After the enchantment of 2023’s Sun Arcs, Blue Lake returns with the beguiling Weft. Gone is the blue lake of the earlier album’s cover; in its place is Maria Zahle’s woven ̶…| a closer listen
Almost exactly a year ago-- one journey around the sun-- my dear friend Asia Suler (of One Willow Apothecaries) and I began the collaboration that would become WEFT. In the mountains of Appalachia where Asia lives, the wild violets and irises were up, and she dreamt and then brewed up a potent violet elixir, purple with the medicine of those dark petals, stirred over the stovetop to the hymns of Hildegard Von Bingen. With the intuitive dreaming unique to her old heart, Asia then began addin...| The Gleewoman's Notes