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NEWS / Upcomming Shows:
…The End is the Beginning …
As it seemed we were finishing up our travels we find that they begin again…
1> Birch Book will be making support performances for Woven Hand (www.wovenhand.com ) on the following 14 dates:
25.11. Austria – Salzburg, Rockhouse
26.11. Check Republic - Prague, Archa Theatre
27.11. Austria - Wien, WUK
28.11. Italy – Milan, Musicdrome
29.11. Italy - Ravenna, Bronson
30.11. Italy - Padova, Unwound
02.12. Germany - Dresden, BeatPol
03.12. Germany - Berlin, ColumbiaClub
04.12. Belgium - Leuven, Het Depot
05.12. Netherlands - Utrecht, Tivoli
06.12. Germany - Geislingen, Rätschenmühle,
07.12. Switzerland - Bern, ISC Club
09.12. Switzerland - Lausanne, Les Docks
10.12. France - Toulon, L’Omega Live
We’ll be playing as a three piece with Dean Thomas (electric guitar) and Iain Taylor (bodhran, percussion). Please come out if you can get a ticket.
2> Also, we’ll be looking for crash sleepover space for four nice people on the first 7 dates, eg: Salzburg, Prague, Wien, Milan, Ravenna, Padova & Dresden. If you have space for us or know of someone who could help us out in this way we would be much obliged and should have something to offer in recompense = please write: b@ingowanring.com .
3>New Mailorder availability: We have some copies of the live cd with Maja Elliott from last year’s shows in Portugal available: http://www.ingowanring.com/LuneMusic.htm .
Also, a few more Exists & Entrances boxes have been unearthed from the slightly extended pressing of earlier this year. Not all t-shirt sizes & colors are available but please write to: igr@ingowanring.com if interested in this.
We should be back in stock with Hazel Steps at end of year.
4> We look forward to burrowing into personal projects, deep spaces and liminal lucubrations for the hibernation season, emerging with, perhaps, a renewed sense of purpose as the next year unfolds…
Wishing you an abyss of contemplative wonder,
Bee>Birch Book / In Gowan Ring on Tour August through November - Dates
are below and will be filling in with clarification as the time comes.
> The Exists and Entrances series has been re-issued as collected volumes on 2 cds through Ahnstern in Austria.
Available at the LUNE MUSIC mailorder site: www.lunemusic.com
More Info regarding this release here: http://www.steinklang-records.at/shop/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&products_id=1258
>In Gowan Ring vinyl debut: "On a brand new Clear Spot owned label, the first release in an unbelievable series of 10”es, featuring some of the most legendary sessions recorded by Berry Kamer for the internationally highly rated VPRO radio show ‘Dwars’. In Gowan Ring visited the VPRO studios in June, 2003 and the result was this otherworldly collection of folk songs, with gorgeous medieval elements, friendly pastoral atmospheres and the vibe of the late psychedelic era. A breathtaking first title of what’s bound to become a historic series of vinyl releases." For sale at www.LuneMusic.com
The Green Pear Guitar is finished and in use! see pictures from the newly updates instrumetn gallery here: http://www.ingowanring.com/InstGallery.htm
we hope to have some of the in process pictures up at later date, but we're too tired at the moment...
>'Diaspora' appears on 'Mind The Gap' vol 67 sampler from Gonzo Circus
Magazine in Belgium : Mind
The Gap vol 67
>Latest Album: "Fortune & Folly"
Assuming the allegorical emblems of The Wheel of Fortune
and The Traveling Fool, Fortune & Folly distills the
introspections of a perennial rambler reckoning 'the Bitter and the Bliss'
of The Road Less Traveled; Brooding layers of sound and
sense yield a spectral ethereality thick with the visionary allusions
of a haunted wanderer bent upon a mythic path…
Album
Info & Audio Samples Here
More
Album information and pictures of special editions here.
"a master-work of contemplative genius by an artist
at the peak of his songwriting powers." - Barl
Fire [full review here]
"Fortune & Folly" is an album that must
be experienced. Atmospheric and almost downright spooky, its melancholy
is rich, while the harmonies are thick and juicy. Addictive." -
J-Sin
for Smothernet [full review here]
"Birch Book writes music that is almost painfully
pleasurable to listen to. This is still true folk music in the striking
power of its simplicity. The relationship of artist and guitar is noticeably
intimate and the vocals drift gently, sometimes barely - deliberately
- out of the shadows. The listener's mind is caressed and the soul is
stirred." - UpchuckUndergrind,
fishcomcollective [full review here]
More Reviews Here:
Left
Hip - KPSU
- All
About Jazz - Sea
of Tranquility - Psychedelic
Folk Review - NE Performer
- Unbroken Circle
- Heathen
Harvest - Smother
21 September - ***SOLD OUT*** Oslo, Norway Maridalen kirke, with Maja Elliott http://myhome.iolfree.ie/~lightbulb/Maja/index.html
info: www.myspace.com/maridalenchapel
POSTER HERE
22 September - Gothenburg, Sweden at Atlante Theatre. This will be a short showcase along with other acts from various disciplines.
28 September - Copenhagen, DK - Private house show with Sarah Hepburn -For invitation write: s.hepburn@gmail.com
29 September - Copenhagen, DK - at http://www.artandcolour.dk/
For Info Write: mikkel@phillip.se
October:
PAGAN FOLK FESTIVAL with FAUN (Ger), SIEBEN (UK) & IN GOWAN RING (USA)
05.10. Österreich - Wien Szene
06.10. München (81671) - Elserhalle (with Afterparty)
07.10. Schweiz - Luzern - Sedel
09.10. Leipzig (04103) - Werk 2
10.10. Hannover - Musikzentrum
11.10. Berlin (10435) - Kesselhaus
12.10. Holland - Utrecht - Tivoli (with Afterparty)
13.10. Kaiserslautern (67659) - Kammgarn
More EU:
26 october Antwerp - Belgium - opening for Ataraxia - INFO HERE
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
IS HERE
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