Spring has come and it rains like the cows piss...

B’ee has returned safely and for the most part unscathed from five months of drop-out in Tamil Nadu, south India and the east to west displantation from Bengal bay to Pacific northwest, new songs in tow...  The thread resumes it’s weaving, some garbled stitches and lumpy gathers notwithstanding. 

…And yet, the seasons molt as ever, the tangled skein is yoked again…

• First item of importance: Now Available for Order: “Webs Among the Din” VOL II  - Audio scrapbook from this last year’s wayward travels, mock adventures, mistaken identities, burnt tea, Freudian mispronunciations etc. etc…Some new song demos, rooftop jambories, Live versions, rickshaw collage & more...- 2007 performances included concerts with Maja Elliott, Sarah Hepburn, Faun, MNortham et al., itinerature-map with travels ranging North America, Scandinavia, Middle Europe, Portugal and South India; To ship on new moon April 4th  - Available only through this newsletter & website to the early takers. We think they look nice, see here:   www.ingowanring.com/webs2    
  
  
• Second item:  Plans commence for European Tour Autumn 2008.  B’ee will be traveling through parts of Europe for solo performances (with new B.B. album in tow) from around August through October – if you would like to have something arranged in your home town or have further suggestions please connect: lune@ingowanring.com   We hope to get out to UK, Scandinavia, France, Italy & otherwheres…
  
  
• Rerelease of In Gowan Ring ‘Flower Moon’ (original limited release from 2005) album with new mooney track “Moonbathed Meadow”  - we’re planning to co-ordinate for the May Flower Moon two moons hence, through Hand/Eye.  We hope to release a limited vinyl version simultaneously – send your enthusiastic encouragement to: orders@somedarkholler.com .
  
  
• New (perhaps last?) Birch Book album in the works for potential summer release.. stay awake - between yesterdays milk and the buck’s moon the jester sings stray summer songs…
  
  
• Is it true would pecuniary recklessness and financial destitution bring B’ee to sell his infamous Lyre-Guitar?  We’re not sure either, but if interested check here: www.ingowanring.com/lyreguitar

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Portland Oregon May 14th at Some Day Lounge with Fern Knight...

Performance history HERE

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." 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...

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…
More 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

New'Birch Book' site: HERE
new mp3's reviews etc.!