Welcome to Wildstream
Come into the water!
WILDSTREAM is our independent streaming hub, where we host our music and audio community. Through this streaming vessel, we hope to nourish sustainability, integrity and intimacy between musicians and listeners, and to help bring the wild heart back into the sharing of music. When you dive into WILDSTREAM you will access:
- Over 500 audio tracks, including more than 40 albums of music and songs that we have written, recorded and performed during the last 40 years.
- Carolyn’s audio books and stories, some already released, some newly recorded for this hub.
- Our growing archive of live concert recordings, exclusive to this audio community.
- Conversations recorded in our studio, at our kitchen table or by the roundhouse fire. Upcoming topics include flutes, drums, wild land, far north, ancient language, sacred ancestors and our lives as travelling musicians.
SEVENTH WAVE is our independent music label. BRAIDED RIVER is our small book publishing house. WILDSTREAM is our third strand of watery magic!
DIP INTO into Wildstream without subscribing,
have a look around and listen to 7 free tracks.
DIVE INTO our music community by subscribing
so you can access everything we have to offer.
SPECIAL SUMMER OFFER
From May 1 until September 1, you can subscribe for £5 monthly or £55 annually. This is 28% reduction on our usual price of £7/£77. The monthly subscription returns to £7 in September if you choose to stay with us. This offer applies only when you sign up directly through the Wildstream website rather than your iOS or Android app stores. Press the top brown button or find out more below.
How to join us…
It is cheaper to subscribe to our streaming hub through the Wildstream website (hosted by Insidr Music) by pressing the top option. We want to encourage you to reach us by the cheapest route! Once you have signed up to a subscription through the site, you can access your Wildstream account on your phone by downloading it free from your app store. Alternatively, you can subscribe directly through your iOS or Android app stores by pressing the relevant brown button above, but the app stores will add an extra 20% to your subscription and do not offer our summer discount. You can choose to pay directly with US$ or euros without any conversion charges. If you want to try our streaming hub for just a short while, remember you can easily unsubscribe at any time through your Wildstream account. We invite you to come into the water!
If you are a therapist, independent shop, healing centre or community hub…
When you become a Wildstream subscriber, you are welcome to stream our music in a public place. We are no longer members of PRS (Performing Rights Society) or PPL and they do not have the right to collect a license fee on our behalf. This does not mean that our music is not copyrighted – it simply means that we, the copyright holders, are very happy for you to play our work when you are a member of our music and audio community. This does not apply when you are playing music created by other musicians – you may still need to pay for a license if they are registered with PRS. Please do get in touch with us if you have any questions about this.
This is an act of rebellion!
Nigel started his music career in 1985 and Carolyn began hers in 1992. We were so fortunate to be starting out as musicians at a time when we could turn up at a festival or gig and sell enough cassette tapes to cover our rent and support our creative life. We don’t lament the demise of cassettes, but having a tangible way to share our work meant that over the years we were able to build our own music label while still fiercely maintaining our independence. It is not so simple for musicians starting out now. Spotify and other streaming giants operate on the same principles as the wider music industry – financial abundance for the thin top layer and very little for the rest of the music community. Many young musicians barely conceive of being able to sustain a living from their creative work.
We remained outside of the streaming culture, uncertain how we could participate while still retaining the integrity and financial viability of our music. Inevitably, technology sped past us and we remained sitting on the riverbank, waiting for a moment, a possibility for sustainable change. We found it with Insidr Music, a direct-to-fan subscription streaming platform, who agreed to build us a bespoke streaming app that could host our own music and audio hub, nested within the branches of their project but exclusive to our vision and our subscribing community. So here we are. We hope that other independent musicians may find this model useful in bringing freedom and value to their work. Thank you for supporting our vision for the wild and feral sharing of our music!
With thanks to Dan Ryland at Insidr Music