The sound of flutes warms Wigwam's One Star Awake album into being like the eerie sounds at the start of each episode of Bagpuss.

The Small Films reference is apt as Wigwam, pictured, are a band obviously happy in nostalgia and late 1960s/early 1970s whimsy.

The children of the 70s are playing the forthcoming Green Man Festival in Craig Y Nos Castle, which is billed as having an olde worlde fayre vibe to it.

It takes place on Monday, August 25, before which the band are going to re-release the above mentioned album, on Peace Corps.

Wigwam are from Bristol and London but moved west to set up a base near Hay on Wye.

The unit was formed by Welshman Richard King who once ran a small record label called Planet Records in Bristol which helped launch the careers of Third Eye Foundation, Flying Saucer Attack (in which he played), Hood and Movietone.

One Star Awake was slowly assembled in the spirit of fresh air and electrics which inspired King to return to his homeland for a few walks.

The results are a kind of neo-folk, the kind that was popular in the early 70s, played by bands like the Third Eye Band.

Full of drones and other-worlde atmospherics it should make the perfect aural backdrop come their set at the Green Man Festival.

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