James Reid - Like A Buzzard Chased By Crows (BARL1)
Tracklist: Our Poor Lone Kestrel, Time of Autumn (Hedgerow Mix), Kingfisher Blue, Fallen King, Been Here Before, Two Crows, Sunrise Bound, Winter's Cry
"Like A Buzzard Chased By Crows" is the debut album from the Fife based singer-songwriter James Reid. With a love for the Autumnal pastoralia of Nick Drake, forays into the woods, homemade wine, and the legendary Wickerman soundtrack, Reid combines these passions to deliver his own lo-fi folk sketches of the beautiful, and sometimes strange, rural landscapes and hedgerow habitats of his native Scotland. Armed with acoustic guitar, mandolin, a broken-down dictaphone, some demijohns and blessed with a golden larynx, Reid weaves melodies and atmospheres that draw favourable comparison to contempories like Greg Weeks and classics such as Drake's "Pink Moon" and David Crosby's "If I Could Only Remember My Name". "Like A Buzzard Chased By Crows" features cover-art by Reid himself, is packaged in jewel cases and limited to 200 copies. The album is priced at £6 including shipping via Paypal to anywhere on the planet from Barl Fire.
The Nihil Project - Plough Plays (BFWWW1)
Tracklist: Unquiet Grave/Twa Corbies, Days of Yore, Weaving Wheat, The River, Hobby Horse, On Bennachie (A Field Trip), Sataday People, Tissington Hall Well, Aloha Song, The Infinite, How Many Times, (Un)quiet Grave #2.
The Nihil Project is an open collective devoted to psychedelia, musical experimentation and artistic avantgarde who have released two albums to date. They are based on a core duo of Antonello Cresti and Andrea Gianessi from Italy. They collaborate with a wide range of artists and on this album have worked with a number of musicians from Britain such as the ex-Blossom Toes Brian Godding, Sedayne, The Anvil, Gav Dunn, The Kitchen Cynics, Orph and LSD from Electronic Voice Phenomena and Simon Lewis of The Phoenix Cube. The album title comes from our shared love of the informal, rough plough plays in January still performed in the East Midlands. Performers drawn from the population, hidden by guises telling ancient scripts they cannot know the primitive sources of. We couldn't imagine a more fitting concept. On this album they focus on British folk music and folklore interweaving their own songs and lyrics with traditional sources. The band is fascinated by folklore and folk customs, Antonello visits the UK regularly and has written a book about England and Wales. So they are well placed to make an album almost custom designed to appeal to all psychedelic folk fans. This CDR is limited to 150 copies, packaged in jewel cases and priced at £5 including shipping via Paypal to anywhere on the planet from Barl Fire.
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