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"There exists in old country lore the notion of apples being magical on account of how should you slice one at the equator, rather than from pole to pole as is the norm, there is revealed a pentacle - a pentacle of pips indeed. Furthermore, two lovers might cut an apple in a such way, and one might inscribe their name in one half, and the other in the other; they then reunite the two halves, whereupon they are bound together and buried at the new moon with a whispered charm, so that as the fruit decays and the moon waxes their love will grow ever stronger. A Pentacle of Pips is a celebration of our love as manifest through our musical compatibility which gave rise to that love in the first place. Here it is let loose from our folk moorings, thus moving into more experimental and spontaneous territories, trusting in the immediacy of our intuition as being mediumistic to something we still might dare think of as being Traditional."
Folk Police Download Series FPDS 002
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released 01 April 2011
Rachel McCarron: singing, 5-string banjo, electric guitar, frame drum, harmonium and field recordings
Sean Breadin: singing, crwth, kemence, citera, doromb, goose pipe, seljefloyte, bells and spectral leakage
All music by Venereum Arvum, except Robin Sick & Weary, which is traditional to Scotland and arranged by Venereum Arvum. All words traditional. Recorded on location in Lancashire, North West England throughout August and September 2009. Campanology: Crowcombe, Somerset, June 2009. Fowl: Blackpool Zoo, January 2007
A Ploughmyth Production, October 2009. Originally released as a limited edition CDr by Reverb Worship
Released in association with Ploughmyth International
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