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Kwannon is the ethereal/wyrd folk project of Jenne Micale, formerly of the strange folk band Belladonna Bouquet.
Her influences range from medieval and ethereal music to opera, chant, Pagan ritual and thealogy, Victorian and Romantic poets, and the Carmina Gadelica.
A classically trained singer, Jenne also uses instruments from around the world, such as the kantele, mountain dulcimer and harp, giving her music a touch of the mysterious and otherworldly.
Read a great review of Kwannon and Jenne's latest CD here:
http://www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk/Label-Review-Kwannon.htm
An excerpt:
This is music of another time, the beating tribal skin drums, the resonating string patterns, the soaring vocals all call to a time long ago of the imagination. It is impossible to compare it to anyone really as it is personal and unique. As much medieval early music as it is modern, as much pagan song as it is psychedelic, it is 'wyrd folk', the folk music we cannot truly define but feel deeply.
Allow yourself to be seduced, for your name has been carved into their book of names and hidden in the roots of a rowan tree.
Here's two reviews of Kwannon's first album:
http://psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com/WICCAREVIEW2.html
http://www.othergods.org/NOG%20Sam%2003/clearstarreview.html