Crooked Mouth (2022 remaster)

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1.	Cruachan! 02:21	buy track
2.	Moontrance 04:28	buy track
3.	Valar Morghulis 03:37	buy track
4.	Journey Under the Mountain 06:08	buy track
5.	The Song of Quork the Raven 03:15	buy track
6.	Stawamus 12:32	buy track
7.	A Crow's Song 02:03	buy track
8.	Sisters of Wyrd 05:09	buy track
9.	Stawamus Blues 02:18	buy track
10.	Twa Corbies 03:48	buy track
11.	Flower of Scotland 04:39	buy track

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These songs were inspired by time spent on the shore of Lake Babine, in my province of British Columbia, in the winter of 2011. At the time I lived and worked at a nearly empty fisheries conservation facility, surrounded by massive wilderness and decaying remnants of Gold Rush era shacks, only two other humans within the surrounding one-hundred kilometers. I took refuge on those cold nights in a small room filled with the few instruments I had brought with me and recorded what became the first Crooked Mouth demo. I dubbed copies of this tape over a box of abandoned cassettes found in the basement and printed the covers on an inkjet office printer. From the beginning it was clear this would be a fiercely independent and unorthodox undertaking. The release was posted on a few music blogs, and I got a few orders from interesting far-away places, enough to make me think maybe this was worth continuing.

Returning home to the southern coast of the province, I decided to take these songs, and an acoustic track from my metal band, Harrow, and re-record them. I strove to use only acoustic instruments (save for the bass). The result is a strange brew of nature mysticism and local mythology which was just a prelude to what the newly formed project would become. This is the sound of a more simple time, a time of long walks through forests, rivers, and mountains, conversations with ravens, youthful enthusiasm, and musical experimentation. Over the years, what started as a humble oddity became my life’s main artistic vehicle.

All instruments were performed, recorded, and mixed by Crooked Mouth, winter 2012-13 in Squamish, B.C. The music was made using two guitars: a Japanese classical, and a twelve-string, as well as a bodhrán, a large Tsimshian kettle drum, deer and moose antlers, several percussion shakers, a tin whistle, trombone, and an electric bass.

Tracks 9-11 were recorded in 2014 and released digitally, they mark the end of what I consider the “early years” of Crooked Mouth.

Somewhere around 2014, the hard drive which contained the original recordings was destroyed, and no other backups exist, making a more extensive remix of these songs impossible. The album was generously remastered from the original master files, which thankfully survived, in 2021 by Nathaniel Ritter.

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released December 24, 2021

All instruments performed and recorded by Crooked Mouth, winter 2012-13 in Squamish, B.C.

Remastered in 2021 by Nathaniel Ritter.

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Crooked Mouth Vilnius, Lithuania

Founded by Ian Campbell in western Canada in 2012, CROOKED MOUTH has developed their own style of post-industrial folk music, blending influences from the original neofolk wave , with the obscurities of 60/70s acid folk, archaic folklore groups, post-punk music, and the contemporary underground. ... more

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