From The Woods presents: Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions, Thorn Wych and Eddie Doyle

Join us a for a special night of rituals and music. There has been a resurgence in recent years of outsider/weird folk that straddles both experimental and folk traditions. This night is an attempt to bring this music to The Lubber Fiend. Travel with us from the woods, up the mountain, along the river, in the field, by the lake, across the valley and to somewhere else....

Bridget Hayden has been making experimental music in various projects for decades. Her latest album is a spectral, mournful and beautiful album of folk songs, which is recognisably her music, but also quite different from previous work.

"The reinterpreted traditional folk songs that make up Cold Blows the Rain are shaped by the land and the weather. Wrapped in mist and drizzle, the crawling drone of low heavy clouds on flat-top moors. The sound of the dark Calder Valley floor and sun starved hills around Todmorden, West Yorkshire in the North of England"

https://bridgethayden.bandcamp...

Thorn Wych is a musical instrument maker and musician based in the Lancashire town of Bacup, specialising in work made from tree branches. Particular to her interest are UK native trees; so far Wych Elm, Lime, Wild Cherry, Oak, and Yew. With these unique instruments, crafted in her backyard workshop, she creates music that evokes memories of an unknown world—out of sync with time and place and beyond the boundaries of the material realm. Her pieces consist mainly of bowed string instruments, flutes and percussion, which she loops round, and grinds through pitch bending glitches and delay pedals; strange devotional songs sung in tongues, mashed up, chewed and spat out. 'Aesthesis' is Thorn Wych's debut LP that she recorded and mixed herself at home, often performing long improvised pieces, then later editing them down, cutting and pasting and overlaying other instruments. This album takes inspiration from such works as 'The Secret Book of John', the 1940 film 'The Thief Of Baghdad', and Lata Mangeshkar's 'Meera Bhajans'. She dedicates her work to Asherah the Holy Mother, keeper of the Tree of Life, without whom none of this would have been possible.

https://hoodfaire1.bandcamp.co...

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Eddie Doyle

Eddie Doyle is an emerging singer and songwriter from Newcastle Upon Tyne, drawing inspiration from the voices of European folk tradition and multi-genre storytelling.