF BRITISH TRADITIONAL SINGERS and those influenced by them, especially: Harry Cox, Bob Copper, Fred Jordan, Phil Tanner, Joseph Taylor, May Bradley, Cyril Poacher, Sheila Stewart, George Pop Maynard, Oliver Mulligan, Frank Hinchliffe, Ray Driscol, John Reilly, Shirley Collins, George Spicer, Peta Webb, Gordon Hall, Bob Lewis, Jeff Wesley, Eddie Butcher, Peter Bellamy, Jane Turriff, Sam Larner, etc, etc. A handful of American and Canadian Traditional singers: Frank Proffitt, O. J. Abbott, Doug and Jack Wallin, Jimmy Driftwood, Roscoe Holcomb, Alfred Reed, and any field recordings of Sacred Harp. All pre-electrical recordings, especially of Music Hall and descriptive ballads. Hunting calls and Military bands. All Western Art music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque, especially the various forms of organum (St Martial, Leonin, Perotin), the Troubadours, Trouveres and Minnesingers, Oswald Von Wolkenstein, Guillaume Dufay, John Dunstable, Josquin Desprez, Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Heinrich Schutz, Biber, John Playford, Purcell, Bach, Handel, Rameau and West Gallery music. Then Wagner, Bruckner, Elgar, and most composers of the late 19th early 20th century National schools: Nielsen, Janacek, de Falla, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, Grainger, Moeran, Reynaldo Hahn, etc. A handful of modernists: Orff, Morton Feldman, Hermann Nitsch. Art Singers: Aksel Schiotz, Ninon-Vallin, Conchita Supervia, Gervaise Elwes, Emile Scaremberg, Chaliapin, Hugues Curnod, Reynaldo Hahn (again), Kathleen Ferrier, Alfred Deller, etc. A few Industrial, post-Industrial, and Neofolk bands: TG, Coil, Non, SPK, Whitehouse, Ain Soph, Novy Svet, Hekate, Sol Invictus, Waldteufel, KnifeLadder, Changes, Foresta di Ferro, Government of Action. Miscellaneous likes and influences: Hank Williams, The Carter Family, Francoise Hardy, Yvette Mimieux, Jacques Brel, Siouxsie And The Banshees, David E. Williams, Lee Hazelwood, SSgt Barry Sadler, Red Sovine, Manowar, eX-Girl, Kahori & Haruka, Nico, Peter Hammill, VDGG, COB, Kate Bush, Peter Wyngarde, Witthuser & Westrupp, After Dinner, Haco, Cinema Strange, The Carousel, The Singing Nun
ART: Illuminated manuscripts, Durer, Cranach, Rubens, Poussin, Van Dyck, Alchemical & Emblem books, Hogarth, Richard Dadd, The Pre-Raphaelites, Victorian Academic artists (e.g. John William Waterhouse and Herbert Draper), Mucha, David Jones, Balthus, Georg Sluyterman von Langeweyde, Hermann Nitsch (again), Andrew Bawidamann, Makoto Aida, Izima Kaoru
LITERATURE: Homer, Thucydides, Virgil, The Bible (Vulgate and King James), New Testament Apocrypha, Flavius Claudius Julianus, The Sagas, All Medieval Romances, Petrarch, Malory, John Donne, Sir Thomas Browne, Francis Quarles, Jeremy Taylor, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, Christopher Smart, George Crabbe, Thomas de Quincey, Nathaniel Hawthorne, A. E. Housman, Arthur Machen, M. R. James, Rudyard Kipling, John Cowper Powys, David Jones (again), Robert Aickman, Edmund Crispin, Charles Birkin, Robert Van Gulik, AND ALL FOLK SONG & BALLAD COLLECTIONS |
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