Dark Holler and Hand/Eye

Hand/Eye was formed in 1994 by Timothy Renner and his wife Alison. This label grew out of a tape label Timothy ran from 1989-1994. Dark Holler was formed in 1999 as a sister/parent label to Hand/Eye. In general, Dark Holler releases more traditional musics while Hand/Eye can range from folk to experimental and all points between.

Crow Tongue · The Red Hand Mark · CD · 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. Their live sound has been called everything from “a more tribal Neurosis” to “Appalachian Doom.” Crow Tongue worships the groove, plowing out raw and primitive, dark, tribal earth and spirit songs. Featuring tiMOTHy of Stone Breath.

"...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 · 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

Crow Tongue has taken their songs from 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).

Prophecies and Secrets is housed in a flat cover that will fit INSIDE the cover of The Red Hand Mark – for those who purchase both.

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

Crow Tongue · Ditch Mix Volume 2 · 3 " CDr · 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 is ditchdigger hymns and callous hand songs; neanderthal loops and cromagnon drones; home-made instruments and circuit-bent effects; broken machines and primitive electronics. Limited edition.

Crow Tongue · Ghost Eye Seeker · CD · 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

Stone Breath · Songs of Moonlight and Rain (Expanded) · CD · h/e031· $11.00 USD

1. The Ghosts of Sounds Long Dead
2. Seven Things Placed in a Hollow Tree
3. Pennies (Stolen from the Eyes of a Dead Man)
4. Wisdom on the Moth's Wing
5. Perched Upon the Temple Bell, the Butterfly Sleeps
6. Flowers on Your Grave
7. Earthlights
8. The Sound of Ghosts Long Dead
9. Words Written on Petals
10. Willowisp
11. The Strength to Face the Stars Above
12. To Cull Undying Flowers
13. The Flight of the Black Swan
14. Long Lost Friend
15. Snaketooth Vision
16. Thunder Runs Through Me
17. Footprints of a Ghost Girl *
18. My Ghost *
19. Leafwalker *
20. Funeral Gifts *
21. Rain Song *
22. Snaketooth Vision (Birth) *
23. Seal of Seasons *
24. Will-o-Wisp (featuring Fit & Limo) *
25. The Long Lost Friend (cobweb'ed) *

Presaging the free/freak/acid-folk boom by almost a decade, Stone Breath carved a unique place in what was then a very lonely neighborhood. Songs of Moonlight and Rain, the first Stone Breath album, struck a spectral note somewhere between Syd Barrett singing nature poetry and The Incredible String Band’s more lonesome moments; blended with experimental graveyard-songs and acoustic drones into a brew of darkness and hope; nature and supernature; love and loss.

This 10-year anniversary edition presents the entire original album with nine bonus tracks! Several bonus tracks from the same period – dating back to the very first Stone Breath song ever recorded (1995), all of the songs from the Strange Familiars 7" ep, and related songs from later periods, including a collaboration with Fit & Limo.

* Bonus tracks

"...a beautiful but also extremely sad effect, again of something lost." - Psyche Van Het Folk