Release date: 06-09-2007

2007 vinyl 19-track LP LIMITED edition, pressing on 180 Gram vinyl 2-LP. Available in a numbered edition of 525 double 180 gram vinyl set housed in a hand silkscreened custom jacket, Sealed.

Tracks:
01. Poustinia 
02. Not Enough 
03. Windbridge (mp3)
04. Vespers (mp3) 
05. Living Stone
06. Given Time 
07. Harrow Hill
08. October Road / Magnificat
09. Voyage Of the Icarus 
10. Holy Holy 
11. Plymouth Bay 
12. Velvet & Gold 
13. Babylon 
14. Maranatha 
15. Vita Brevis 
16. Coming Storm 
17. Lamb of God
18. Revelation 
19. Song of the Apocalypse

A long time lost but now cult 70's progressive folk band from United States. Silmaril (whose name is inspired by the magical world of Tolkien) is a musical collective led by Matthew Peregrine (member of the Christian Pentecostalism). The band recorded their first LP in 1973, called "Given Time or the Several Roads", rapidly followed by the publication of "No Mirrored Temple". The compilation "The Voyage of Icarus" (Locust, 2007) features compositions taken from these LPs. Silmaril's music is gorgeoursly religious, acoustic and ethereal. It inlcudes a large variety of instruments, male / female voices, a nice taste for medieval / ancient music, ethno-folk sonorities, ponctual electric organ / electronic arrangements. A serene acid folk band whose music is highly recommended for fans of The Incredible String Band, Of Wondrous Silence and the bucolic, evocative sides of kraut-folk.

While others buzzed within the hippie epicenters of Haight Street and the Lower East Side, Silmaril formed in haunted, industrial Milwaukee. Other bands might have met at a love-in; Silmaril were friends from a Catholic youth retreat bound together by a doomed figure in the eccentric madman tradition of Syd Barrett, Roy Harper and Mel Lyman by the name of Matthew Peregrine. The Voyage of Icarus captures the dark, mysterious, and achingly beautiful acid folk & Christian themed psychedelic sounds