BIRCH BOOK - 'Fortune & Folly' LP (Ahnstern / Steinklang)
This classic Folk milestone was recorded on San Juan Island of the Pacific Northwest. "Fortune & Folly" is the fitting second volume of Birch Book (aka In Gowan Ring). Assuming the allegorical emblems of The Wheel of Fortune and The Traveling Fool, Fortune & Folly distill the introspections of a perennial rambler reckoning the Bitter and the Bliss of The Road Less Traveled. Drifting away from the overtly psychedelic, medieval, and soporific atmosphere which typified In Gowan Ring, Bee (Jon Michael Beirth) displays a more organic, individualistic approach to songwriting. Fortune & Folly blends elements of idiosyncratic folk-pop and outcast-country with brooding layers of sound and sense, yielding a spectral ethereality in a captivating chiaroscuro thick with the visionary allusions of a haunted wanderer. Ltd x 400 copies on black vinyl in a heavy gatefold cover, with 2 exclusive bonus tracks.
UK 15.00£
Europe 19.50£
World 24.00£
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CHANGES - 'Hero Takes His Stand' 2 x LP (Neue Aesthetik)
Live recording of the spirited Changes concert at the 4th Flammenzauber Festival, March 2004. Many of the tracks are taken from the "Fire Of Life" album, alongside a previously unreleased track and some rare tracks. Changes prove once again that they are the true representatives of apocalyptic folklore! Features guest appearances by Markus Wolff (Waldteufel) and B'eirth (In Gowan Ring). Ltd x 300 copies on red vinyl in a gatefold sleeve, with artwork by Nicholas Tesluk. ACT FAST!
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UK 20£
Europe 25£
World 30£
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JAHRTAL - 'William Blake - Lieder Von Unschuld Und Widerfahren' CD (Ahnstern)
This is the second album by the Austrian Psychedelic-Folk artist Jahrtal. The man behind Jahrtal is Ewald Spiss, a artist from Tyrol, who started doing electro-acoustic music and sound-installations in the early 80s. Jahrtal today is authentic psychedelic Folk music, maybe only comparable with In Gowan Ring. The lyrics of the second album are poems of "Songs Of Innocence and Of Experience" by the English poet William Blake (1757-1827), translated by Ewald Spiss, as near as possible to the original Blake-texts.
NICK CASTRO & THE YOUNG ELDERS - 'Come Into Our House' CD (Strange Attractors Audio House)
Gracefully immersing 60's/70's UK acid balladry with Middle eastern traditional music and communal jams, Castro succeeds in reaching otherworldly vistas and ocean-spanning folk transcendence. The Young Elders is a truly stellar cast of musicians who played in folk and avantrock ensembles like Current 93 (Joolie Wood), In Gowan Ring (B'Eirth), Cul De Sac and Damo Suzuki's Network. A mixture of folk ballads, psychedelic folk rock, Middle eastern traditional music and Neofolk. The result being astonishing, challenging and utterly psychedelic. A modern Acid Folk masterpiece! Beautifully presented in a 6-panel digipak with gold print.
ORCHIS - 'A Thousand Winters' CD (Infinite Fog Productions)
Orchis is an English Dark Folk / Neofolk / Esoteric band. Originally released in 1997 (Cryptanthus), "A Thousand Winters" is an alchemical album based around the themes of life, death and the transmutation of the soul. The story of one part of Europe is extraordinarily like every other part; a thriving pagan culture that at first laughs in derision at the priests of the desert messiah, and then is slowly submerged by the rising tide of christianity until all that remains is folk memory and old tales and songs. The music is mystical dark folk with a touch of late 60s English psychedelia, and one can probably draw parallels with the early works of In Gowan Ring or Psychic TV's "Allegory and Self" / "Trip Reset". Presented in a 6-panel digipak with bronze print. Russian import.
Sonne Hagal’s second full-length album once more bestows the listener with a journey into the unknown realms of poetry, mysteries and enthralling melodies. Closely connected to Europa’s folk-music tradition and the Northern mysteries, the band develops song structures that reach from simple traditional arrangements to complex compositions. The songs, performed in German and English, reveal rediscovered poems as well as self-written lyrics. The atmosphere of the songs varies from intimate, quiet parts to fresher, light-hearted and lively sounds up to heavy distorted parts supported by real or electronic drums. Each song unfolds its own universe, interconnected by the central idea of “Jordansfrost”: the constant changing between light and darkness, the seasons or even life and death themselves. Guests: Of The Wand And The Moon, In Gowan Ring, Waldteufel, Ernte, Lux Interna, Darkwood and Black Sun Productions. Ltd x 500 copies with full colour inner sleeve.
UK 18.00£
Europe 21.50£
World 25.00£
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VA - 'Looking For Europe' 4 x CD Set (Auerbach Tonträger)
The history of Neofolk for the first time on CD. Features: Agnivolok / Ain Soph / Allerseelen / Andrew King / Argine / Ataraxia / Blood Axis / Boyd Rice & Friends / Camerata Mediolanense / Changes / Darkwood / Death In June / Der Blutharsch / Dies Natalis / Empyrium / Ernte / Fire + Ice / Forseti / Gae Bolg / Hagalaz Runedance / Hekate / In Gowan Ring / Kirlian Camera / Laibach / Leakh / Lux Interna / Magnet / Mother Destruction / Neun Welten / Nico / Of The Wand And The Moon / Ordo Equitum Solis / Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio / Orplid / Ostara / Regard Extreme / Romowe Rikoito / Royal Family & The Poor (Feat. Peter Hook) / Scivias / Scott Walker / Shining Vril / Sieben / Sol Invictus / Sonne Hagal / Sorrow (Rose McDowall) / Strawbs / T.A.C. / Tenhi / Test Dept / Thee Majesty (Genesis P-Orridge) / Waldteufel / Werkraum & Lady Morphia. Exceedingly lavish 4-CD hardback book, clothbound and gold-embossed with an extensive 100-page booklet.
