Hello everyone,
 
Woven Wheat Whispers - New Releases 24th November 2005
 
I'm delighted to let you know about this week's new releases which are from:
 
-  Eleanor's Visceral Tomb (a stunning and unique midwinter folk ritual)
-  Pete Rimmer - Donovan Songs (lovely set of interpretations)
-  Blyth Power (folk rock, 2 albums) & Red Wedding / Mad Dogs and Englishmen offshoots
-  Marrowbones (3 albums) and related Gordon Morris / Peter Massey artists (acoustic folk)
-  Susie Fox (traditional folk)
-  Different Drums of Ireland (you'll belief the drums can fly)
-  The Flying Chaucers (folk dance)
-  Ben Sands (Irish folk)
-  Sal (excellent modern folk)
-  Simon Scardanelli (intense contemporary folk)
 
Artists links at:
http://www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk/Label-News.htm
 
 
The site continues to evolve and grow as we move forward.  We are already up to forty-eight releases after existing for only four weeks during this formative period.  By Christmas we should be approaching a hundred albums on the catalogue.   Site users can also now search for artists and find those similar in our catalogue (using the album references) which is natty and should help people find music they like.  We have also launched our new 'folk dance' section and have other releases in this area coming in future weeks.
 
Promo releases for review are always available as usual, just ask at info@wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk and we'll send you a free link.
 
This week's is a highly diverse set of releases with much that is unique, from the take on folk by Simon Scardanelli, the lush songs of Sal, the stunning Irish drum-folk of Different Drums...., wonderful traditional from Susie Fox, Marrowbones and the song-craft of Ben Sands.
 
A release we highlight this week is the 'Eleanor's Visceral Tomb', a strange name for a wonderfully evocative, strange but accessible album from 'Plough Myth International' label that goes right back to the primitive origins of folk.  It combines the early traditional (pre-Tudor) with the experimental and you really won't have heard a release like it... we struggled even to find comparable references....
http://www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk/Label-Review-Eleanors_Visceral_Tomb.htm
 
Coming next we have some amazing artists including.....
Cunnan   Deserted Village Collective    Daniel Patrick Quinn    12000 Days    Alan Moorhouse    Mike Bosworth with John Kirkpatrick    Hosepipe Band
The Metric Foot Band   more Different Drums.... more Flying Chaucers    Ten Legendary Seconds   ...and others we can't announce yet.
 
For any artists on the catalogue reading who need support integrating the service into their site, either as the full page or just the buttons, let us know.  
 
Do help us search out not only new artists but out of print albums - if you know anyone who issued a folk album that is out of print, we want to help and build an attractive catalogue for readers of the site.  It costs them nothing and we can get their album back out in circulation, being heard again, generating interest and more importantly....hopefully starting to sell again.
 
Thanks as always for your interest and support.  We now have confirmed articles starting to appear in folk magazines and websites which will further enhance our rapidly growing profile.  You are helping to make this happen and we appreciate your assistance and involvement.   The level of readership of the site even in this early phase grows every week as word spreads ahead of our formal launch and people are buying albums regularly  (one wonderful person bought four in one go!).  Every day new artists get in touch, which is excellent as we want to make this a mutually supportive folk music hub for artists, labels, writers and those who love the music.
 
Do keep in touch as always and we look forward to letting you know about another set of releases next week.
 
cheers
LL
 
 
Woven Wheat Whispers:
dedicated to folk music in all its guises
 
http://www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk
the music of the fields will be heard