Desert Incense, by A Handful of Earthstars

Desert Incense

by A Handful of Earthstars

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

Purchasable with gift card

name your price

1.	Dance and the Path Will Appear 07:45	info	buy track
2.	Midsummer Desert Cicadas 02:45	info	buy track
3.	Cat Shrine 04:26	info	buy track
4.	Sleepy Black Cat 03:32	info	buy track
5.	Singing Stone 01:48	info	buy track
6.	Feathers 03:22	info	buy track
7.	Winter Cranes 03:55	info	buy track

about

Acoustic strings, handmade percussion, and field recordings.

DANCE AND THE PATH WILL APPEAR: Fretless banjo trance tune for dancing in the monsoon rain.

MIDSUMMER DESERT CICADAS: Fretless banjo evokes the high summer triple-digit heat with cicadas, Tibetan singing bowls, circular saw blade gongs, abandoned water tank drum, turtle shell rattle. Cicadas are Cacama valvata, the "cactus dodger", recorded in the northern Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson, May 2016.

CAT SHRINE: Soothing feline healing guitar tune with brass bells, yowls from black cat Leon, cat purrs from Leon, Horace, Reginald, Yin, Impy, and Smally.

SLEEPY BLACK CAT: Acoustic bass and guitar lullaby for black cat Impy.

SINGING STONE: Stone ocarina carved by Whittaker Freegard, 1995, made from a flint pebble out of the Cretaceous chalk, Salisbury, England.

FEATHERS: Guitar (1973 Kiso Suzuki F-250) speaks of wings on the winter rain with rattle made from scraps of folded sheet steel.

WINTER CRANES: Sandhill cranes recorded at Whitewater Draw, southern Arizona, January 2017.

credits

released July 22, 2017

All music, production, and album art by Lorena B. Moore, 2017.

license

about

A Handful of Earthstars Arizona

Lorena Babcock Moore: Artist, geologist, desert banjo player, maker of bells, flutes, and rattles.

contact / help

Contact A Handful of Earthstars

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like A Handful of Earthstars, you may also like:

Traverse
by Akagera

featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 26, 2024
go to album
Mbavaira
by Ephat Mujuru & the Spirit of the People

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jun 29, 2021
go to album
Sun to Sun
by Alice Gerrard

Stirring Americana set to acoustic arrangements and topped by the legendary Alice Gerrard’s lovely, world-wise voice. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 23, 2023
go to album
Invitation
by Michele Stodart

Michelle Stodart’s folk music captures hope in melancholy, addressing the transformational aspects of the most challenging times. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 3, 2023
go to album
The Edge of the Land
by Katie Spencer

Spencer's indie folk sophomore album was recorded live in the studio over the course of two days. Bandcamp New & Notable May 6, 2022
go to album
The Flowers That Bloom in Spring
by Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert

Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert offer up a stunning minimalist country record, conjuring huge emotions with little more than vocals & guitar. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 13, 2022
go to album
Paume de pierre
by Sage Alyte

The Belgian duo use violin, banjo, gongs and bird calls to create looping, gentle songs that mimic the ambience of the natural world. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 28, 2021
go to album