News 2017

• My fairy tale ‘Envoys to the empress’ and essay ‘Fated Intervention: Gracing, musing and the wishing well’ were published in a peer reviewed journal, TEXT, Special Issue 43, Into the bush: Australasian Fairy Tales. Online access is free. Search by title and click on it to download the PDF. It’s also at Research Gate. Or ask me directly.

• After releasing music on indie record labels for two decades, we regrouped to bring you:

Torlan: ethereal water music, sourced from our albums. Torlan is Welsh for ‘from the riverbank’. Welcome nymphs, nixies, nereids! Listen for waterbirds or mermaids. Discover wetlands or island witches. Dream of voyages beyond the estuary. Rest by a well. Trace a forest lane in the rain.

Elderbrook: fantasy & faery. 50 elves from 15 nations unite in a soundtrack to my chronicles, calling on fables, mythology, folklore and fairy tales, mingling balladry with dreampop and classical ambience, from the melodic whimsy of Violin Velvet, to the shimmering energy of Escalder the Green Lady and Evander the Unicorn.

• Thanks Bertrand Villmur for translating an abridged story of Elderbrook into French. This was intended for the label’s book-cd so I settled the commission. Translation will surface when timing is ripe. Reminder: check if this news is in the correct year.

• A review of our music sprang from American author Shawn Michel de Montaigne, whose blog & book Melody and the Pier to Forever I recommend: In Praise of the Ethereal, Atmospheric Music of Louisa John-Krol