Jim Kirkwood

Jim has been writing Electronic Music since the late 1980's when he stepped back from fronting a black metal band to explore a solo career in instrumental music. He has his own unique style of Gothic EM which moves easily between huge symphonic slabs of music, dark ambience and sequencer driven soundscapes. The music itself, inspired by Gothic and Symphonic Rock and Berlin School Electronica, is quite often a CD in length, moves and shifts in tempo and mood, sometimes dark and sombre, sometimes ethereal and melodic, yet the whole gels perfectly into a single experience that grips the imagination and brings you into a world of dark and exciting beauty. In 2012 after completing the 4 hour album A Day in the Garden of Unearthly Delights, [no conspiracies involved] Jim took a break from the music industry to concentrate on his art and to reassess his spiritual direction, to look again at the influence of the Christian faith on his early life. Jim had until recently, embraced a heathen/gnostic philosophy and had been openly hostile toward religious organisations and in particular the Christian faith, a stance which is reflected in many of the titles of his music and comments. However, certain events in his life forced him to rethink his position and conclude and regret his former position. Jim openly confesses that he believes in the person of Jesus Christ, both historically and spiritually and this will no doubt be reflected in the content of his art and music. Watch this space for future releases His 80+ albums up until his change of direction include, Where Shadows Lie (1990) (Cassette) King of the Golden Hall (1990) (Cassette) Middle Earth (1990)(Cassette) Tales From A Melnibone Tavern (1991) (Cassette) Souls That Dance On the Edge of A Sword (1991) (Cassette) Nightshade In Eden (1991) (Cassette) Master of Dragons (1991) (Cassette) Uruk Hai (1992) (Cassette) Ancient Fields (1992) (Cassette) Castles of Sand (1993) (Cassette) Through A Dark Glass (1993) (Cassette) Lord of the Dreaming (1993) (Cassette) Tower of Darkness (1993) (CD on the Nue Harmony label) Celtoi (1994) (Cassette) Pilgrim On A Crooked Path (1994) (Cassette) The Serpents Kiss (1994) (Cassette) Beyond the Fields We Know (1995) (Cassette) Dancing the Dark Power (1995) (Cassette) Sisters of the Web (1995) v Weaving the Red Thread (1995) v Haminja (1995) (Cassette) The Age of the Wolf (1996) (Cassette) Heljaruna (1996) (Cassette) Dark Well of Urdr (1998) Embracing the Dark (1999) Bones of the Earth (1998) One Amongst the Fallen (1999) Bones of the Earth (1999) An Alchemy of Beliefs (2000) The Midnight Tree (2000) This Temple of Strange Lights (2000) In the Shadow of Angels (2001) The Dragon of Old Night (2001) Twilight of the Celts (2000) Sacred Engines (2001) Transfiguration (2001) Bloduewedd (2002) Blood And Feathers (2002) Shroud of Many Colours (2002) Liber Obscularium Praedictionum (2003) The Blessing of Shadows (2003) Communion of the Damned (2003) Decencus Ad Inferos (2003) Hawksmoor (2003) Architects of Heresy (2004) The Darkening Hour (2004) Voices From the Edge of Night (2004) House of the Crowman (2004) In the Deep Places of the World (2005) Corvis Christi (2005) Foxhalt Edge (2005) One Amongst the Fallen (2005) (different) Hecate Vol. 1 (2006) Hecate Vol. 2 (2006) Rituals of Intelligent Design (2006) Queen of the Golden Wood (2006) After the Fire (2006) Canterbury Black (2007) Nightshade In Eden (2007) (different) Where Shadows Lie (2007) (different) We Are Nightingales (2007) Widdershins To the Way of the World (2007) (EP) Foxhalt Marsh (2008) (EP) The Distant Light (2008) (EP) The Legend of Sam Gangee (2008) (EP) King of the Golden Hall (2009) Morningstar Part 1 - Revelations of the Fallen (2009) Morningstar Part 2 - The World Behind the Mirror (2009) Morningstar Part 3 - Helmsman On A Ship of Dreams (2009) Morningstar Part 4 - A Once And Future Heretic (2010) Morningstar Part 5 - Kings Beneath A Pale Sky (2010) They Walk Amongst the Stars Like Giants (2010) Castles of Sand (2010) Bones of the Earth (2010) The Bears Withdrew Their Claws In Her Presence (2010) (EP) The Light Beyond the Hedgerow (2010) Playing in an Age of Stone (2010) The Geometry of a Lark Ascending (2010) Dreaming in Amber (2010) A Season of Mists (2010) Tales from the Crooked Tree (2010) The Cello Tree (2011) A Day in the Garden of Unearthly Delights Parts 1-4 (each part is 1 hour in length) (2011) ............................................................................................................................................................ Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.