Lovibond May Rowanwood writes and records songs shaped by memory, faith, longing, playfulness, woundedness, beauty, and the stubborn hope that something broken may yet become whole.
Rowanwood Music is the independent music house created by Erik F. Kreis to present her songs, lyrics, artwork, and written material. It is the name above the door: the cottage, shoreline, studio, and shelter where her work gathers into form.
At its heart, Rowanwood Music is more than a label name. It is a place of origin — a room, a coastline, a threshold, a voice at the edge of memory. It is the emotional, symbolic, and musical home from which Lovibond’s work grows: part English folk reverie, part intimate confession, part strange little lantern held against the dark.
The name Rowanwood carries its own quiet mythology. The rowan tree has long been associated with protection, threshold, and enchantment — a tree at the border between the ordinary world and the unseen one. That sense of crossing is central to the music. Lovibond’s songs often live at the threshold: between innocence and experience, tenderness and danger, grief and play, devotion and doubt.
Rowanwood Music exists to give that work a house.
The songs are presented as part of a larger poetic landscape — one where the personal becomes symbolic, the symbolic becomes singable, and feeling finds its proper voice. Lovibond May Rowanwood stands at the center of that landscape as singer, songwriter, performer, and artist.
Her music moves through folk-pop, art-pop, chamber textures, intimate singer-songwriter forms, and more experimental edges. Some songs are playful and bright; others are wounded, strange, devotional, or darkly comic. Together, they form a living catalogue: a record of inner weather, emotional risk, and the search for integration.
Rowanwood Music is deliberately independent. It is skint, perhaps, but it has heart. It is not built around trends, algorithms, or the machinery of mass entertainment. It is built around songs that needed somewhere to live.
Each release is part of an unfolding body of work — albums, lyrics, images, and written pieces that together form a continuing mythology of the heart.
That mythology is not an escape from reality. It is a way of approaching reality through music and symbol. A cottage can be a studio. A shoreline can be a state of mind. A voice can be a mirror, a question, a wound, a blessing, or someone calling from the next room.
Rowanwood Music gathers these fragments into one house.
Its motto, A Poem of the Heart, is both a description and a promise. The work begins in feeling, but it does not end there. It seeks craft, form, melody, and clarity. It honors the old idea that songs are not merely content, but vessels — small, durable things that carry human experience across time.
Rowanwood Music is the name above the door.
Inside are the songs.