Thorn Wych

Musical instrument maker and musician based in Bacup, Lancashire (UK), who builds her own bowed strings, flutes, and percussion from the branches of native British trees -- Wych Elm, Lime, Wild Cherry, Oak, and Yew -- then records them at home, looping and running them through pitch-bending glitches and delay pedals. Her debut LP, Aesthesis, released in early 2025 on the small UK label Hood Faire, drew on sources including the Gnostic text "The Secret Book of John," the 1940 film "The Thief of Bagdad," and Lata Mangeshkar's devotional Meera Bhajans recordings.