About
Smolken was born in Kraków, Poland but moved to Texas, USA. He then returned to Poland. Additional discography: The Horny-Goloch Is an Awesome Beast/Soople and Scaly/It Has Twa' Horns and a Hantle O' Feet/And a Forky Tailie (1999, Save the Werewolves Foundation, 7 copies), Eaten by Wolves (2000, Save The Werewolves Foundation, 7 copies), The Dark Grows Blacker (2000, Save The Werewolves Foundation, 7 copies), Consider the Birds of the Air... (2001, Save the Werewolves Foundation, 7 copies), Jean Genet's Lonesome Rhino (2010, May 21st: Dot Dot Dot Releases, 300 copies on red and black 7" vinyl). Compilation appearances: Gold Leaf Branches - "We Will Not Whisper" (Digitalis Industries, 2005, 3 CD), Shadows Infinitum - "Sonja" (Crucial Blast, 2004, CD-R), City Songs XIII - "The Man Watching" (Requiem, 2004, CD-R), For the Dead in Space Vol. II-III - "Song About A Rose" (Secret Eye, 2003, 2CD), Heat and Birds - "Red Rocking Chair" (Jewelled Antler, 2003, CD-R - out of print), Cat Sun Kompilation - "O mój rozmarynie" (Cat Sun Release, 2003, CD-R - out of print), Hand/Eye - "We Will Not Whisper" (Hand/Eye, 2002, 2CD).
Discography
- 1 Dead Raven Choir - Crucified (Army of Lovers cover) 4:35
- 2 Josh Lay - Requiem (Army of Lovers cover) 4:36
- 3 Gnaw Their Tongues - Sexual Revolution (Army of Lovers cover) 4:52
- 4 Persistence in Mourning - Sebastien (Army of Lovers cover) 5:11
- 5 Wolfmangler - Carry My Urn to Ukraine (Army of Lovers cover) 6:29
- 1 Foslom Prison Blues 4:50
- 2 I Wish I Was Eighteen Again 5:13
- 3 Fallen Angel 5:01
- 4 The Green Leaves of Summer 4:08
- 5 The Long Black Veil 5:02
- 6 When the Tingle Becomes a Chill 3:39
- 7 Furnace Room Lullaby 4:27
- 8 Is Anybody Going to San Antone 5:38
- 9 Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town 9:40
- 10 Wine Colored Roses 4:36
- 11 Field Behind the Plow 4:56
- 1 Bird Song 3:57
- 2 Fuck Them All 4:21
- 3 Chihei-Sen 7:07
- 4 Hit and Run Lover 2:37
- 5 Der Döppelganger 4:20
- 6 The Partisan 3:51
- 7 Shoot Out the Lights 3:13
- 8 Sugar Daddy 5:01
- 9 Crucified 4:35
- 10 Mulheres de Atanas 4:37
- 1 Kigi wa Haru 5:08
- 2 Our Mother the Mountain 4:09
- 3 A Rosebud in June 4:35
- 4 Genesis Hall 5:00
- 5 Bluenose 3:43
- 6 Sheep-Crook, Black Dog 5:36
- 7 It's All Right with Me 1:45
- 8 The Trees They Grow So High 4:14
- 9 Favorite 4:52
- 10 From the Stars 5:08
- 1 The Silence 2:05
- 2 January 5:41
- 3 Die Raben 3:12
- 4 When Men Die 3:18
- 5 Irrlichter 6:56
- 6 I Am Not a Recluse 2:49
- 7 The Field Behind the Plow
- 1 Sheath and Knife: The Broom Blooms Bonnie 3:01
- 1 Die 4:55
- 1 Sevenfold Song of Death 2:54
- 2 Hej sokoły: Ukraina 4:12
- 2 Die 3:57
- 2 Lots of Booze and Lots of Rambling in a Sea of Steam and Poison Light Bathe in Fiery Answers and Fill the Spinning Sky Guided by the Beauty of Our Weapons 0:35
- 3 Sawney Beane: A True Story 2:09
- 3 Die 2:57
- 3 First We Take Manhattan 6:08
- 4 The Young Girl Cut Down in Her Prime: Pills of White Mercury 5:12
- 4 Die 1:54
- 4 Stormfront 2:46
- 5 Sawney Beane 4:06
- 5 Die 4:07
- 5 Lungs 2:16
- 6 Kamień na kamieniu 0:37
- 6 Die 4:37
- 6 Waiting Around to Die 3:12
- 7 Czarne oczy 4:51
- 7 Die! 6:34
- 7 Highway Kind 5:19
- 8 Maryna 0:34
- 9 Złociste chryzantemy 2:34
- 10 Elijah: Bellowed 2:02
- 11 Siadła muszka 4:23
- 1 The Librarian 5:31
- 2 Firefly 4:58
- 3 Angel Wings on Cilia 6:09
- 4 That Night the Blind Man Dreamt That He Was Blind 4:08
- 5 Shovels for Hands 3:01
- 6 A Moth Blending into Walls 5:04
- 7 Violence in Crayon 7:21
- 1 October Tragedy 2:56
- 2 Do Not Brood for Long 2:27
- 3 Red Sky at Morning 3:13
- 4 These Are the Ravens 2:20
- 5 Fog Days 6:58
- 6 A Canticle to the Waterbirds 23:24
- 1 War Has a Beauty of Its Own 2:50
- 2 A Ballade of Theatricals 5:00
- 3 Sonja 6:31
- 4 Moon over Castle Ruins 3:26
- 1 The Bellringer Will Come Forth - Wrinkled like Autumn Earth - And Pull the Long Legs of Hanged Men like a Rope 5:38
- 2 Under the Lost-in-Thought Grave of Clouds, over Leaves like Bloody Tears 6:38
- 3 Arks Carry the Heads of Decapitated Moons to the Other Shore 4:37
- 4 Wings Torn from Ravens Line the Streets Where the Dead Walk 8:18
- 5 Into Autumn I Flow Smaller with Every Step, into Fields Sown with Specters, into Columns of Dead Paeans 9:04
- 1 Lots of Booze and Lots of Rambling in a Sea of Steam and Poison Light Bathe in Fiery Answers and Fill the Spinning Sky Guided by the Beauty of Our Weapons 0:35
- 2 First We Take Manhattan 6:08
- 3 Stormfront 2:46
- 4 Lungs 2:16
- 5 Waiting Around to Die 3:12
- 6 Highway Kind 5:19
- 1 Wilted 2:44
- 2 Before the Summer Rain 2:55
- 3 The Courtesan 5:52
- 4 The Lute 2:55
- 5 A Sibyl 6:18
- 6 The Pavilion 4:44
- 7 Comforting of Elijah 2:05
- 8 Gravestone of a Young Girl 2:32
- 9 Lunatics in the Garden ~ Dijon 5:04
- 10 The Lunatics 4:20
- 1 The Dong with a Luminous Nose
- 2 Galgenberg
- 3 Lunovis
- 4 Der Rabe Ralf
- 5 Galgenbruders Frühlingslied
- 6 Das Hemmed
- 7 Der Schaukelstuhl auf der verlassenen Terrasse
- 8 Das Weiblein mit der Kunkel
- 9 Mondendinge
- 10 Die Fingur
- 11 Das Geburtslied oder: Die Zeichen oder: Sophie und kein Ende
- 12 Galgenkindes Wiegenlied + Attempt at an Introduction
- 1 Funeral Monument of a Young Girl 3:54
- 2 Eranna to Sappho 1:43
- 3 Faded 4:29
- 4 Sappho to Eranna 1:04
- 5 A Prophet 2:20
- 6 The Courtesan 5:49
- 7 Corpse-Washing 2:15
- 8 A Sibyl 5:33
- 9 The Lunatics 4:12
- 1 Die 4:55
- 2 Die 3:57
- 3 Die 2:57
- 4 Die 1:54
- 5 Die 4:07
- 6 Die 4:37
- 7 Die! 6:34
- 8 Sevenfold Song of Death 2:54
- 1 Cradle Song
- 2 The Alchemist
- 3 Spring Morning
- 4 A Robin
- 5 Two Gardens
- 6 The Forest
- 7 Owls Talking
- 8 The Great Black Crow
- 9 Night Song
- 10 The Jumblies
- 11 The Song of the Gallows Brotherhood
- 12 The Gallows
- 13 The Brownie
- 1 Night Scene 8:30
- 2 The Horn's Sound in the Wood 5:43
- 3 The Shepherd's Hour 6:47
- 1 The Eyes of Beauty ~ A Palace Plundered by Wolves 3:38
- 2 The Kings of the World Are Growing Old.... ~ The Sick Crown 1:55
- 3 But Oh! Not Lovely Helen... ~ Doom 4:07
- 4 The Swan ~ O Water, When Wilt Thou Come in Rain? 2:15
- 5 The Island ~ Where the Slow Waves Thunder 2:35
- 6 Streets of Laredo ~ The Mercury Was Reeking 1:45
- 7 The Sadness of the Moon ~ A Furtive Teardrop 1:45
- 8 The Owls ~ Foreign Gods 3:55
- 9 February ~ The Sun Is Near the Hill-Tops 2:59
- 10 Beacons ~ Rubens, da Vinci, Rembrandt, Michaelangelo, Puget, Watteau, Goya, Delacroix 3:59
- 11 Christmas Meat ~ Carrion 3:27
- 12 The Charcoal Burner ~ In the Forest, Alone in the Forest 6:13
- 13 Piano Practice ~ Impatience for a Reality 3:52
- 1 November 3:19
- 2 Eheu! Fugaces 3:13
- 3 The Statue 1:53
- 4 Because My Faltering Feet May Fail... 3:42
- 5 The World's End 2:12
- 6 The Pavilion 4:41
- 7 French Vampire Carol 5:04
- 8 Triolet 2:03
- 9 The Elm 1:23
- 10 A Bivouac 3:28
- 11 December 4:16
- 1 Dead Raven Choir - Solitude ~ Where I Go 2:08
- 2 Dead Raven Choir - The Deluge ~ Drained It like a Cup 2:51
- 3 Dead Raven Choir - The Dead Hero ~ Saints Should Bury Him 1:52
- 4 Dead Raven Choir - The Outlaw ~ The Hangman Waits 2:30
- 5 Dead Raven Choir - The Monster ~ The Dual Nature of Christ 2:29
- 6 Dead Raven Choir - The Castaway Musket ~ In the Rye 2:29
- 7 Dead Raven Choir - Having Grits Tonight ~ On a Swamp 1:23
- 8 Dead Raven Choir - Ecclesiastes ~ Vanity of Vanities 2:00
- 9 Dead Raven Choir - The Leader ~ Day-rise 3:42
- 10 Furisubi - For an Audience of One 15:28
- 11 Timothy the Revelator - Morning Wake (For Ladybug) 2:41
- 12 Timothy the Revelator - The Wind Shall Sing in Your Ears (Lagomorphic Blessing) 4:32
- 13 Timothy the Revelator - How the Earth Bleeds as the Stars Burn 2:54
- 14 Timothy the Revelator - Through the Fields, o'er the Hills, Under the Moon 10:08
- 15 Timothy the Revelator - William-with-the-Little-Flame 1:34
- 1 Sawney Bean 4:06
- 2 Kamień na kamieniu 0:37
- 3 Czarne oczy 4:51
- 4 Maryna 0:34
- 5 Złociste chryzantemy 2:34
- 6 Elijah ~ Bellowed 2:02
- 7 Siadła muszka 4:23
- 1 On a Journey 4:39
- 2 Helian 6:45
- 3 The Song of the Recluse 3:43
- 4 Passion 4:17
- 5 Psalm I 5:50
- 6 The Thunderstorm 5:30
- 7 The Song of the Western World 3:21
- 8 Elis 4:28
- 9 Sevenfold Song of Death 3:00
- 10 Having Grits Tonight 2:16
- 1 Hound-Voice ~ Because We Love Bare Hills and Stunted Trees and Were the Last to Choose the Settled Ground 3:18
- 2 The Hosting of the Sidhe ~ Niamh Calling 1:43
- 3 The Black Tower ~ Stand We on Guard Oath-Bound 5:49
- 4 The Withering of the Boughs ~ Because the Roads Are Unending, and There Is No Place to My Mind 2:49
- 5 Oil and Blood ~ In Tombs 2:45
- 6 Water-Lilies ~ To the Ripples of the Water 4:06
- 7 Ballade of Unsuccessful Men ~ What Was Terrible and Free 3:32
- 8 Ha'nacker Mill ~ Wind and Thistle for Pipe and Dancers 3:58
- 9 Epitaph on the Politician Himself ~ I Wept 2:06
- 10 The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening ~ The Voids of Hell Expand Enormous All Around 3:18
- 11 The Rebel ~ High Justice in Her Armoury 2:39
- 12 Comforting of Elijah (Extra track on Polish edition)
- 1 Flood I
- 2 Flood II
- 3 The Gallows
- 4 The Song of the Gallows Brotherhood
- 5 Mój Rozmarynie
- 6 Werwolf
- 7 Terrible
- 8 The Jumblies
- 9 The Brownie
- 1 Sheath and Knife ~ The Broom Blooms Bonnie 3:01
- 2 Hej Sokoły ~ Ukraina 4:12
- 3 Sawney Beane ~ A True Tale 2:09
- 4 The Young Girl Cut Down in Her Prime ~ Pills of White Mercury 5:12
- 1 The Ball Game ~ The Spheres Packed Tight 2:03
- 2 The Raven ~ 'Twixt Foggy Banks 1:23
- 3 The Gallowsbrother's Song to Sophie, the Hangman's Maiden ~ You Are Good 3:34
- 4 She Dances ~ Because She Loves Me 1:13
- 5 The Sigh ~ No More 1:20
- 6 Wind-Witch ~ Abset 1:32
- 7 No! ~ As If, There 1:30
- 8 Pills of White Mercury ~ The Unfortunate Lass 3:37
- 9 Venus-Palmström-Anadyomene ~ After the Sun Goes Down, Especially 2:01
- 10 Lake of Blood ~ In the Forest 2:33
- 11 Daffodil ~ Whispered 2:41
- 12 The Twelve-Elf ~ Midnight Falls 1:56
- 13 Tree of Woe 4:40
- 14 The Tolkien Song 4:08
- 15 The Brownie 1:16
- 16 Solitude 1:24
- 17 Daffodil 1:38
- 18 The Wrong House 2:54
- 19 Water-Lilies 3:06
- 1 The Forest 0:55
- 2 The Captive 4:27
- 3 The Visitant 2:25
- 4 The Ghost 6:00
- 5 The House 2:40
- 6 A Robin 3:02
- 7 Two Gardens 2:54
- 8 Dream Song 2:55
- 9 The Field 2:04
- 10 Echoes 2:06
- 11 The Image 1:58
- 12 The Forest 5:49
- 1 Brownie 1:20
- 2 Solitude 1:29
- 3 Daffodowndilly 1:44
- 4 Wind on the Hill 2:26
- 5 Cradle Song 2:47
- 6 The Charcoal-Burner 2:54
- 7 The Wrong House 3:03
- 8 Water-Lilies 3:17
- 9 The Alchemist 3:49
- 10 Spring Morning 4:54
- 11 Forgotten 5:32