At the Serpent Solstice, by Shelterland

At the Serpent Solstice

by Shelterland

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	1.	A Crack in the Lake 02:01
	2.	Rites of Presage 08:14
	3.	The Scorpion and the Seahorse 07:42
	4.	The Girl and the Glass Ocean 05:35
	5.	The Prettiest Corpse 05:14
	6.	Shades from the Witching Well 09:14
	7.	Night Falls 03:53
	8.	Circle 02:22
	9.	The Lesley Experiment 13:03
	10.	Winter of the Red Queen 04:52
	11.	Parliament of Tears 08:39
	12.	Cadexe 01:40
	13.	The Leph 03:42
	14.	The Sun Chimes 04:43
	15.	The Sentinel and the Ferryman 08:32
	16.	Another Dawn 10:30

about

The players were:-

Al: atmospherics (3, 4, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16), bass (3, 15), cello (1, 3), chant (2), chimes (4, 16), choir (2), drill (3, 11), drones (1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16), drums (3, 9, 15), field recordings (2, 3, 8, 9, 15), fridge (2), glass (2, 3, 4), keys (4), organ (4, 15), percussion (3, 4, 11, 15, 16), piano (1, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15), shamisen (15), strings (4)
plus lephertronics on everything except (9), on which there are no lephertronics.

Ste: acoustic guitar (3, 4, 10, 14), bass guitar (3, 9, 13), field recordings (3, 5, 9, 15), mandolin (7), sitar (15)

Marc: acoustic guitar (2, 13), bass guitar (4, 6, 13, 14), inverted vocal (15)

Steve: Drums (3, 9, 15)

Brian: fuffing (15)

Catherine: violin (2, 7, 13, 14, 15)

Dave: vocals (10, 15, 16)

Tim: vocals (1)

Anna: spoken word (2, 4, 10, 11, 12)

and

Robin: flaneurettes (5, 6) - scannerdot.com/2020/04/the-birth-of-flaneur-electronique/
Free to use without copyright

"neatonk": "MISStereoPiano" (1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13) - freesound.org/people/neatonk/packs/9133/
"khunseng": "DR000723" (2) - freesound.org/s/112141/
"Satoration": "mass in croatian cathedral" (2) - freesound.org/s/54753/
"Kaiho": "Sitar long.aiff" (15) - freesound.org/s/37715/

All players performed by Shelterland; all music written by Shelterland
words on (11) adapted from «Людей теряют только раз» by Геннадий Шпаликов

Design & photography by Al
(except image #7 adapted from a photograph taken by Joy & Alf in Soweto, January 13th, 1976)
Box design by Al

Mixed at the Kitchen Sync between 2014 and 2022

freesound.org samples adapted and edited under Creative Commons Attribution license
Summary: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

© Shelterland, 2022 ℗ Treehouse Orchestra Recordings, 2022

Thanks for their (sometimes unwitting) involvement goes to Alastair Popple, Stephen Benson, Marc Gillen, Steve Orchiton, Catherine Reding, Dave Thompson, and Tim Popple.
Circle is for Anna, a friend in need.
Brian was a pheasant, by now long since lunch.
Also thanks to Robin Rimbaud for his free flaneur sample pack, and to the uploaders at freesound.org.

treehouseorchestrarecordings.blogspot.com/2022/02/shelterland-at-serpent-solstice.html

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released February 22, 2022

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Collective of artists and musicians based in Carlisle, Cumbria. Alt. rock, ambient, folk, avant garde, pop and more.

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