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THE BOOK OF STARS 

A new album, folktale, and magic lantern theatre show*

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THE BOOK OF STARS: COLLECTION OF THE HEIR
 

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Songs of the Light Queen, Earth Queen and Ocean Queen
as passed down by the Air Queen. 

THE BOOK OF STARS:
STORIES OF THE LIGHT QUEEN

The story of the Light Queen's cosmic birth, her life at home on the mountain and her journey to find the Sun.

 

Adorned with cuts and printed as it was told by the ancient ancestor who was neighbor to the Light Queen herself. 

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​​(*A magic lantern is an old-style analogue projector typically used with hand-painted art on glass slides) 

APPRENTICE TO
TRANSFORMATION

Original & traditional fiddle tunes for witnessing Death as a moment in transformation.

BURNING HOUSE / AS PRAYER / WING KING / HORNLÅT VALS EFTER KERSTIN IVARES /

ALL IS FLAME / VÄSTERBOTTEN POLSKA EFTER ALFRED NILSSON / DOOR / TUSSGUBBEN (SPRINGLEIK) / APPRENTICE TO TRANSFORMATION

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"AS PRAYER" - MUSIC VIDEO

THE HARDINGFELE & THE MYSTICAL PROCESS OF TUNE TRANSMISSION
crankie

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india ink on butcher paper.

story, drawings, and crankie performance by Georgia Beatty.

2021.

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"In the southern region of Norway called Telemark, a young hardingfele player is born the fateful day her mother, a beautiful and wise player herself, hands her daughter one of these magical instruments and begins the young girl on her journey into understanding the mysterious and captivating 300-year-old tradition..."

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