Album Notes

What is in a name? The breathing inanimate. The impossible dreamed real. A silver thread woven by the hands of friends who hold strings between their fingers and songs on their breath. Stone Breath play spectral songs and forgotten hymns to God and the Green Wood.

The third CD from Stone Breath, "Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis," finds the band journeying further down the darkened paths they first showed us on their other CDs, "Songs of Moonlight and Rain" and "A Silver Thread to Weave the Seasons" (both from Australia's Camera Obscura label). The darkened deep woods folk and acoustic experimentalism Stone Breath conjured on their earlier recordings is here refined in a cauldron of timeless sound.

With a darker sound than past albums, "Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis" finds Stone Breath tracing a theme throughout the record: a silver thread weaving together such elements as St. John the Baptist, Osiris and Isis, John Barleycorn, the Templar Knights, King Solomon, and Jesus Christ, all shown in the light (or shadow as the case may be) of Stone Breath's ever present nature poetry/observations.

Stone Breath currently features Timothy the Revelator, Prydwyn, and Sarada. They sing and play such diverse instruments as: guitars, banjos, dulcimer, sitar, oud, dumbek, flute, tinwhistle, harmonium, ramyaj, and butterflyheart. To date they have released three CD albums, 2 7" eps, and have been featured on many compilations worldwide. See also: The Spectral Light & Moonshine Firefly Snakeoil Jamboree.

NOTE: Now available in a 2CD expanded edition (see our links on this page to order it from CDBaby).