B'eirth


Bobin Jon Michael Eirth is the lead singer, lyricist and sole songwriter in the psychedelic folk band In Gowan Ring and folk band Birch Book.

Biography

B'ee plays the guitar, cittern, harps, harmonica, recorder, reeds and flutes. He is largely self-taught. He designs and fabricates his own stringed instruments.
As a live performer, B'ee is commonly associated with his pear-shaped and double-necked guitars. The later is a guitar/cittern hybrid made by B'eirth himself in 1998, which he calls the Stringed Spade. It is, in his own words: "a standard 6 string on the top neck and 9 strings in 5 courses on the lower neck. I wanted the combination so as to avoid changing instruments between songs during performance. Occasionally I play both necks during one song and sometimes use the cittern neck as resonant strings while the top neck strings are sounding."
In November 2005, B'ee released the first in a series of three albums of his new project Birch Book. These records marked an evolution in sound away from the overtly psychedelic towards a simpler, direct song based approach. They simultaneously brought the older mystical folk into the current and pointed a new individualistic way forward for the artist.

Discography

Studio albums

[In Gowan Ring]