Hey, if you like filk our amazingly talented friend Beth Kinderman has a new album dropping on October 25th (but you can pre-order it now at her Bandcamp!)

We've been hearing Beth perform some of these songs in concert for years and I'm SO excited there are finally gonna be recordings of them available! I love all of Beth's music, but this album has some of her most powerful pieces, the sort of songs that worm their way into your psyche and stay there. If you like prog-rock, references to science fiction and mythology, complex harmonies, and the sort of lyrics that will buzz around in your head for months, check out Sisyphus: Ten Songs About Hope by Beth Kinderman and the Player Characters!

The Eagle has landed: July 20, 1969

I remember. What a day.

Happy Moon Day!

For the Eagle has landed; tell your children when Time won’t drive us down to dust again

Happy Moon Day, tumblr.

Happy Moon Day!

A song I wrote, inspired by Turn A Gundam.

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Lyrics:

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I blink the frost from my eyes

as the sun seeps into my bones

My house is overgrown with vines

I planted ten generations ago

They give me a stallion to ride

and the reins are placed into my hands

I am the moonlight that shines

on these ancestral, long-forgotten lands

I can’t recall my mother’s eyes

nor the features of my father’s face

I’m sure they must have been like mine

but now I’m their only living trace

Long is the history untold

and long have we waited to return

But as our plans now unfold

I start to see peace’s promise burn

And though the great machines have started to move forth without me

I still must bear the consequences of my sin

But now my own reflection in the flesh has dared allow me

to see through others’ eyes and hear the changing wind

And though we come from different places, times, and circumstances

we dance together to the same eternal tune

The past repeats itself and comes back bearing second chances

just like the phases of the moon….

“Still Catch the Tide” by Talis Kimberley, performed here by Seanan McGuire with Michelle “Vixy” Dockrey, Tony Fabris, S.J. Tucker, and Amy McNally.  Lyrics are available here.

This is one of my favorite songs to sing along to when I want to be Sad About The Sea (a specific emotion that I experience with alarming regularity.)

If you want a selkie song with a happy ending, check out “The Maiden and the Selkie” by Heather Dale or “Glass Half Full of the Sea” by Benjamin Newman.

A parody fragment from a few years back…

Saw the light on, thought you’re doing laundry

I never figured you’d do that yourself

You looked so guilty as you reached for something,

Something on the highest shelf…

I’ve seen the videos you post to TikTok,

I know the stuff you put on Instagram

I know the problem with your whole generation

And I’m smarter than you think I am.

I never thought I could watch you forever

The way I used to back when you were small

“Keep detergent out of reach of your children”

I can’t do that now - you’re six feet tall

Yet I worry you might still eat the Tide, my son

Yes, I worry you might still eat the Tide

Consensus among the filkyeahfilk mods is that this is hilarious and deserves a further reblog.

@mayphoenix Good news! Someone on the filkhaven discord was able to find someone with a copy, and they've shared the lyrics with us! They're pasted in below the cut.

Thanks to everybody who helped us hunt this down!

Hey all! Remember the concert @scribefindegil and I talked about performing back in August that ended up having technical difficulties for folks who tried to tune in to stream? I have good news - the convention posted the official video of our performance (this time with sound!) to their YouTube channel today.

Since this is now the largest repository of our music all in once place (especially some of our newer songs), I broke it down into a tracklist, so if you've never heard our music before, want to check out the new stuff, or just want to listen to a favorite song or two, they'd be easier to find.

(And yes, if you just want to see me play the electric kazoo while dressed as Raine Whispers, I have noted when it made its appearance)

If you haven't heard our stuff before, we're Astrisoni, a two-person viola-and-guitar filk (nerd folk, basically) duo that write songs about sci-fi, fantasy, our favorite stories, and all manner of adjacent topics. A handful of our songs are also available for purchase on our Bandcamp (where and and all support is always appreciated, especially since we're going through a bit of a rough patch)

0:22 - Opportunity Lullaby

5:15 - Story And Song

9:12 - Pure Of Heart

16:14 - Ancillary

21:07 - The World Is Still Here

25:35 - Don’t Stop Believing (Redux)

32:25 - You Comfort Me

38:42 - Possessing The Text

45:00 - Solidarity Forever (Boiling Isles version)

49:15 - Chapters In-Between

56:04 - Make This Timeline Brighter

A bit of vampire lore that Anne Rice stole from Bram Stoker (and that Bram Stoker made up), and a song that Jodi Krangle wrote about the Anne Rice version. Given today’s Dracula Daily of the captain’s log, it seems like a fun day to post it. Could be considered spoilers for Dracula if you don’t already know this bit of lore…

Hey, followers! Any suggestions on this topic?

NEWh3re is almost here!

Please join us for NEWh3re (pronounced “Anywhere Three!”), June 10-12, 2022, with Guests of Honor Astrisoni (Nate Wulver and Heather Estelme).

Our preliminary schedule grid and song contest announcement have both been posted. And as in previous years, please come join us on the NEFilk Discord server.

Hoping to see you soon at the con!

Our schedule has been updated! Same link as above, new grid.

Announcing: NEWh3re 2022!

Yes, folks, we are once more holding NEFilk as an online event in June 2022.

Please join us for NEWh3re (pronounced “Anywhere Three!”), June 10-12, 2022, with Guests of Honor Astrisoni. Check out their bandcamp, and stay tuned for more announcements!

Apparently, Talis Kimberley’s daughter once pointed at a picture of a mermaid and said “That’s you when you were a mermaid”.

I think something weird happened with this one: the link has changed to “Eurovision 1976″ instead of the Talis Kimberley song that should be here.

... That is deeply weird. And it's happening again when I try to embed a link to the right video!

You should be able to click here for the right one, at least.