52:29:48N 3:00:03W - probably the name of the new album, and we have a track listing too: 

1 Lost Stars 

2 Cold Hill Veils 

3 Hollow Ash 

4 The buzzard dreams in the lungs of the tree 

5 Med Blodet Sig Alla Bestänkes 

6 Another Sun Of Forgetting 

7 Noctilucent Clouds 

Don't hold your breath for the release - it won't be for a while yet (although it will be out this year).

I feel like FBF has reached the end of one phase, and is about to enter another. I think from an artistic point of view, we've scaled the mountain. Of course, there is another, higher, mountain behind it...

From a musical point of view, we've sort-of arrived at what I think is the sound of FBF, how it would have sounded at the beginning if we'd only known how FBF was supposed to sound. Now, of course, we have to start again as we have lost our piano player - Richard has gone - and the piano was the glue holding all the pieces together.

Do we strip back the sound and play on with a more minimal sound? Do me or Ian try to fill the gaps with guitar? (and that would change the sound a hell of a lot too). Do we bring more people in?

Of course before we unleash the new sound of FBF - whatever it turns out to be - we must release our new album. (coming soon, probably in 2009. I hope in 2009, I really do)

--andy

The new album, 'Far Black Furlong', is now available on the ICR label. It is a rapturous, symphonic work in six movements, describing tides from the summer breeze through barley, to the shimmering stretch of a vast ocean, to the birth pangs of stars. Much of the music was recorded in outdoor locations on the Welsh/English borders.

The album features Mark Baigent, Andy Cotterill, Bryony Lees, John Letcher, Richard Moult, Ian Tengwall and Canadian flautist Amanda Votta of the group The Floating World.

A special edition of the album is available from ICR which includes a bonus disc featuring 'Haidd 2', a Hadean re-visiting of last year's album 'Haidd'. This special edition is limited to 150 copies.

Please visit www.icrdistribution for more details.

We have contributed two tracks to 'Reynardine: The Visits of Mr Fox', an album compiled by Phil Legard and released on his Larkfall label http://www.larkfall.co.uk

Full track listing:

1. Reynardine's Dance - Xenis Emputae Travelling Band

2. Prelati's Grimoire: The Book of Werewolves - Fulcanelli

3.. Child Destruction - Violence Beyond the Snowline

4. Smile Like a Knife - Remora

5. In Reynard's Garden - Far Black Furlong

6. Memory Rides Like A Fox - throuRoof

7. The Slaying of Cuwaert - Where Rivers End

8. Mellow Harm - Lanterns

9. Hulijing Shadow Theater - Medroxy Progesterone Acetate

10. Château-Château - él-g

11. In Reynard's House - Far Black Furlong

12. Howl - The Day of the Antler

13. R & F: Soplo Animador - Anla Courtis

14. Wide Dark Smile - Mike Seed

For these two tracks FBF were: Mark Baigent; Andy Cotterill; Richard Moult; Anne Marie Summers; Ian Tengwall.

Release date: Tuesday 1st of May, priced £4.50 from the Larkfall website.