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 Posted 31-03-2017 at 02:45   
the mind doth boggleth over. america without extremist religious outcasts?

mu mu rule the waves. long live mu mu




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 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.

https://lostmap.bandcamp.com/track/anglo-saxon-burial-ground

You can also hear them in session on Marc Riley's show (but not that song sadly)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08l6j90



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 Posted 23-04-2017 at 18:03   
OK how about The Pharaoh Sails to Orion by Nightwish - Operatic metal anyone?
Live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JXyt8I2kGw



or recorded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zdyaxu8W7g






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 Posted 16-05-2017 at 23:22   
Surprised I have never seen this here






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 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



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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




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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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 Posted 03-06-2017 at 19:44   
Heilung from denmark sounds nice and the video is absolutly great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ZqZVunCb4


https://heilung.bandcamp.com/releases


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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 03-06-2017 at 20:14   
Thanks for the recommendations Fornjotr, Boeddel and Martyn, what a lot of stuff - amazing!




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 Posted 03-06-2017 at 20:58   
That Heilung one gets pretty heavy halfway through.




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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!)

https://www.discogs.com/Screaming-Blue-Messiahs-I-Wanna-Be-A-Flintstone-Extended-Mix/release/1535083

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CAkyIWGnQc


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 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.

https://www.discogs.com/Steve-Hillage-Glenn-Phillips-Leylines-To-Glassdom-Lies/release/924083?ev=item-vc

Honestly why does this subject attract so much noodley nonsense!
The B side is better - Lies by Glenn Phillips

Yes I am going through my vinyl collection. I only bought these for the 'ancient sites' connection. More soon...






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 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."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Scabies_and_The_Holy_Grail




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 Posted 18-06-2017 at 14:33   
Boeddel--cheers for the heilung video great animation and sounds




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 Posted 19-06-2017 at 07:55   
Not my kind of music really all this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iek4OcrT6m0
Felix Meddlsome

Can't stand this one.The money will Rollright in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J3uj2wqPPA
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoAoqT55Wos
SH not too bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbyzgeee2mg

Avebury......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui3OYbdvzuE
Enough of this frivolity






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 Posted 19-06-2017 at 16:03   
Inca Roads by Frank Zappa






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 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)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08w61sz/glastonbury-2017-radiohead#group=p056kg71

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 Posted 25-06-2017 at 12:36   
> I didn't know that Frank Zappa song!

Nor did I - it came up on Google when I searched for "Inca roads". I'm not a big fan of Zappa, even though I saw him a couple of times.




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 Posted 26-06-2017 at 22:57   
OK here's a really unexpected one - found reading this daftness from the Glastonbury coverage
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jun/26/glastonbury-barry-gibb-bee-gees-covers-twitter-joke



!!!!

and even a picture disc



Who'da thunk it
And which stone circle is it? (I think I know but not totally sure)




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 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)

https://soundcloud.com/forestswords/thors-stone/

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18401-forest-swords-engravings/

As interpretive dance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SE8hH_EZbo

Matthew seems to have a stone 'thing' going on judging by the cover to his latest album Compassion






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 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’.

More:
http://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2013/05/20/sounds-made-by-walking-the-memory-bands-on-the-chalk/



https://thememoryband.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-chalk-our-navigation-of-the-line-of-the-downs





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 Posted 08-07-2017 at 14:29   
SONNE HAGAL is a band from germany and on the cover is the most famous rock carving from the danish island bornholm.

In the booklet you find more motives from sweden.


I like the music and have made a video to a song with pictures of rock carvings, megaliths etc.. from the island bornholm.
I hope you enjoy it.





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