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Recommended by us on 26th November 2009
...according to our Brian on Thu 26 Nov, 2009.
Got a CDr affair here called 'A Pentacle of Pips' by Venereum Arvum - a hubbie/wifey collaboration - this 5 tracker birthed in Lancashire earlier this Summer. These songs have their heart in chamber/choral folk with this mad selection of instruments responsible for their realization - "Black Sea Fiddle, Indian Harmonium, Electronic Shruti Box, Appalachian Dulcimer, Hungarian Citera and Medieval Welsh Crwth" - check that list out!! With a traditional yet otherworldly flair, these graceful, spiritual and unnervingly beautiful songs skate softly into your mind, somehow both calming & rousing, the stirring voices arcing above and beyond the most minimal of instrumentation which falls more towards the experimental/drone fraternity than the ancient aura of this music suggests. Very, very lovely, and very, very limited (to 50) on Reverb Worship.Venereum Arvum are the husband & wife duo of Rachel McCarron and Sean Breadin.They focus on the harmonious beauties of folk song & balladry from the English speaking traditions & beyond. Minimal on arrangements & instrumentation, concentrating on drones & modality, performed using a diversity of folk instruments such as Black Sea Fiddle, Indian Harmonium, Electronic Shruti Box, Appalachian Dulcimer, Hungarian Citera and Medieval Welsh Crwth, the music of Venereum Arvum is '...as historically timeless as it is vernacularly universal...'
I am highly delighted to announce the release of Venereum Arvum’s wonderful “A Pentacle Of Pips”.You may recognise Sean from his other guise of Sedayne.This five track album has been recorded on location in Lancashire throughout August and September 2009.Available now it comes in a limited hand numbered edition of 50 copies.The cover has been designed by Sean and printed on a selection of different coloured papers.
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