Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Castelrigg Stone Circle, fieldnotes, folklore, pagan
photo credit: a friend Rebecca currently in the UK – have used one of these on the Golden Apples banner thxs R
“This site, as so many of the entries above have said, is so clearly chosen for the fantastic way the mountains encircle this plateau. You can walk round and round and everywhere you see alignments of the stones with the mountains, echoes of the shapes in the skyline. This is the place to convince you that the landscape is sacred, that the space outside the circle is as important as whatever went on inside it. There have been many studies of the possible astronomical alignments here too – though personally the alignments with the landscape seem enough for me.
The circle is known as the Druid’s Circle, but I haven’t found any traditional stories which relate to the site. A relatively recent story concerns the experience of a Mr Singleton and his companion, who in 1919 saw some strange balls of white light moving among the stones”
More folklore + fieldnotes + about 300 photos from Castlerigg Stone Circle over amongst the vast catalogue at Julian Cope presents The Modern Antiquarian
…and it looks great in winter too…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: acid folk, broadcast. hauntology, electronica, folklore, Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show, psych folk, the hare and the moon
This edition is in two parts
Part 1 – The Hare and the Moon – Grey Malkin Mixtape
Part 2 – Claude Mono Atmospheric Horizontal Dance Music Ramblings
The Hare and The Moon first appeared on the Golden Apples during the very beginnings of the show a few years ago and our earliest explorations of the hauntology, and folk horror genres. Grey did a Golden Apples mix a year or so ago (listen here) and we are happy to have another one. The selections provide a hint towards the Hare and the Moon sound. Grey Malkin, creative force behind The Hare and the Moon uses the term ‘spook folk’ to describe the sound of The Hare and The Moon. The songs are all original traditional ballads and Grey Malkin as producer lays down a sound-bed to experiment with and to conjure up a mood or atmosphere that befits the subject matter of the lyrics or text. Often the songs are about death, murder, ghosts and talking ravens – well the best ones anyway.
Deeper listening is possible by checking out the three LPs ‘Hare And The Moon’, ‘The Grey Malkin’ and most recent ‘Wood Witch’. There are also some beautifully packaged limited editions over at Roger Linney’s Reverb Worship and some very atmospheric extended remixes here. The musical influences of The Hare and The Moon include the dark folk sounds of artists such as Stone Breath or Pentangle’s moodier numbers, as well as the acid folk bands that were prevalent in the UK in the 1970’s such as Mellow Candle and Caedmon.
Listen to the show re-stream Here (select 24 January 2016 edition)
Part 1 – Grey Malkin’s Mixtape as HQ Mixcloud Here
Part 2 – Claude Mono’s Atmospheric Dance Music Ramblings as HQ Mixcloud Here
Playlist
Part 1 – Grey Malkin’s Mixtape
Grey Malkin – Introduction
The Hare and The Moon – The Midnight Folk
Cat’s Eyes – Opening Credits Theme – The Duke of Burgundy OST
Pentangle – Hunting Song – Basket of Light
Ulver – Little Blue Bird – A Quick Fix Of Melancholy
Gazelle Twin – Unflesh – Unflesh
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Blood Chant – Bwyd Time
Coil – Cardinal Points – Gold Is The Metal (with the broadest shoulders)
James Blackshaw – White Goddess – White Goddess
Jason Faulkner, Sandra Kerr – Uncle Feedle – Bagpuss: The Songs & Music
Art Bears – The Slave – Winter Songs
Rob St John and the Coven Choir – Charcoal Black and the Bonny Grey – Charcoal Black and the Bonny Grey
Nick Hudson – My Antique Dead – My Antique Son
Menace Ruine – Salamandra – Alight In Ashes
COB – I Told Her – Moyshe McStiff And The Tartan Lancers Of The Sacred Heart
Palace of Swords – Ringstone Round (The Hare And The Moon Remix)
The Hare and The Moon – O’Death – Wood Witch
Part 2 – Claude Mono’s Atmospheric Dance Music Ramblings
Sieben – Ogham on the Hill (remix) – John Barleycorn Reborn
The Horses of the Gods – John Barleycorn (excerpt) – John Barleycorn Reborn
Martyn Bates – The Resurrection Apprentice – John Barleycorn Reborn
The Rowan Amber Mill – Blood And Bones (Ciderdelica Mix) – We Bring You A King With A Head Of Gold
Amorphous Androgynous Syd Arthur remixes Syd Arthur – Morning’s Recall
The Heartwood Institute – Astercote (excerpt) – Astercote
Assembled Minds – Through the Morris Light
Assembled Minds – The Forest Light Initiation Ceremony
Maribou State – Moon Circles – Truths EP
Heathered Pearls – The Worship Bell (Foxes In Fiction Remix) – Loyal
Mixcloud – Inspired by a the work that Professor Mullins did in collecting the folklore and songs of the Black Meadow this Melmoth mix was created for the launch of the book honouring his work – `Tales from the Black Meadow’ by Chris Lambert.
As featured by Jade Nobbs from his own collection on The Golden Apples
Format and contents: limited edition box-set containing seven
seven-inch records, download code, DVD, twenty-four page booklet,
map/poster, seven postcard prints, one pressed wild-flower picked from Dartmoor. Edition of 300.
In his latest edition of the Golden Apples, Jade Nobbs dives headlong down the rabbit hole, in the darkest deep of Perth winter, and features a new release on Folklore Tapes, “Theo Brown and the Folklore of Dartmoor” Region, telling some stories related to England’s last remaining wilderness, wherein there is “scarcely a point on the map to which some half-remembered tale does not cling, lurking nebulously in the twilight”
“said to be the home of the ‘whisht hounds’, according to the guide books, and romantic nineteenth century writers used to say that it was once the site of bloody druidic sacrifices. While there is no proof that the Druids ever practiced their rites on Dartmoor, it is evident that when the Saxons penetrated this spot they felt here something numinous . . . “
on Theo Brown and the Folklore of Dartmoor…
“there is no doubt that road and the area surrounding it are haunted by something pretty resentful of modern intruders. For many years there have been unexplained instances in which people, usually travellers, have reported seeing or feeling a pair”
Kramies – The Wooden Heart
Walter Schumann – Pretty Fly
Listen Here
PLAYLIST
Bo Hansson – The Sun
Bo Hansson – The Old Forest/Fog On the Barrow/Flight to the Ford at the House of Elrond
Demdike Stare – Osmosis (Excerpt)
Ian Humberstone and David Chatton Barker – Two Bridges: Wistman’s Wood
Jane Weaver – Parade of Blood Red Sorrows
Ian Humberstone and David Chatton Barker – Postbridge: The Hairy Hands
Kramies – The Wooden Heart
Ian Humberstone and David Chatton Barker – Widecombe-In-The Moor: Ball Lightning
Walter Schumann – Pretty Fly/Lullaby
Ian Humberstone and David Chatton Barker – The Publican’s Wife
Unknown – Oranges and Lemons
Ian Humberstone and David Chatton Barker – Dartmeet: The Hungry Dart
Pierre Raph – La Rose Da Fer
Morton Subotnick – Silver Apples of the Moon
Goat – Run To Yr Mama (Cherrystones Remix)
Cherrystones – Blacker Forest
Scott Walker – The Old Man’s Back Again
Torn Hawk – Palace Racket
Ian Humberstone and David Chatton Barker – Brimpts: Dolly Copplestone
Panoptique Electrical – Hyvonen
Oren Ambarchi – Fractured Mirror
Ian Humberstone and David Chatton Barker – Brimpts: The Last Wolf
Philip Astle and Paul Williamson – Miri It Is
Sunn O)))- Alice (very short excerpt)
The Museum of British Folklore
“…We’re looking for material…”
“…Inspired by the launch of Simon Costin’s touring Museum of British Folklore, Britannica showcases rare archive footage of the age-old but oft-forgot traditions of the Sceptred Isle that form the crux of this unique new venture”…
Rites and Rituals is a short film that includes all that is wyrd and wonderful including scenes of “Cheese Rolling” the favoured spectator sport of the Golden Apples Collective.
Morris Child Picture from the Doc Rowe Archive
The Golden Apples of the Sun 