Posted 16-03-2018 at 17:03
I 'bumped into' Martin Eve - Portal ID 4th-Eden - who has had his music compositions used on the telly impressively - here's his favourite ancient site inspired one - Pentre Ifan
Posted 20-03-2018 at 12:03
Solar Divination sounds potentially suitable!
New from Kavus Torabi, Release Date: 30 April 2018
Label: Believers Roast
Solar Divination is the debut EP from Knifeworld/ Gong frontman Kavus Torabi. (also ex Cardiacs)
Written, performed and produced by Torabi 'Solar Divination' is as profoundly psychedelic as you would expect.
Posted 18-04-2018 at 22:58
Ninebarrow are named after Nine Barrow Down in Purbeck, Dorset and have won several awards for their original folk performances featuring beautiful harmonised singing.
Posted 04-07-2018 at 16:57
Steve Marshall, who very kindly contributed an item on Archaeoacoustics to our book http://www.megalithic.co.uk/TheOldStones has produced an album called
Avebury Soundscapes
The magic of Avebury in 3D sound
The album features binaural recordings.
On loudspeakers it will play in normal stereo, but listeners wearing headphones will experience sound that appears to come from all around, above and below their head.
The CD is available from various locations around Wiltshire:
Avebury: The Henge Shop, Elements of Avebury
Devizes: Devizes Books, Wiltshire Museum
Marlborough: Sound Knowledge
Glastonbury: Sonus Magus, Gothic Image
Posted 19-07-2018 at 07:30
There's always "Dun Ringill" by Jethro Tull. Dun Ringill is an ancient ruined broch on the Isle of Skye, where Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull had a house and estate. Shame they didn't film the official video there... https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=160&v=sxcktkNSw38
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Posted 13-08-2018 at 15:42
Hanne Methling is from time to time on tour in Denmark with the Jættestuekoncerter. She plays music with lyrics about the Stone Age and all that in the grave chambers. Depending on the size of the grave chamber, 15-20 spectators can watch it.
Posted 30-08-2018 at 12:03
Archaeologist Dene Wright on Twitter:
A screen grab form the Incredible String Band’s 1970 film ‘Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending’.
This is a screen grab form the Incredible String Band’s 1970 film ‘Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending’. I believe the dolmen is Pentre Ifan, nr Newport, Pembrokeshire. @urbanprehistopic.twitter.com/H03gswkDPv
Posted 18-09-2018 at 23:00
Posting this a bit belatedly but I've only just noticed it. In June Adrian Bell again featured the Stonehenge Free Festival on his Summer Solstice show. He talks about his experiences of attending the 1984 festival - which he describes as the 'best day of his life' (!) and goes on to talk about the 1985 experiences of the 'Battle of the Beanfield'.
Posted 18-09-2018 at 23:16
Sticking with Stonehenge, but right up to date:
'We did it!' – behind the decks at Paul Oakenfold's Stonehenge rave
He’s played Everest and the Great Wall of China. So what happened when Oakenfold set out to become the 'first person ever' to DJ at Stonehenge?
The event was a fundraiser for English Heritage. Once government funded, it is now a charity that needs to reduce its annual subsidy requirement to zero within five years. This is why Oakenfold’s set is to be released as a charity album, while Shulman and the DJ have co-authored a song to commemorate the event, prosaically titled Stonehenge, replete with samples of “sounds from up there – the birdsong and, in the faint distance, cars”.
The direct connection between this and the previous post is the 'fake news' claim of the advance publicity that Oakenfold is the first-ever DJ to play at Stonehenge. "In fact, he almost certainly isn’t – someone must have played records between performances by Hawkwind and Gong at the infamous Stonehenge free festivals in the 1970s and 80s. But, technically, those events took place in fields adjacent to the stones, while Oakenfold is doing his stuff right in front of them."
The Stonehenge gig appealed because, “I see the bigger picture. I’m someone who talks to a young demographic worldwide. If I can share with this younger generation that English Heritage is so important, our culture is so important and we need to preserve these iconic places, then so be it.”
Hugh Newman / Megalithomania managed to gatecrash somehow - well done them. Read the Youtube comments though - lots of people aren't happy! To me - seeing English Heritage loosening up the stuffiness can only be a good thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQkJPU5g6lE
Posted 19-09-2018 at 05:17
ooh weren't some people upset!! now they know how others feel seeing 'druids' crawling all over Stonehenge with their made up pseudo-religious rituals and ridiculous robes. but hey best not to lose any sense of humour over it.
I liked it as a concept (possibly might have chosen different DJs-Shpongle and Juno reactor maybe). hope the whole video goes on utube when the album comes out.
Posted 08-10-2018 at 09:23
The song Solus by Triona Ni Dhomhnaill is about winter solstice and ancient sites, mentioning 'caves of stone where chieftains find their rest' and 'fairy mounds'. A favourite of mine this time of year.
Solus (Light)
Along the snowy banks
Of winter river's course
There runs a stream of winter light
That travels past the source
The autumn days will slowly pass
The solstice on its way
The ancient suns of yesteryear
Still shining to the last
We sing into caves of stone
Where chieftains lie at rest
Following the fairy mounds
Mindful of the quest
That takes us into lighter times
And tides us over dark
Awakening the snowy dreams
As winter finds its mark.
Posted 12-10-2018 at 11:12
Stone Speak is billed as "a warm, dark and subtle but complex drone experience" An album relating to the quintessential question…what lies beyond the borders of mortality?
With Robert C. Kozletsky from the east coast of the US trekked to alluring ghost towns, cemeteries and sites of old Indian burial grounds to capture field recordings, the atmosphere of Stone Speak is ripe with subtle tension and melancholy.
Vinland is the third and last album in Northumbria’s trilogy inspired by the Norse discovery of Canada. "The rocks here emanate a low hum, the silent wind carries the scent of honey and at nightly camp bestial cries echo between the mountains. Your men speak in hushed voices as the dark creeps close, they mutter about this being the territory of new gods. "
Posted 25-10-2018 at 14:19
Regular thread followers will know I am a fan of Stephen McCauley's Radio Ulster programme Soundscapes - he's won a number of radio awards for it too.
This week Stephen re-visited Declan Clarke's workshop to record work on a piece of Bog Oak - ancient preserved jet black wood extracted from an Irish bog that is around 7000 years old. The overall programme sound tracks 'an exploratory and cinematic mix of contemporary classical, electronica, ambient and acoustic music.' This one's not one of his most exciting recordings it has to be said, many others have amazing 3D audio immersion that with headphones will take you right into the scene. But it's got that prehistoric angle to allow me to feature it here
...and if you like this you will probably like Elizabeth Alker's Unclassified show too - just six programmes but each a wonderful listen into new sounds you may not know existed! Catch them while they are still out there:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b02sl2/episodes/player
This album starts with a very dubious 'jazzed up' version of Carmina Burana in French and carries on in an sub-Enigma-y style. The most interesting bit is the rear cover, which seems to be a collage photo including one of the main Clava Cairns:
That's the best bit - the music doesn't really appeal but see what you think:
Posted 23-12-2018 at 18:10
Part of an interview on Reddit with Andy Partridge from XTC:
requinball asked:
Hi Andy--as a historian (and a long time fan) I have always been struck by the historicism in your (and Colin's) lyrics as well as the band's own awareness of history (musical and otherwise). When and why did your interest in history develop as a form of inspiration in your songwriting? Thanks so much.
AndyPartridge
I think, living in Wiltshire, you can't escape history. It's the most prehistoric place in Europe. I certainly didn't get history from school lessons, though I did love the textbooks in school that had little line drawings of historical subjects. Maybe by R.J. Unstead? Those went in deep. But Wiltshire's the main culprit.
But, because I'm an effete indoor boy, I always wanted to be out in the fields, while Colin -- the outdoor boy -- wanted to be inside.
I started reading when I left school, and that's when I really got into history.
Man on the hill
Speak free if you will
Loose your memory and speak free unto me
Show all that we should see
Enlighten me to the truth in your mystery
So I too can see
Man on the Hill
Hero on the Hill
Carved through centuries stands silent, summoning me
Tell of all you have seen
Through winters many, in the white land between the seas
Under veil of green
Drawn to the hill
Ancient, strong and still
Vast and ominous, a fear rises in me
You awaken a need
This riddle in the green
Has an answer residing in me
My mind’s eye to see
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