Red Goddess (Of This Men Shall Know Nothing)

VINYL LP RESTOCKS ARRIVING 16TH DECEMBER MAILING OUT TOWARD THE END OF THE SAME WEEK Released March 23 on LP & CD. UK/EU ORDERS: We are personally handling UK/EU orders to save you on shipping costs! You can order above via Bandcamp, or email [email protected] for more info. USA/ROW ORDERS: Customers outside the UK/EU, please order directly from the BaDaBing: badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/red-goddess-of-this-men-shall-know-nothing The prime symbol of Red Goddess (Of This Men Shall Know Nothing), is mugwort. A herb associated with dreaming, travel and menstruation, mugwort particularly favors edgelands: those abandoned, untended places, part man-made, part rural, where nature begins to reclaim what humanity has left behind. The music here unfolds a mandala of symbolism from these liminal spaces, drawn from a web of fascinations which unfolded during the recording process. "Hawthonn is the real deal. Equally adept at transcribing crow calls into musical scales as they are at creating horizon melting atmospheres, Red Goddess raises the bar for musicians interested in composing straight from the creative imagination. For fans of Jocelyn Godwin, John Dee and Folk Horror as much as the darker spectrum of British music, this is a record of staggering breadth." – Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) "Hawthonn's rigorous approach to researching their subject matter and the depth of emotional heft in the music makes this a deeply compelling record." - Luke Turner, The Quietus "... an unusual and sometimes challenging structure and arc, as pieces range from 3 minutes to 15 minutes and alternately resemble an ancient pagan ceremony; a seance, a vivid nightmare, or a funereal dirge [...] At their best, Hawthonn sound like temporally dislocated druids recording cryptic hymnals to the earth's less traveled places." - Anthony D'Amico, Brainwashed