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    22 nd January 2014

The A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields Book

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Journeys in otherly pastoralism, the further reaches of folk and the parallel worlds of hauntology: Paperback and Ebook available now.

Yearly Indexes

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Links to all wanderings so far...

The Artifacts Shop

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Artifacts and audiological explorations by Keith Seatman, Grey Frequency, A Year In The Country, United Bible Studies, Polypores, Unknown Heretic, Listening Center, Howlround, Sproatly Smith, Time Attendant, David Colohan…

Gallery

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Visual work from the A Year In The Country project.

All The Merry Year Round

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An exploration of an alternative calendar, where traditional folklore intertwines with stories passed down via television, film & technology... a wandering through modern day reveries & rituals... travelling alongside straw bear and cathode ray summonings alike...

Recent wanderings…

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  • Kill List, Puffball, In the Dark Half and Butter on the Latch – Folk Horror Descendants by Way of the Kitchen Sink: Chapter 16 Book Images
  • David Peace, Texte und Töne, The Stink Still Here and Spectres from Transitional Times – Part 1: Wanderings, Explorations and Signposts 16/52
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  • Sapphire & Steel and Ghosts in the Machine – Nowhere, Forever and Lost Spaces within Cultural Circuitry: Chapter 15 Book Images
  • A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields – Book Released
  • Memory of a Free Festival and Other Arcadian Dreams – Part 2: Wanderings, Explorations and Signposts 15/52
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  • Christopher Priest’s A Dream of Wessex – Twentieth Century Slipstream Echoes: Chapter 14 Book Images
  • Memory of a Free Festival and Other Arcadian Dreams – Part 1: Wanderings, Explorations and Signposts 14/52
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  • From “Two Tribes” to War Games – The Ascendancy of Apocalyptic Popular Culture: Chapter 13 Book Images
  • Jeffrey Siedler’s Logic Formations – Hybrid Spectres of the Spectron Video Synthesizer: Wanderings, Explorations and Signposts 13/52
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The Quietened Cosmologists

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A reflection on space exploration projects that have been abandoned and/or that were never realised, of connected lost or imagined futures and dreams, the intrigue and sometimes melancholia of related derelict sites and technological remnants that lie scattered and forgotten.

A Year In The Country Elsewhere In The Ether…

  • Social Ether; Facebook
  • Ornithological Calls: Twitter
  • Ether Victrola; Bandcamp
  • Audiological Archive; Discogs
  • Mark II Ether Victrola; Soundcloud

A Year In The Country – Undercurrents

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A wandering amongst nature, electronic soundscapes, field recordings, the flow of water through and across the land and the flipside of bucolic dreams...

Audio Visual Transmission Guide #51/52a: Sing Cuckoo: The Story and Influence of The Wicker Man Soundtrack and Other Partly-Archived Summerisle Discussions

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Wandering around Lord Summerisles' land and song with Mr Trunk, Cracknell and others...

Wanderings #49/52a: Further Bear’s Ghosts and Lost Dreams – from Soviet Era Space Shuttles to Hover Train Prototypes via Space 1999-esque River Transports

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...a cul-de-sac that could well be called “The Shape of the Future’s Past”…

Ether Signposts #49/52a: The Haunted Generation – A Spectral Primer/Revisiting and Hookland Re-Enchantments

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From Ghost Box to ghost soil...

Ether Signposts #43/52a: Axel Hoedt’s Dusk And Final Celebrations

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...reminds us of what carnival once used to be: a final celebration before the dawning of hard times...

Audio Visual Transmission Guide #27/52a: The Layered Seams And Explorations Of Buried Treasure

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...experimental electronica... and... an exploration of the hidden layers of culture and the tales that lie beneath the land...

Audio Visual Transmission Guide #19/52a: The Ballad Of Shirley Collins Trailer

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Wandering Amongst Shadowed Furrows/The Hidden Reverse

Ether Signposts #17/52a: Et Mourir De Plaisir, Arthouse Transgressions And Folk Horror Forebears

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...a curious and intriguing mixture of mainstream, transgressive, almost exploitation and arthouse cinema...

Ether Signposts #16/52a: Vashti Bunyan: From Here To Before and Whispering Fairy Stories Until They Are Real

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...an entrancing exploration of a youthful journey of exploration and searching and also the associated unreality...

Day #250/365: Broadcast; artifacts and constellators

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A tip of the hat to Broadcast and all who have travelled with/alongside them.

Day #162/365: Hauntology and the deletion of spectres

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...the making of an ungenre...

Day #160/365: Edgelands Report Documents

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Cases #1a (return), #2a-5a... a wander through the hinterlands...

Day #149/365: Phase IV

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...lost celluloid flickerings and through to Beyond The Black Rainbow...

Day #146/365: Glimpses of Albion in the overgrowth

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...folkloric moments and worlds that appear when you least expect them...

Day #142/365: Ghosts of Bush

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...signals from lost transmission centres...

Day #131/365: John Benjamin Stone

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...records of folkloric rituals, traditions and light catching from other eras…

Day #127/365: Robin Redbreast…

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...a precursor to another piece of folklore flickering?...

Day #116/365: Image G/2: Hello Earth (#2)

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Gallery

Day #108/365: Let me grab your soul away

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...Kate Bush and darkly cinematic flickerings through the meadows, moors and mazes…

Day #107/365: Archie Fisher & Acid Tracks

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...an Introduction to the roots of psych-folk: subculture not from beneath the paving stones but from under the plough...

Day #104/365: Anthromorphic Leporids

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...a wander down some otherly rabbit holes and the fantastic visions of childhood tales...

Day #87/365: Faded foundlings and Tender Vessels

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...tumbling forth from forgotten stories...

Day #81/365: Image W – Mind How You Go

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Gallery

Day #80/365: The Films Of Old Weird Britain

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...celluloid flickerings from an otherly albion...

Day #69/365: Charles Frégers Wilder Mann

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...rituals away from the shores of albion...

Day #68/365: Image T

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Day #58/365: Lullabies For The Land

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...a pastoral magicbox by Ms Sharron Kraus...

Day #52/365: The Advisory Circle

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...ornithological intrigueries...

Day #51/365: General Orders No. 9

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...wandering away from the arborea of Albion to...

Day #45/365: Image M

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Day #39/365: Burn The Witch by Ms She Rocola

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...a stately repose amongst the corn rigs and Victorian light catching...

Day #37/365: Folk Horror Review

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...a wander through a green and not always pleasant land...

Day #33/365: Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age

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...cathode ray flickerings...

Day #32/365: Wyrd Britannia Festival, Folklore Tapes, Magpahi and English Libraries

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...a Field Trip Report from an otherly Albion...

Day #30/365: The Owl Service – A View From A Hill

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...the wolf in every mind...

Day #18/365: Willows Songs

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...unearthing the inspirations for future folkloric explorations...

Day #15/365. The Twilight Language Of Nigel Kneale

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...cathode ray seances and the mists of memory...

Day #7/365: Folklore Tapes

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...the ferrous reels of a research project...

Day #6/365: The Fallen By Watchbird – Jane Weaver Septieme Soeur

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...a journey through cosmic aquatic folklore...

Index

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Links to all days so far...

  • 2017 Album Themes
  • 2018 Album Themes
  • A Year In The Country – Undercurrents
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  • Fractures album – Dawn and Night Editions
  • From The Furthest Signals
  • Gallery: Liminal Phase
  • Gallery: Year 1
  • Gallery: Year 2
  • Gallery: Year 3
  • Gallery: Year 4
  • Index: Liminal Phase
  • Index: Year 1
  • Index: Year 2
  • Index: Year 3
  • Index: Year 4
  • No More Unto The Dance – A Year In The Country. Dawn and Night Editions.
  • PPL: A Guide To What They Do, Claiming Songs Etc
  • Release Details – 2017
  • Release Details – 2018
  • The A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields Book
  • The A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields Book – A Visual Accompaniment
  • The Forest / The Wald – Dawn and Night Editions
  • The Marks Upon The Land
  • The Marks Upon The Land / Wild Hope Flowers / The Dark Chamber EP
  • The Quietened Bunker – Dawn and Night Editions
  • The Quietened Cosmologists
  • The Quietened Village album – Dawn and Night Editions
  • The Restless Field

Wandering through spectral fields... - A Year In The Country