Crooked Mouth (CDr, Album, Promo, Ltd) Not On Label (Crooked Mouth Self-Released) none 2012 Crooked Mouth (Cass, Album, C40) Preposterous Creations SPOCK018 2013 Live In Salem (Cass, Ltd, Num) Shadow Of The Stone Shadow Of The Stone 003 2013 Crooked Mouth & Night Profound - Crooked Mouth & Night Profound (Cass, Ltd, C35) Brave Mysteries CQBL060 2015 Crooked Mouth & Night Profound - Crooked Mouth & Night Profound (LP, Album, Ltd) Neuropa Records NRP74 2017 Decay (Cass, Album) Brave Mysteries CQBL067 2017
Label: Brave Mysteries – CQBL067 Format: Cassette, Album Country: Canada Released: 24 May 2017 Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country Style: Folk, Neofolk
Tracklist
1 The Campbells Are Coming 1:22 2 Decay 2:57 3 Here Come The Navvies 2:48 4 The Ballad of Kilburn Campbell 8:27 5 Shatter 3:35 6 Arms Of The Mountain 5:55 7 A Bindrune For You 2:21 8 Farewell To Brackendale 1:59
The majestic northern soul of Crooked Mouth squares our shoulders and uplifts our hearts with their finest offering to date. Decay is rich and mature, smelling of salt and soil. The ocean size bluster of side A, blows deftly through the scene with an upright and regal songcraft. Ian Campbell authors a songbook of focused and intimate originality which shines brighter than so many rehashed tropes. Foregoing the typical occult posturing and other sinister themes for a genuinely personal experience, the entire album brims with the heat of the hearth. A modest sense of ancestral pride, childhood nostalgia and homebound gratitude all well up from the atmosphere of this album. Side B sees our journeyman tear off his clothes to plunge over the rapids and land effortlessly into the kind of heart-opening grooves that have made the high north west regions famous, one generation after the next. Irish folk tunes meet post-industrial grit, tribal confidence and stirring Pacific dirge all wrapped in flannel and swollen with beer, stumbling in song with echoes bounding throughout the night and burning deeply together beneath a filter of giant fir trees. The arms of the mountain call you home.
Crooked Mouth & Night Profound – Crooked Mouth & Night Profound (2015)
Label: Brave Mysteries – CQBL060 Format: Cassette, Limited Edition, C35 Country: US Released: 12 Oct 2015 Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country Style: Neofolk
Tracklist
A1 Quintessence (...Of Grief) A2 The Raven A3 Left In Ruins A4 Black Bear B1 Fear In Love B2 Where The Wind Is (A Farewell)
Notes "In the first ever Brave Mysteries collaboration release, we find two very exciting young Canadian Neofolk acts, Crooked Mouth and Night Profound, joining together to create a very touching album of pastoral ballads. Intricate acoustic tapestries and hushed voices rise and fall in a unique offering that is both reminiscent of their individual styles as well as entirely new and exclusive to this effort. For those unfamiliar, Crooked Mouth is the stirring folk music of Ian Campbell, whose music is equally steeped in traditional Gaelic folk forms and nuanced personal reflections on the brooding expanses of his native land way up in rugged British Columbia. On this remarkable working, the introverted and shadowy nature of Crooked Mouth is expanded and illuminated by the miasma of chthonic folk collective Night Profound. Also hailing from British Columbia, Night Profound weave a kaleidoscopic instrumental prowess and progressive songwriting through the proceedings. This is a truly unique album, offering glimpses at two nascent acts, working in intimate collaboration with one another while drawing inspiration from a region of the world thus far unrepresented in Neofolk circles."
“When Stars Stand Still” continues Crooked Mouth’s 2024 cycle of cosmic folklore music by presenting two traditional songs for the summer solstice. One in Lithuanian, and one in Belarusian language. Und wir singen im Atomschutzbunker Hurra, diese Welt geht unter!
Crooked Mouth – Between The Fool & The Magician (2023)
Label: Ætheric Recordings – ÆÞR∞1 Format: Vinyl, LP, CD Country: Lithuania Released: Mar 3, 2023 Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country Style: Neofolk, Acoustic, Experimental
Tracklist
1 Between the Fool & the Magician 3:52 2 Repine in Soporific Fields 4:56 3 Guardian Of The Threshold 5:02 4 Black Madonna at the Gate of Dawn 5:50 5 They Speak to Us 4:28 6 Raganų Ratilai 3:43 7 Arms of the Mountain 6:54 8 The May Queen's Radiant Astral Light 3:54 9 Sunrise 2:37
Acoustic Guitar, Harmonium, Kanklės, Accordion, Percussion – Ian Campbell Cello, Vocals – Æmber Hurdy Gurdy, Flute – Virginija Pievos Kanklės, Vocals – Agota Zdanavičiūtė Mixed By, Mastered By – Nathaniel Ritter Vocals, Drum – Adam Ormes Vocals, Electric Guitar – Art Abscons
The recording of this album was started in Duncan, British Columbia, Canada soon after the Pluto/Saturn conjunction of 2019/2020, and continued through the two years of purification that followed. It was completed on the Autumn Equinox, 2022 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Mixed by: Ian Campbell and Nathaniel Ritter Mastered by: Nathaniel Ritter Photos by: Erika Drake, Violeta Mackialo, Derek Carr, Eimantas Žeimys, Justina Blaževičiūtė Design and Layout by: Justina Blaževičiūtė, Martin Falkenstein
Ian would like to thank everyone who participated in creating this record, as well as to our friends in Aurinkopyörä, Romowe Rikoito, and Braun, as well as Dr. Pales for the permission to use his words.
// neofolk. Canada
