"Nick Drake, Kate Bush and Talk Talk did not sing old folk songs, but their music resonates with a romantic yearning for an intense communion with nature and the desire to reclaim stolen innocence. In a quest for a workable religious experience, Gustav Holst sought enlightenment in Hindu mythology, while the Incredible String Band folded psychedelia into a cocktail of visionary and beat poetry. Faerie magic and Celtic lore infused the orchestral music of Arnold Bax and John Ireland, as much as the cosmic folk-rock of Donovan and Marc Bolan's Tyrannosaurus Rex. The Tudor-influenced work of Vaughan Williams and Peter Warlock, and the medieval instrumental textures employed by John Renbourn, Pentangle and Shirley and Dolly Collins, present a beguiling form of sonic time travel: silver chains that bind more than a century of music into a continuum." Rob Young, author of Electric Eden.
Guardian.co.uk. 2010. Folk music is hip again [online] Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/jul/31/folk-music-of-people-young
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