Various Artists - Gold Leaf Branches
“‘Gold Leaf Branches’ is a massive collection. It is an undertaking that is years in the making, one that often looked as though it would never be completed. But after endless hours of emailing, calling, and generally harrassing the 59 artists presented here, ‘Gold Leaf Branches’ is complete. This is a compilation with two simple motives: to collect as much of the music I love from all over the globe in one place and to expose as many people as possible to numerous outstanding artists they might not have heard. ‘Gold Leaf Branches’ succeeds with flying colors. Of the 59 tracks here, all but one are exclusive to this release. Marissa Nadler's song also appears on her latest album, ‘The Saga Of Mayflower May’, while an alternate version of Six Organs Of Admittance's “Thousand Birds" appears on ‘Dark Noontide’.” - Brad Rose, Digitalis.
DISC ONE
1. "thousand birds (live on air)" - six organs of admittance
2. "haava" - kuupuu
3. "first steps" - stuart busby
4. "fanfare" - hala strana
5. "epicenter crystals" - alligator crystal moth
6. "rune of the moon and endymion" - the gray field recordings
7. "wayke up" - maniacs dream
8. "insolación de soles aledaños" - courtis
9. "no ghosts" - james blackshaw
10. "beauty of decay" - robert horton
11. "you were on my side (guitar)" - annelies monseré
12. "kronosdilutze" - soarwhole
13. "just before" - keijo & the free players
14. "friday morning" - timothy, revelator
15. "blast beach" - pefkin
16. "untitled" - visitations
17. "duneuuic" - itdreamedtome
18. "corporelijck punieren" - silvester anfang
19. "ruination of the runaways" - elephant micah
20. "milkstone" - oxblood reincarnations
21. "hiljaa hiivin pois aurinkoon" - kulkija
22. "untitled" - snake oil
DISC TWO
1. "as-yet-untitled" - hertta lussu ässä
2. "i dance because she likes it" - WOLFMANGLER
3. "voice box" - charalambides
4. "guiwenneth of the green wood" - the north sea
5. "missing peace" - brothers of the occult sisterhood
6. "soda jerk (sex with strangers)" - the weird weeds (the laudable pus)
7. "here i give thanks no. 1" - leighton craig & eugene carchesio
8. "the tidal draw" - rameses iii
9. "love style one" - snowfoxx
10. "song from a wasted orchard" - xenis emputae travelling band
11. "being here has caused me sorrow" - the magickal folk of the faraway tree
12. "amongst slow dust of 60 years" - claypipe
13. "fall city" - wax ghost
14. "grower's communion" - the golden oaks
15. "rice leaves" - m. jarvis & a. jarvis
16. "debris" - 6majik9
17. "metsä mansikka mehu lasi" - lamppukello
18. "jazz" - plat ypus
19. "lily, henry, & the willow trees" - marissa nadler
DISC THREE
1. "possibilities" (live @ vpro) - drekka
2. "vines through the window" - anvil salute
3. "far away i have been" - hush arbors
4. "death dances" - the lost domain
5. "hidas kuula" - lau nau
6. "death dealer blues" - wood & wand (feat. the rose)
7. "sea lions" - friendly keys
8. "moving beyond" - keijo
9. "a mess of cedars" - the juniper meadows
10. "innumerable night" - agitated radio pilot
11. "sky love this day" - terracid
12. "we will not whisper" - dead raven choir
13. "saunankatolla 2004" - master qsh
14. "unborn child" (live) - nick castro (w/ b'eirth)
15. "last sunbeams in a darkening hall" - jani hellén
16. "lullaby" - the does
17. "no more dripping from windsor's beard" - mike tamburo
18. "kuu putoaa" – braspyreet