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Word: primalform (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their lyrics connect the natural and supernatural, transmuting homely details into talismans of the beyond. An ordinary object like the stone in The Iron Stone evokes a vision of Atlantis, of a divine jester called "Sir Primalform Magnifico," of "forests and centaurs and gods of the night." The meandering songs, some of them 25 minutes long, contain dreamlike cascades of cryptic imagery, as in Ducks on a Pond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Singers: Talismans of the Beyond | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

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