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About Me

I wish to meet wayward musicians to delve into performances inspired by myriad folk traditions. They may very well wear hats, and they may very well smoke pipes.If you've enjoyed these songs, happen upon a project I am involved with, Echoes of Ancienthalls.Christopher

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/13/2007
Band Members: Christopher Rowan - words, voices, low and tin whistles, percussion, classical and acoustic guitars _Company of Musicians_ Justin Khuong - electric guitars Reece Runco - 12 string mandol-uitar, harmonic conception Tamlain EntarÃ« - bamboo and wooden flutes Alias Tib - percussive elements Jennifer Janzen - soprano voices
Influences: Clever and inspired songwriters. Laura EntarÃ©, Justin Khuong, Richard Masters, Steve and Jenny, Yann Tiersen, Joanna Newsom. The thousand lands of obscured pagan tradition. Folk magic and lore from Wales, Scotland, Scandanavia and Slavic Europe. Well composed folk and black metal with thematic or theatric undertones. Omnia, Corvus Corax, Faun, Suidakra, Otyg, Vintersorg, Summoning. Heroic Vocalists. Blind Guardian, Elvenking. Wind players. Lady Ceri of the Conwy Valley, Lunasa. Good honest people. Lone wandering. Beards, storytellers, overgrown eyebrows, long pipes and other archetypal affections. Throat singers. Archaic literature, wordplay, and uncommon poetic meters. Players of obscure acoustic instruments. Ancestry. Bundles of sticks. Fortune-tellers, merchants, horse-thieves and beggars. Fraggish modes on brass instruments, brass modes on fraggish instruments. Anything or anyone with an otherworldy or mythic resonance.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

theme of marvel windward

excuse me, you remind me,of a friend that i once had.i am not sure what has become of herbut you both have the same eyes.now there is an awkward thoughtand it is in this moment thatboth silence and se...
Posted by Christopher Rowan on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:49:00 PST

.post colonialisms

with flick and flicker spoke the gullsof your good eye; hear them.gulls: we remind you of a time with homesteads/roots that reach well into the beyondand all beyondthough there be no yonder past the t...
Posted by Christopher Rowan on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:16:00 PST

elderealm.the agile & ageless

barefoot I stand, by featof wellworn pathwaysthoroughfares among pine forests.bruised; I am brittle hollow as hidden hills lacking lust & lustrebarren of the ways that clothed my fathersthe w...
Posted by Christopher Rowan on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:05:00 PST

act one.unrelated

who but you or I can know?where first I saw the sinking ships[enter subject seamaiden]in the scullery of coursefalling in love with mermaids.[thoughts to herself][exits seamaiden] [enter subject matte...
Posted by Christopher Rowan on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:58:00 PST

in three parts

III i admit thatcowardly i fled, my endingsswift and unspoken, my beginnings much the samea token of devotionto the motion of change.i admit without faltering,cowardly i once fledn...
Posted by Christopher Rowan on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:55:00 PST

Instruments and the like

I see it fit to mention that the bamboo flutes I used in "peregrin" were handmade by a fantastic character who lives in the province next to mine. If anyone wishes to aquire one of these instruments, ...
Posted by Christopher Rowan on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:06:00 PST

A note on tunes

Fair-feathered friends. I thought I would make some notes about the songs, origin of the tunes, and whatnot. Faerwell is a bit of a compilation between two tunes, one of which was taught to me in the ...
Posted by Christopher Rowan on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:02:00 PST