A luminous, moonlit gem from 1995, gathering some of Ataraxia’s most poetic early songwriting. Francesca Nicoli’s voice moves through nocturnal imagery — crying fire-flies, verdigris wounds, rocking chairs of dreams — carried on lute, guitar and drifting keyboards. Delicate, literary and quietly spellbinding.
Another re-release of the backcatalogue of one of the most influential artists in traditional neofolk. Including classics such as: Fael Inis, Reaper man, High gallows tree, The wind that shakes the barley… On this CD Ian Read got helped by : Julie Woods, Mathew Butler and Ian Pirrie. Midwinter Fires has plenty of the mysterious and powerful magick of Northern Europe we expect from Fire + Ice, which here concentrates somewhat more on the heroic struggle against impossible odds exemplified by the
