LANGAN, FROST & WANE is the collaboration of 3 songwriters, writing in the folk tradition and drawing candidly from the folk revival of the mid-twentieth century. It began as a vessel for likeminded Brian Langan (Langan) and RJ Gilligan (Frost) to explore a territory they otherwise had no outlet for in their music. What is it that allows a song to be playful, yet somber? And how does it tell a story on its own, apart from words? It was the same territory that the wild raucous flutes found on early Incredible String Band occupied, or better still, the right (certainly not the left) stereo channel on the second side of Donovan's A Gift From Flower To Garden. They set about to capture it.

After a season of sessions in Philadelphia at Frost's studio, he suggested Nam Wayne (Wane) to Langan as a possible third collaborator. Wane and Frost had been trading songs for some time and it became clear he was on a similar quest. After an evening of impromptu song writing among the three it was settled, and the project commenced.

The group is driven by Langan and Frost's finger-plucked melodies on guitar but branches out to instruments of the Middle and Far East, India, the Mediterranean, and Appalachia. It is the belief of these three songwriters that they succeeded in what they set out to do. This body of work is the culmination of those long hours spent searching for what is not lost, but perhaps sometimes forgotten.