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Compilation is a few months old but still new by industry standards... which we here at the Meadow are always deeply concerned with. Heh.

Hubro

Following the loss of her father and entranced by an old shape note song on Harry Smith’s anthology of American Folk Music, Shanti Deschaine of Arborea collaborated with the ghosts of Appalachia to create this song about the journey after death, and how those we love go ahead of us bearing the torch... to light the way. A hidden track from Arborea’s House of Sticks, 2009. The song is called Torchbearer.

"In part an exploration of their fictional counterparts’ themes; from apocalyptic tales to never-were documentaries and phantasmagorical government-commissioned instructional films via stories of conflicting mystical forces of the past and present, scientific experiments gone wrong and unleashed on the world, the discovery of buried ancient objects and the reawakening of their malignant alien influence, progressive struggles in a world of hidebound rural tradition and the once optimism of post-war new town modernism." - Stephen Prince

Latest collaboration between Grey Malkin (Widow's Weeds, The Hare and the Moon), Stephen Stannard of The Rowan Amber Mill, Gayle Brogan of Pefkin.

Dedicated to Toni Morrison who passed this week as well. According to Adam, the song was penned as a response to "Beloved" "Trauma impacts the earth as much as it impacts us. When we step onto a site of trauma, the Earth lets us know there is a crack below us."

Seitō {青鞜} gathers Japanese female artists from various electronic and experimental music fields. The title refers to a cult feminist magazine printed in Japan in the 1910s. All tracks issued for the first time.