We've carried some of the other bands that Portland's James Woodhead has been involved with, like the ritualistic forest-doom of Blood Of The Black Owl, and the psychedelic dronefolk duo The Elemental Chrysalis, both projects that he shares with Chet Scott from Ruhr Hunter. It's all great stuff, generally drawing from the same well of spacey, sylvan darkness and mystical heaviness even though each of these bands sounds distinctly different. It's like how you know you're listening to something on Glass Throat as soon as you hear it. And Woodhead's solo project At The Head Of The Woods fits right in to this dark, gorgeous sound with it's strange deep-woods psychedelia. Secrets Beyond Time & Space is the first album from this project and came out on Glass Throat a short while ago, packaged in another one of those fantastic-looking oversize gatefolds that all of the GT releases are packaged in now. This music evokes shadowy forests and mountain ranges burnished in a red sunset glow through soft, dark acoustic strum and distant wah-soaked electric guitar, the guitars drifting over simple, repetitious drums, field recordings and swirling kosmiche ambience. It's an amazing, tripped-out sound, dark and droney but not really dronemusic, more like a lugubrious LSD-glazed krautrock jam shrouded in shadows, each song stretching out for seventeen minutes or longer, the music mostly formed with guitar, vintage analogue synths and percussion but sometimes joined by cellos, violin, Farfisa organ, samples, gongs and other instruments, used more for texture and ambience than anything, creating slowly shifting raga-like acid-drones, eerie harmonized vocal arrangements, fragments of stoned twang, shimmering twilight synths, buried percussion, creepy piano melodies, woodwinds. Much of ATHOTW's music reminds me of the slow, hazy Americana of Earth's Hex, but filtered through deep shadows and dying light, and mixed with the cosmic drift and buzz of early 70's prog bands like Ash Ra Tempel or Tangerine Dream.