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

These Antlered Drums

We have reached the launch date for Carolyn’s new book and journey cards! Introducing a pulsing journey around the magical bodies, untamed spirits and singing souls of women’s sacred drums. Available for advance orders now…

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Crone & Spell

Introducing our new Crone & Spell textiles! Organic cotton long-sleeve T-shirt and sturdy organic cotton tote bag featuring these three beautifully seasonal hags. Available to order now…

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Wildstream

WILDSTREAM, our independent music and audio streaming hub, has surpassed our wildstream dreams! A huge thanks to everyone who has subscribed to this new music vessel. On November 1 we are offering a special winter discount to all new yearly subscribers. Come into the water…!

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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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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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Sacred Forest Flutes

Nigel is beginning to plan his very popular flute-making workshops for next year. If you are interested or would like to commission a beautiful Dartmoor flute, email us…

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Weavers’ Oracle Audio book

Carolyn’s new Weavers’ Oracle audio book was released this year, 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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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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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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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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