A three-LP bundle gathering the latest Aguirre reissues from two corners of contemporary folk and experimental music, offered together at a reduced price.

Two of the records belong to Brannten Schnüre, the Würzburg duo of Christian Schoppik and Katie Rich, who have spent more than a decade building a singular world at the borders of dark folk, musique concrète, ambient, and narrative conceptualism. Sommer im Pfirsichhain, the summer panel originally issued in 2015, and Geträumt hab ich vom Martinszug, the autumn panel recorded in 2014, are two consecutive chapters of the four-season cycle the duo built across the middle of the last decade. Each returns in a second edition of 500 on coloured vinyl - red transparent and green transparent respectively. The first carries the slowed, voluptuous air of a long midsummer afternoon; the second the lantern-lit melancholy of the Martinszug, the procession of Saint Martin held across much of Europe in November.

The third is Stella Kola, the self-titled debut of the American project led by Beverly Ketch, of Jow Jow and Weeping Bong Band, and Robert Thomas of Sunburned Hand of the Man. Self-released in 2023 and now given a wider edition, it is a song-led wandering into the stranger reaches of folk, drawing on Linda Perhacs, Judee Sill, and the late-1960s British folk of Pentangle and Fairport Convention, refracted through the Western Massachusetts underground.

Three records of slow nostalgia and quiet experiment, gathered as a single set.

Tags: dark folk, experimental folk, musique concrète, ambient, German hauntology, psych folk, Würzburg, seasons cycle