Ended Saturday and welcomed Sunday after a little lie-in with 43 Odes by 43 Odes released on Eiderdown Records in 2019.

"Post-industrial folk jams from members of the beloved Jewelled Antler collective, 43 ODES is a shimmering soundtrack to evening strolls in windswept landscapes. Sublime and ecstatic odes to the human condition and the infinite worlds that surround us."

https://eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/43-odes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AayZas0BjHM

#43Odes #JewelledAntler #Drone #FreeFolk #FreakFolk #StevenRSmith #GlennDonaldson #Music

Pine Cone Temples by Thuja, released on Strange Attractors Audio House in 2005.

"Thuja's albums on Emperor Jones, tUMULT, and a host of CDRs showcase their idiosyncratic improvisations in varying degrees, but none go deeper to
the core of perception as does Pine Cone Temples, Thuja's darkest and most sensitive exploration of inner and outer space to date. By incorporating real-time recordings of natural sounds from their particular surroundings, the four members of Thuja play off each other and the space they inhabit with impeccable instinct, succeeding in creating eerie yet strikingly melodic compositions. The end result is a
total immersion of the senses, for both the player and the listener..." - Strange Attractors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsi0D7kK7jM

#Thuja #StevenRSmith #FreeFolk #Ambient #Drone #JewelledAntler #Music #FieldRecordings #Improvisation

Tunnels To Other Chambers by The Buried Civilizations, released on Jewelled Antler in 2004.

One-off album by members of Thuja, Ov and Franciscan Hobbies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v_YDkKQNXA

#TheBuriedCivilizations #FreakFolk #FreeFolk #Drone ~ambient #JewelledAntler #Thuja #Ov #FranciscanHobbies #Music

Stations Of The Sun, Transits Of The Moon by United Bible Studies , released on Deserted Village Recordings in 2003.

"A melancholy and intimate set of tunes. For the Stations sessions, the students divided themselves into duos and trios to focus on making short tunes rather than frenetic improvisation which characterizes their live performances."

"Here's a swell surprise, a CD-R reissue of the very first United Bible Studies album, 'Stations of the Sun, Transits of the Moon', this time on the excellent Barl Fire label. UBS is a psychedelic (free) folk/chamber music ensemble and the flagship group in Ireland's revered Deserted Village collective. They combine rainy-day strums and fingerpicking with a more damaged improvised delirium that sounds sort of like AMM gone primitive Irish folk...8/10" - Foxy Digitalis

https://united-bible-studies.bandcamp.com/album/stations-of-the-sun-transits-of-the-moon

#UnitedBibleStudies #FreakFolk #Improvisation #Music #DesertedVillageCollective #FreeFolk #FolkMusic #BarlFire

The Liquified Throne of Simplicity
by Širom
https://sirom.bandcamp.com/album/the-liquified-throne-of-simplicity

#FreeFolk #AvantFolk

Ended Thursday and welcomed Friday after a walk with The Return Of The Rivers by United Bible Studies, released on cassette by Cruel Nature Records in 2022.

There are a lot of releases by Irish collective United Bible Studies, and a lot of stylistic ground covered in their two-decade run to date. A lot of it might reasonably be described as 'free folk', which can mean a lot of things – rarely, though, will it sound as lush and plangent as the two sidelong pieces on this cassette released by Cruel Nature. Violin, piano and sax combine for 40 minutes of ambient/jazz/drone minimalism.' The Quietus, Noel Gardner

With United Bible Studies, Colohan gets closer to the core of drone, and on The Return of the Rivers we are met with two compositions that mix elements of jazz and fractured folk into something protracted and forlorn. SUN13

https://united-bible-studies.bandcamp.com/album/the-return-of-the-rivers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgE46H1Td-w&list=RDMgE46H1Td-w&start_radio=1

#UnitedBibleStudies #freefolk #drone #CruelNatureRecords #music

Autumn is Coming, We're all in Slowmotion
by Andrea Ferraris & Matteo Uggeri
https://matteouggeri.bandcamp.com/album/autumn-is-coming-were-all-in-slowmotion

#FieldRecordings #Ambient #FreeFolk

A giant for my son's Free Folk army. It was so much fun to paint a giant, makes me want to paint more.

#asoiaf #asoiafminiatures #cmon #gameofthrones #paintingminiatures #miniaturepainting #asongoficeandfire #asongoficeandfireminiatures #asongoficeandfireminiaturesgame #tronedefer #giant #freefolk