Crow Tongue

Crow Tongue began after tiMOTHy recorded the particularly apocalyptic album, Hoofbeat, Caw, and Thunder which found him singing about huge gatherings of crows he took for harbingers of the End Times. Having previously made music with the acid-experimental-folk band Stone Breath, tiMOTHy was seeking something new. Not a break from what he did before, but something that encompassed more of his influences (which range from Middle Eastern music to reggae to Doom). The key to this, he knew, was rhythms. The final vision became clear with the addition of Æ Hoskin on drums. Crow Tongue's live sound has been called everything from "a more tribal Neurosis" to "Appalachian doom." The band itself has no name for it - they worship the groove.

Language of Light / Crow Tongue split 7" · limited 500 · 7" Vinyl · ECLP001· $8.00 USD

1. Language of Light - The Tower
   
2. Crow Tongue - Wind Chant

Limited to 500 copies.

7" split featuring Language of Light and Crow Tongue. Marbled vinyl. Featuring artwork by Timothy Revelator, Frank Suchomel and R. Loftiss.

"... Language of Light emit an oddly measured swirl of violin, female vocals and mist for their side. Crow Tongue, ... whose last ensemble was the brilliant Stone Breath.... have an equally ritualistic heft, ...but their sound is more rooted in rhythmic primitivism..." - Byron Coley, The Wire

"If you ..fancy a peek at what's happening in the US folk/drone avantgarde, do pick up this slab of grey matter." - Evening of Light

" ...hypnotic and magical sounding and really provoking its content as it is, a moment that could easily last forever." - Psyche van Het Folk

"...this is quality stuff indeed...highly recommended to lovers of folk strangeness." - Ptolemaic Terrascope

"Slap this one on your turntable for a nice morning repast of sinister folk loveliness..." - KFJC

related releases

Crow Tongue · The Red Hand Mark · CD · Dark Holler h/e036 · $11.00 USD

1. The Red Hand Mark
2. Ghost Seeds
3. Osiris
4. Ypres
5. Sixteen Hooves
6. The Prophet’s Dream

The Red Hand Mark closely mirrors the Crow Tongue live sound. The bones of this sound are guimbri-banjo (a bass banjo based on a Morroccan lute), hand-drums, and vocals.

"...a new ritualistic, minstrel sound, that starts rather neofolk with ethnic flavours, but builds up to a rhythmical semi-African groove of shamanistic minstrel singing." - Psyche Van Het Folk

Crow Tongue · Prophecies and Secrets: the Red Hand Mark in Dub ·
CDr · Dark Holler h/e037· $9.00 USD

1. Undead Voices
2. Four Horses Ride
3. Calling to the Ancient Ears
4. Owl Eyes
5. Evergreenman
6. Patchwork Men
7. Dreamer Prophets
9. Corpse Candles

The Red Hand Mark and reinterpreted, remixed, and otherwise broken down to their skeletons…all in order to twist, tweak, reimagine, and rebuild them as Prophecies and Secrets: The Red Hand Mark in Dub. Not a traditional dub album, but using the techniques and experimental spirit of dub to create something new from the source recordings of The Red Hand Mark (also includes some bonus material).

"...a rewarding addition to the previous album..." -Psyche Van Het Folk

Crow Tongue · Ditch Mix Volume 2 · 3 " CDr · Dark Holler h/e027· $7.00 USD

1. Wake Nicodemus
2. Prayers for the Dead
3. Chant Revolution
4. The Red Hand Mark

Continuing the "Ditch Mix" series with a second volume of deep root experimentalism using a home-made tape delay system, home-made instruments, broken effects boxes, and more. For this volume, Shane Speal provides some drums and Sarada provides some vocals.

Crow Tongue · Ghost Eye Seeker · CD · Dark Holler h/e034 · $11.00 USD

1. Ghost Eye Gaze: Ghost Eye See
2. Ghost Eye Gaze: Brightless Gaze, the True Vision
3. Ghost Eye Gaze: The Silverspun Web
4. Ghost Eye Gaze: Cloud Eye Sight
5. Ghost Eye Gaze: Beneath Wings, Above Wind
6. Seeker: Seeker Chant
7. Seeker: Dream Asleep, Pray Awake
8. Candle, Corpse, and Bell

Crow Tongue’s first full length finds them summoning distant howls from the fog of night. Fingerpicked strings and Eastern instruments recall Crow Tongue’s musical heritage (the acid-folk of Stone Breath), but here they are layered with primitive homemade instruments, circuit-bent electronics, and mantric drones.

"...look to the Whore Rising, salute the Odin and the rest of the Heroes, kick the Gods' lard arses into touch, and hail TiMOTHy Revelator as being one highly useful Son of the Bitch." - Head Heritage, album of the month, April

"The music pulses, it's alive and shattering, very real in an irreal sort of way and perfectly smashing for that red X you have marked on your calendar as 'that special day for a transcendent meltdown.'" - Foxy Digitalis

"...something like droning harmonium, a sitar-like instrument for lead improvisations, slide guitars, fuzzed and distorted guitars, feedback guitar sounds, which together create a beautiful rich sound for the rather psychedelic improvisations..." - Psyche Van Het Folk

"...a truly astounding and captivating listen." - Sputnik Music