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About Me

melancholy experimental folk music using various instruments such as voice, zither/ psaltry-zither, bouzouki, acoustic guitar (mostly played by pythagumus of novemthree), glockenspiel, harmonium (played by pythagumus of novemthree) recorder and pennywhistles (mostly played by pythagumus of novemthree), bells, wood and metal chimes, singing bowls, tambourine, gypsy finger cymbals, goat's toenails, djembe (mostly played by pythagumus of novemthree), ocarina & jaw-harp (lindsey hoffman), shakers & other noismakers....

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/27/2006
Band Members: Chelsea & Contributing members: Pythagumus, Lindsey Hoffman, Josh Lovejoy
Influences: In Gowan Ring esp. "the glinting spade", Espers, Mum, novemthree, Current 93, Dead Can Dance, Death in June, Unto Ashes, Gravenhurst, Autumn Tears, Green Mistletoe, Vashti Bunyan, birdsong, enchanted woodlands...all things mysterious, gold embroidered indian cloth, earl grey tea...books about strange things, castle tapestries, melancholy poetry, moss, persian cats, bells on strings, pre-raphaelite and victorian fairy art, gypsy rings, old dagguerotypes and artistic photography, skeleton keys, mint leaves, old carnival fortune-teller machines, dreams, candelabra and old chandeliers, velvet, ancient architecture, sacred geometry and religious wonderings, toadstools, the smell after rainfall, superstition, mountain streams, paintings, old glass bottles, costume-ball masks, ghost stories, dust in the sunlight, windchimes, butterflies and dragonflies, cutglass doorknobs, unrequited love, chaos and harmony...white moths and stellar jays...
Sounds Like: a curious child's dream...or the translations of bird's thought and the shaking of treasures....
Record Label: Little Somebody Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

wonderful brilliancy

"the most beautiful thing one can experience is the mysterious- it is truely the basis of all arts and sciences" --einstein "twas i that led you through the painted meads, where the light fairies danc...
Posted by Arrowwood on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:05:00 PST

gypsy maid and the forest guard

the story of the gypsy maid and the forest guard is an old tale passed through generations that i found in a book of gathered gypsy tales. the story goes something like this: a gypsy family (the man, ...
Posted by Arrowwood on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:23:00 PST

upon the eloquence of soil

soil- late middle english word from anglo-norman origin, possibly some french influence. perhaps representing the latin "solium" which meant "seat" and "solum" meaning "ground". the upper ...
Posted by Arrowwood on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:25:00 PST

some contrary behaviour

the curing power of the clown: a religious concept among many N. American Indians (esp. the Pueblo and Iroquois). clowns (those who indulge in "contrary behaviour": jesters/actors and ceremony dancers...
Posted by Arrowwood on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 01:59:00 PST

dust and other luminaries

knoup- to toll the churchbell (1879 listed in jackson's Shropshire Word Book) from the middle english "knap" which meant "to strike". beggar's velvet- dust that collects beneath furniture due to ...
Posted by Arrowwood on Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:01:00 PST

sprigs of rue

clipping the church- a once widespread custom in England. the joining of hands in a ring around the church, usually on easter sunday. the clipping was accompanied by joyful shouting, cheering an...
Posted by Arrowwood on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:31:00 PST

birds from underground

exophagy- a custom of certain cannibal tribes, prohibiting the eating of persons of their own tribe. quokerwodger- a wooden toy figure which, when pulled by a string, jerks its limbs about. in 1997, a...
Posted by Arrowwood on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:55:00 PST