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Sherwood Cottage, 16/08/07

by: Children of the Drone

Publication date: 2007-08-16

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0

Topics: Psychedelic, Organic, Improvisational post-modern alternative folk, improv, Ambient, Atmos and Drone, Drone, Ambient, Lo-Fi, Free Psych-Folk, lofi, improvisation, improvisational, Devon, Exeter, drone, droning, jamming, psychedelia, free folk

[If you're unfamiliar with Children of the Drone, the series of compilations will provide a better overview than these individual sessions, which can be quite 'unrepresentative'.]

Improvised music, recorded in a barn outside Sherwood Cottage, near Newton St. Cyres on 16/08/07.

Notes

Richard - electric bass guitar
Henry - percussion
Vaughan - dan bau, acoustic guitar, vocals, etc.
Keith - electric guitar, mandola(?)
John - mandolin, bouzouki, low whistle, dan moi, vocals, etc.
Matthew W - balalaika, saz, percussion, readings, nose-blowing, coughing

Matthew's readings were alternating passages from The House at Pooh Corner and The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, the first two books to come to his attention when scanning Henry's bookshelf before leaving his house for the session. Only a tiny bit of this makes it onto the beginning of the last piece.

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File names encode recording information, as follows: "010605-d2t1x2-2130to2412.mp3" would be excerpt 2 from track 1 of minidisc 2 (running from 21:30 to 24:12 of that track) recorded during the session on 1^st June 2005. Sessions are usually in two parts - we fill one disc, stop for tea, and then fill another disc.