Contemporary yet traditional, frail and haunting, Fernwood has a strong cinematic, pan-cultural feel made by combining elements of pastoral psychedelic-folk with flavors of India, Ireland, Eastern Europe, Asia, and America, yet never in an obvious way.

12 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Psych-folk, WORLD: World Fusion

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ABOUT FERNWOOD
Frail and haunting, beautiful and dreamy, the music of composer team Todd Montgomery and Gayle Ellet has a unique, yet familiar feel. Both of them have been composing and performing music professionally, for over thirty years each. Working under the name "Fernwood", their cinematic music blends the beautiful sounds of Greek & Irish bouzouki, sitar, acoustic guitar, Chinese ruan, Turkish cumbus, Moroccan oud, mandolin, harmonium, gimbri, rababah, up-right bass and rhodes piano.

All music played by hand, on instruments made out of wood!

Todd Montgomery and Gayle Ellett are exploring new areas of acoustic music. Contemporary yet Traditional, their music has a strong cinematic, and pan-cultural feel. By combining elements of pastoral acoustic psychedelic music, with the sounds of Traditional American, Irish, Eastern European, Asian, and Middle Eastern music, they have created a hybrid style that is uniquely their own.

They are currently working with numerous film directors from:
Holland, India, Brazil, UAE, Finland, South Africa, Thailand, Australia, Croatia, Serbia, Turkey, New Zealand, Italy, France, Belize, Indonesia, Cuba, and Mexico.

Recorded in their Malibu studio, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, their music is a reflection of their lives in Southern California as well as the previous work they've done in the areas of Film and TV composition, Traditional World music, Rock and Jazz.

Belgium's famous PSYCHEDELICFOLK.com recently said "Fernwood is a musical entity of two musicians who feel each other's essence for such cooperation well. This acoustic cooperation is rather descriptive, in a very moody way, with pickings and notes in different rhythmical speeds, spinning around, with some lovely tunes. The listing in my 'acidfolk' section does not completely do justice to this release. Especially young people often tend to look for something with a hype factor, with "weird" or strange or modern associations, while the mature composer also recognizes better things that last longer, or that reflect harmonic balances. For record companies, harmonic results are also harder to sell or categorize, when the music does not follow any of the mainstream tendencies. Fernwood's music reflects harmonic pulses and melodies, arranged by the inspirations of a duo playing together with interactions and melted ideas of compositions, and a whole diversity of instruments.
Recommended!"

Their music was described in JazzMando.com as "A tantalizing taste of otherworldly aural delight." Check it out for yourself!


BIOGRAPHY:
TODD MONTGOMERY began experimenting with string instruments in the fourth grade. Since then he has enjoyed learning to play such instruments as Irish bouzouki, sitar, mandolin and guitar. He spent his teen years in psychedelic rock bands until he discovered the folk music of America and Ireland. In search of deeper improvisation in an established tradition, he studied the sitar for 3 years with a real sitar master, Harihar Rao, who is Ravi Shankar's oldest student. He performed on Irish bouzouki and mandolin for the movie, Chasing the Dragon, The Veronica Guerin Story. When he's not playing music or playing with his wife and son, Todd can often be found surfing the waves off Malibu.

GAYLE ELLETT has been composing and producing music for over 35 years, and has performed on over 50 CDs. He has written music for numerous Film projects and TV shows, commercials, animations, and music libraries. One of his main music groups, Djam Karet, currently has 16 CDs released so far, and has received great reviews and awards in hundreds of magazines world-wide, including ROLLING STONE magazine's "#2 Independent Album Of The Year" and BILLBOARD magazine's "Critic's Choice Award". Currently, you can hear his traditional Japanese Koto music playing on MTV-International. When he's not busy working in the studio, Ellett can often be found flying his hang glider 5,000 meters high over the mountains of Southern California and Northern Mexico.

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