Hi, Butterfluff, If science fiction music is obscure what do you call a collection of ancient tapes from folkie coffeehouses containing songs one's never heard anywhwere else? There are some alternative outlets, but I haven't found enough of them. It's good to know that they exist. Mostly I end up buying direct from the musicians. That way I know where the money goes.
That's obscure cuts of a known genre. 99% of the people who have heard of folk have never even heard of filk.
Both best hunted where the live art is being practiced -- folk fesitvals, science fiction conventions...
Oh! Ramblin' Conrad's, in the Norfolk, Virginia area, a folk music store that actually carried some filk. I bought a harp kit there, ages ago. They don't seem to have a web page I can find, sorry.
Well, that depends...
There are specialty outlets.
And with the advent of "burn your own" cds, very small groups can produce saleable recordings.
Off Centaur (now defunct) made its first cassettes three at a time, with a real time dubbing deck.
Prometheus Music produces science fiction folk songs (as did Off Centaur). You don't get much less mainstream than that.
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If science fiction music is obscure what do you call a collection of ancient tapes from folkie coffeehouses containing songs one's never heard anywhwere else? There are some alternative outlets, but I haven't found enough of them. It's good to know that they exist. Mostly I end up buying direct from the musicians. That way I know where the money goes.
Re: obscure music
Both best hunted where the live art is being practiced -- folk fesitvals, science fiction conventions...
Oh! Ramblin' Conrad's, in the Norfolk, Virginia area, a folk music store that actually carried some filk. I bought a harp kit there, ages ago. They don't seem to have a web page I can find, sorry.