Posted 19-04-2017 at 18:03  
Bas Jan have just released their EP Bas Jan, featuring harpist Serafina Steer on electric bass (not harp). It includes the thoughtful track Anglo Saxon Burial Ground which is about a visit to Sutton Hoo.
Posted 23-05-2017 at 19:18  
Drone/Ambient/Kraut/Doom/Folk from Steve von Till (Neurosis) from the U.S.
Harvestman - Music for Megaliths
Quote:
Ruins, monuments, and ancient sites of worship are multi-sensory experiences – at once residues of the sacred, the parchment on which the passage of time has been inscribed and templates for imaginative reconstruction, spaces in which to invest and immerse, to trade your bearings for an inexhaustible state of transition.
Over the course of three albums, Steve Von Till has, under the guise of Harvestman, provided the sonic analogue, casting his net for what might have been and yet still be. Both a personal meditation and a tuning fork for the most ancient and enduring of resonances, his latest album, Music For Megaliths, further expands his journeys along the sonic ley lines that run between folk, drone, psychedelia, the ‘kosmische’ outposts of krautrock and noise: not as an act of eclecticism, but of divination, giving voice to an underlying continuity that binds them all.
Recorded over a period of several years in the dawn hours of creation, Music For Megaliths is an aggregation of moments and recordings that have allowed themselves to spell out a greater whole. Utilizing repetition, manipulation and modulation, it’s a hallowed frequency dial that ranges across the pulse-regulated drone of The Forest Is Our Temple, revving up like a generator powered by arcane currents, the blissful gaze of Ring Of Sentinels, Sundown’s ominous waves of interference and White Horse’s rite of dissolution and regeneration, nomadic and devout. Music For Megaliths is a crossing over, whose multiple routes are testament to a singular and sensuously dilated vision.
- Jonathan Selzer
Great "Ur-Folk" Band from Spain
Àrnica - Lecho de Piedra (translated as Bed Of Stone)
Prehistoric Tribal Ambient from Serbia
Paleowolf - Genesis
Quote:
Paleowolf is the side project of Scorpio V of Metatron Omega.
A prehistoric journey from before civilization made it's mark on the world. Archaic drums echo through the riparian forests. Thick smoke from bonfires snake their way over charred and painted skulls, the spoils of war from opposing tribes. Distant sounds of the forest paints the canvas of a world untouched by modern man. The paleolithic shamans chant powerful over the tribal drums as ancient man rises from prey to predator. The night is young and the feral hunt is about to begin.
Dungeon Synth from Canada
Cromleck - Mag Mòr
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Info from the Heilung YT channel:
"Heilung is sounds from the northern european iron age and viking period. We used everything from running water, human bones, reconstructed swords and shields up to ancient frame drums and bronze rings in the songs.
The lyrics contain original texts from rune stones and preserved spear shafts, amulets and other artifacts. Furthermore poems, which either deal with historical events or are translations/ interpretations of the originals.
Every attempt to link the music to modern political or religious points are pointless, since Heilung tries to connect the listener to the time before Christianity and its political offsprings raped and burned itself into the northern european mentality.
Heilung means healing in german and describes the core of the sound. It is supposed to leave the listener eased and relaxed after a sometimes turbulent musical journey.
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Posted 05-06-2017 at 17:18  
I thought you meant heavy musically - now I see what you mean! A powerful take on rock art certainly. Someone in the comments put 'based on the Helleristninger carvings' but there are lots of those - do you know which specific ones Boeddel?
Anyway allow me to lower the tone with The Screaming Blue Messiahs – I Wanna Be A Flintstone (Extended Mix of course!)
Posted 05-06-2017 at 18:50  
Steve Hillage – Ley Lines To Glassdom
This single was given away free at Steve Hillage concerts in 1977. Leylines to Glassdom is an outtake from the Motivation Radio sessions.
Posted 17-06-2017 at 21:34  
Perhaps you all know this and I live under a stone, but anyway I never thought I'd find an ancient sites / Damned link.
Rat Scabies from (as you know by now) excellent band, The Damned is apparently an enthusiastic searcher for the Holy Grail. He is chair of the Sauniere Society (which I had not previously heard of) http://www.saunieresociety.org and starred in a book from 2005
"The book, which has been described as "The Da Vinci Code gets the punk rock treatment" (The Bookseller), begins with Scabies introducing Dawes to the alleged mystery of Rennes-le-Château, a remote French village associated with all manner of esoteric conspiracy theories. Scabies and Dawes make several trips to Rennes-le-Château and also visit other places said to be linked to the Holy Grail, including Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. The book is an often hilarious account of the pair’s adventures - they even manage to wangle themselves an invitation to a Knights Templar initiation ceremony - and its supporting cast of characters includes Henry Lincoln (the author of Holy Blood, Holy Grail) and a CIA operative, plus assorted treasure hunters, occultists, alien channelers, reincarnated medieval heretics, and more members of secret societies than you can shake a stick at."
Posted 23-06-2017 at 23:52  
I didn't know that Frank Zappa song! Does Radiohead namechecking the Glastonbury Festival Ley Line in their headlining set earlier this evening count? (about 10:10pm)
Posted 28-06-2017 at 11:49  
If you like Burial you should like this. Mixed on headphones outdoors on Thurstaston Hill in The Wirral, the home of Thor's Stone, which Forest Swords (Matthew Barnes) credits as giving the album a natural and atmospheric sound.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=19158 (Thor's Stone has a lot of prehistoric flint activity around it apparently just to keep the relevance going)
Posted 29-06-2017 at 19:56  
‘On the Chalk (Our Navigation of the Line of the Downs)’ is the fourth Memory Band record, recorded in 2013. It tracks the route of the Harrow Way, an ancient path intersecting Southern England, from the Straits of Dover to Dorset: a white line made by feet, wheels and hooves through the chalk bedrock.
The Memory Band’s chief sonic cartographer Stephen Cracknell explains: ‘The idea with this record was for it to be a sonic road trip along a prehistoric trackway, an irreverent and episodic journey through a landscape inundated with history and the marks of change and transformation. Some of them are striking and immediate, others slow and imperceptible’.