I’m looking at the recommendations and they are excellent. Going back to the original brief, at what point do beautiful songs become ‘hauntingly’ beautiful. What are the characteristics or is it too subjective? Some of the recommendations already given, I do find haunting.
At this point I would respectfully offer up ‘Song for a Winter’s Night’ by Gordon Lightfoot, most of Vashti Bunyan’s ‘Just Another Diamond Day’ album, ‘Spanish Ladies’ by Helena Cinto, ‘Suo Gan’, the Welsh Lullaby and while I’m thinking about Wales, their national anthem, in Welsh.
Hauntingly beautiful can mean something seen, heard or read, meaning the beauty you see in it takes on special meaning and you almost always have a physical reaction to it
I agree Welsh national anthem in Welsh by a Welsh male vocal choir visceral reaction everytime.( and I’m English!)
Ewan McColl - Dirty Old Town
Dead Can Dance - The Wind In The Barley
Lady Maisery - The Crow On The Cradle
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Mary Coughlan - I Want To Be Seduced
Lau - Ghosts
Rhiannon Giddens - The Last Kind Word
