Dates opening for FAUN:

1.12. Aschaffenburg – Colossaal (Support In Gowan Ring) (USA)
2.12. Osnabrück - Rosenhof (Support In Gowan Ring) (USA)
3.12. Kaiserslautern – Kammgarn (Support In Gowan Ring) (USA)
4.12. Köln – Live Music Hall (Support In Gowan Ring) (USA)
15.12. Regensburg – Alte Mälzerei (Support: In Gowan Ring) (USA)
16.12. Wien (A) – Szene (Support: In Gowan Ring) (USA)
17.12. Bad Reichenhall – Magazin (Support: In Gowan Ring) (USA)
18.12. Stuttgart – LKA Longhorn (Support: In Gowan Ring) (USA)

we also play:

5th Dec: Merchtem, 15 km north of Brussels

6th Dec: Leuven - http://www.facebook.com/events/129722223805051/

9th Dec: Potsdam - http://www.facebook.com/events/315274558483846/

10th Dec: Neokoln, Berlin - http://www.facebook.com/events/201729906573223/

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Shows in Russia  26th August to 3rd Sept:

Moscow, St Petersberg: info:  indiestate(at)gmail.com

Kemerovo: info:  woodcore(at)mail.ru

Sept 7th house show in BRUXELLES: info & reservations at: cazweifel(at)yahoo(dot)fr

 

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Upcoming Shows:

Oslo (NO) - 9 July - (info: countryman662@hotmail.com )
Malmo (SE) - 10 July w/ Wooden Wand (US)  at Far i Hatten info:  http://dygnetrunt.se/wooden-wand-usa-in-gowan/103080

Berlin (DE) - 13th  July (info & reservations: dorje5325(at)yahoo(dot)com)
Leipzig (DE) - 16th July (info: darksounds@gmx.de )
Near Bologna (IT) - 22 July (info: come_cerchi_nellacqua@yahoo.com )
Vevey (CH) - 28 July at Studio 603 (info: session603@gmail.com )
Geneva (CH) - 29 July TBA
Avignon (FR) - 30 July TBA

ADDED SHOWS IN SWEDEN & BERLIN

1st July at Henrik's friend's garden on Brännö island near Gothenburg: for reservation / directions info write to christianpallin@yahoo.se - also could be info here:  www.kolonigbg.se  but I think you'll have to write to Christian for reservations anyway.
 
Also:
 
6th July with the Lisa o Piu folks at their place near Stockholm 6th of July  at 19:30. To make a reservation and get directions write to Lisa at: lisaksson@hotmail.com   "Tell people they are very welcome to bring picknick and drinks and some cash." - Toftesta Gård 2, Brottby 
 
and don't forget:
7th July Karlstad, Värmland, for reservations/directions write to:  kimpa93@yahoo.se
 
and:
9th July near Oslo at Maridalen kirke - for reservations / info / directions write: countryman662@hotmail.com
 
hope to see you!
-B'ee

We're making ready for a cozy evening in a couple weeks at Bruno's Place in Neukölln, Berlin...
 
Join us for Tea, Candles and Pillows (bring your own if you can!) I'll be providing an acoustic concert with songs new and old after which follows a showing of 'Valerie and Her Week of Wonders'.
 
NOTE: There's limited space so please write for reservations / directions - as it is a very limited living room event....
(email dorje5325(at)yahoo(dot)com)
 
Suggested donation 5-10 €
 
bis bald!
B'ee
 
8pm
 
WHAT:
Midsummer Nights Dreams with BIRCH BOOK and the film 'Valerie and Her Week of Wonders'
 
WHERE:
Lower East Side Berlin, Germany
 
MORE INFO / reservations: dorje5325(at)yahoo(dot)com

Ahoy Friends!

1. We embark soon for our summer agenda.  Still much to prepare, and some to figure in these last days before departure,   ...and many tickets to purchase.  We've decided to travel by train wherever feasible in the next months and avoid the 'scourge of the skies' where possible, sacrificing on occasion economic expense for a greater wellbeing...  To this end, and in providing a means to elicit aid for The Agenda, a small run follow up to our 'Songs to the Sun' CD double album is announced.  Volume Two features a similar format as Volume One, being a live performance recorded in Astoria Oregon at the Astoria Arts & Movement Center (May 18th) along with an accompanying CD recorded Live on the KMUN radio show " Day of the Velvet Voice" hosted by Jessamyn Grace.  The radio show is once again solo performances and light discourse (late at night) while the live event recording features Contrabass (Gregg Skloff); Tabla, Percussion, Harp, & Lyre (Aran Adams); Organ (Mary Moss); Guitar & voice (B'ee).  A Limited edition of 44 copies is presented with cover artwork by Jennifer Rasmussen.   Available only by mail order as supplies last here:  http://www.ingowanring.com/Sun2.html
2. As the tour shapes up we'll have updates on websites, facebook etc.  but the  general outline is as follows:

        Caen (FR)- 16, 17, 18the June (for info: happybirthdaytoyou@hotmail.fr )
Brussels (BE)- 19 June (hosted by Soirées Cerises )
Ghent (BE)- 20 June (hosted by MorcTapes www.morctapes.com/houseshow )
Aachen (DE) - 21 June (Equinox! - at Leerzeichen, website: http://www.l--rzeichen.de/  )
Fano, (DK) - 25 June - Fano Free Folk Festival - http://www.facebook.com/fanofreefolk?sk=info  
Holstebro (DK) - 28 June - house show (info: sifkanoir@gmail.com)
Varmland (SE) - 7 July - House Show (info: kimpa93@yahoo.se )
Oslo (NO) - 9 July - (info: countryman662@hotmail.com )
Berlin (DE) - 13th or 14th July (info: TBA)
Leipzig (DE) - 16th July (info: darksounds@gmx.de )
Near Bologna (IT) - 22 July (info: come_cerchi_nellacqua@yahoo.com )
Vevey (CH) - 28 July at Studio 603 (info: session603@gmail.com )
Geneva (CH) - 29 July TBA
Avignon (FR) - 30 July TBA

(For invitations to the house shows please write to the emails provided, RSVP may be required and the locations/times might not be provided elsewhere.)

3.    I hope you already received news earlier about my first French EP album on 10" record through 7iem Ciel, but here's the link: http://7ciel.net/"http://7ciel.net/<a href=  There are listenable versions on 'soundcloud' as well:http://soundcloud.com/les-disques-du-7eme-ciel/sets/birch-book/"http://soundcloud.com/les-disques-du-7eme-ciel/sets/birch-book/<a href=

"Unending space was beaten into a curve,

Indivisible Time into small minutes cut,

The infinitesimal massed to keep secure

The mystery of the Formless cast into form.

Invincibly their craft devised for use

The magic of sequent number and sign's spell,

Design's miraculous potency was caught

Laden with beauty and significance

And by the determining mandate of their gaze

Figure and quality equating joined

In an inextricable identity.

On each event they stamped its curves of law

And its trust and charge of circumstance;

A free and divine incident no more

At each moment willed or adventure of the soul,

It lengthened a fate-bound mysterious chain,

A line foreseen of an immutable plan,

One step more in Necessity's long march."

-from Savitri

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European Show Dates:(last update March 21)

March 28: Paris - Café de Paris (poster)

March 31 Caen at L'ubu Café - 14 Rue Arcisse de Caumont, 14000 Caen, France02 31 38 25 01‎

April 1 - Caen house show - info: happybirthdaytoyou(at)hotmail.fr

April 2 - Utrecht Birthday Party - for info & invite write to: hans.heesen(at)gmail.com

April 3 - Zwolle - www.minstrel.nl (poster)

April 4 - Bruxelles - http://www.myspace.com/soireescerise

April 24 - Avignon - ***VENUE CHANGE*** its now at:

Théâtre : Le Célimène
25 bis rue des Remparts de l'Oulle
84000 AVIGNON
04 90 82 96 13 / 06 11 37 59 67
celimene84@laposte.net reservations at: crueltwist(at)yahoo.com
70 seats / 10 euro / 21h
May 2 Chisinau Moldavia -

May 8 - Geneva @ le Cabinet - http://www.lecabinet.ch/

May 28 - 7em Ciel, Paris

there may be more info with regards to addresses of venues on the Myspace listings: www.myspace.com/ingowanring

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Ahoy Friends!

We prepare for embarking on a new springtime adventure, though where exactly it may lead is still within the provenance of Spring’s Mystery and potentially up to you.  What is known at present is that we join Lisa o Piu again for a few Performances in France & Belgium:

-Paris, March 28^th at Café de Paris presented by Cary and 7éme Ciel.  (Although there are no advance ticket sales, we would appreciate it if you could write to let us know you plan on attending to: grant27@voila.fr) [with Lisa o Piu (http://www.myspace.com/lisaolillportan) and Diego Zavatarelli from Argentina (http://www.myspace.com/diegozavatarelli )]

-Bruxelles , April 4^th Presented by Soirées Cerises @ Théâtre de la flûte enchantée
(rue du printemps 18 à 1050 Ixelles)

In order to help fund this trip I have a small release of recent recordings to make available.  These are neither polished recordings, nor new ‘demos’ for a future project but merely a collection of traditional & cover songs that I happened to record while testing out my new (old) analog tape based recording studio.   I’ll be making home-made packaging for a limited cdr run entitled “Tomorrow’s Sun will Rise the Same”.  These will ship out around the Ides of March, and though I appreciate early orders, I will accept any before that time.  I will only make as many as are ordered before March 15th, 2010 and number them accordingly.  I very much appreciate the aid I receive from all of you who help me on this coming voyage by purchasing this curio – as funds are tight at the moment, It is quite probable that I would not be able to make it without you.

Easiest payment is via paypal with the link below, though to arrange other payment options write to: lune@ingowanring.com – also, if you’d like to add a CD of the new Birch Book “A Hand Full of Days”, you can just send an extra paypal for 10US$/10Euro and we’ll add it in your package.

For USA Orders (includes shipping) use this link: 20 USD  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=RYR87UDKS9X7N

For Europe and Rest of World Orders (includes shipping) use this link: 20 EURO https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YNSDWB8VMRWDA

(*currency difference is to make up for added shipping costs for overseas shipping - If the links do not work somehow, cut and paste in your browser, or send a paypal to: b@ingowanring.com )

Being in Europe for April and some of May, I will have time to make more solo performances in the area; performing songs from In Gowan Ring and Birch Book albums along with other errata, and so if you would like to arrange or host an event anywhere in mainland Europe during this time please write to me at: b@ingowanring.com.  House shows and other small gatherings, acoustic or amplified are also a possibility.  We will need to fill in a few dates for house shows with Lisa o Piu as well between the dates of 29^th March and 10^th April, so please write to us soon if you want a large merry band of ragamuffins to visit your neighborhood during that time.

One last bit of news, ‘A Hand Full of Days’ will be seeing its digital debut within the next weeks – it is up here at emusic:  http://www.emusicfreeoffer.com/artist/Birch-Book-MP3-Download/11631070.html?cs=1  and will be following on itunes, Amazon etc shortly.

Blessings upon you!

-B’ee

February 21^st ,2010

Ahoy Friends!
We are happy to announce the haphazard release of the third Birch Book album: “A Hand Full Of Days” released through Little Somebody Records.  They are at press at present and we are busily preparing the special editions…
In hopes of procuring needed utilities dedicated to this September’s tour, we offer the standard letterpress and embroidered hardbound limited (50 copies) editions for your special order at this time here:  http://www.ingowanring.com/BB3.html 
The album of 14 songs features contrabass and electric bass guitar by Pascal Humbert (Woven Hand, Lilium) and pedal steel guitar & Hammond organ by Ron Walker along with the infamous confabulations and aural consummations you may or may not have come to expect from the faithfully wayward wanderer who panders his miscellanea under the appellations of “BIRCH BOOK” and “In Gowan Ring”.
The limited (50 copies) hand embroidered hardbound edition features binding and marbled paper from Papyrus bindery, Tamil Nadu and was fabricated whilst on peripatetic sojourn there in 2007/2008. Also includes hand stamped materials and tea stained muslin bag along with an otherwise unobtainable live CDR recording of Birch Book while on tour with Woven Hand, December 2008. (Features Dean Thomas (A Knife that Fell from the Sky) on electric guitar and Ordy Garrison (Woven Hand) on drums.)
Orders are first-come, first-served (as marked by Paypal received time) and shipped out August 31st.
Expect more information in the next weeks regarding In Gowan Ring European confirmed live dates for the month of September.  We are still looking to fill some dates in Germany 10th to 14th September -  in case you would like to put on a venue or house show please contact: lune@ingowanring.com
We also have need of a van (though we have a very nice, experienced fellow to drive it) if you know where we could borrow, inexpensively rent or buy one in Europe let us know…

Ahoy Friends!
Along with the quickening presence of the sun comes the necessity to take one’s care in remembrance of preservation…
But it is still spring and there be time yet for sowing seed: I’ve just yesterday managed to get some cherry tomatoes, zucchini squash, carrots and arugula in the yielding ground – may they grow well…
Along with such endeavors we also seek to plant seeds of opportunity to visit our friends in far off lands, to wit: an autumnal European tour to stretch the compass of France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Sweden & Norway;  to take place in the harvesting season of this coming September 2009.  If you would like to find a way for In Gowan Ring to visit your town with a performance during this affair please write to us soon at: lune@ingowanring.com
In regard to this undertaking we are looking for a driver/assistant to help us get around with our accoutrements – please write to us here for details if you know of any available the first three weeks in September.  They are sure to be richly rewarded in experience if not in monetary recompense – though the position is of course a paid one, albeit modestly.
 We will soon have more information with regard to new releases etc. for 2009 - There will be something after all this time!
Best wishes,
-B’ee (June 1st 2009)

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.

The force that drives the water through the rocks
Drives my red blood; that dries the mouthing streams
Turns mine to wax.
And I am dumb to mouth unto my veins
How at the mountain spring the same mouth sucks.
-D.Thomas

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…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

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Salut mes amis !

while we enjoy a mid-tour break in Paris - and although tour is already midstream, we thought it best to send news of the oncoming destinations, so here are details through October (below).
We hope to see you somewhere along the way if your way is somewhere along ours…

After October, as per our usual wont, we hope to find a warm enough place to get into some work for the winter months for to have some new offerings in the coming year.
…And as for the coming year, we already plan some of our travels soon – so do send your suggestions for summer/autumn 2009 to us well in advance…

Thank you to all who have been so kind to us on this trip thus far in providing hospice and camaraderie;  may we meet more of your kind in the weeks ahead!

à votre rêve,
-Bee

26 Sep 2008, 08:00 PM - Fell Foot Wood - "Lost in the Woods"
www.fellfootwood.co.uk
Ulverston, Northwest LA12 8NN, UK
info: www.fellfootwood.co.uk
Fell Foot Wood Newby Bridge Ulverston Cumbr

04 Oct 2008, 08:00 PM - Festival in Jönköping  
Jönköping, Sweden
Description:Festival with: http://www.myspace.com/witchcraftswe http://www.myspace.com/niccokick http://www.myspace.com/gabrielinsweden http://www.myspace.com/burstcity http://www.myspace.com/masshysteri http://www.lokeloke.se/sangerna.php

09 Oct 2008, - Oslo, Norway with Maja Elliott
at Revolver, Møllergata 32, 0179 Oslo
info at: myspace.com/revolveroslo

either 5th or 10th Oct 2008, (please check website more info soon) in Gothenburg, Sweden  with Maja Elliott         

12 Oct 2008, Copenhagen - In Gowan Ring with Maja Elliott
Place: The Old Church in Møllegade (Literaturhaus)
Address: Møllegade 7, 2200 Kbh. N
Time: 8.00 pm (doors will be open at seven)
Price: 70 kr
Info : http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=31078607020

17 Oct 2008, 08:00 PM - Trödler, Dresdner Str. 123, 10999 Berlin (Kreuzberg)          
Trödler, Dresdner Str. 123, 10999 Berlin (Kreuzberg)
Berlin, 10999 DE

Also, possible shows latter October in: Munich & Geneva (please check websites closer to this time)

...UPCOMING EVENTS: Please see: www.myspace.com/ingowanring

Performance history HERE

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… 

• 1) 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: ***SOLD OUT*** - please sign mailing list for notification of future releases.
  
  
• Second item:  Plans commence for European Tour Autumn 2008.  B’ee will be traveling through parts of Europe for solo performances from around September 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”  - through Hand/Eye.  We hope to release a limited vinyl version simultaneously.
  
  
• New (perhaps last?) Birch Book album in the works for next year 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

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.!