HOWL
HOWL LP
Released independently by Daisy Rickman on 20th March 2024.
‘Howl’ is Cornish for ‘Sun’ and this Record is a collection of pieces that I recorded at Home in Cornwall and during my time living in Dorset created between the Winter Solstice of 2020 and Beltane 2023. These pieces of music are a homage to the Sun, the Stars and explorations of the cycles both within ourselves and throughout the turning wheel of the year.
Similarly to ‘Donsya a’n Loryow’ it’s just me playing on this record and you will hear a mix of Singing, Acoustic Guitar, 12 String, Double Bass, Drums, Percussion, Sitar, Cello, Bouzouki, Banjo, Accordion, Clarinet, Fiddle, and Synthesizer. I feel like sometimes recording an Album on your own can be both a blessing and a curse. I enjoy recording at Home alone as I really love the solitary space of creation one enters when experimenting within this process of making music. Though when recording without the presence and input of other musical souls the process can take so long and self doubt is a hurdle that one has to leap over many times. But I love playing different instruments so it’s also a lot of fun being in a realm of recording where these different parts of ones musical self can talk to each other and play. It feels like a very meditative space to be in and a powerful creative place for communicating with the divine.
This record is dedicated to my Grandmother Barbara J Rickman, whose spirit guided and stayed close with me during the creation of this music. Signpost to the stars was written for her and is for all those longing to be in the stars with loved ones who have passed.
I also designed the Album Artwork and the Oil Paintings featured in the Vinyl. The painting on the cover is a piece called ‘Benow Howl’ which in Cornish means ‘Feminine Sun’. The piece is from a series of paintings I made in 2021 during the same period a lot of these songs were written and is an ode to the work of one of my favourite painters Hilma af Klint.
The first single from Howl is ‘Feed The Forest’ which comes out 20th January. Which shall then be followed by ‘Signpost to the Stars’ on 20th February and ‘Bleujen an Howl’ on the 13th March before the Album’s full release on the Spring Equinox.
Side A
Falling Through The Rising Sun
Bleujen an Howl
Sunflowers Of Your Mind
Signpost To The Stars
Side B
Howl
Omlesa
Golden Seeds
Feed The Forest
Winter Solstice
Howlsedhesow
released March 20, 2024
All music written, performed, recorded & produced at Home by Daisy Rickman 2020-2023.
Mixed by Daisy Rickman & Cassius Nymh.
Mastered by Ryan Van Kriedt.
Portrait by Amelia Pemberton
Artwork & Design by Daisy Rickman
All Rights Reserved © & ℗ Daisy Rickman 2024.
https://daisyrickman.bandcamp.com/album/howl
WEIRD WALK GOLD VINYL SPECIAL EDITION OF ‘HOWL’
Weird Walk will be releasing a Limited Special Edition of ‘Howl’ on Gold Vinyl including an Art Print of my Painting ‘Ode to The Sun of the Black and White Universe’ ! Weird Walk and the work they do are a huge inspiration to me and has been such a joy working with them on this special edition. Both mine and weird walks versions are limited to 500 copies.
Link to the Weird Walk special edition:
leylinemusic.bandcamp.com/album/howl
Portrait by Amelia Pemberton at Gwennap Head, Porthgwarra, Cornwall UK.
DONSYA A’N LORYOW
DONSYA A’N LORYOW LP
Donsya a’n Loryow is Daisy Rickman’s Debut Album she released independently on Vinyl August 13th 2022. All Music composed, performed, recorded, produced and mixed at Home by Daisy Rickman 2020. Mastered by Ryan Van Kriedt. Artwork by Daisy Rickman. This first pressing is limited to 300 copies and has nearly sold out so is now only available at Daisy’s live shows.
” ‘Donsya a’n Loryow’ translates in Cornish to ‘Dance of the Moons’. I wrote a lot of the songs in my homelands language and they are in many ways a homage to the magic of that land. Whilst recording at home in Mousehole I started to notice the times I felt most inspired to record music would fall on certain cycles of the moon. It was these lunar dances that inspired the Title and Album Artwork which is an oil painting I made of a hand headed moon maiden. It was my first time learning how to record, produce and mix everything alone in my bedroom. On the Record I Sing and play Guitar, Drums, Double Bass, Percussion, Bouzouki, Banjo, Clarinet, Organ & Cello. It is a piece I poured much of my heart, time, and soul into for two years and was probably one of the longest times I’ve spent working on one piece of work, as although I enjoy working alone at home there are many limitations involved in this process. It feels quite raw but I enjoyed creating this way. I was more interested in capturing the organic feeling of playing rather than getting a perfect take.. which led to a lot of the songs being written within this realm and their seeds growing within the recording process. Has been a very interesting and long creative process that through all the hurdles I have learn’t a lot from. Working in solitude can be both a blessing and a curse. Having this kind of freedom over what you’re creating can be very empowering.. but the amount of unnecessary doubt you encounter within yourself and what you’re doing can become quite maddening compared to when recording with other humans haha. There is so much one can and can’t articulate about making a record.. but to finally hold the LP physically in my hands and share it with the world was such an incredible feeling. ”
Donsya a’n Loryow is available on Vinyl, Bandcamp, Youtube, Spotify, and all other streaming platforms.
Bandcamp: https://daisyrickman.bandcamp.com/album/donsya-an-loryow
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/03SLGE3GnetjUxLbGDXxii?si=iNxlUCWoS2aDeklPrJctpA
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVTzMtwsyM&t=1s
https://moofmag.com/2022/08/12/album-review-daisy-rickman-donsya-an-loryow/
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