Shelterland - At the Serpent Solstice

 

TOR084. Released February 2022.

01 A Crack in the Lake

02 Rites of Presage

03 The Scorpion and the Seahorse

04 The Girl and the Glass Ocean

05 The Prettiest Corpse

06 Shades from the Witching Well

07 Night Falls

08 Circle

09 The Lesley Experiment

10 Winter of the Red Queen

11 Parliament of Tears

12 Cadexe

13 The Leph

14 The Sun Chimes

15 The Sentinel and the Ferryman

16 Another Dawn

The players were:-

Al: atmospherics (3, 4, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16), bass (3, 15), cello (1, 3), chant (2), chimes (4, 16), choir (2), drill (3, 11), drones (1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16), drums (3, 9, 15), field recordings (2, 3, 8, 9, 15), fridge (2), glass (2, 3, 4), keys (4), organ (4, 15), percussion (3, 4, 11, 15, 16), piano (1, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15), shamisen (15), strings (4)

plus lephertronics on everything except (9), on which there are no lephertronics.

Ste: acoustic guitar (3, 4, 10, 14), bass guitar (3, 9, 13), field recordings (3, 5, 9, 15), mandolin (7), sitar (15)

Marc: acoustic guitar (2, 13), bass guitar (4, 6, 13, 14), inverted vocal (15)

Steve: Drums (3, 9, 15)

Brian: fuffing (15)

Catherine: violin (2, 7, 13, 14, 15)

Dave: vocals (10, 15, 16)

Tim: vocals (1)

Anna: spoken word (2, 4, 10, 11, 12)

and

Robin: flaneurettes (5, 6) - scannerdot.com/2020/04/the-birth-of-flaneur-electronique/

Free to use without copyright

"neatonk": "MISStereoPiano" (1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13) - freesound.org/people/neatonk/packs/9133/

"khunseng": "DR000723" (2) - freesound.org/s/112141/

"Satoration": "mass in croatian cathedral" (2) - freesound.org/s/54753/

"Kaiho": "Sitar long.aiff" (15) - freesound.org/s/37715/

All players performed by Shelterland; all music written by Shelterland

words on (11) adapted from «Людей теряют только раз» by Геннадий Шпаликов

Design & photography by Al

(except image #7 adapted from a photograph taken by Joy & Alf in Soweto, January 13th, 1976)

Box design by Al

Mixed at the Kitchen Sync between 2014 and 2022

freesound.org samples adapted and edited under Creative Commons Attribution license

Summary: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

© Shelterland, 2022 ℗ Treehouse Orchestra Recordings, 2022

Thanks for their (sometimes unwitting) involvement goes to Alastair Popple, Stephen Benson, Marc Gillen, Steve Orchiton, Catherine Reding, Dave Thompson, and Tim Popple.

Circle is for Anna, a friend in need.

Brian was a pheasant, by now long since lunch.

Also thanks to Robin Rimbaud for his free flaneur sample pack, and to the uploaders at freesound.org.

Handmade double CDR edition in engraved wooden box with photo booklet, plus USB drive containing the album in various digital formats, an 'Isolated Versions' edition of the album, and a bonus EP of exclusive tracks.

Streaming, download and limited edition box available from Bandcamp.