it is the 5th anniversary of the release of musicians of bremen volume three

it is the 5th anniversary of the release of musicians of bremen volume three.

horsemouth should be on a zoom call with howard for zoom beers. and he should be back in hackney because friends are visiting. but...er. he isn't. he also should have been back in hackney because the universe was being cruel to a friend. (plus he has music to get on with). 

he has missed his opportunities once again. 

musicians of bremen's volume three is essentially the horsemouthfolk solo album. 

strangely though it features a number of duo improvisations (serpent(S), on the banks of the susquehanna), a hymn (let all mortal flesh keep silence), a number of guitar instrumentals, one robbed off debussy (her hair like some glittering gold is a lift of la fille au cheveux de lin) , one robbed of john fahey (funeral music lifts some of his the death of the clayton peacock), and one derived from the subdivision of the octave by modes of limited transposition (when the faun met alice).. 

it also includes a 14th century dirge (worldes blisse), an irish traditional tune (sliabh na mban, sung by denise ishaque), a gospel blues (satan your kingdom must come down)  and a collection of english folksayings about the devil (the devil) set to music.

howard is very busy throughout (on harmonium, on backing vocals, on sound collages and delays and treatments) and (tbh) it was him who did the actual recording (except for two tracks that were done some years before by nick lacey). denise ishaque sings on one and pete holmgren plays double bass on another. 

horsemouth is very proud of it. he urges you all to buy it. he will endeavour to make time to listen to it today.  

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demos for horsemouth's next outing (whenever that should be) exist on soundcloud.  

at the moment horsemouth is hiding out at his folks in the countryside. he is in his brother's old bedroom. he is mostly reading the daily torygraph  (sample headline WHO powers could force UK into lockdown) and (in strange relation) j.g.ballard's kingdom come (which now reads, to horsemouth,  like a prediction of brexit). 

he mostly does his reading sitting out the front of the house. he's not really developed the habit of taking a book and reading it up on the common yet. he doesn't tend to get much further.