Welcome to
Seventh Wave Music Braided River Books Wildstream
Nigel Shaw & Carolyn Hillyer

Welcome to

Seventh Wave Music
Braided River Books
Wildstream

Nigel Shaw & Carolyn Hillyer

We welcome you to this website, to the hearth fire of our ancestor roundhouse and to this place of wild sanctuary on Dartmoor. We live and work in the heart of the southwest moors, amid the high hills, upland streams and misted valleys. Here we create music albums and concerts, books and paintings, traditional flutes and drums, women’s workshops and instrument making weekends, small festivals and gentle gatherings on our ancient farm. Within these pages you can hear audio samples from our music, wander around recent releases and new publications, find out about our concert and workshop programme, explore our library of films or dip into the galleries to see our archive of past projects. Our music label Seventh Wave Music pages are marked with a spiral, our publishing house Braided River Books pages are marked with a wing. The drum symbol represents our new independent music and audio streaming platform; Wildstream is our third strand of watery magic! We hope you will enjoy your visit to this online roundhouse.
For regular news and updates you can find us on Instagram: carolynhillyer.nigelshaw & braidedriver.weaverstrail

Latest News

Weavers’ Oracle Audio book

Carolyn’s new Weavers’ Oracle audio book is being released on May 1, celebrating 10 years since the publication of this iconic and best-selling work. Ten hours of ancient mythic tales and feral contemplations, exclusive to all our Wildstream subscribers. You can find details about membership on the Wildstream page…

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Wildstream

WILDSTREAM, our independent music and audio streaming hub, is now one year old and has surpassed our wildstream dreams! A huge thanks to everyone who has signed up or fully subscribed to this new music vessel. On May 1 we are offering a special 28% summer discount to all new subscribers. Come into the water…!

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Her Bone Bundle

This unique book of ancient mother words curated and woven by Carolyn, is a lyrical exploration into the mythic spirit of the Proto-Celtic language. Beltane sees the release of a new song by Ayla Schafer, featuring Carolyn singing and her contemplations about these 4000 year old words. Listen to the song Mâtîrja here…

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Lichenheart

Lichenheart is a tender instrumental exploration into the exquisite dreamscape of ancient moorland. Its first surprising chords carry us through a tear-spilling, heart-filling, darkening pilgrimage,enveloping us within its raw wonder.

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Book of Hag (Peat)

The second season of Carolyn’s Book of Hag (Peat) continues the journey through old age and towards ancientness that was explored in the first volume (Bark). Old women, elders, grandmothers, crones and hags track their footsteps into the primordial landscape of wild marshes and ancient feral dreams…

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Through the Heron’s Marsh

To accompany her second volume in the series Book of Hag (Peat), Carolyn has published her new cycle of art work in this beautiful limited edition collection of paintings and peat prayers that features the ancient Marsh Women or mûkthno wailî…

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This Remembered Earth

This album of our most recently co-created music honours sorrow and hope for our Earth, connecting us to the ancestral memory that holds us with strength and integrity to our human trails. We will continue to share this music in our live performances this year…

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The Creel & the Crock & the Cauldron

Carolyn’s new album is a wild blend of song weavings, spell bindings, soul ballads and comic ditties, all stirred into a magical pot. They have been shaped by her personal steps along the hag road, that knotty, gnarly, nebulous route towards being old, older and very old. Crones have a lot to sing about!

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Weavers’ Oracle

The Weavers’ Oracle has become a deeply loved iconic work and, after ten years, continues to travel all around the world. It sits at the heart of her Weavers’ Trail online programme and is now available in German, Russian and Slovakian translations…

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The Weavers’ Trail

A women’s soul pilgrimage into ritual landscape, wild shrines and sacred hearth. Our sister website, the Braided River, contains details about Carolyn’s online rolling workshop programme. You are welcome to dip a toe into the this river…

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Ancestral organic t-shirts

We now have an ancestral clothing range! Five choices of beautiful climate neutral organic cotton T-shirts inspired by songs and images from our albums, and featuring ancient Scandinavian and Siberian rock carvings. Profit donations to Survival…

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The Global Collective

The Global Collective is the latest incarnation of our Global vintage dance music family! The music carries the energy and tradition of Global’s wild shamanic trance dance, into a re-imagined acoustic world music mix. Playing gigs this summer…

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Wild Litany

This is a beautifully produced and comprehensive archive of Carolyn’s songs and chants, 200 sets of lyrics with simple music notations and colour photos taken on our Dartmoor sanctuary land through wild weather and changing season…

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Nine Prayers North

Our album Nine Prayers North was an intense journey shared one winter, as we endeavoured to catch our deepening understanding of our many experiences in the far north. We wanted to explore north as a state of being , to ask why it cause our hearts to quiver…

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Book of Hag & Shawl of Feathers

The first season of Carolyn’s Book of Hag series, a weathered collection of cold crones and icy grandmothers, Book of Hag (Bark), along with the double story album, Winter Folded Everything Inside a Shawl of Feathers…

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