Colonel Awkward

  This was one of those rare times I bought something unheard, mainly because I absolutely gobble up pretty much everything The Rowan Amber Mill (RAM) put out, the last being the wonderful 'Harrowed By The Stones'.  RAM have cornered the market in two aspects: the 'imaginary' soundtrack and 'folk horror' (or 'Witchfolk' or 'alt-folk' depending on what tag is popular this week).   Until this point I would have said that RAM's acme was the superb 'Book of the Lost', recorded with fellow arcane traveller Emily Jones, a bucolic soundtrack to an imaginary portmanteau TV series (think Amicus films but with more countryside). I would have to say though that 'Disciples of the Scorpion' transcends 'Book of the Lost', an accomplishment in and of itself.  To give some background, via RAM's Bandcamp page, 'Disciples of the Scorpion' is "The official soundtrack to the folk-horror film....a 1975 low budget film made...

  Another bleedin' music blog you cry...why? I'll tell you why..... I have been reading blogs for years, especially music blogs. There were 2 or 3 I used to read religiously but they have unfortunately fallen by the wayside....they were good blogs because THEY TOLD ME WHAT THE MUSIC SOUNDED LIKE. Browsing recently I was faced with blogs that were either written by frustrated journalists thinking they were up for a Pulizer or they slavishly just stick to one 'genre' (*warning - genres will be a future rant*). If a blog tells me, in whatever language the writer sees fit, what the music sounds like I'm happy - I can make a decision to buy or not to buy on that information. If a writer starts bleating on about how the music brought back memories of a glorious holiday in the Norwegian fjords, that doesn't really help because I WASN'T THERE! Now, I'm not saying this blog will be more worthy or better written (in fact it won't) and I'm certainly not say...