In the revolutionary year of 1970, when the old world was crumbling and new consciousness blooming through the cracks, Anne and Graham Hemingway channeled their mystical visions into magnetic tape. Released on The Village Thing, the cult label shepherded by singer-songwriter Ian A. Anderson, this sole testament from the Cardiff couple stands as one of acid folk's most luminous documents.

The Hemingways' music reflected the profound influence of the Incredible String Band, with wavering harmonies and unconventional instrumentation that defined the British acid folk style. Their arsenal of transformation included dulcimer strings, glockenspiel vibrations, vibes that opened dimensional doorways, bells that called ancient spirits, kazoo meditations, and small percussions that mimicked the heartbeat of the earth itself. Joined in their ritual by label-mate John Turner on bowed and finger-picked string bass and Andy Leggett on woodwind, they created a sacred circle of sound.

The album exists in the creative lineage of contemporaries like Dr. Strangely Strange, COB, Comus, Forest and Tir Na Nog, all part of what was known as the original freak-folk brigade. Their songs created tripped-out, spellbinding folk collages about wizards and dragons, dreams and intentions, love, flickering candlelight, the sweet scent of half-remembered summers, death, jasmine, and suicide.

Sun Also Rises is both prophecy and prayer, a work that understood the sun rises not just in the sky but in human consciousness. This is music for those who heard the universe singing through Welsh valleys, who knew that revolution meant evolution of the spirit. Though work was started on a second album, it was never completed, leaving this single statement as their entire recorded legacy. Now returned to us when we need it most, a reminder that the sun also rises, always, especially in the darkest hours before dawn.