Atomic Drones by Witchwire
Drones and sound collages for the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, other victims of mass bombing campaigns, and Gaza.
Witchwire is a long-brewing ambient side project to Wychwood, and this is a sister album to Wychwood's Atomic Folk album (https://wychwood.bandcamp.com/album/atomic-folk), which recycles some of its music into drones and mixes them with found sounds from many sources.
Tracklist
Credits
Erin contributed fiddle and singing for reuse.
Alexis contributed cello for reuse and reading.
Sarah contributed harp for reuse and reading.
Chrissy contributed glockenspiel and singing for reuse.
Sandy, Karen, Marianne contributed singing for reuse.
Tim contributed banjo for reuse and guitar, singing, reading, mixing, and self-indulgence.
No synths or electric/electronic/DAW instruments were involved, just acoustic instruments and found sound run through FX. Select any track for a breakdown of all its audio sources.
The album's cover image is an edited photo of the Brussels Atomium by Pixabay user NakNakNak, made available under a creative commons license.
License
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.Tags
We identify only half-jokingly as “the world’s first blackgrass band.” We play old murder-ballads and other spooky traditional folk songs, with some bright and sentimental spots thrown in for contrast. Some days we’re acoustic purists. Some days we like to corrupt traditional folksongs with bits of black metal, ambient, and noise music. We’re trying to make folk music dangerous again.