Style recipe for Suno v5
Acid Folk
Acid folk from the 1970s: fuzz guitar, recorder, harpsichord, dreamy and menacing in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.
History
Acid folk grew out of the 1960s folk scene when players kept their acoustic guitars but let psychedelia seep in: chanting, early music, Asian and other non-European folk influences, improvisation and a hazy, trance-like atmosphere. The name came in late 1969, when Australian journalist Lillian Roxon used it in her Rock Encyclopedia for the underground group Pearls Before Swine, describing folk affected by the discoveries of an LSD-influenced generation. The band's Tom Rapp approved, saying the label implied borderlessness. In 1964 the Holy Modal Rounders are thought to have made the first musical use of the word psychedelic, in their version of Lead Belly's Hesitation Blues, and guitarist John Fahey was already trying backward tapes. Plenty of psychedelic rock bands, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and The Byrds among them, started out as folk musicians. In Britain Marc Bolan's duo Tyrannosaurus Rex made Unicorn in 1969, Donovan crossed the influence of Bob Dylan with flower power, and Nick Drake recorded Five Leaves Left. By the mid-1970s psychedelia was out of fashion and Bolan's duo had gone electric as T. Rex. The late-1990s New Weird America scene revived the sound, and Animal Collective recorded with veteran British folk singer Vashti Bunyan.
The recipe
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Tag breakdown
Every descriptor in this style, listed one at a time.
| # | Tag |
|---|---|
| 1 | Acid folk |
| 2 | 1970s |
| 3 | dreamy |
| 4 | menacing |
| 5 | hypnotic |
| 6 | fuzz guitar |
| 7 | recorder |
| 8 | harpsichord |
| 9 | bowed strings |
| 10 | fingerpicked acoustic |
| 11 | hand drum |
| 12 | bowed cymbal |
| 13 | fingerpicked arpeggios |
| 14 | bowed sustain swells |
| 15 | female lead vocal |
| 16 | thin reedy |
| 17 | high soprano |
| 18 | detached ritual |
| 19 | ethereal |
| 20 | close harmony |
| 21 | wordless keening |
| 22 | spring reverb |
| 23 | tape warble |
| 24 | tape saturation |
| 25 | narrow vintage mix |
| 26 | hazy layered drone |
| 27 | wiry fuzz bloom |
| 28 | long plate tail |
| 29 | smeared tape depth |
| 30 | loose rubato pulse |
| 31 | swaying triple time |
| 32 | quiet verse entry |
| 33 | sudden fuzz surge |
| 34 | fade to drone |
| 35 | polished professional master |
| 36 | wide dimensional stereo |
| 37 | 93 BPM |
| 38 | for chill |
Every descriptor here adds up to 38 tags and 601 characters from the 1970s, clocking in at 70–115 BPM.