Posted 14-10-2022 at 14:01
Surprised nobody has mentioned Paleowolf yet, he's a Serbian guy that creates fantastic ambient prehistoric soundscapes, I think his stuff would be great playing in the background at prehistory displays and exhibitions.
Lots to choose from but the most topical for this thread is 'Dolmen', best listened to with headphones so you can hear the stonemasons at work:
Even though it's a bit earlier I can also recommend 'Mammoth':
Posted 25-10-2022 at 20:06
Some serious ancient site references here from Sister Wives, a newish band who just played a brilliant session for Marc Riley.
Of the release the band say , Both I Fyny Af / Rise and Crags are about summoning the consciousness of the land in times of despair; calling upon the ancient gods that live in the rocks, woods, lakes, seas and trees, and exploring spiritual suspicions and witchcraft. We wanted to explore both sides: the fear of witches, and also defend these long vilified women.”
Posted 30-10-2022 at 17:56
A megalithic musical tale for Halloween and to mark the release of Y-Gawres (The Giantess) from Sister Wives, who want to summon ancient consciousness and attachment to the land. Serious stone heads will immediately know where Y-Gawres is from.
Legend has it that two giants were travelling across the Anglesey carrying stones to set up a new home near Holyhead, the wife became weary and dropped her load of stones here.
Sister Wives positively cultivate covenesque vibes. I don’t know how I missed them up to now, but Y-Gawres (The Giantess) is contender for album of the year if I had such a thing.
The new album is epic psych with a big mix of musical influences and bilingual Welsh/English lyrics, to me a step up from their previous releases, which were great in themselves.
My favourite on the album is Hwiangerdd, with dark dragged strings and strange sounds, evocative of these thinly veiled times. Translating to nursery rhyme or lullaby only makes things more mysterious. I hope the CD comes with some lyrics.
As previously mentioned, they have are more ancient site references in their previous work. They admit to being obsessed like many others. (cough)
See previous post for the cover from Sister Wives’ first EP Gweler Ein Gofid, (See My Grief), taken at Arbor Low while singer/keyboard and lead writer Donna was pregnant.
Pagan radiophonica meets medieval balladry on an intriguing spoken word project.
This release from Ghost Box epitomises the label’s guiding principle of “the past inside the present”, time as perpetual reoccurrence rather than a linear continuum. Justin Hopper is a writer and performer whose psychogeographical memoir “The Old Weird Albion” forms the basis of the album. With modern folk artist Sharron Kraus and Jim Jupp’s Belbury Poly providing electro-acoustic backing, Hopper describes visions of his dead grandmother levitating, recounts a childhood out-of-the-body experience, and tells the story of how the Devil tried to destroy Sussex. It seems odd at first to hear the American Hopper talking about quintessentially British subjects, but his narrative soon becomes another uncanny element in the album’s sound-world. The title track is a classic slice of mock-orchestral synthesis from Jupp, Wendy Carlos meets Schools TV, while Layers features the dank rattle of an ancient lute. Kraus uses her voice to wordless, ghostly effect on tracks such as “Breath” – like something from an obscure Hammer Films horror -but delivers a luminous Sandy Denny-esque vocal on Wanderer.
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Recorded under the castle in Lewes, East Sussex, 'Lore Of The Land' is the debut release from the Order Of The 12. Featuring Rachel Thomas on vocals, with Stuart Carter on guitars, and Richard Norris on keyboards, drums and production. The music looks to the South Downs and the Sussex folk tradition for inspiration, with echoes of psych folk acts like Trees or Mellow Candle.
NOMADIC VOICES THE SONGS OF SARDINIAN TENORES AND THE DIPHONIC MONGOLIAN CHANT
In the heart of countryside still considered sacred, the harsh beauty of the Sardinian mountains meets the vast steppes through the polyphony of the Tenores and Khoomii overtone chants. Within the confines of the sacred and the profane, somewhere between liturgy and peasant celebrations, these voices resonate in the heights of Sardinian mountains. It is there that the beauty of a pastoral culture is still to be found. The Sardinian polyphonies date back to the Nuragic age when these nuraghi or round towers were built, in the form of truncated cones. These megalithic edifices remain the symbol of this age between 1900 and 730 years BCE (between the bronze and iron ages). Beyond these towards other mountains equally sacred since prehistoric times, those of the Gobi-Altai steppes, where the Altai mountains meet the immense Gobi desert, legend has it that overtone chant was born. Here it is known as Khoomii, meaning larynx. It is accompanied by the morin-khuur or khiil-khuur, the horse head fiddle of the poet and sootsayer. Overtone chant is a musical metaphor for this land: the hilltops and the valleys, the vastness of the steppes, the herds, the tumult of nature, its rumbles and its murmurs, the galloping horses and the rustling of its wind grasses. Surprisingly, in the heart of these two traditions, we find the instrument known as the guimbarde or Jew's harp, an instrument familiar to nomadic shepherds all over the world. This original work highlights the richness of these vocal techniques of people who belong to the same history of mankind and who are the last witnesses of ancient times when man knew how to be one with nature. (Alain Weber)
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Posted 16-12-2022 at 11:06
Another amazing album, we could say holy grail of library music from great musician, that is known for playing in french band Magma (they "invented" celestial language and music - Zeuhl), Hadouk Trio, Zaka Percussion... and many more interesting collaborations...
On this album he explores instruments like Bali & Malaysian gongs, stones from South Vietnam, woodblocks, shells, tibet bells...
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Posted 15-02-2023 at 20:17
That's quite a thing - thanks!
Now in the latest album from Richard Dawson has lots of fantasy themes set in the future and past:
The protagonists of song ‘The Tip Of An Arrow’ reside in the ruins of a Roman villa, fashioning arrowheads from the skulls of the dead. Lovers on ‘The Fool’ meet in “midnight trysts” in “almhouse catacombs.”
Posted 09-03-2023 at 21:35
I turned this up while having a clear out - the Earthworks compilation CD published by Heritage Action in 2005. I did a thread with some obscure band detective work thread over on Twitter.
I turned this up while having a clear out - the Earthworks compilation CD published by Heritage Action in 2005. Posting early for #FindsFriday as out tomorrow. Obscure band detective work thread follows - can you help? 0a/ pic.twitter.com/r95j2zZ1K9
Posted 18-03-2023 at 11:41
Thanks for sharing Dudy. Now, Sister Wives are a fantastic, psych, heavy, stone-tinged band from Sheffield and Wales who are playing in London for the first time. Here's my Twitter thread about them from last year.
We should call this an honorary Stone Club and Megalithic Portal event I reckon. 6th April, Shacklewell Arms London, FREE. Organised by Baba Yaga's Hut. Tickets here https://dice.fm/event/7l5wp-si Hope to see you there.
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Posted 28-03-2023 at 13:54
Legendary bass player and producer Youth will be ‘hitting the burial chambers of Anglesey’ with equally legendary musician and archaeologist Rhys Mwyn while touring North Wales later this week. Listen to Youth's new track Ancestors followed by interview with Rhys from 1hr 14 in here:
Posted 29-03-2023 at 17:26
YOU ORIGIN By Stephen O’Malley
at the alignements and town of Carnac
12-13-14 May 2023
You origin is a series of concerts and musical interventions proposed by the American musician Stephen O'Malley for the Alignments of Carnac in Bretagne, France.
Tickets available 31st March 2023
with:
Kali Malone
François Bonnet
Eyvind Kang & Jessika Kenney
Raven Chacon
Timothy Archambault
Macadam Ensemble
Alponom
Jean-Marie Nivaigne & l'ensemble des serpents
You origin is an invitation to explore the megalithic alignments of Carnac through music and sound, to feel their mystery and the delicacy of the landscape in which they are inscribed, to contemplate the passage of time, the variations of light on the stones and to experience themovement of sound in this extraordinary environment. The programme, which is largely acoustic, is designed for specific times of the day and night, among the menhirs but also in the church of Saint-Cornély and the chapel of Kergroix. It brings together, around Stephen O'Malley, the artists Kali Malone, Jessika Kenney and Eyvind Kang, Raven Chacon, Timothy Archambault, François Bonnet, Macadam ensemble and the ensemble Alponom. Several musical works and interventions specially composed by Stephen O'Malley for the Carnac site will be created for the occasion.
The alignments of Carnac bring together thousands of menhirs in a single pointillist movement straight from the dawn of the Neolithic. These great stone serpents cross the landscape from one side to the other, and come to life with the dawn. The presence of the concept of time is evident, an immobile presence. The attempt to time the world is perceptible in the air, almost tangible. As the day progresses, the colour of the menhirs changes imperceptibly. Despite their six thousand years of petrification, they move back and forth in a matter of minutes. This mystery deeply disturbs anyone who witnesses it. A mystery that excites the imagination. A mystery that reduces to hypothesis any attempt at an answer, a conclusion or a definition. And it keeps bringing us back to the fundamental questions of WHO, WHY and WHEN. In the end, it is the land and the ocean that have taken over the site and its use. All that remains are five jade axes, an engraving of five snakes and those three thousand menhirs embroidering the landscape in the symmetry and geometry of their long, imperfect footprints.
–Stephen O’Malley
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Co-founder of the emblematic and artistic drone metal group SUNN O))), and a long-standing figure in the experimental music scene, Stephen O'Malley composes long, microtonal, physical sound pieces whose saturated density of sound inspired by dhrupad, raga and various drone instruments, such as alpenhorns or bagpipes, is reduced to its most elemental and minimalist essence. Wildly prolific, Stephen O'Malley's work is defined by its breadth, complexity and interdisciplinarity.
Produced by Ideologic Organ Music
(in association with PLATÔ, Manille and Treizeseize)
A project financed by the programme of support for artistic creation Mondes nouveaux implemented by the Ministry of Culture within the framework of France Relance, in collaboration with the Centre des monuments nationaux site de Carnac, with the support of the Conseil départemental du Morbihan, in partnership with Hydrophone, musiques d'aujourd'hui au Pays de Lorient - L'Échonova, lieu de musiques actuelles Golfe du Morbihan-Vannes Agglomération, La Ville de Carnac, Le Diocèse de Vannes.
Posted 08-04-2023 at 13:08
The Lull of the Ley by Dogs Versus Shadows
A sonic exploration of writing of archaeologist Bec Lambert (Lady Liminal) The album seeks to reflect her rich dialogue with liminal places, with each track taking a cue directly from her writing. With its landscape of pylons, ghostly photo apps, subways, corridors, substations and beyond, on first inspection this appears to be a lonely place. However, Lee’s lively, vibrant score seeks to press further, and we begin to see how this landscape frames the human condition:
“This album was inspired by Bec’s writing, which often strikes at the heart of what it means to be human. The album is dedicated to every human on the planet - because we are all connected.”
The physical media version includes a beautifully presented limited edition CD with illustrated booklet featuring Bec 'Lady Liminal''s writing https://www.instagram.com/ladyliminal1/ and illustrations by Dan Seville.
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