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A Year In The Country at Electronic Sound – Wanderings Amongst Escapee Phantoms and the Layers Under the Land: Artifact Report #51/52a:

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Over this year and last, the A Year In The Country album releases have received a fair old bit of support from Electronic Sound magazine.

So, with the year coming to an end and this year’s final A Year In The Country release – All The Merry Year Round –  having recently been written about in issue 36, the last of the year, I thought that about now would be a good time to gather together the reviews in the magazine…

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On Fractures: “A skillfully weighted blend of dark folklore and synthesised experimentation…”

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On The Restless Field: “…a wonderfully curated concept album that rips up the green grass of the idyllic countryside and forces you to consider the darker undergrowth. Beautifully unnerving stuff.”

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On From The Furthest Signals: “The ghosts are out of the machines.”

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On Undercurrents: “The countryside is often over romanticised, usually by those who don’t live there. A Year In The Country has dug a little deeper and hit on something much more profound to end up, if you’lll excuse the pun, in a field of his own.”

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On The Quietened Cosmologists: “Another issue, another release from the ever excellent A Year In The Country…”

(Why thankyou, good sirs !)

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On All The Merry Year Round: “And my, what a way to end 2017… Albion’s hauntology has never sounded so bewitching.”

Which seems like something of a good note to end this post on.

Thanks and a tip of the hat to all at and who have written the pieces for Electronic Sound, in particular Push, Neil Mason, Finlay Milligan and Ben Willmott.

Also to everybody who created the music: Circle/Temple, Sproatly Smith, Keith Seatman, Listening Center, The British Space Group, The Hare And The Moon, Alaska, Michael Begg, Time Attendant, The Rowan Amber Mill, Polypores, David Colohan, Howlround, Field Lines Cartographer, Vic Mars, Bare Bones, Assembled Minds, Grey Frequency, Endurance, Pulselovers, Depatterning, Sharron Kraus, Magpahi, Unit One, Cosmic Neighbourhood, Jo Lepine and United Bible Studies and The Séance.

Visit Electronic Sound here.

The albums can be perused at our Artifacts Shop, Bandcamp and Norman Records.

 

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Audiological Transmission #35/​​52​​: Howlround – Torridon Gate (excerpt)

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We thought it would be nice to wander back to Howlround’s Torridon Gate which was produced in the following manner:

All of the music on this album was created from a single recording of a front garden gate on Torridon Road in Hither Green, London. These sounds were captured using a contact microphone and processed, looped and edited on three reel-to-reel tape machines with all electronic effects or artificial reverb strictly forbidden…

Transmissions sent, received, transmitted…

Back when there was a fair amount of considering and scribing about the album. Below is a selection of just a few of such things:

“…the missing link between Ekoplekz and On Land, or  Stahlmusik gaseously expanded into Kosmische Musik…
Simon Reynolds at Blissblog.

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Torridon Gate is a different beast, essentially a manipulated field recording of a garden gate. But what a gate!… The Torridon Gate is a sonic symbol of a time and place, preserved by Howlround as a reminder not only of durable things, but of durable memories.  Few would recognize this as a field recording; it comes across as an experimental electronic piece, haunted by echo and hum.  The expected creaks are present, yet in these recordings, one can also hear ghosts… If one’s gate sounded like this, would one venture outside to close it?  Perhaps not.  But one’s gate does sound like this; we’re simply unable to hear it.  This is the whole point of A Year In The Country’s Artifact Shop –  to uncover what is veiled, even if it remains beyond our comprehension.
Richard Allen at A Closer Listen.

Torridon Gate will transport you – from Jupiter’s Moons to the Mines Of Moria. You might be led to believe that the Gate is an extraterrestrial artifact to fold space and time, but in fact, it’s just an ordinary garden gate.”
Forest Punk

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Beautifully different, utterly chillingly and curiously affecting. …There is something… at play here; a desire to manipulate sound, twist it into shapes that emote, that frighten, entrance and ultimately affect the listener on a deep, instinctive, physical and emotional level…”
Grey Malkin at The Active Listener

The gate’s squeaks become sounding mountains, and clouds of melodic atmospheres float through the piece. It’s an ordinary object made hauntingly strange.
Louise Gray at Music Works.

Howlround’s recording succeeds by obfuscating the source, rendering the ‘real’ unreal and transforming the ordinary into an other-worldly phenomenon…
Robin Tomens at Include Me Out.

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This third album from London’s finest manipulators of magnetic tape, Howlround, is a slow burning, deeply atmospheric corker.  Produced entirely from recordings made from the gate referenced in the title, the duo of Robin (the Fog) and Chris (Weaver) have coaxed a dizzying array of unsettling and even sorrowful sounds from this most functional of objects and have layered them to astonishing effect.
Ian Holloway at The Quiet World.

 

Howlround related wanderings around these parts:
Day #142/365: Fog Signals/Ghost signals from lost transmission centres

Day #296/365: Howlround’s ether handbill… and a hop, skip and jump to curious links between mirror world reflections of our times, the work of previous audiological explorers, certain English gents and printed/bound spectral considerations…

Day #356/365: Audiological Reflections and Pathways #6; fading vessellings

 

Howlround can be found in the ether here. Erstwhile Howlround-ers Robin The Fog and Christopher Weaver can be found here and here.

The album can be found at our Artifacts Shop and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.

 

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Day #362/365: Signals sent, signals received…

Trails and Influences: Electronic Ether. Case #51/52.

Audiological source: #1. #2. #3. #5. #6. #7.
Visual/audiological source: #1.

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“…I had written about how the imagined landscape (Britain, in these cases) features so strongly in some strains of contemporary experimental folk music. Granted, this has been a central theme in folk since the 60s revival, but as I argue, the ease with which electronic manipulation can be applied these days has really influenced some of the more experimental folk works in the past decade or so. This heightened interplay of the ‘acoustic’ and electronic, and in a broader sense, between the rural and the urban, makes for a liminal artistic and imaginary field that is finding different forms of expression these days...”

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2.

…these concerns streak through the British visionary imagination, from painters such as Blake and Samuel Palmer to early 20th century romantic composers like Peter Warlock, 1960s pantheistic pranksters Incredible String Band and into the post-industrial underground of Coil, Psychic TV and Current 93. In the UK… this reanimation of the mythic countryside, underscored by liminal drones, residual folk forms and improvisation has found voice again recently in imprints like David Barker’s Folklore Tapes, Stephen Collin’s Stone Tape Recordings and Rob Lee’s Heretic’s Folk Club…”

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3.

…the whole thing looks as a discovery, a document, a forgotten memory or a souvenir – something you may find in an abandoned library, not in a record store…

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4.

…one imagines such editions being buried in time capsules or cemented in stone walls for future generations to mull over: sedimentary layers of history.

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5.

…uma vez mais trata-se de um exercício assombrado de field recordings, uma colagem psico-geográfica de sons que funciona como uma nocturna pintura aura…

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6.

Sounds must play for we don’t play with instruments, we play with soundtrack, with editing, filtering, reverberation. These games must use all kind of possibilities. It’s about transformation, the magic of transformation of sounds is important… It’s an animation, an animation of sound talk…  an urban source response to the dark moors and haunted woods mythology of modern folklorist music-makers…”

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7.

The sounds expose themselves, transform and meld producing a piece of music that is at times introspective, at times vociferous and in a constant state of resurgence and restless agitation…

 

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Day #273/365: Artifact #39/52; She Rocola Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother town CD released – Night / Day Editions

The CDs are now sold out but the single is available to download at our Bandcamp page.

She Rocola Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother town CD.
Night Edition £22.00.  Day edition £15.00.

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Audiological contents: Burn The Witch (2.20) / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town (2.41).

Hand-finished albums available via our: Artifacts ShopDiscogs Audiological Archive and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.

 

Night Edition: Limited to 52 copies. £22.00.

Hand finished box-set contains: album on all black CDr, 12 page string bound booklet, 4 x 25mm badge pack, 3 x vinyl style waterproof stickers.

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Night edition details:

1) Booklet/cover art custom printed using archival Giclée pigment ink.

2) Contained in a matchbox style sliding two-part rigid matt card box.

3) Printed box cover print.

4) Fully black CDr (black on top, black on playable side).

5) Black string bound 12.8cm x 12.8cm booklet:
a) Hand numbered and signed
b) Hand bone creased cover.
c) 12 pages (6 sides printed).
d) Front and rear covers are printed on 310gsm textured fine art cotton rag paper.
e) Two inner sheets are printed on 245gsm paper.
f) Two inner sheets are printed on semi-transparent 110gsm vellum paper.

6) 4 x 25mm/1″ badge set, contained in a see-through polythene bag with a folded card header.

7) 3 x vinyl style waterproof stickers: 9.5 x 6.8cm, 7.2 x 6.8cm, 2.9 x 2.6cm.

 

Day Edition: Limited to 52 copies. £15.00.

White/black CDr album in 10 page string bound booklet packaging.
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Day Edition Details:

1) Booklet custom printed using archival Giclée pigment ink.

2) Wrapped in wax sealed, hand stamped black tissue paper.

3) White/black CDr (white on top, black on playable side).

4) Jute string bound 14.4cm x 13.2cm booklet:

a) Hand bone creased cover.
b) 10 pages (5 sides printed);
c) Front and rear covers are printed on 310gsm textured fine art cotton rag paper.
d) Two inner sheets are printed on 245gsm paper.
e) One inner sheet is printed on semi-transparent 110gsm vellum paper.
h) Hand numbered and signed.

5) CDr held in protective fleece-lined sleeve.

 

Credits:

Burn The Witch (2014)
Words: She Rocola.
Music: Andrea Fiorito.
Vocals: She Rocola.
Violin: Andrea Fiorito.
Recorded and produced by Joe Whitney and Andrea Fiorito.

Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town (2014)
Words: She Rocola.
Music: She Rocola/Joe Whitney.
Vocals & Guitar: She Rocola.
Bass & Toy Piano: Joe Whitney.
Recorded and produced by Joe Whitney.

www.soundcloud.com/sherocola

www.flytowhitneysmoon.com

Artwork and packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.

 

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Ms She Rocola’s dress is inspired by a beetle wing dress made for Ellen Terry in the 19th century. The dress was originally designed and made by Mrs Nettleship…

The intention was to make the original dress “…look as much like soft chain armour as I could and yet have something that would give the appearance of the scales of a serpent… (it is) sewn all over with real green beetle wings, and a narrow border in Celtic designs, worked out in rubies and diamonds“.

More details via the Victoria and Albert Museum here and via electronic printed matter here.

www.zoelloyd.co.uk

 

The song Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town draws from Ms She Rocola’s own personal folklore and that of her home town; childhood experiences of chasing her playmates around Molly Leigh’s grave and the rhymes which accompanied such games. It is an audiological conjuring of hazy, sleepy small-hours memories and dreams from those times.

Burn The Witch’s story is interconnected with those childhood memories and is in part inspired by formative viewings of late-night folk-horror films from in front of and behind the sofa.

Here at A Year In The Country, we are proud to be able to send these stories out into the world.

The story and mythology of Molly Leigh can be investigated further here.

 

Available via our: Artifacts ShopDiscogs Audiological Archive and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.

Prices include free UK shipping. Normally ships within 7-14 days.

 

Preview Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town below.

 

Previous wandering amongst the corn rigs and Victorian light catching with Ms She Rocola at
Day #39/365 of A Year In The Country.

 

The full current library of the A Year In The Country Audiological Research and Pathways series:

Case Study #1: Grey Frequency: Immersion
Case Study #2: Hand of Stabs: Black-Veined White
Case Study #3: Michael Tanner: Nine of Swords
Case Study #5: She Rocola: Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town

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Index: Year 1

Click the links below to peruse the indexes for the different years of A Year In The Country:

All Years     –      Year 1     –      Year 2      –      Year 3      –     Year 4      –      Year 5      –     Year 6      –     Year 7      –     Year 8

 

250-Scary trees-for first page-A Year In The Country Day #1/365: Welcome To A Year In The Country
250-Image-1-A-Year-In-The-Country-cliff-575x190 Day #2/365: Image A
250-0001-A-Year-In-The-Country-Gather-In-The-Mushrooms-Bob Stanley-acid folk-psych folk Day #3/365: Gather In The Mushrooms: something of a starting point via an accidental stumbling into the British acid folk undeground
250-0002-A-Year-In-The-Country-Electric-Eden-Rob-Young-376x575-A Year In The CountryDay #4/365: Electric Eden; a researching, unearthing and drawing of lines between the stories of Britain’s visionary music
250-Artifact-1-print-photograph-A Year In The Country Day #5/365: Artifact #1/52. now available.
250-Day-6-The-Fallen-By-Watch-Bird-Jane-Weaver-1-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x314Day #6/365: The Fallen By Watchbird – Jane Weaver Septieme Soeur; the start of a journey through cosmic aquatic folklore, kunstmärche and otherly film fables…
250-Day-7-Devon-Folklore-Tapes-Vol-IV-Magpahi-and-Paper-Dollhouse-A-Year-In-The-Country-2 Day #7/365: Folklore Tapes; the ferrous reels of arcane research projects…
image-u-a-year-in-the-countryDay #8/365: Image B
250-Wyrd-Britannia-Festival-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x406Day #9/365: Wyrd Britannia Festival
250-Day-10-The-Auteurs-How-I-Learned-To-Love-The-Bootboys-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x575 Day #10/365: The Auteurs – How I Learned To Love The Boot Boys; our most non-hauntological hauntologist…
250-Day-11-Teach-Me-To-Be-A-Summer-Morning-b-Lal-Waterson-A-Year-In-The-Country-474x575Day #11/365: Lal Waterson – Teach Me To Be A Summers Morning
250-0009-Wirey-trees-4tu-yep-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #12: Image C
250-Day-13-The-Wall-Die-Sind-2012-A-Year-In-The-Country-386x575 Day #13/365. The Wall / Die Wand… a vision from behind the walls of pastoral science fiction…
250-Artifact-2-Photo-1200-bw-2-575x413Day #14/365. Artifact #2/52 released.
250-Day-14-The-Twilight-Language-Of-Nigel-Kneale-Strange-Attractor-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x414 Day #15/365. The Twilight Language Of Nigel Kneale
250-Day-12-Moon-6c-tu-and-with-slight-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #16/365: Image D
250-Day-15-Image-E-575x190 Day #17/365: Image E
250-Day-16-Willows-Songs-b-Finders-Keepers-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x481Day #18/365: Willows Songs
250-Day-17-Once-A-Year-cover-Homer-Sykes-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #19/365: Once a Year – Homer Sykes
250-Artifact-3-badge-pack-bw-1200-412x575 Day #20/365. Artifact #3/52 released.
250-Day-18-In-The-Dark-Half-2012-Film-Poster-Alistair-Siddons-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x431 Day #21/365: In The Dark Half
250-Day-19-Image-FWithout-snake-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190Day #22/365: Image F
250-Day-23-The-Stone-Tape-Nigel-Kneale-A-Year-In-The-Country-2-575x409 Day #23/365: Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape – a study of future haunted media
250-Day-24-Dark-Peak-White-Peak-Paul-Hill-Dewi-Lewis-Cornerhouse-A-Year-in-The-Country-6 Day #24/365. Dark Peak White Peak by Paul Hill
250-A-Year-In-The-Country-Image-G-575x190-1Day #25/365. Image G
250-Day-25-Christopher-Priest-Dreams-Of-Wessex-A-Year-In-The-Country-4-575x466 Day #26/365. Christopher Priest – A Dream of Wessex and dreams of the twentieth century
image-h-a-year-in-the-country-2 Day #27/365: Image H
250-Artifact-4-Meme-all-images-A-Year-In-The-Country-bw-575x435 Day #28/365. Artifact #4/52 released
250-0029-Alison-Goldfrapp-Performer-As-Curator-The-The-Lowry-A-Year-In-The-Country-5-575x534 Day #29/365: Alison Goldfrapp – Performer As Curator and a wander through crumbling textures
250-0030-The-Owl-Service-The-View-From-A-Hill-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x537Day #30/365: The Owl Service – A View From A Hill
250-0031-Image-I-Poles-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #31/365: Image I
250-Echo-Of-Light-Folklore-Tapes-Wyrd-Britannia-A-Year-In-The-Country-3-564x575 Day #32/365: Wyrd Britannia, Folklore Tapes, Magpahi, Tales From The Black Meadow and English Libraries
250-Broadcast-and-The-Focus-Group-video-still-A-Year-In-The-Country-2Day #33/365: Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age and the recalibrations of past cathode ray stories…
250-Image-J-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #34/365: Image J
250-Artifact-5-A-Year-In-The-Country-They-Come-Unbidden-4-bw Day #35/365. Artifact #5/52: They Come Unbidden book released
250-Psychedelic-Folklorist-6-A-Year-In-The-Country-476x575 Day #36/365: Psychedelic Folkloristic and niche corners of the electronic ether
250-Folk-Horror-Review-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #37/365: Folk Horror Review and a wander through a green and not always pleasant land
250-Image-K-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #38/365: Image K
250-She-Rocola-Burn-The-Witch-Zoe-Lloyd-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #39/365: Burn The Witch by Ms She Rocola, a stately repose amongst the corn rigs and Victorian light catching
Layout 1 Day #40/365: Electric Eden Ether Reprise… from the wild woods to broadcasts from the pylons…
250-Image-L-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x160 Day #41/365: Image L
250-Artifact-6-reduced-size-A-Year-In-The-Country-bw-413x575 Day #42/365: Artifact #6/52: We’re Lost: The First Second At The End Of Times print released
250-Heretics-Folk-Club-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #43/365: Heretics Folk Club and resulting pathways / returns…
250-Katie-Jane-Garside-Ruby-Throat-A-Year-In-The-Country-1 Day #44/365: Katie Jane Garside, Ruby Throat and delicate artifacts
250-Image-M-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #45/365: Image M
250-The-Changes-1975-BBC-A-Year-In-The-Country-8 Day #46/365: Threads, The Changes, the bad wires and the ghosts of transmissions
250-Image-N-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #47/365: Image N
250-Sky-1975-TV-British-television-series-A-Year-In-The-Country-412x575 Day #48/365: Sky: a selection of artifacts from a library of a boy who fell to earth…
250-Artifact-7-A-Year-In-The-Country-vellum-giclee-pigment-ink-print Day #49/365: Artifact #7/52 released – Monitoring The Transmissions vellum print
250-Lutine-music-2-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #50/365: Lutine – music for the mind to wander with…
250-General-orders-no-9-a-year-in-the-country Day #51/365: General Orders No. 9… wandering from the arborea of Albion to…
250-The-Advisory-Circle-Jon-Brooks-Ghost-Box-Records Day #52/365: The Advisory Circle and ornithological intrigueries…
250-Image-N-A-Year-In-The-Country1-575x190 Day #53/55: Image O
250-Image-O-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #54/55: Image P
250-Scoopit-hauntology-1b-341x575 Day #55/365: Curated spectres and tumbling down hauntological hills
250-A-Year-In-The-Country-Artifact-852-Cover-575x217 Day #56/365: Artifact #8/52 released: Phantasms ribbon bound, layered image transparent book
250-David-Chatton-Barker-Folklore-Tapes-A-Year-In-The-Country-2 Day #57/365: A bakers dozen of Mr David Chatton Barker
250-Sharron-Kraus-Pilgrim-Chants-Pastoral-Trails-Second-Language-Music-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #58/365: Lullabies for the land and a pastoral magicbox by Ms Sharron Kraus
Ghost-Box-Records-Julian-House-See-They-Await-Us-A-Year-In-The-Country-250 Day #59/365: Signals and signposts from and via Mr Julian House
250-Image-Q-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #60/365: Image Q
250-Image-Q-A-Year-In-The-Contry-575x190Day #61/365: Image R
250-Two-Years-At-Sea-Ben-Rivers-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #62/365: Two Years At Sea
250-Artifact-9-52-Atavisistic-Memories-575x218 Day #63/365: Artifact #9/52 – Atavistic Memories Print
250-Belbury-Poly-Belbury-Tales-Rob-Young-Julian-House-Ghost-Box-Records-A-Year-In-The-Country-3 Day #64/365: Belbury Poly’s Geography Of Peace
250-The-Belbury-Parish-Magazine-Ghost-Box-Records-Jim-Jupp-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #65/365: Mr Jim Jupp’s parish circular
250-Mummers-Maypoles-and-Milkmaids-Sarah-Hannant-A-Year-In-The-Country-1 Day #66/365: Sarah Hannants wander through the English ritual year
250-Image-P-A-Year-In-The-Country1-575x190 Day #67/365: Image S
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250-Charles-Freger-Wilder-Mann-Dewi-Lewis-Publishing-A-Year-In-The-Country1 Day #69/365: Charles Frégers Wilder Mann and rituals away from the shores of albion
Artifact-10-The-Lore-Of-The-Land-print-A-Year-In-The-Country-250 Day #70/365: Artifact #10/52 released: The Lore And Losses Of The Land print
250-Kate-Bush-Under-The-Ivy-Running-Up-That-Hill-vinyl-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #71/365: Kate Bush, Under The Ivy and secret gardens…
250-Joanna-Newsom-2-Arthur-Magazine-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #72/365: Arthur magazine and the brief flickering of freak folk
250-A-Field-In-England-soundtrack-poster-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x383 Day #73/365: A wander through A Field In England with Twins of Evil and other travelling companions…
image-u-a-year-in-the-countryDay #74/365: Image U
250-Image-V-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x191Day #75/365: Image V
250-Josh-Kemp-Smith-Illuminating-Forgotten-Heritage-A-Year-In-The-Country-2-575x383 Day #76/365: Josh Kemp Smith – Illuminating Forgotten Heritage
250-Artifact-11-5-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x270 Day #77/365: Artifact #11/52 released: They Come Unbidden string bound book (Sapling Edition)
250-Winstanley-1975-Kevin-Brownlow-Andrew-Mollo-A-Year-In-The-Country-2-poster Day #78/365: Winstanley – Another Field In England
250-Paper-Dollhouse-A-Box-Painted-Black-Bird-Finders-Keepers-Records-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #79/365: Paper Dollhouse – A Box Painted Black and songs which quietly nest in the mind…
250-BFI-Sight-Sound-The-Films-Of-Old-Weird-England-Rob-Young-William-Fowler-A-Year-In-The-Country-3 Day #80/365: The Films Of Old Weird Britain… celluloid flickerings from an otherly Albion…
250-Image-W-Mind-How-You-Go-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x191 Day #81/365: Image W – Mind How You Go
250-Image-X-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #82/365: Image X
250-Image-Y-Hello-Earth-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #83/365: Image Y – Hello Earth (A Midnight Dawn)
250-Artifact-12-Image-of-Print-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x218 Day #84/365: Artifact #12/52 released: We Have Summoned Them And Now The Time Is Upon Us print
250-Weirdlore-Folk-Police-Records-Jeanette-Leach-Ian-Anderson-fRoots-Sproatly-Smith-A-Year-In-The-Country-3-575x437 Day #85/365: Weirdlore: Notes From The Folk Underground and legendary lost focal points…
250-Novemthree-tshirt-design-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #86/365: novemthree-Scythe to the Grass and gentle pastoral melancholia that wanders under the skin…
250-Corn-Husk-Crafts-Facklam-Phibbs-A-Year-In-The-Country-1 Day #87/365: Faded foundlings and Tender Vessels…
250-No-Blade-Of-Grass-1-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x237 Day #88/365: No Blade Of Grass and a curious mini-genre…
250-Image-Z-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #89/365: Image Z
250-The-Wicker-Man-Collage-A-Year-In-The-Country-1080Day #90/365: The Wickerman – the future lost vessels and artifacts of modern folklore
250-Artifact-13-Front-cover-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x326 Day #91/365: Artifact #13/52: Mind How You Go ribbon bound canvas book released
250-Sproatly-Smith-Minstrels-Grave-Folk-Police-Recordings-Reverb-Worship-A-Year-In-The-Country-3-575x467 Day #92/365: Sproatly Smith – The Minstrel’s Grave and visions of a land rolling away just out of sight of the mind’s eye…
250-Jeanette-Leech-Seasons-They-Change-The-Story-of-Acid-and-Psychedelic-Folk-A-Year-In-The-Country-505x575 Day #93/365: Seasons They Change and the sweetly strange concoctions of private pressings…
250-found0bjects-blog-logo-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x184 Day #94/365: Found0bjects: The ghosts of transmission installations and remanants of a secret past
250-Image-B2-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x203 Day #95/365: Image A/2: Something Wicked This Way Comes
250-Image-A2-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #96/365: Image B/2: And Lo The Gateway Was Opened
250-Magpahi-EP-Alison-Cooper-Finders-Keepers-Records-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #97/365: Ms A. Cooper, Natural/Supernatural Lancashire and the various nestings of Magpahi…
250-The-Gateway-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x229 Day #98/365: Artifact #14/52 released: The Gateway print
250-Leyland-Kirby-Sadly-The-Future-Is-Nolonger-What-It-Was-A-Year-In-The-Country-2 Day #99/365: 14 tracks – “Hauntology: A peculiar sonic fiction”
250-Delia-Derbyshire-Day-2014-Delia-Darlings-A-Year-In-The-Country-1-406x575 Day #100/365: Ms Delia Derbyshire and a day of audiological remembrance and salute
250-Gently-Johnny-Sproatly-Smith-The-Woodbine-Ivy-Band-Static-Caravan-The-Wicker-Man-Magnet-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #101/365: Gently Johnny, Sproatly Smith, The Woodbine & Ivy band and lilting intentions…
250-Image-C2-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #102/365: Image C/2
250-Image-D2-Once-Dark-Now-Stilled-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #103/365: Image D/2: Once Dark, Now Stilled
250-Anthromorphic-Leporids-via-Becky-Wells-on-Pinterest-rabbits-bunnies-folklore-A-Year-In-The-Country-4 Day #104/365: Anthromorphic Leporids; a wander down some otherly rabbit holes and the fantastic visions of childhood tales
250-Artifact-15-all-prints-with-envelope-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x549 Day #105/365: Artifact #15/52 released: Nature’s Calligraphy 12 x Giclée card/print set
250-Innocents-O-Willow-Waly-George-Auric-Isla-Cameron-Finders-Keepers-7-inch-vinyl-Finders-Kreepers-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x246 Day #106/365: The whisperings of Willow O Waly
250-Acid-Tracks-An-Introduction-to-the-roots-of-psych-folk-compiled-by-The-Owl-Service-Rif-Mountain-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #107/365: Archie Fisher & Acid Tracks – An Introduction to the roots of psych-folk: subculture not from beneath the paving stones but from under the plough
250-Experiment-IV-Kate-Bush-A-Year-In-The-Country-354x575Day #108/365: Let me grab your soul away – Kate Bush and darkly cinematic flickerings through the meadows, moors and mazes…
250-Image-E2-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #109/365: Image E/2
250-Image-F2-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #110/365: Image F/2
250-A-Field-Trip-England-Folkways-Records-Jean-Ritchie-and-Georg-Pickow-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x300Day #111/365: Ms Jean Ritchie’s Field Trip-England and recordings from the end of an era…
250-Artifact-16-Print-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x417 Day #112/365: Artifact #16/52 released: Intricacies and Intrigueries A2 print
250-The-Wicker-Man-Blood-On-Satans-Claw-Whistle-and-Ill-come-to-you-Village-Of-The-Damned-BFI-10-Great-Rural-Horror-films-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x192 Day #113/365: A box of rural horror films and glances at unlit landscapes…
250-Richard-Ross-Waiting-For-The-End-Of-The-World-A-Year-In-The-Country-3-473x575 Day #114/365: Waiting For The End Of The World and havens beneath our feet
250-Edward-Chell-Soft-Estate-Bluecoat-Cornerhouse-A-Year-In-The-Country-7 Day #115/365: Edward Chell’s Soft Estates – documents of autobahn edgelands
250-Image-G2-A-Year-In-The-Country-Hello-Earth-2 Day #116/365: Image G/2: Hello Earth (#2)
250-Image-H2-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #117/365: Image H/2: The Departure Before The Storm
250-Virgina-Astley-From-Gardens-Where-We-Feel-Secure-vinyl-Rough-Trade-A-Year-In-The-Country-4 Day #118/365: Virginia Astley’s From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
250-Triptych-print-set-A-Year-In-The-Country-prints-479x575Day #119/365: Artifact #17/52 released: Monitoring The Transmissions triptych print set
250-Plinth-Wintersongs-Michael-Tanner-Kit-Records-Rusted-Rail-A-Year-In-The-Country-1 Day #120/365: Plinth’s Wintersongs; a sometime walking companion for other landscape travellers
250-Skeletons-2010-Nick-Whitfield-British-film-A-Year-In-The-Country-4 Day #121/365: Skeletons; a world, time and place of it’s own imagining
250-The-Owl-Service-Wake-The-Vaulted-Echo-Hobby-Horse-Fine-Horseman-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #122/365: A trio or more of Fine Horsemen via Modern Folk Is Rubbish and through to patterns layered under patterns…
250-Image-I2-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x191 Day #123/365: Image I/2; Monitoring The Transmissions (#2)
250-Image-J2-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #124/365: Image J/2
250-Seasons-David-Cain-Jonny-Trunk-BBC-A-Year-In-The-Country-565x575 Day #125/365: Journeying through The Seasons with David Cain (or maybe just July and October)
250-Artifact-18-four-fabric-badges-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x570 Day #126/365: Artifact #18/52: Mind How You Go fabric badge set
250-Robin-Redbreast-A-Year-In-The-Country-BFI-DVD-1970-2-575x431 Day #127/365: Robin Redbreast…
250-English-Folk-Songs-Audrey-Copard-Folkways-Records-Scarborough-Fair-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x568 Day #128/365: Audrey Copard – English Folk Songs and dew on the corn…
250-Image-K2-The-Gateway-Secondary-Phase-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x203 Day #129/365: Image K/2; The Gateway (Secondary Phase)
250-Image-L2-Atavistic-Memories-575x176 Day #130/365: Image L/2; Atavistic Memories
250-John-Benjamin-Stone-A-Record-of-England-folk-customs-and-traditions-A-Year-In-The-Country-4 Day #131/365: John Benjamin Stone; records of folkloric rituals, traditions and light catching from other eras…
250-Espers-II-Greg-Weeks-Drag-City-A-Year-In-The-Country-5 Day #132/365: Espers, coruscation and the demise of monarchs…
250-Artifact-19-Monitoring-The-Transmissions-fabric-badge-pack-four-badges-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x564 Day #133/365: Artifact #19/52 released; Monitoring The Transmissions fabric badge set
250-Luc-Tuymans-Valley-2007-Rouges-Foam-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #134/365: Rouge’s Foam – Hauntology: The Past Inside The Present and an awareness that the ghosts will always win
250-Kill-List-Ben-Wheatley-A-Year-In-The-Country-4-575x379 Day #135/365: Kill List
250-The-Owl-Service-TV-series-titles-Alan-Garner-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x438 Day #136/365: Mr Ben Wheatley wanders amongst a curious number of subjects which may be familiar to visitors of these fields…
250-Image-M2-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #137/365: Image M/2
250-Image-N2-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x191Day #138/365: Image N/2
250-Sharron-Kraus-Heretics-Folk-Club-A-Year-In-The-Country-2-1200-575x406 Day #139/365: Sharron Kraus, the less well trodden paths of Heretics Folk Club and unfurling sails…
250-Artifact-20-stickers-and-insert-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x301 Day #140/365: Artifact #20/52; Arborea #1 waterproof sticker set
250-Ladies-From-The-Canyon-Wayfaring-Strangers-Jennie-Pearl-Maybe-In-Another-Year-A-Year-In-The-Country-2-570x575Day #141/365: Jennie Pearl, the pearl of Peoria, Maybe In Another Year and lost ladies of folk
250-Howlround-Robin-The-Fog-the-ghosts-of-bush-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x549 Day #142/365: Fog Signals/Ghost signals from lost transmission centres
250-MisinforMation-Mordant-Music-Central-Office-Of-Information-BFI-DVD-cover-A-Year-In-The-Country-520x575 Day #143/365: Central Office Of Information + Mordant Music = MisinforMation
250-Image-O2-A-Year-In-The-Country2-575x190Day #144/365: Image O/2
250-Image-P2-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #145/365: Image P/2
250-Hollyoaks-Savage-Party-folklore-A-Year-In-The-Country-4-575x323Day #146/365: Glimpses of Albion in the overgrowth
250-Artifact-21-stickers-and-front-of-insert-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x399 Day #147/365: Artifact #21/52; Arborea #2 waterproof sticker pack
250-Folk-Archive-Jeremy-Deller-Alan-Kane-A-Year-In-The-Country-41-575x424 Day #148/365: Folk Archive
250-Phase-IV-Saul-Bellow-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x322 Day #149/365: Phase IV – lost celluloid flickering (return to), through to Beyond The Black Rainbow and journeys Under The Skin
250-Kiss-Of-The-Damned-poster-Xan-Casavetes-Jane-Weaver-Demdike-Stare-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #150/365: Parade Of Blood Red Sorrows
250-Image-O2-A-Year-In-The-Country1-575x190 Day #151/365: Image Q/2
250-Image-P2-A-Year-In-The-Country1-575x190Day #152/365: Image R/2; Arrival
250-Berberian-Sound-Studio-Peter-Strickland-Julian-House-Ghost-Box-Records-Broadcast-A-Year-In-The-Country-3-575x387 Day #153/365: Stepping through into… Berberian Sound Studio
250-Fridge-magnet-etc-set-in-packaging-A-Year-In-The-Country-504x575Day #154/365: Artifact #22; Portals and Pathways #2 badge, fridge magnet, keyring & makeup mirror set
250-Hand-of-Stabs-A-Year-In-The-Country-4-575x384Day #155/365: Hand of Stabs… delving amongst the soil and roots for the hidden stories of the land…
250-Lancashire-Folklore-Tapes-Vol-1-Drcarlsonalbion-And-The-Hackney-Lass-Thee-Betrothal-of-Alizon-Device-A-Year-In-The-Country-2 Day #156/365: Drcarlsonalbion; taking the tropes and traditions of folklore to modern climes…
250-Tim-Hart-and-Maddy-Prior-Folk-Songs-of-Olde-England-A-Year-In-The-Country-4-575x340Day #157/365: The Dalesman’s Litany; a yearning for imaginative idylls and a counterpart to tales of hellish mills
250-Image-S2-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190Day #158/365: Image S/2; Monitoring The Transmissions (#2) – The Shadows And Vestiges After The Fall
250Image-T2-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x190 Day #159/365: Image T/2
250-Karl-Hyde-Kieran-Evans-Edgeland-Outer-Edges-A-Year-In-The-Country-lighter-575x396Day #160/365: Edgelands Report Documents; Cases #1a (return), #2a-5a.
250-Artifact-23-Front-of-pack-A-Year-In-The-Country-510x575Day #161/365: Artifact #23/52 released: Arborea #2 (Day/Night Version) 12 x badge set
250-The-Advisory-Circle-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #162/365: Hauntology, places where society goes to dream, the deletion of spectres and the making of an ungenre
250-Mark-Fisher-Ghosts-Of-My-Life-Zero-Books-hauntology-A-Year-In-The-Country-442x575 Day #163/365: Mark Fisher’s Ghosts Of My Life and a very particular mourning and melancholia for a future’s past…
250-Bagpuss-Small-Films-Oliver-Postgate-BBC-Rob-Young-Electric-Eden-book-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #164/365: A saggy old cloth cat and curious cultural connections…
250-Image-U2-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x191 Day #165/365: Image U/2; Phantasms
250-Image-V2-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x192 Day #166/365: Image V/2; The Final Pastures
250-Supernatural-Lancashire-2-Finders-Keepers-Records-Samandtheplants-Sam-Mcloughlin-Magpahi-Alison-Cooper-A-Year-In-The-Country copy-1200 Day #167/365: Wandering back through the darkening fields and flickerings to imaginary soundtracks…
250-Artifact-24-box-and-contents-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #168/365: Artifact #24/52 released; A Box Of Pastoral Ephemera
250-Claypipe-Music-Frances-Castle-A-Year-In-The-Country-553x575Day #169/365: On your marks… the return and reprise of the corporeality of vibrations in the air… and a bakers dozen of Clay Pipe Music
250-The Owl Service-The A Lords-Rif Mountain-Adam Leonard-Folk Police Recordings-Dom Cooper-A Year In The CountryDay #170/365: Who’s afear’d: Dom Cooper & reinterpreting signs, signals and traditions…
Image-W2-250-He-Places-His-Mark-Upon-The-Land-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #171/365: Image W/2; He Places His Mark Upon The Land
Image-X-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #172/365: Image X/2
250-The-Village-Of-The-Damned-A-Year-In-The-Country-Midwich-Cuckoos-John-Wyndham-film-adapation-4Day #173/365: “Douglas I’m scared”; celluloid cuckoos and the village as anything but idyll…
250-Strawberry-Fields-2012-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #174/365: Strawberry Fields & Wreckers; the hinterland/village as edgeland
250-Artifact-25-print-A-Year-In-The-Country-2Day #175/365: Artifact #25/52 released; Hello Earth (#2) archival print
250-John-Wyndham-The-Day-Of-The-Triffids-book-Midwich cuckoos-cover-A-Year-In-The-Country-1200jpgDay #176/365: The changing shadows of the fictions of John Wyndham…
250-Zardoz-1973-John-Boorman-A-Year-In-The-Country-2-1Day #177/365: Zardoz… in this secret room from the past, I seek the future…
250-Shindig-Magazine-Broadcast-Julian-House-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #178/365: The cuckoo in the nest: sitting down with a cup of cha, a slice of toast, Broadcast, Emerald Web, Ghost Box Records and other fellow Shindig travellers…
250-Image-Y2-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #179/365: Image Y/2; Childhood Dreams Of The Viker March
250-Image-Z2-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #180/365: Image Z/2; Arboreal Analogues #1
250-Queens-of-Evil-1970-Le-Regine-A-Year-In-The-Country-8Day #181/365: Queens Of Evil; “What sort of conjurers are you?” – “Persuaders, your eminence, hidden persuaders.”
Artifact 26-250-archival print-A Year In The CountryDay #182/365: Artifact #26/52 released; The Reaping Amongst The Stones archival print
The-Owl-Service-250-TV-program-A-Year-In-The-Country-3Day #183/365: Steam engine time and remnants of transmissions before the flood
Barbara-Steele-250-Curse-Of-The-Crimson-Altar-A-Year-In-The-Country-19-1Day #184/365: The Majesty of Ms Steele and films within films…
Angus-Macphee-250-A-Year-In-The-Country-4Day #185/365: The silent weavings of Angus McPhee
Image-A3-250-A-Year-In-The-Country-1Day #186/365: Image A/3
Image-B3-250-A-Year-In-The-Country-1Day #187/365: Image B/3
The-Ash-Tree-250-David-Rudkin-MR-James-A-Ghost-Story-For-Christmas-The-BBC-A-Year-In-The-Country-2Day #188/365: The Ash Tree; Sacred Disobedience, an unorthodox guidance and further fields In England
Artifact-27-250-The-Marks-On-The-Land-badge-set-front-of-badge-set-A-Year-In-The-Country-copy-1Day #189/365: Artifact #27/52; The Marks Upon The Land pin badge set
Acts-of-Inclosure-250-map-A-Year-In-The-Country-1Day #190/365: Electric Eden Ether Reprise (#2): Acts Of Enclosure, the utopian impulse and why folk music and culture?
Pendas-Fen-250-David-Rudkin-A-Year-In-The-Country-1Day #191/365: Penda’s Fen; “Cherish our flame, our dawn will come.”
Grey-Frequency-250-dark-ambient-A-Year-In-The-Country-5 Day #192/365: When Do We Dream? Cold Geometries and Grey Frequencies
Image-C3-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #193/365: Image C/3
Image-D3-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #194/365: Image D/3
World-On-A-Wire-250-1973-poster-A-Year-In-The-Country-1Day #195/365: World On A Wire; a curiously prescient Simulacron
Artifact-28-250-A-Pastoral-Tinderbox-front-view-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x512Day #196/365: Artifact #28/52 released; A Pastoral Tinderbox
Quatermass-1979-250-The-Conclusion-Nigel-Kneale-poster-A-Year-In-The-Country-1Day #197/365: Huff-ity puff-ity ringstone round; Quatermass and the finalities of lovely lightning
Earth-Hex-250-or-printing-in-the-infernal-method-A-Year-In-The-Country-1Day #198/365: Wandering from the arborea of Albion (#2) and fever dreams of the land…

Moon-Wiring-Club-250-A-Year-In-The-Country-1Day #199/365: The ether ephemera of Mr Ian Hodgson and wandering from village green preservation to confusing English electronic music…

Day #200/365: Image E/3Image-E3-250-A-Year-In-The-Country
Image-F3-250-A-Year-In-The-Country Day #201/365: Image F/3; Angelic Descent (The Cities Are On Fire #2)
Filming-The-Owl-Service-250-Alan-Garner-Peter-Plummer-A-Year-In-The-Country-8Day #202/365: Filming The Owl Service; Tomato Soap and Lonely Stones
Artifact-29-250-print-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #203/365: Artifact #29/52; The Arrival (#2) archival print
The-Moon-And-The-Sledgehammer-250-A-Year-In-The-Country-11Day #204/365: The Moon And The Sledgehammer in amongst the fields of the ether for less than a bakers dozen of teacakes…
The-Wire-Ghost-Box-250-Invisible-Jukebox-Rob-Young-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #205/365: The interfaces between the old ways/cathode rays; twelve spinnings from an (Electric Edenic) Invisible Ghost (Juke)Box
Image-G3-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #206/365: Image G/3
Eccentronic-Research-Council-250-1612-Underture-Maxine-Peake-Andy-Votel-Bird-Records-Jane-Weaver-Finders-Keepers-Records-A-Year-In-The-Country-5Day #207/365: The Eccentronic Research Council: modern day magic on a monthly tariff and the rhyming (and non-rhyming) couplets of non-populist pop
Image-H3-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #208/365: Image H/3
Julian-House-250-Intro-design-Ghost-Box-Records-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #209/365: Signal and signposts from and via Mr Julian House (#2); the worlds created by an otherly geometry
Artifact-30-250-print-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #210/365: Artifact #30/52; Dendronic Geometries archival print
The-Owl-Service-250-book-Alan-Garner-Darren-Hopes-Folio-Society-A-Year-In-The-Country-2Day #211/365: Memories of midnight dreams and other nocturnal flightways and pathways
The-Green-Gene-250-The Changes-Noahs Castle-The Omega Factor-Peter-Dickinson-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #212/365: With but a tap and a swoosh; the loss of loss and paper encapturings of once fleeting televisual flickerings…
A-curious-mini-genre-250-Soylent-Green-Logans-run-make-room-make-room-no-blade-of-grass-phase-iv-zardoz-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #213/365: Artifacts of a curious mini-genre (and misc.)
Image-I3-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #214/365: Image I/3
Day #215/365: Image J/3Image-J3-250-A-Year-In-The-Country
Old-Joy-250-2006-Kelly-Reichardt-Will-Oldham-Bagby-Hot-Springs-A-Year-In-The-Country-3Day #216/365: Old Joy; “This is a very special place, if you can’t see the little arrows at night you can’t get in.”
Artifact-31-250-print-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #217/365: Artifact #31/52: Nocturnal Wanderings and Light Catchings #2 archival print
Play-For-Today-250-Red Shift-Alan Garner-BFI-BBC-A-Year-In-The-Country-smallerDay #218/365: A wander around Red Shift, layers of history, the miasma/amber of cultural replications and associated reinterpretations
Image-K3-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #219/365: Image K/3
Day #220/365: Image L/3Image-L3-250-A-Year-In-The-Country
By-Our-Selves-250-Andrew-Kotting-Ian-Sinclair-Toby-Jones-A-Year-In-The-Country-2Day #221/365: A Straw Bear went a-wandering; a once Berberian sound engineer follows past footsteps, other boot filling and less than but two penn’orth worth on a roll of music
Ritual-David-Pinner-Old Crow-Shena Mackay-Finders-Keepers-Records-Bob-Stanley-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #222/365: “Here be monsters”: a note on ritual – introductions to and discoveries of Summer Isles predecessors via Ritual, Old Crow and the work of an archivist, literary sometimes pop-star
Day #223/365: Image M/3Image-M3-250-A-Year-In-The-Country
Grey-Frequency-250-Immersion-Night-Edition-A-Year-In-The-Country-2-4Day #224/365: Artifact #32/52; Grey Frequency Immersion album – Night/Day editions
Straw-Bear-250-By-Our-Selves-Andrew-Kotting-Iain-Sinclair-Toby-Jones-Alan-Moore-John-Clare-A-Year-In-The-Country-3Day #225/365: A return to the returning footsteps of a Berberian Straw Bear and companions
Forest-Memory-Exhibition-250-Time-The-Deer-Amy-Cutler-Folkore-Tapes-David-Chatton-Barker-Samandthplants-Rob-St-John-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #226/365: Traces From A Delerium Of Forests…
Image-N3-250-A-Year-In-The-Country-1Day #227/365: Image N/3
Defending-Anglesey-250-Mark-Dalton-1Day #228/365: Studys and documentation of the fading shadows from defences of the realm…
Jan-Kempenaers-250-Spomenik-A-Year-In-The-Country-5-2-1Day #229/365: A Bear’s Ghosts…
newlyborn-250-Dave-Colohan-United-Bible-Studies-Deserted-Village-A-Year-In-The-Country-13Day #230/365: “Beyond the last places, the blanks on the map”; signposts to and from a deserted village
Artifact-33-250-print-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #231/365: Artifact #33/52 released; Holt Reverence archival print
Image-O3-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #232/365: Image O/3
Image-P3-250-A-Year-In-The-Country-1Day #233/365: Image P/3
Amy-Flurry-250-Nikki-Salk-Paper-Cut-Project-A-Year-In-The-Country-2Day #234/365: Scherenschnitte: nocturnal strigiformes, fields in England & otherly folkloric tales and signifiers via patience and a neatness of hand…
Donald-Fox-Omega-250-From-Above-Death-and-Vanilla-The-Great-Pop-Supplement-A-Year-In-The-Country-collage-higher-contrast-screen-sizeDay #235/365: Omega; a prescient semi-lost celluloid pathway…
The-Owl-Service-250-Alan-Garner-television-series-A-Year-In-The-Country-2Day #236/365: The Owl Service: fashion plates and (another) peek behind the curtain
Your Face Here-Simon Wells-Ali Catterall-The Wicker Man-A Year In The CountryDay #237/365: Your Face Here; peering down into the landfill – a now historical perspective on the stories of The Wicker Man
Hand-of-Stabs-250-Black-Veined-White-Night-Edition-boxset-A-Year-In-The-Country-575x492Day #238/365: Artifact #34/52 released; Hand of Stabs Black-Veined White album – Night/Day editions
1973-Magazine-Hauntology-Chemistry-Set-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #239/365: The jump cuts of hauntological antecedents…
Image-Q3-250-Over-The-Fields-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #240/365: Image Q/3; Over The Fields
Image-R3-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #241/365: Image R/3; Nature’s Calligraphy
Anne-Briggs-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #242/365: The return of old souls; fleeting glances of Anne Briggs
Travelling-For-A-Living-250-Derek-Knight-The-Watersons-A-Year-In-The-Country-8Day #243/365: Travelling For A Living; tea served in the interval at nine o’clock and a return to populous stories and wald tales
Rosy-Parlane-250-Iris-Willow-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #244/365: Rosy Parlane, Willow
Michael-Tanner-250-Nine-Of-Swords-Night-Edition-box-set-A-Year-In-The-Country-lighterDay #245/365: Artifact #35/52; Michael Tanner – Nine of Swords CD album – Night/Day editions
The-Singing-Loins-250-Steak-and-Gravy-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #246/365: The Singing Loins – The cuckoos in the nest and thee English “kitchen sink” folk music…
folk_is_not_a_four_letter_word-250-Andy-Votel-Cherry-Red-Delay-68-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #247/365: Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word and voyages through other playful fancies from behind the once ferrous drapes…
John-Barleycorn-250-Reborn-Rebirth-Dark-Britannica-Cold-Spring-A-Year-In-The-Country-collageDay #248/365: John Barleycorn Reborn: definitions/explorations of a particular otherlyness and wandering off elsewhere via the old stories of source material…
Image S3-250-A Year In The CountryDay #249/365: Image S/3; The Eagles Are Flying
Image T3-A Year In The CountryDay #250/365: Image T/3
Broadcast-250-Tender-Buttons-Warp-Julian-House-Intro-A-Year-In-The-Country-7 Day #251/365: Broadcast; constellators and artifacts
Artifact-36-250-print-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #252/365: Artifact #36/52; The Arrival (#3) – Woodland Visitations archival print
Rocket-Cottage-250-Steeleye-Span-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #253/365: One For Sorrow; Helter skelter, hang sorrow, public minded urgings from times when the lights may well go out of an evening and heading towards Rocket Cottage-isms…
Image-U3-250-A-Year-In-The-Country-1Day #254/365: Image U/3
Mondo-Jay-Shaw-250-Beyond-The-Black-Rainbow-A-Year-In-The-Country-1Day #255/365: Beyond The Black Rainbow; Reagan era fever dreams, award winning gardens and a trio of approaches to soundtrack disseminations… let the new age of enlightenment begin…
Image-V3-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #256/365: Image V/3
Lutine-250-Sallow-Tree-Front-and-Follow-2-A-Year-In-The-Country-1Day #257/365: Further coruscations; Lutine, White Flowers and textural voyages…
Image-W3-250-A-Year-In-The-Country-1Day #258/365: Image W/3
Day #259/365: Artwork variations
Howlround-250-The OST Show-Jonny Trunk-The Advisory Circle-Robin The Fog-the-ghosts-of-bush-A Year In The CountryDay #260/365: A return to OST… from teacake time to sacred relics…
Image-X3-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #261/365: Image X/3
Lalleshwari-250-Katie-Jane-Garsdie-A-Year-In-The-Country-4Day #262/365: Katie Jane Garside, Ruby Throat and precious artifacts (a slight return)
page_29-250-halftone-with-quote-Simon-Reynolds-Haunted-Audio-The-Wire-Magazine-Retromania-Ghost-Box-Records-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #263/365: Spectres vs Retro
Weird Britain In Exile-Jamie Sexton-hauntology-Ghost Box Records-A Year In The CountryDay #264/365: Weird Britain In Exile: A Bakers Dozen of Cuttings and Clippings Concerning Psychic Heterotopias, Collections Writ Large and Imagined Arcane Mirrorings

Artifact-38-250-badge-pack-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #265/365: Artifact #38/52: Arboreal Signals badge set
Kate-Bush-250-Lionheart-vinyl-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #266/365: Pardon my brevity but a lionheart(ess) doth call…
Morning-Way-250-Trader-Horne-Judy-Dyble-A-Year-In-The-Country-2Day #267/365: Morning Way. Trader Horne.
Forest-Full-Circle-250-acid folk-psych folk-A Year In The CountryDay #268/365: Forest. Graveyard and wanderings towards darker shores and glades…
Image-Y3-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #269/365: Image Y/3
Image-Z3-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #270/365: Image Z/3
Dark-and-Lonely-Water-250-2-A-Year-In-The-Country-Public Information Films-PIFDay #271/365: The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water and a hop and skip to lost municipal paternalisms…
Axel-Hoedt-250-Fasnacht-Once-A-Year-Der-Steidl-German-folklore-A-Year-In-The-Country-2Day #272/365: Axel Hoedt’s folkloric club kid rogues gallery and symbolic expulsions…
She-Rocola-250-Burn-The-Witch-Molly-Leigh-Of-The-Mother-Town-Night-Edition-box-set-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #273/365: Artifact #39/52; She Rocola Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother town CD released – Night / Day Editions
Randall-Hopkirk-250-collage-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #274/365: Borrowings from Albion in the overgrowth…
030-Randall-Hopkirk-250-Charlie-Higson-Vic-Reeves-Bob-Mortimer-Emilia-Fox-Tom-Baker-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #275/365: Borrowings from Albion in the overgrowth (#2)… becometh a fumetti…
Image-Y3-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #276/365: TBADay #275/365: Image A/4
Image-Z3-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #277/365: Image B/4
Psychomania-250-1971-screenshot-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #278/365: Dybukk’s Dozen of 1973; A Gathering, Conflagration and Surveying…
The-Telegraph-Pole-Appreciation-Society-250-A-Year-In-The-Country-4Day #279/365: The Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society
She-Rocola-250-Burn-The-Witch-Molly-Leigh-Of-The-Mother-Town-The-Arising-Edition-print-and-front-of-CD-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #280/365: Artifact #40/52; She Rocola Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town; The Arising Edition – archival print and 3″ CD released
Image-C3-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #281/365: Image C/4; Otherly Geometries #1
Telegraph-Poles-and-Electric-Pylons-250-A-Year-In-The-Country-3bDay #282/365: Further appreciations of accidental art; Poles and Pylons
Noahs-Castle-250-1979-TV-series-John-Rowe-Townsend-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #283/365: Noah’s Castle; a slightly overlooked artifact…
Sapphire-and-Steel-250-collage-2-final-scene-ending-A-Year-in-The-Country-575x287Day #284/365: Sapphire and Steel; a haunting by the haunting and a denial of tales of stopping the waves of history…
Image-D3-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #285/365: Image D/4
Nancy-Wallace-250-Old-Stories-Dom-Cooper-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #286/365: Nancy Wallace; old stories from the hearth and heart
Howlround-250-Torridon-Gate-Robin-The-Fog-Chris-Weaver-A-Year-In-The-Country-all-itemsDay #287/365: Artifact #41/52; Howlround Torridon Gate CD released – Dawn, Day, Dusk & Night Editions
Stone-Tape-Recordings-250-The-Owl-Service-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #288/365: Stone Tape Recordings; connecting the dots between The Owl Service (in all its forms) and archaic industrial objects in the middle of nowhere
Folk-Police-Recordings-250-logo-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #289/365: Departed friends… Folk Police Recordings…
Psychomania-250-1973-A-Year-In-The-Country-3Day #290/365: The first three minutes of Psychomania…
Image-E4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #291/365: Image E/4
Image-F4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #292/365: Image F/4
Harp-and-a-Monkey-250-Folk-Police-Recordings-A-Year-In-The-Country1Day #293/365: Harp And A Monkey, paper wrapped round chips and an aside of late night charabangs
Day #294/365: Artwork variations
Ghost-Box-Records-250-Julian-House-Summer-Wavelengths-Retrospective-and-QA-Broadcast-Bob-Stanley-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #295/365: A summation of the tools and techniques of the will o’the wisp of hauntology…
Howlround-250-Torridon-Gate-Robin-The-Fog-Chris-Weaver-Resonance-FM-A-Year-In-The-Country-tape-cutting-loop-spoolDay #296/365: Howlround’s ether handbill… and a hop, skip and jump to curious links between mirror world reflections of our times, the work of previous audiological explorers, certain English gents and printed/bound spectral considerations…
Ghost-Box-Records-250-Mark-Fisher-A-Year-In-The-Country-2Day #297/365: The Department of Psychological Navigation and fragments of fragments of a conversation…
Image-G4-250-Other-Geometries-2-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #298/365: Image G/4; Otherly Geometries #2
Image-H4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #299/365: Image H/4
Noahs-Castle-250-television-series-1979-1980-John-Rowe-A-Year-in-The-Country-6Day #300/365: A slightly overlooked artifact #2; Noah’s Castle and spectacular vs participative media
Image-I4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #301/365: Image I/4
sleep-furiously-250-Gideon-Koppel-Aphex-Twin-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #302/365: sleep furiously… Views from a slumbering village…
Delia-Derbyshire-250-Delian-Mode-documentary-BBC-Radiophoninc-Workshop-A-Year-In-The-Country-13Day #303/365: Towards Tomorrow; a selection of cuttings from The Delian Mode, sonic maps, the corporation’s cubby holes and the life of an audiological explorer…
She-Rocola-250-Molly-Leigh-Of-The-Mother-Town-Dawn-Edition-A-Year-In-The-Country-Owl-Light-and-Dawn-EditionsDay #304/365: Artifact #43/52; She Rocola Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town CDs released – Owl Light / Dawn Editions
Mark-Fisher-250-Ghosts-Of-My-Life-Sapphire-and-SteelDay #305/365: Spectral footnotes from Mr Fisher; critical masses and admixtures
Image-J4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #306/365: Image J/4
Throbbing-Gristle-250-20-Jazz-Funk-Greats-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #307/365: A journey from a precipice to a cliff edge, via documents of preparing for the end of the world, a curious commercialism, the tonic/lampoonery of laughter, broken cultural circuits and quiet/quietening niches…
Twalif-X-250-Orphan-Racker-A-Year-In-The-Country-all-editions-with-narrower-borderDay #308/365: Artifact #44/52 released; Twalif X – Racker&Orphan limited CD album. Dusk / Dawn / Day / Night Editions.
Image-K4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #309/365: Image K/4
Image-L4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #310/365: Image L/4; Otherly Geometries #3
Fluid-Audio-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #311/365: Precious Artifacts (Other); Fluid Audio and further corporeal encasements of vibrations in the air…
The-Nightmare-Man-250-BBC-1981-TV-series-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #312/365: The closing of corner shop portals, island nocturnes and a revisiting of transmissions from after the flood
Puffball-250-Nicolas-Roeg-2007-A-Year-In-The-Country-5Day #313/365: The curiousities of Puffball… “Everything has changed, we don’t belong here…”
Tam-Lin-250-1970-opening-sequence-2-A-Year-In-The-Country.jpgDay #314/365: A further slightly overlooked artifact; Tam Lin, a goddess abroad in the land and the end of utopian dreams?
Image-M4-250-Otherly-Geometries-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #315/365: Image M/4
Image-N4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #315/365: Image N/4
The-Detectorists-250-BBC-Mackenzie-Crook-Toby-Jones-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #316/365: The Detectorists; a gentle roaming in search of the troves left by men who can never sing again
Image-N4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #317/365: Image N/4
Artifact-45-250-Other-Geometries-Insignia-badges-open-box-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #318/365: Artifact #45/52; Otherly Geometries Insignia box o’badges
July-Skies-250-Where-The-Days-Go-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #319/365: July Skies, explorative pathways followed via Haunted Woodland and the folly of wandering too far from the path…
CCTV-250-surveillance-cameras-collage-2-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #320/365: Watching the watchers…
Image-O4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #321/365: Image O/4
Z.P.G.-250-1972-Oliver-Reed-Geraldine-Chaplin-Diane-Cilento-A-Year-In-The-Country-stillDay #322/365: Z.P.G.; a return to a curious mini-genre, bleak as an acceptable mode / a world of plastic food and simulated merriment…
Image-P4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #323/365: Image P/4
The-All-New-Electric-Muse-250-The-Story-Of-Folk-Into-Rock-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #324/365: Who Would Be A Monarch When A Beggar Lives So Well?
Grey-Frequency-250-Dusk-and-Dawn-Editions-front-covers-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #325/365: Artifact #46/52; Grey Frequency Immersion CD album released – Dusk / Dawn Editions
Harp-In-Heaven-250-Gone-To-Earth-Powell-and-Pressberger-A-Year-In-The-Country-2Day #326/365: Harp In Heaven, curious exoticisms, pathways and flickerings back through the days and years…
Ossian-Brown-250-Haunted-Air-A-Year-In-The-Country-4Day #327/365: A fever dream of Haunted Air…
Vincent-Price-250-Tony-Tenser-Witchfinder-General-on-set-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #328/365: From flipsides of a coin to The Flipside; tales from behind the scenes of termagant hunting found in the ether airwaves after a walk through green and not always pleasant lands…
Air-raid-sirens-250-A-Year-In-The-Country-3bDay #329/365: A dybukk’s dozen of forgotten banshees…
Resistance-2011-250-film-Owen-Sheers-A-Year-In-The-Country-4Day #330/365: Resistance and the tenuousness of bonds…
Hand-of-Stabs-250-Black-Veined-White-Dusk-and-Dawn-Editions-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #331/365: Artifact #47/52; Hand of Stabs Black-Veined White CD album released – Dusk / Dawn Editions
Image-R4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #332/365: Image Q/4; Folk-horror tropes and visitations #1
Water-Of-Life-250-Rob-St-John-Tommy-Perman-A-Year-In-The-Country-lighterDay #333/365: An aqueous running through your fingers…
Image-S4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #334/365: Image S/4; Folk-horror tropes and visitations #2
Folk-Art-250-A-Year-In-The-Country-2Day #335/365: Folk art – a wandering from these shores to other shores and back again…
Atom-Eye-250-Otolith-Sessions-A-Year-In-The-Country-4-reel-to-reel-tapeDay #336/365: Atom Eye – The Otolith Sessions and a wandering towards imagined villages…
Mark-Vernon-250-Meagre-Resource-Derby-Tape-Club-Delia-Derbyshire-A-Year-In-The-Country-2bDay #337/365: Tapes – lost and found (numbers 1-267 and other fortuitous finds)
Michael-Tanner-250-Nine-Of-Swords-front-of-Dusk-and-Dawn-Editions-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #338/365: Artifact #48/52; Michael Tanner Nine of Swords limited edition CD released – Dusk / Dawn Editions
Image-T4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #339/365: Image S/4; Folk-horror tropes and visitations #3
image-t4-2-a-year-in-the-countryDay #340/365: Image T/4; Folk-horror tropes and (re)visitations #4
Forgotten-banshees-250-6-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #341/365: All Clear and the (non)cry of forgotten banshees; totems of memory and future lost focal points…
United-States-of-America-250-band-3-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #342/365: A garden of (un)earthly delights and a wardrobe of fineries…
Radiophonic_Workshop_250-Tape_Machine_Science_Museum-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #343/365: Veils and Mirrors – forebearing, chanellings, rendings, listing of names…
Day #344/365: Artwork variations
Curse-Of-The-Crimson-Altar-250-photonovel-A-Year-In-The-Country-3Day #345/365: Photo romans and a lightness of touch
Grey-Frequency-250-Immersion-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #346/365: Audiological Reflections and Pathways #1; a library of loss
Image-U4-250-A-Year-In-The-Country1Day #347/365: Image U/4
Image-V4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #348/365: Image V/4
 Hand-of-Stabs-250-Black-Veined-White-inner-pageDay #349/365: Audiological Reflections and Pathways #2; the semi-random placing of England’s hidden reverse…
Michael-Tanner-250-Nine-of-Swords-inner-page-2-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #350/365: Audiological Reflections and Pathways #3; A balm to contemporary intensity of input…
Artifact-50-250-Greenwood-Threshold-archival-print-A-Year-In-The-Country-1Day #351/365: Artifact #50/52; Greenwood Threshold archival print
United-Bible-Studies-250-Doineann-booklet-inner-page-artwork-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #352/365: Audiological Reflections and Pathways #4; a certain high water mark… travelling from a folk rarity to swinging London to The Owl Service and other pathways via the flickerings of old Albion…
She-Rocola-250-Molly-Leigh-inner-booklet-page-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #353/365: Audiological Reflections and Pathways #5; an ether gathering of behind the sofa folk flickerings
Image-X4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #354/365: Image W/4
Image-Y4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #355/365: Image X/4
Howlround-250-Torridon-Gate-inner-booklet-page-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #356/365: Audiological Reflections and Pathways #6; fading vessellings
Twalif-X-250-David-Orphan-David-Chatton-Barker-Folklore-Tapes-samandtheplants-Sam-McLoughlin-rackerorphan-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #357/365: Audiological Reflections and Pathways #7; recording explorations through the land/s…
Artifact-51-250-Archetypal-Ephemera-box-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #358/365: Artifact #51/52; Archetypal Ephemera box
Right-Wantonly-A-Mumming-250-Sharron-Kraus-A-Year-In-The-Country-1Day #359/365: Right Wantonly A-Mumming
Image-Y4-250-A-Year-In-The-Country1Day #360/365: Image Y/4
Image-Z4-250-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #361/365: Image Z/4
Grey-Frequency-250-Immersion-one-off-print-A-Year-In-The-Country-6Day #362/365: Signals sent, signals received…
Artemis-81-250-David-Rudkin-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #363/365: Other pathways
Artifact-52-250-A-Year-In-The-Country-The-Gateway-archival-print1Day #364/365: Artifact #52/52; A Year In The Country: The Gateway archival print
Folk-art-horse-250-a-sentinel-A-Year-In-The-CountryDay #365/365: An English idyll… a midnight sun…

 

Click the links below to peruse the indexes for the different years of A Year In The Country:
Year 1     –      Year 2      –      Year 3      –     Year 4      –      Year 5      –     Year 6      –     Year 7      –     Year 8

 

About – Archive

This is an older archival page which was the main site’s About page until approximately July 2022. The newer About page can be found here.

 

Right, well, this About page is quite long, so here’s a (reasonably) brief precis:

A Year In The Country: wandering through spectral fields…british-library-sound-and-moving-image-archive-items

A Year In The Country is a set of year long explorations of an otherly pastoralism, the undercurrents and flipside of bucolic dreams.

It is a wandering amongst work that takes inspiration from the hidden and underlying tales of the land, the further reaches of folk music and culture and where such things meet and intertwine with the lost futures, spectral histories and parallel worlds of what has come to be known as hauntology.

Those explorations take the form of this website, the posts/artwork on it, music and book releases.

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The posts on the website are appreciations and investigations of the above themes and work, while also being intended as a trail of cultural breadcrumbs, starting points for their readers’ own wanderings and pathways through related fields.

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The writing from the first three years of A Year In The Country has been collected, revised and revisited, alongside  new work, in the book A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields – subtitled Journeys in Otherly Pastoralism, The Further Reaches of Folk and the Parallel World of Hauntology.

That book was released on 10th April 2018 and is available at Amazon UK, Amazon US, Amazon Australia etc.

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“Stephen Prince’s densely packed tome covers everything from folkloric film and literature to electronic music to acid folk to folk horror to the dystopian fiction of John Wyndham and the classic unearthings of Nigel Kneale to the formation of under-the-furrows record labels like Trunk, Ghost Box and Finders Keepers.

“If you’re already interested in folk culture and want to be astonished by how deeply its roots run, you’ll treasure A Year in the Country enormously.

“Almost every one of the 52 chapters sideswiped me with a revelation that is already making me look at a genre I love with new, more appreciative eyes.
Ian White, Starburst

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“The first book of it’s kind to catalogue all these disparate strands, many of which cross over time and space to influence one another.” DJ Food

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As with the A Year In The Country project as a whole, the book draws together and connects layered, at times semi-hidden cultural pathways and signposts; wandering from acid folk to edgelands via electronic music innovators and pioneers, folkloric film and photography, dreams of lost futures and misremembered televisual tales and transmissions.

More details on the book can be found here, a full list of the book’s chapters can be found here and text extracts from the book can be read here.

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The A Year In The Country site also includes artwork created by A Year In The Country which acts as a visual expression of slipstream, subcultural pastoral undercurrents.

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This artwork is also used in the music releases, which feature music that draws from similar and interconnected strands of inspiration – the patterns beneath the plough, pylons and amongst the edgelands.

Further information, inspirations, explanations, background information etc can be found below…

 

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A Year In The Country quietly go about their business releasing beautifully packaged music that is influenced by folk, electronica, drone as well as by landscape, time and place… each have themes running through them, tying the music together and seemingly telling a story as they unfold.
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The A Year In The Country record label has released records by amongst others Howlround, Hand of Stabs, Michael Tanner, She Rocola, Twalif X, Grey Frequency and United Bible Studies.

It has also released a series of themed compilations, including The Quietened Village which was a study of abandoned villages, The Quietened Bunker which explored decommissioned Cold War bunkers and The Restless Field which took as its theme the land as a place of conflict and protest as well as beauty and escape.

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The compilations have included work by Keith Seatman, Vic Mars, Listening Center, The Hare And The Moon, Polypores, Time Attendant, The Soulless Party, Sproatly Smith, Magpahi, The Rowan Amber Mill, The Séance, Lutine, The Straw Bear Band, David Colohan, A Year In The Country itself and a fair few others.

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Music from the releases has been played on BBC Radio 6 by Gideon Coe and Stuart Maconie, BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction by Nick Luscombe, Jonny Trunk’s OST show on Resonance FM, The Golden Apples Of The Sun on RTR FM and You The Night And The Music on Sine FM.

The A Year In The Country releases have been reviewed in magazines including Wire, Shindig and Electronic Sound and written about online by/at Simon Reynolds, John Coulthart, The Active Listener, A Closer Listen, Bliss Aquamarine, Music Won’t Save You, Folk Radio etc.

A selection of editions from the first and second year’s releases are available in the British Library’s Sound Archive.

The records are generally released in limited, hand finished editions, with the associated artwork and packaging designed and printed by A Year In The Country.

They can be previewed and are available at our Artifacts Shop and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.

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The A Year In The Country Posts And Writing
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During the journeys and explorations of A Year In The Country there have been an awful lot of cultural reference points which have inspired, influenced and intrigued me (the three i’s as it were).

Part of the project has been writing about those reference points and inspirations which, as said above, is a way of exploring and appreciating such work and also of creating a trail of breadcrumbs that may well act as starting points for their readers’ own wanderings and pathways through related fields…

The posts on the site reflect the intertwined nature of the A Year In The Country wanderings and have included writing about Rob Young’s Electric Eden unearthing and layered Albionic folk investigations, the ongoing resignations of Nigel Kneale’s Stone Tape and Quatermass, the towering behemoth of The Wickerman, the music and cultural constellations of Broadcast, privately pressed and once semi-lost psych/acid folk, the lionheart-ess dreams of Kate Bush… (pause for breath)…

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…archival rediscovery and investigative record labels such as Trunk Records and Finders Keepers Records and an associated interest in library music, the curiously disquieting atmosphere of Public Information Films from previous eras, The Duke Of Burgundy and the worlds created by Peter Strickland, the “somewhat odd considering their target audience” likes of Children Of The Stones, The Changes and The Owl Service (and while we’re on the subject, the band of the same name)… (pause for breath again)…

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…the fantasia of Czech New Wave films, the explorative spirit of The Radiophonic Workshop and Delia Derbyshire, edgeland investigations by amongst others Edward Chell, the unsettled fictions of John Wyndham – in particular The Midwich Cuckoos, the assignments of Sapphire & Steel, photographic work and projects that focus on folkloric costumes and rituals such as Charles Fréger’s Wilder Mann and Homer Sykes’ Once A Year and the quietly off-centre pastoral views of the films Vashti Bunyan: From Here To Before, The Moon And The Sledgehammer and Sleep Furiously…

…to name but a few.

 

The Cyclical Nature Of Things
A Year In The Country is growing into a number of spins around the sun… regulated, inspired and broadcast according to the passing of the days, weeks, months and years.

 

Index
Day 162-Hauntology-A Year In The CountryIf you should want to have a look-see at all posts etc so far then click here to jump to the Index page.

 

 

 

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To view a selection and scattering of artwork created by A Year In The Country visit the Gallery page click here.

 

Inhabiting an English secret garden
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After visiting a small part of England that felt like a secret garden, I semi-consciously realised that I nolonger wanted to or enjoyed living in dense urban environments and was moving away from the accompanying dizzying cultural stories. I wanted a bit of calm, thought and reflection.

And so now I live in the countryside, in a small cottage on the side of a hill.

Prior to upping sticks and moving I had found myself increasingly drawn to the further flung corners of folk music and what has been labelled hauntology; searching for some kind of expression of an underlying unsettledness to the bucolic countryside dream and A Year In The Country is part of that search…

But why that search? Well, that leads me to…


Two Brown Bakelite Boxes and The End Of The World
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Why that unsettledness? Well, memories of Cold War dread may well have more than a little to do with it…

When I was about ten, towards the end of the seventies, I lived in the countryside for a year. It was a Famous Five, English idyll existence of building dams in rivers, rolling down hillsides and biking down the one street in the village.

At the same time I discovered about the end of the world.

“Pardon?” I may hear you say. “You were ten and discovered about the end of the world?”

Yes, while my family were playing Monopoly I watched a TV documentary about nuclear conflict and its effects. Probably a Panorama or World In Action, one of the weekly programs from the time.

Protect and Surive-A Year In The Country 4(Around the same time I became aware of the government’s Protect and Survive guidance films/booklets, which the images from this section are from; in hindsite these are sad, comically tragic and insulting; how to protect you and your family from an explosion with more power than several suns by whitewashing your windows and putting an old mattress up against a wall to hide under in your house).

Anyway, it kind of all blew my ten year old mind. I became obsessed with the end of the world via nuclear war, took to stocking up on torch batteries, trying to work out if the stone walls of our house would protect us if the nearest city took a direct hit from a nuclear missile (I’m still not sure if they would) and so on.

This was further complicated by two smallish brown boxes in my life; my dad was one of the local village bobbies and we lived in a police authority owned house with a small police office in our forecourt. In that office, sat on the side, was a nuclear air raid siren.

Yep, you read that right. A nuclear air raid siren.

Now, you probably think of such things as being large devices atop steel towers but this was about the size of a portable TV back then (ie a microwave oven now). Curiously old fashioned looking even then, Bakelite is a phrase that comes to mind.

Now, for a ten year old who is obsessed by nuclear war, that’s probably not the thing to have around in your life. But this was complicated by the second box.

A close friend lived in a nearby house, which was attached to the local tourist information centre. In his front room was another of these brown boxes.

So, I would go around to play and discuss the latest science fiction that was occupying our young minds, while sat on his front room windowsill was a box that at any time could announce the end of the world.

This one I remember more clearly. Perhaps because I saw it more often, perhaps because it was more incongruous in a slightly bohemian living space.

Protect and Surive-A Year In The Country 2On the side it had a notice telling you what noises it would make for what occurrences; this sound will mean an attack is imminent, this will mean the all clear, this will mean fallout is due.

So, in the corner of rooms set in fields which shall forever be England, these two boxes sat, waiting for the signal to announce that the missiles would soon be falling.

Blimey indeed.


Curiously Dystopian Childhood Fiction and Duality Regarding English Secret Gardens

Day Of The Triffids-A Year In The CountryAt the same time as the above I seemed to begin discovering apocalyptic or dystopian future fictions; John Wyndham’s The Day Of The Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos (aka Village Of The Damned in flickering celluloid form), John Christopher’s Tripods series, Nigel Kneale’s Quatermass, snatches of a children’s TV series where Britain was suffering from hyper inflation and food shortages, all of which took root and intrigued my mind for many years to come.

In part A Year In The Country has grown out of and is an expression of the resulting duality of my own childhood relationship with the countryside, hence its sometimes subtitle An English Idyll, A Midnight Sun (the second half of that phrase being one which has been used to describe nuclear attacks/explosions).

The intention is not for the resulting work to be all doom and gloom, although some kind of Gothic Albion or Dark Britannica seems to creep unbidden into it, I also want it to express the beauty of the world that now surrounds me. It will be a bit of all these things I expect.

 

Light Catching, Photography And Artwork Inspirations and Inclinations
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All the artwork featured in the gallery and the Image posts is by A Year In The Country, along with the majority of the record releases’ artwork.

Day 24-Dark Peak White Peak Paul Hill Dewi Lewis Cornerhouse-A Year in The Country 6In the early days of heading towards A Year In The Country I read an introduction to a photography book written by photographer Paul Hill, where he commented on a recent exhibition/book which was intended as an overview of British photography; in his text he noted how landscape and nature photography was almost completely ignored.

For some reason that put my back up and I thought “I’m not having that”.

From that thought, I realised that I wanted to try and create a new language of nature/landscape photography, one which would (hopefully) make sense to an urban and/or subcultural sensibility; which is my own background in many ways – for a fair few years I lived in city environments, working in what I suppose could be called counter-culture or left-of-centre oddball pop culture.

And so I set about doing that.

You can view the resulting work in the Gallery and via the majority of the artwork used in our Artifacts Shop.

The book The Marks Upon The Land, available from our Artifacts Shop and Amazon, collects all the artwork from the first year of A Year In The Country.


 

More On The First Spin Round The Sun Of A Year In The Country’s Light Catching, Photography & Artwork
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Matching my childhood time spent living in the countryside, I spent a year taking photographs; starting on the first day I moved to the countryside and on the final day of that year returning to the village of my childhood with a camera slung over my shoulder*.

Over that year of shutterbugging I just wanted to capture the photographs I took without editing, perusing and browsing them as I went along. So it was a suprise and a journey to see what fell from my digital daguerreotype boxes over the next year…

The photographs I took then and since were used to create the images/artwork that are part of  A Year In The Country and the record releases.

The image above is the first one which was posted at A Year In The Country.

 

*Curiously and unplanned for, on that final day Nigel Kneale’s classic 1972 TV program The Stone Tape was showing at a cinema in a city I would pass through. I thought that was maybe fate throwing something my way. So on the way back I stopped off for a little cathode ray seance, rounding the circle as it were.

 

 

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