Alright this is a funny one. I created these matchups using an online randomizer, but somehow here, we wound up with a battle of the trees. Our first enrtrant is reported to fall somewhere in the genre of psychedelic/experimental folk, while its opponent is more in the country/americana folk vein.
The Trees Community - Christ Tree
An early "freak folk" album mixing Christian liturgical music, psychedelia, and world music. This is probably the only album I could describe as simultaneously experimental harmonically (microtones in the Asian influences) and instrumentally (sitars, harps, weird percussion), yet quaintly old-fashion and homey (mainly their singing tone). The group's website states their influences "ranged from the Incredible String Band and Moody Blues to Indian Raga and Balinese Monkey Chant, from traditional American sacred folk music to Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Charles Ives, Bela Bartak and Claude Debussy."
https://youtu.be/kdeYjCq1poY
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Strand of Oaks - Leave Ruin
Sadly, we weren't really given a description of this one by the User who rec'd it. But as I said, the genre tags list folk, country and americana.
https://strandofoaks.bandcamp.com/album/leave-ruin
