Viking's Choice: Elyse Weinberg Remembered, Tasmanian Post-Punk, Lunar Ambient
Elyse Weinberg, who died last week, was a late '60s singer-songwriter rediscovered by crate-diggers. We remember her tangled folk-rock, plus music from Sign Libra, The Native Cats and Cirith Ungol.
Elyse Weinberg, a late '60s singer-songwriter and guitarist once lost to time and later rediscovered by crate-diggers, died Feb. 20 in Ashland, Ore., after battling lung cancer. The news was confirmed to NPR through both her label, Numero Group, and close friend, Satya Alcorn. She was 74.
In 1968, Weinberg released , a psychedelic and ramshackle folk-rock record that followed a tangled dream-logic of melody and tempo, led by a raspy voice floating in its rhizomatic orbit. A little over three decades later, 's Andrew Rieger found a copy of the the record in a dollar bin; entranced by (and likely finding a twisted, Elephant
