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NEWS:
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…
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. >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 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
"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: New'Birch
Book' site: HERE
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