Frostlake - Ice & Bone

'Ice & Bone', the long awaited second CD by multi-instrumentalist frostlake (Jan Todd) who has been busy writing and recording for the improvising band Orchestra of The Upper Atmosphere. 'Ice & Bone' is now finally released and the distinctive sound palette of her debut CD 'White Moon, Black Moon' continues - acoustic and electronic sounds washed with layered vocals and the creative bass of Terry Todd.

They have played out live as a duo and here are studio recordings of their live set. The mix of acoustics strings/wind instruments with ethereal synthesizers and percussion takes you to another world- from the gentle terror of '60's B movie 'The Lake' to the classic folk horror of 'When Trees Sing/Find Me'. Ice & Bone unwraps the darker layers of the mind in dreams and the unexplained. Driving bass and drums grind it back to reality in 'Just A Game' and 'The Last Time' so this album is caught between the worldly and the unworldly - British psychedelia at it's best. Field recordings add a sense of time and place in the eerie, natural world that frostlake creates and shares it's stranger.

Ice & Bone is a gorgeous, dreamy and rich with haunted folk, of lost ghosts, calling from another world, whispering sweet things in your ear. - Lee Henderson - Big Beautiful Noise

Personnel: frostlake/Jan Todd (vocals, lyrics, electronics, guitars, banjo, Lute Harp, Celtic Harp, zither, viola, melodica, clarinet, recorders, glockenspiel, Idiopan, percussion, Korg MS2000, Wavedrum, drum creations, midi keys, Arturia Microbrute, field recordings and found objects), Terry Todd (bass guitars, Idiopan Dominus)