Hand/Eye proudly presents the second in our series of expanded Stone Breath reissues. Originally released in 1998, “A Silver Thread to Weave the Seasons,” is now expanded to two CDs with essential bonus material. The first disc presents the original album, long out of print, in all its acid-forest-drone-mantra-folk glory. These songs are of earth and spirit love, sunlight splitting open threatening clouds, trees and birds that talk, the smell of wet earth and the sting of rain on an upturned face, firebrands scattering columns of sparks into the red twilight. The second disc returns some lost songs to Stone Breath, adds some rare songs from compilation appearances, and presents a previously unreleased track featuring Fit & Limo. 27 tracks total over 2 CDs.
track listing:
CD1:
1• Seed
2• The Silver Thread
3• The Rainbow-Guilded Leaves of Autumn
4• Peppermint and Clover Honey
5• The Clouds of Red Twilight
6• Evening Air
7• Summer's Night
8• My Heart is an Acorn Buried in the Black Earth
9• Odalisque
10• Fleance
11• Rain of Days
12• Listen, Listen, Listen
13• Leaves About Our Feet, We Reached for the Moon
14• Devotional One
15• Devotional Two
CD2:
1• Through the Trees (a prophecy)
2• The Bone Collector
3• Path of Nails
4• Dark Globe
5• Black Horse Ride
6• The Song of the Scarecrow
7• Golden Hair
8• Stealing the Fire from Heaven
9• Thirteen
10• Red Twilight (featuring Fit & Limo)
11• Listen, Listen (agape mix)
12• Devotional Three (Always All One, All Ways Alone)
note: cover is available in 2 styles charcoal linen and white. We will send the charcoal covers while they last, but if you would prefer the white cover, just ask. No problem.
Stone Breath "Songs of Moonlight and Rain" expanded CD reissue Hand/Eye h/e031
Presaging the free/freak/acid-folk boom by almost a decade, Stone Breath carved a unique place in what was then a very lonely neighborhood. “Songs of Moonlight and Rain,” the first Stone Breath album, struck a spectral note somewhere between Syd Barrett singing nature poetry and The Incredible String Band’s more lonesome moments; blended with experimental graveyard-songs and acoustic drones into a brew of darkness and hope; nature and supernature; love and loss.
This 10-year anniversary edition presents the entire original album with nine bonus tracks! Several bonus tracks from the same period – dating back to the very first Stone Breath song ever recorded (1995), all of the songs from the "Strange Familiars" 7" ep, and related songs from later periods, including a collaboration with Fit & Limo.
track listing:
1• The Ghosts of Sounds Long Dead
2• Seven Things Placed in a Hollow Tree
3• Pennies (Stolen from the Eyes of a Dead Man)
4• Wisdom on the Moth's Wing
5• Perched Upon the Temple Bell, the Butterfly Sleeps
6• Flowers on Your Grave
7• Earthlights
8• The Sound of Ghosts Long Dead
9• Words Written on Petals
10• Willowisp
11• The Strength to Face the Stars Above
12• To Cull Undying Flowers
13• The Flight of the Black Swan
14• Long Lost Friend
15• Snaketooth Vision
16• Thunder Runs Through Me
Bonus Tracks:
17• Footprints of a Ghost Girl
18• My Ghost
19• Leafwalker
20• Funeral Gifts
21• Rain Song
22• Snaketooth Vision (Birth)
23• Seal of Seasons
24• Will-o-Wisp (featuring Fit & Limo)
25• The Long Lost Friend (cobweb'ed)
Stone Breath "Knotwork" CD Hand/Eye H/E043
Knotwork presents many out of print, rare, and previously unreleased songs from Stone Breath. Ranging from Eastern-tinged folk to deep drone-songs to more traditional fare, Knotwork shows the band’s deep roots finding dark earth while the leaves above open to the sun. This album serves as a bridge between Stone Breath’s earlier recordings and their new album (look for it in 2009).
Track listing:
1• The Passing of the River
2• A Silver Crown Song
3• A Dream of You in the Garden of Gethsemane
4• Bitter Was the Night
5• The Dead-Leaf Relics
6• Where the Holy Ghost Haunts the Forest Gods
7• Ring Thing
8• Sacco’s Last Letter
9• The Lily and the Heron
10• Shine On Harvest Moon
11• Christmastime Will Soon Be Over
12• The Holly Crown
Stone Breath "The Silver Skein Unwound" (expanded) CD Hand/Eye H/E045
The last in Hand/Eye’s Stone Breath expanded reissue series. “The Silver Skein Unwound” is rural acid folk, informed by the furrowed fields and green forests, shaded by falling leaves and falling dreams; time-worn, weird, blood-red, rattled and ragged. Sparse in places with thick tangled drones in others, aged in mouldy oak barrels for flavor, hidden from the sun, decayed, withdrawn. Here expanded with a previously unreleased song from the same sessions – includes the original illuminated color lyric booklet housed in special packaging.
track listing:
1• Veil of Tears
2• Wasp-Sting, Thorn, and Arrowhead
3• A Bottle of Breath
4• The Prayer of the Circling Birds
5• Last Lost Love Song
6• Secrets Bound in Skin
7• Through the Trees Again
8• Bless the Lily, Bless the Rose
9• Ephrata Sacred Heart
10• Midgard for a Dreamless Sleeper / The False Bird
11• The Hidden heart
12• For Those with Ears to Hear Us
13• Let the Towers Fall
14• Arrowhead, Thorn, and Wasp-Sting
Stone Breath "Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis" (expanded) 2CD Hand/Eye H/E042
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Now expanded to 2 CDs with many rare and unreleased tracks! Including a guest appearance by Fit & Limo.
The third album from Stone Breath, “Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis,” finds the band journeying further down the darkened paths they first showed us on their other CDs, “Songs of Moonlight and Rain” and “A Silver Thread to Weave the Seasons.". The darkened deep woods folk and acoustic experimentalism Stone Breath conjured on their earlier recordings is here refined in a cauldron of sound that may well define “wyrdfolk” (a term coined by Stone Breath’s tiMOTHy to express the music that he and his friends make).
For “Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis,” Stone Breath founding member, tiMOTHy, is again partnered with Prydwyn (who appeared on the “… Silver Thread…” CD) and then-new members Ra Campbell, and Sarada. The diverse instrumentation that Stone Breath has been known for is here continued with acoustic guitars, banjos, flutes, whistles, sitar, dulcimer, harmonium, and many others being melded together by the band in their trademark ghostly earth songs. Strange new tunings, and beautiful harmony vocals have only added to Stone Breath’s magic bag.
With a darker sound than past albums, “Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis” finds tiMOTHy tracing a theme throughout the record: a silver thread weaving together such elements as St. John the Baptist, Osiris and Isis, John Barleycorn, Templar Knights, King Solomon, and Jesus Christ all shown in the light (or shadow as the case may be) of Stone Breath’s ever present nature poetry/observations.
The songs will speak louder than words: from the mysterious opening track to the subdued tones of COB’s “Solomon’s Song,” to the medieval dance, “Estampie” (actually a traditional Appalachian song somehow made more ancient by Renner’s clawhammer banjo and Prydwyn’s deft recorder and percussion), to the epic closing track, “Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis” will lead the listener on a journey through the night shadows of forgotten truths.
Track listing:
CD1:
1•Sunshine in the Eyes of Death
2•The Eyelit Path
3•Sword Baptismal
4•Solomon's Song
5•The Way of Green Osiris
6•John Barleycorn
7•The Red-Crossed Knight
8•It's Hard to Dance with the Devil on Your Back
9•Sleep then, with the Incense of Orchids around You
10•The Face of God
11•Estampie
12•Moongazer
13•The Lantern of the Greening Light
CD2:
1•Osiris
2•The Blood of the Woven-Vine
3•A Soldier's Dream
4•The Song of the Last
5•Of Bloody Wings and Sleep's Death
6•Love Song
7•Footprints Filled with Rain
8•Treehugger/Decay
9•The Unbinding String (Epistle to Prydwyn)
10•Man Should Surrender
11•The Eyes of Death (featuring Fit & Limo)
12•A Bottle of Breath
13•The Heart and Star of Sacred Memory
14•The House Carpenter
15•The Lantern of the Greening Light
Stone Breath • In Gowan Ring • Drekka • The Iditarod "The Poor Minstrels of Song and the Temple of the Moon" t-shirt
100% cotton. Size XL only. Brown-on-natural shirt version is sold out. Full color print.
Taiga Remains "Obelia" CDr BF023
Alex Cobb's Taiga Remains returns with "Obelia", two long pieces and one short that juxtapose the warm drift of a harmonic-laden minimal acoustic blues raga with dense droning machine noise. The album is housed in vinyl slip cases, limited to 100 copies.
Mike Tamburo "Dance Enis Dance" CDr BF025
Mike Tamburo returns with an epic 32 minute suite of Basho-esque fingerpicking and psychedelic drones, that are exhilarating yet meditative and clearly an expression of deep catharsis. The album is packaged in full colour sleeves featuring cover art by Pete Spynda, housed in vinyl slip cases, contains an insert and is limited to 100 copies.
Techix "monosymphonic" CD anticlock
Techix, started in 2001, is the agglomeration of the musical interests of founder Justin Jones. Heavily influenced by both classical and modern elements and instrumentation, the project seeks to combine the beauty and organization of classical structure with the raw emotional energy of experimental improvisation. "...remarkably enticing and even hypnotic in its unbridled dedication to strangeness." - Sonic Curiosity
Terry Earl Taylor Another Time CD Dark Holler HOLLR231
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Terry Earl Taylor plays a Fender Allegro five-string banjo in the two-finger picking style. He draws from the folksong traditions of the UK and Appalachia , and like all the great banjo songsters, he adds much of his own style to the music. A comparison might be Clive Palmer (though Terry has never heard Clive´s music!), or perhaps Dock Boggs if he was from the UK. But really, Terry is his own man, playing his own music, timeless and original.
"Another Time" is a collection of songs that range from originals, to the partly traditional (with additional lyrics by Terry), to the wholly traditional. This music resides in the lonely back roads, haunted dark hollers, and graveyards of the rural traditions that bore it. One listen to the spine-chilling "Go Make another Grave" will make it apparent why we felt this Dark Holler was the right home for Terry Earl Taylor.
Track Listing:
1. I´ve been Away 2. Where the Cock don´t Crow 3. John Lankin 4. Wish I had a Parker Pen 5. She came down to Town 6. Long Journey Home 7. Go Make another Grave 8. Motel in the Pines 9. Sadie Grove 10. Dock Boggs is Dead 11. Hanging at Picnic Rock 12. Prettiest Girl I ever Saw 13. Waterbound 14. Poor Clarence Hopkins 15. Billy Bones 16. November 31st 17. Going ´round the World
tiMOTHy "Every Fallen Leaf an Angel's Wing" CDr Hand/Eye h/e039
This long-lost set of songs, recorded in 2005, is the bridge between Stone Breath’s acid folk and Crow Tongue’s tribal drone. Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist for both bands, tiMOTHy presents here a set of songs dealing with mystical and magical trees. Holy trees; haunted trees; tree spirits; praying leaves and more. Sparse acoustic folk opens up the album, then quickly turns into deep drones and extended improvisation, broken rhythms and chant.
Track listing:
1. Heartwood Eidolon
2. Black Walnut Tree
3. Holy Spring
4. Oakheart Halfghost
5. St. Michael Beneath the Leaves
6. Wake Nicodemus
Timothy, Revelator "Lost Gospel Music Volume I: Beneath the Bleeding Moon" CDr Hand/Eye H/E017
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"Beneath the Bleeding Moon," the first volume in Timothy´s "Lost Gospel Music" series was recorded at Unreal House, direct to tape (yes, analog) over the course of a few nights in September 2004. With the exception of some overdubbed bowed-dulcimer on two tracks, all songs were recorded live with vocals and ent-banjo, an instrument of Timothy´s design.
Here are moon-songs to God and the green wood, and secret songs to night angels - drawing influences from east (Ostad Elahi, Abdelah Ghania) and west (Buell Kazee, Derroll Adams), Timothy blends the Middle Eastern/African roots of the banjo easily with its American descendant. Improvisation is blended with structured songs. Timothy´s music is blended with Richard Crashaw´s words (Crashaw was a Catholic metaphysical poet, 1613-1649, 4 of his poems are set to music on this release). The end result of these mixtures is "Beneath the Bleeding Moon," an album unique in both concept and sound.
Track listing: 1. The Weeping Eye of God 2. Petals on the Arms of the Wind 3. On the Still Surviving Markes of Our Saviour´s Wounds 4. Blessed of the Holy Trees 5. In Silence and in Shadow Keep 6. Upon the Infant Martyrs 7. Song Upon the Bleeding Crucifix 8. Within Your Halo 9. A Song 10. Angel of the First Dream 11. Another Eye
The Trees Community "The Christ Tree" CD (plus bonus tracks) Hand/Eye h/e030
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“The Trees Community was a musical group as well as a community. We started out as disparate individuals who were just looking for the truth. In the summer of 1970 we stumbled upon a semi-abandoned loft in New York City with no locked door and through it, entered a collective life in the service of God. The language of our service was original music played on 80 instruments from around the world.
The early music was powerful, intricately beautiful and inspiring. Sometimes it was as if thousands of voices were joining and pouring through our own, like several Mellotrons being played at once in different keys, the music liquid, dynamic, ever changing. One night we might travel along a hot, dusty road in Ancient Egypt, with the sounds of donkey’s hooves and clanging pots. Another night we were adrift in a foggy sea, the boat groaning and creaking and a distant bell tolling. We were part of a living, breathing unrehearsed story -- a symphony. God handed us each separate parts yet no one knew the script. Eventually the music evolved, but never traveled far from these mystic roots.
In the spring of 1971 we embarked on a pilgrimage without a destination. Our journey was so named because we had no itinerary, traveling from place to place by pure faith. We lived in a converted school bus and traveled extensively for seven years throughout the U.S. and Canada. We visited many churches and fellowships including Trappist, Benedictine, Franciscan and Paulist monastic communities, evangelical and social outreach groups of every denomination, a Hutterite farming collective, and eventually returned to New York City to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC, where we became a community in residence. We continuously learned from every group and person we met, sharing our lives, slowly building a musical expression of the gift of faith we had been given.
The Music on this CD set is both the audible manifestation and remnant of who we were as a musical community. As we evolved so did our sound, culminating in a musical mediation called 'The Christ Tree'. This meditation was enacted live during many prayer services and concerts, with several recordings including a studio recording on a vinyl LP in 1975. This CD release includes what was on this recording as well as additional music and other material from our shared experiences. This endeavor captures some of the magic and mystery of the time, and our hope is that there is more to be re-created in the heart of the listener.” – The Trees Community, 2005
The Hand/Eye version of “The Christ Tree” is the ONLY official version, licensed from and approved by The Trees themselves.
8 panel digipak reissue with notes on the creation of the Trees, musical influences, and commentary on the individual tracks.
track listing:
1. Psalm 42
2. The Parable of the Mustard Seed
3. Psalm 45
4. Invocation (O Little Town of Bethlehem)
5. Village Orchestra
6. Jesus He Knows
7. I Will Not Leave You Comfortless
8. Chant for Pentecost
9. Psalm 46
10. Bird Song
11.Lift Your Weary Hand
12.Your Name...is an ointment poured forth
13.Raga*
14.Psalm44
15. Annunciation
16. Symphony of Souls*
17. Baptism
18. There is Such a Love...that steals into the heart, planting a kiss on deep wounds
* previously unreleased, not included on the box set
tvbc Man with a Movie Camera CD
tvbc is Paul Metzger's band, sometimes known for a more rocking approach, here they take a more subtle and atmospheric approach as they perform their live soundtrack to Dziga Vertov's 1929 silent film, "Man with a Movie Camera."
Twilight Circus Sound System presents "Cultural Roots Showcase" CD MCD480
Twilight Circus production/mixes.
track listing: 1. Michael Rose - Shilling (Extended Mix) 2. Admiral Tibet - Have The Strength (Extended Mix) 3. Ranking Joe - Gideon Time (Extended Mix) 4. Mikey General - Tell It Like It Is (Extended Mix) 5. Ranking Joe - Shaka Zulu (Extended Mix) 6. Ranking Joe - Original Fire (Extended Mix)
Twilight Circus Dub Sound System "Dub Plates Volume 2" CD MCD180
When we first started getting interested in reggae and dub music, we were wondering why we hadn't found the connection to other psychedelic and experimental music...but here it is. Ryan Moore, sometime collaborator with Legendary Pink Dots ...and here is a collection of special dubplate mixes and exclusive tracks previously only available to sound systems and DJs.
Uton "Highway Nation" CDr BF016
Finnish drone king Jani Hirvonen aka Uton returns with "Highway Nation", a five-tracker of drones clocking in at just over 40 minutes. Undoubtedly Uton's most minimal works to date, with each piece seemingly drawn from a synaesthesic pallette of angel-crossed silences and divine undulations, less has never seemed more. "Highway Nation" comes housed in vinyl slipcases with insert, features cover and insert art by Hirvonen and is limited to 100 copies.
