Jewelled Antler

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Jewelled Antler is a music group created in 1999 by Loren Chasse and Glenn Donaldson as an extension of their work in the organic drone folk-noise group Thuja. The idea was to release handmade CD-R's of various solo and collaborative projects and one-off bands, encompassing drones, folk songs, noise, straight field sound recordings and fractured pop music. Jewelled Antler is perhaps best know for its "Nature Psych" or "Outdoor Folk", in which whole albums are recorded "in the field" and/or incorporate field recordings and the sounds of nature. Indeed besides a wide range of traditional and exotic stringed things and low-tech electronic equipment, some of the "instruments" on their albums include pine cones, creeks, branches and crude harps built from fallen trees.

Jewelled Antler is term that has also been applied to a larger group of musicians working with Chasse and Donaldson or on their own in similar areas:Steven R. Smith, Rob Reger, Donovan Quinn, Christine Boepple, Greg Bianchini, Keith Evans and Kerry Mclaughlin. Projects such as the Blithe Sons, OF, the Ivytree, The Franciscan Hobbies, The Buried Civilizations, Tomes, the Famous Boating Party, Hala Strana, The Skygreen Leopards, Child Readers, Dead Raven Choir and more have released albums under the Jewelled Antler banner. Many of these groups have moved on to slightly more high profile releases on labels such as Catsup Plate, Strange Attractors, FAT CAT, Jagjaguwar, Soft Abuse, Family Vineyard and Music Fellowship.