San Francisco Bay area, folk/rock duo Hobbyhorse returns to its
mystical pagan roots with the release of their latest single "Fire and
Snow," about Moll Dyer, a woman who was burned as a witch in
Leonardtown, Maryland back in the late 1600's.
According to legend, Moll Dyer was a mysterious woman who lived alone
and had knowledge of herbal healing. During a harsh winter, the
townspeople became suspicious of her and accused her of being a witch.
They came to her door one night and set her house on fire. Moll fled
to the nearby woods. She collapsed on a rock, balanced one hand upon
it, and raised the other while calling a curse down upon the town. A
young boy found her the next day. On the rock was burned an impression
of her hand and knee. In 1975 a historian located the site where her
house may have been. Not far away was a large 875 pound boulder with
what looked like the marks of Moll's hand and knee.
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"Our song brings to life Moll's last moments when she is trapped
between the extreme elements of fire and snow," explained Hobbyhorse
singer Annie. "There is no hope for her to survive, but she expresses
her power as she curses the town that treated her so wrongly. Her
spirit is strong and lives in this legend, in ghostly sightings and
beyond."
Hobbyhorse's music is in the spirit of experimentation and the
expansion of the imagination. They take psychedelic folk/rock into the
present day with their poetic songwriting and adventurous
arrangements. The duo has returned from a year in the studio recording
their latest full-length release "Break in the Clouds," which has been
growing on the broadcast airwaves with stations in Canada, Australia
and across the US adding it to their playlist.
"Traditional in one sense, quietly experimental in others,
Hobbyhorse's Break in the Clouds embodies the magic that is woven in
the art of folk music - and by folk music I mean music that is
authentic, spirited & manifest from the love of creation rather than
'music industry' profit motive." Seldom Heard Radio
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