Stone Breath
Stone Breath is part of the earth. Metal, hair, wood, skin, flesh, leaf, breath, and bone make our songs. We sing hymns to God and the green wood.
Stone Breath is not new. It is cracked. Broken. Imperfect. Hidden. Weathered by the seasons.
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Stone Breath: The Shepherdess and the Bone-White Bird · 12" Vinyl · h/e046 · $12.00 USD |
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Side A:
- The Song of the Bone-White Bird
- The Vision of the Face in the Well
- In a Breath: One-Thousand Years
- Even the Dead Shall Sing
Side B:
- The Shepherdess of the Fiery Wheels
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In The Shepherdess and the Bone-White Bird, Stone Breath return with their first album in over 5 years; a revelational creation of Eastern-influenced rural acid folk, inspired by visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. From fingerpicked acoustics; to clawhammer banjo excursions; to the side-long exaltation that is “The Shepherdess of the Fiery Wheels,” Stone Breath manifest their best work to date; an entire set of originals with the strange and beautiful harmonies and instrumentation which graced their past work. This 12" vinyl record comes with a booklet featuring lyrics, info, and full psychedelic illuminations.
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"Hauntingly beautiful, this album is a mesmerising and spiritual journey that requires several plays before the true majesty of the songs is revealed..." - Ptolemaic Terrascope
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Stone Breath: The Aetheric Lamp (full-length cd) · CD · h/e050 · $11.00 USD |
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- Beautiful and Terrible
- The Voice of the Thunder
- The Sleeping Rise
- Scorpion Tears
- Where Angel Wings Unfold
- Wingstorm
- Holywater
- Terrible and Beautiful
- The Sky's Red Tongue
- The Coming Fires
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Full-length album includes the songs from The Aetheric Lamp split LP. |
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Stone Breath's first release since their triumphant return with The Shepherdess and the Bone-White Bird - The Ætheric Lamp finds them exploring similar territory to the expansive Middle Eastern influenced sounds of that previous record. Intricate and driving - half composed and half improvised - tense and intense - beautiful and terrifying. The Ætheric Lamp is the debut of several new members of Stone Breath. Joining timeMOTheye on this release are Don Belch (guitarist/multi-instrumentalist), Brooke Elizabeth (vocals,percussion), and Carin Wagner Sloan (from The Iditarod).
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Stone Breath / Mike Seed with The Language of Light: The Aetheric Lamp · limited to 50 special edition · 12"
Vinyl · AC0012 · $20.00 USD |
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Side A: Stone Breath
- Beautiful and Terrible
- Scorpion Tears
- The Sky's Red Tongue
Side B: Mike Seed with The Language of Light
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Commit to Water
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Grendel at Long Mynd
- Rough Old Night
- Abraham's Guest
- For a Good Friend
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Limited to 50. Includes lyric sheet. |
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This is a special edition exclusive to AntiClock. Artwork by Stone Breath silkscreened, by Language of Light, in silver on uncoated paperboard jackets. Includes a special silkscreened lyric sheet.
With occult overtones, Stone Breath create complicated and intricately beautiful avant folk, this time with a distinctly Middle Eastern influence;
half composed, half improvised, complex and driving.
Mike Seed and Language of Light bring a collection of songs
drifting from the downright dark and haunting to the decidedly wyrd-folk imbued with a
profound sense of introspection and occult mystery in melodies reminiscent
of English folk ballad or early liturgical hymns.
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" ...it sounds all quite immersive... Excellent record."
... Vital Weekly
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"...Over two sides, this release oozes quality, creating a damn near perfect slab of vinyl, highly recommended..." - Ptolemaic Terrascope
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"...the future for this humble group of spiritual psych folk artists looks as brilliant from my perspective as the lamp that leads them on their individual paths." - Heathen Harvest
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Stone Breath / Mike Seed with The Language of Light: The Aetheric Lamp · limited to 300 · 12"
Vinyl · AC0012 · $16.00 USD |
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Side A: Stone Breath
- Beautiful and Terrible
- Scorpion Tears
- The Sky's Red Tongue
Side B: Mike Seed with The Language of Light
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Commit to Water
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Grendel at Long Mynd
- Rough Old Night
- Abraham's Guest
- For a Good Friend
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Limited to 300 |
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This is a 12" split limited to 300 shared with Dark Holler.
With occult overtones, Stone Breath create complicated and intricately beautiful avant folk, this time with a distinctly Middle Eastern influence;
half composed, half improvised, complex and driving.
Mike Seed and Language of Light bring a collection of songs
drifting from the downright dark and haunting to the decidedly wyrd-folk imbued with a
profound sense of introspection and occult mystery in melodies reminiscent
of English folk ballad or early liturgical hymns.
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" ...it sounds all quite immersive... Excellent record."
... Vital Weekly
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"...Over two sides, this release oozes quality, creating a damn near perfect slab of vinyl, highly recommended..." - Ptolemaic Terrascope
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"...the future for this humble group of spiritual psych folk artists looks as brilliant from my perspective as the lamp that leads them on their individual paths." - Heathen Harvest
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| Stone Breath · Songs
of Moonlight and Rain (Expanded) · CD ·
Dark Holler h/e031· $11.00 USD |
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- The Ghosts of Sounds Long Dead
- Seven Things Placed in a Hollow Tree
- Pennies (Stolen from the Eyes of a Dead Man)
- Wisdom on the Moth's Wing
- Perched Upon the Temple Bell, the Butterfly Sleeps
- Flowers on Your Grave
- Earthlights
- The Sound of Ghosts Long Dead
- Words Written on Petals
- Willowisp
- The Strength to Face the Stars Above
- To Cull Undying Flowers
- The Flight of the Black Swan
- Long Lost Friend
- Snaketooth Vision
- Thunder Runs Through Me
- Footprints of a Ghost Girl *
- My Ghost *
- Leafwalker *
- Funeral Gifts *
- Rain Song *
- Snaketooth Vision (Birth) *
- Seal of Seasons *
- Will-o-Wisp (featuring Fit & Limo) *
- The Long Lost Friend (cobweb'ed) *
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Presaging
the free/freak/acid-folk boom by almost a decade, Stone Breath
carved a unique place in what was then a very lonely neighborhood.
Songs of Moonlight and Rain, the first Stone Breath
album, struck a spectral note somewhere between Syd Barrett
singing nature poetry and The Incredible String Band’s
more lonesome moments; blended with experimental graveyard-songs
and acoustic drones into a brew of darkness and hope; nature
and supernature; love and loss.
This 10-year anniversary edition presents the entire original
album with nine bonus tracks! Several bonus tracks from the
same period – dating back to the very first Stone Breath
song ever recorded (1995), all of the songs from the Strange
Familiars 7" ep, and related songs from later periods,
including a collaboration with Fit & Limo.
* Bonus tracks
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"...a beautiful but also extremely sad effect, again
of something lost." - Psyche
Van Het Folk
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"...establishes an acid-folk thread somewhere between the occult realms of Current 93, and the mantra-strum of Japanese legends Ghost, and is in the same zone as some of the more haunted moments of Alastair Galbraith's "Morse" and "Talisman" albums." - Mutant Sounds
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