STONE BREATH: Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis

Stone Breath

Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis

© 2000 Timothy Renner / Stone Breath

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Stone Breath makes music of the Earth, touched by haunted winds, and drawn from roots tapping many dark soils; from 'acid-folk' to 'acoustic-drone.'

tracks

1 Sunshine in the Eyes of Death
2 The Eyelit Path
3 Sword Baptismal
4 Solomon's Song
5 The Way of Green Osiris
6 John Barleycorn
7 The Red Crossed Knight
8 It's Hard to Dance with the Devil on Your Back
9 Sleep then, with the Incense of Orchids around You
10 The Face of God
11 Estampie
12 Moongazer
13 The Lantern of the Greening Light

notes

What is in a name? The breathing inanimate. The impossible dreamed real. A silver thread woven by the hands of friends who hold strings between their fingers and songs on their breath. Stone Breath play spectral songs and forgotten hymns to God and the Green Wood.

The third CD from Stone Breath, "Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis," finds the band journeying further down the darkened paths they first showed us on their other CDs, "Songs of Moonlight and Rain" and "A Silver Thread to Weave the Seasons" (both from Australia's Camera Obscura label). The darkened deep woods folk and acoustic experimentalism Stone Breath conjured on their earlier recordings is here refined in a cauldron of timeless sound.

With a darker sound than past albums, "Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis" finds Stone Breath tracing a theme throughout the record: a silver thread weaving together such elements as St. John the Baptist, Osiris and Isis, John Barleycorn, the Templar Knights, King Solomon, and Jesus Christ, all shown in the light (or shadow as the case may be) of Stone Breath's ever present nature poetry/observations.

Stone Breath currently features Timothy the Revelator, Prydwyn, and Sarada. They sing and play such diverse instruments as: guitars, banjos, dulcimer, sitar, oud, dumbek, flute, tinwhistle, harmonium, ramyaj, and butterflyheart. To date they have released three CD albums, 2 7" eps, and have been featured on many compilations worldwide. See also: The Spectral Light & Moonshine Firefly Snakeoil Jamboree.

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  • Eerie and Unusual

    A bewildering blend. But I LIKE it! American, British, Celtic instrumentals with almost a medieval feel in places. Similiar in feel to some of the 60's folk groups, like Pentangle, but much darker. The blend of Christian and Pagan mythology adds to the mysterious feel of this album.

  • This is an excellent release by Stonebreath. Much thanks to Timothy R. for gracing us with this deeply profound music. The sound is a seemless mix of ancient and modern sounds. This is experimantal neo-folk at it`s best. The most unusual aspect of the sound on this release are the neo-blue grass-appalacian elements. I now have a new found apreciation for the banjo! The lyrics are my favorite aspect of this amazing release. The imagry is a complex and profound combination of heathen and gnostic christian symbology. The illustration on the disc of the severed head of John the Baptist with seed pods falling from his bloody neck says it all. The sacrificed Celtic king of the harvest and the head of the Baptist as one. The track red cross knight is a reference to the red cross tunic of the Knights Templar. The symbology found here is uniqe and profound. So far as I know out of the neo-folk genre only In Gowen Ring are in the same symbolic realm as Stonebreath. There is a good version of the traditional John Barley Corn played with banjo and in a distinctly American-blue grass style. If top shelf experimental-mystical neo-folk is what you`re looking for this is one of the best releases from one of the best groups anywhere today. This is a must have relase.

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