Click for a larger image... Artist: Stone Breath
Release title:
The Silver Skein Unwound
Catalogue number:
CAM0
61CD
Format:
CD
Length:
13 audio tracks, 57.49 mins
Release date:
08 Oct 03
(Out-of-print)

Camera Obscura is proud to present Stone Breath's fourth full-length release. After an absence of five years from the label, Stone Breath presents the cosmos with "The Silver Skein Unwound" - an obsidian dark spiritual heir to the 1998 Camera Obscura release "A Silver Thread to Weave the Seasons". 

The band describe this work as rural acid folk, informed by the furrowed fields and green forests, shaded by falling leaves and falling dreams; time-worn, weird, blood-red, rattled and ragged. Sparse in places with thick tangled drones in others, aged in mouldy oak barrels for flavor, hidden from the sun, decayed, withdrawn. Though comparison will inevitably be drawn to every point from The Incredible String Band through Comus to Current 93, the ghost of the post-ISB outfit C.O.B. glides down these dusty corridors most often, and C.O.B.'s "Spirit of Love" is close at elbow always.

Place inside a wicker statue, file under bird circling above open graves, under secret Christian iconography, under shapes seen through trees, under the desperate search for the true love knot. It's the sound of cracking concrete as the forest reclaims the city you live in.

Other resources:

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Artist's Web Site

CAM001CD - Stone Breath - Songs of Moonlight and Rain

CAM010CD - Stone Breath - A Silver Thread to Weave the Seasons

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