WF 46 - A Lunar Standstill

by David Colohan

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Michael J Bates Having followed David for a while, I must say he never ceases to intrigue, in the best possible way. It's uncanny how he has almost reinvented folk music by applying modern tropes with traditional instruments. Alongside of all of this are field recordings which give a sense of locale and ancient history to his works.

Magick. Favorite track: The River Talking In Its Sleep.

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	1.	Spiral To The Galaxy I 04:52
	2.	Spiral To The Galaxy II 03:10
	3.	Born Over Blind Springs 03:00
	4.	The Maze In The Labyrinth 08:52
	5.	A Lunar Standstill 03:06
	6.	No Matter The Season 01:59
	7.	The River Talking In Its Sleep 07:40
	8.	Stoney Close 04:15
	9.	A Static Field 01:25
	10.	The Quoit & The Cove 07:40

about

On a rainy morning in January 2020 I visited the stone circles at Stanton Drew. It would not be true to say that I had the place to myself as the eerie atmosphere suggested a presence other than my own.

As I walked between the stones, chanting a made up song to whatever was there with me, the clouds parted & in beautiful Winter sunlight, the landscape felt radiant & ancient.

Chatting with some locals over a few pints in The Druid's Arms brought me back to the world as was.

"Inspired by a rainy day visit to the Neolithic stone circles of Stanton Drew in early-2020, the ten-track set – constructed using alto saxophone, clarinet, trombone, electric guitar, harmonium, field recordings, mellotron, modular synths and fleeting vocals – is quite an intimidating prospect at first. Laden with dronescapes that join the dots between the pagan, the liturgical, the spectral and the post-apocalyptical, the album does at times feel like a soundtrack selection in search of several films. Yet surrender the senses to a full airing – particularly on an appropriately murky afternoon – and its uneasy enchantments gradually come to the fore."
Concrete Islands, March 2023

“ I am triggered in a good way by the harmonium but much of this music gives off such a warm and pleasant hum that I started dreaming about Ivor Cutler as a Druid”
Duncan Edwards - Brainwashed.

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released March 3, 2023

David Colohan: Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Electric Guitar, Field Recordings, Harmonium, Mellotron M4000D, Modular Synth, Trombone, Voice.

Recorded in Ballymahon & Stanton Drew
Mastered by Thomas Ragsdale
Original Woodford Halse Livery - Nick Taylor
Layout and Design - Mat Handley

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'An eerie loveliness that should really be soundtracking a Werner Herzog film; indeed Popol Vuh’s work provides a useful reference point as, similar to Vuh, the music herein is almost religious in its solemnity and grace.' The Active Listener

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