Orchis – A Thousand Winters (1997)

Country: England

 

Tracklist

1. The Horseman 00:14
2. Blood Of Bone 05:40
3. Blackwaterside 03:42
4. The Hare / Jennet 02:58
5. Gallows Man 05:00
6. Arcadia 04:28
7. The Horn 00:23
8. He Walks In Winter 06:14
9. Magæra 03:21
10. Winter 01:02
11. Risen 06:13
12. From The Iron Wood 07:49

 

English dark folk project consisting of Tracy Jeffery (who also sings with Cunnan and J Greco's SQE),  

Amanda Prouten and Alan Trench (Cunnan, SQE, Twelve Thousand Days (with Martyn Bates), Temple Music).

The band released four albums starting in 1994 with "The Dancing Sun", 

which was more a collection of formative pieces, then in 1997 the concept album that was "A Thousand Winters".

"Mandragora" (Trisol), an alchemical album based around the themes of life, death and the transmutation of the soul

followed in 1999 and in 2013 the album "A Dream" (Infinite Fog Productions).

Relocation and various tedious problems put Orchis on the back burner while its members involved in other projects.

There also have been numerous compilation album appearances over the years.
"A Thousand Winters" is a сonceptual album, dealing with the story of a thriving pagan culture

that at first laughs in derision at the priests of the desert messiah, and then is slowly submerged

by the rising tide of christianity until all that remains is folk memory and old tales and songs.
Mystical dark folk with an impurity of a classical English psychedelia of the late 60s.

 
Memory