2012 two CD set. Disc One is the ethereal side of the Mediaeval Baebes whilst Disc Twp showcases their more folky side. This is the Mediaeval Baebes 15th anniversary and eighth studio album. The Mediaeval Baebes exquisite storybook opened it's pages in 1996, when a group of friends broke into a North London cemetery and sang together, clad in flowing white gowns and crowns of ivy. Pulling lyrics from mediaeval texts and setting them to original scores using mediaeval and classical instruments, whilst singing in an impressive array of long forgotten languages, the Baebes offered a unique musical beauty and outstanding talent.
Brian Eno, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tangerine Dream, Sacred Spirit, Adiemus, David Sylvian, The Future Sound Of London, Craig Armstrong, Japan, Klaus Schulze and many more.
Lost Crowns is built around the songs from Richard Larcombe of Stars in Battledress. And with a little help from Bassist Charlie Cawood (Knifeworld, Tonochrome, Mediæval Bæbes), Keyboardist Rhodri Marsden (Prescott, Scritti Politti), and clarinet players Josh Perl (Knifeworld) and Nicola Baigent (North Sea Radio Orchestra, William D. Drake). Following a little help from Keepsie on Drums.
Listening to their debut release of Every Night Something Happens, it feels like it was recorded during the sessions for Knifeworld’s Bottled Out of Eden, but also making sure that the styles between the Syd Barrett-era of Pink Floyd, the Rock In Opposition Movement, and bits of psychedelia, flowing very well into the sound and styles of Lost Crowns’ music.
The first ever reissue of Dorothy Carter's 1978 folk/psych/drone masterpiece. A truly unique album in Dorothy's catalog, Waillee Waillee's essence sits in Dorothy's mastery of the dulcimer; its shimmering notes fully enmeshed with the cavernous drones of Bob Rutman's bowed steel cello. The core of this album, Dorothy's only with a full band, lies in the contradiction of traditional psych-folk idioms and the minimal avant-garde, referencing Laraaji and Henry Flynt as much as Karen Dalton.