"One of the best releases we had this year" - Review of "Tales from the Black Meadow" the album. Musicblob.

Lovely article from Musicblob about the alt-folk renaissance features many great artists including...

The Soulless Party

"Even if it’s quite unexpected to find such a project on this list, the use they make of flutes, orchestral arrangements and the minor chord progressions allow this music to be considered as a branch of the recent alt-folk scenario. To be clear, the music The Soulless Party plays could be labeled as rural psychedelia, evoking landscapes full of gnomes, wizards and ghostly creatures. The background sound fields give the sensation of a wide landscape, most likely experienced at the sunset. Based on an omnipresent organ sound and celestial choirs, the recent Tales From The Black Meadow is one of the best releases we had this year, with ten marvellous compositions to state it."

For the full article click here.

Black Meadow Talk at Todmorden Library - Saturday 25th January - 7.30pm

If you can get yourself across, down or up to Todmorden Library and have a gander at "Tales from the Black Meadow" and the wonderful Folklore Tapes in an evening organised by James Glossop for Wyrd Britannia. The countdown starts now!

Who do I buy "Tales from the Black Meadow" for?

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A few days to go before you'll have bought your online pressies. So may I recommend this for one of the following people. You are bound to know one of them... You can buy it here...

A northerner
A southerner who hankers for the north
A meteorologist
A fog collector
A child of mist
An inhabitant of a remote village
A museum curator
A storyteller
A rambler
A wizard
A dreamer
A collector of fairy tales
A goth
A priest
A milkmaid
A mythogeographer
A librarian
An owner of a black Labrador
A coalman
A pumpkin king
An artist
A witch
A horror junkie
A surly teenager
A bookshop proprietor
A folklorist
A ghost hunter
A ghost
A short story lover
A port drinker
A meadow hag
A sitter in front of the fire
A vampire
A lover of the macabre
A monochrome enthusiast

Review of "Tales from the Black Meadow" - Jim Moon - Hypnobobs "A banquet of weirdness"

An excellent and on the nose review of "Tales from the Black Meadow" book and CD in Jim Moon's Hypnobob's latest podcast.

Jim Moon reviews a selection of spooky books including works by Jeremy Dyson and M.R. James.

"Tales from the Black Meadow is a wonderful exercise in English strangeness. It taps into not only authentic British folklore but it is also mining the same vein of English eeriness that we find in odd 70's TV shows such as "The Owl Service" and "Children of the Stones"...

"A banquet of weirdness..."

"...marvellously atmospheric collection... a great book to have by the arm chair on the long winter nights..."

"very atmospheric black and white illustrations courtesy of Mr Nigel Wilson"

"...as you'll discover when you sample all the delights Professor Mullins brought back from the Black Meadow,  different poems stories and songs do interweave in a subtle way giving you a sense of a distinct mythology that while uniting all of the material also remains just tantalisingly out of reach."

Listen here.

Check out Jim Moon's blog here - there is much to read and savour here.

http://hypnogoria.blogspot.co.uk/