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Michael Tanner – Nine of Swords: Audio Visual Archive 24/52

Booklet artwork from Michael Tanner’s Nine Of Swords album.

 

“Nine of Swords was created by using nine tarot cards allocated to nine sonorous, percussive instruments which were played in the order of their drawing from the deck… Its method of creation recalls the random cut-up literary techniques of William Burroughs or automatic writing and the resulting work is a 68 minute journey which is a balm to contemporary intensity of input… No plug-ins or FX were used in the making of Nine of Swords; the music in the album was guided purely using the (non)choices of the turns of the cards.” (Quoted from A Year In The Country.)

 

“Through this primordial essence of the drone, Tanner gives voice to a chorus of ghosts in which, in the narrative-conceptual part of the work, the subjects and themes evoked by the symbolic meaning of the playing card that gives the title to the album take part.” (Quoted from a digital translation of a review by Music Won’t Save You.)

 

Links:

  • Visit Michael Tanner’s work here.

 

Elsewhere at A Year In The Country

 

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Michael Tanner’s Nine of Swords: Audio Visual Archive 3/52

Artwork from Michael Tanner’s Nine of Swords album.

“Nine of Swords was created by using nine tarot cards allocated to nine sonorous, percussive instruments which were played in the order of their drawing from the deck… Its method of creation recalls the random cut-up literary techniques of William Burroughs or automatic writing and the resulting work is a 68 minute journey which is a balm to contemporary intensity of input… No plug-ins or FX were used in the making of Nine of Swords; the music in the album was guided purely using the (non)choices of the turns of the cards.” (Quoted from A Year In The Country.)

 

“This is an album to focus on and to pay attention to, perhaps an album for late nights or early mornings; there is something contemplative at heart here, this music invites reflection. The glistening of the water bowls merges into the gentle waves of temple bells, at times creating a solid, reverberating mass whilst at others a more distant echo. There is great beauty in this recording, nothing is rushed and the sound is crystalline and pure. The world outside seems to grow quieter around the music, as if in step. This is not easy listening however, but a demanding and focused album which commands your complete attention. It deserves and repays this attention a hundred times over however with truly beautiful sounds, atmospheres and textures; consult the cards and sink into the shimmer of Nine of Swords – you will not be disappointed.” (Quoted from a review by Grey Malkin at The Active Listener.)

 

More details on Nine of Swords here and at Bandcamp.

Visit Michael Tanner’s work here.

 

Elsewhere at A Year In The Country

  1. Day #120/365: Plinth’s Wintersongs; a sometime walking companion for other landscape travellers
  2. From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, Wintersongs, Pilgrim Chants & Pastoral Trails – Lullabies for the Land and Gently Darkened Undercurrents: Chapter 49 Book Images
  3. Audiological Transmission #27/​​52 ​​- Nine of Swords (Excerpt #1) – Michael Tanner
  4. Day #350/365: Audiological Reflections and Pathways #3; A balm to contemporary intensity of input…

 

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Audiological Transmission #27/​​52 ​​- Nine of Swords (Excerpt #1) – Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner-Nine Of Swords-Night Edition-box set-A Year In The Country-lighterRevisitation #3.

Audiological exploration excerpt #1 by Michael Tanner from the album Nine of Swords.

This was the third album released in our first spin-around-the-sun and was created via a process whereby nine tarot cards were allocated to nine sonorous, percussive instruments and played in the order of their drawing from the deck.

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This is a 54 minute or so journey for which sonorous is particularly apt word; it is immersive and enveloping, while at the same time it seems to hint at a quietly shimmering darkness just on the edge of things – restful, drifting and yet…

New age might also be an appropriate signpost but probably nearer in spirit to say the expoloratory / experimental work which could be found on Light In The Attic’s I Am The Centre: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990 than the more obvious tropes of such things.

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I think now would be a good point to hand over to the Nine of Swords related scribings by Grey Malkin at The Active Listener:

This is an album to focus on and to pay attention to, perhaps an album for late nights or early mornings; there is something contemplative at heart here, this music invites reflection. The glistening of the water bowls merges into the gentle waves of temple bells, at times creating a solid, reverberating mass whilst at others a more distant echo. There is great beauty in this recording, nothing is rushed and the sound is crystalline and pure. The world outside seems to grow quieter around the music, as if in step. This is not easy listening however, but a demanding and focused album which commands your complete attention.

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Considerations of Nine of Swords at Music Won’t Save You here:
“…ghostly sounds that evoke the English tradition… imbued with dark magic…” (translation courtesy of ether auto).

Earlier considerations of Mr Tanner’s early work around these parts:
Day #120/365: Plinth’s Wintersongs
…and to quote myself about such things, this “…could be loosely described as a kind of folkloric or pastorally themed ambient or even soundscape album but I don’t think it’s an easy piece of work to pigeonhole in such a way…

…in parts it may be a journey through a certain kind of pastoral reverie there is also something else going on amongst the hills and trees. There’s heartbreak in the pathways of it’s songs at points; Hearth makes my mind wander towards losses along the byways of life…”

A previous Nine of Swords revisiting around these parts:
Day #350/365: Audiological Reflections and Pathways #3; A balm to contemporary intensity of input…
(
Wherein I may well visit the aforementioned I Am The Centre and indeed wandered-from-the-centre new age work.)

Nine of Swords encasements around these parts:
Day #245/365: Artifact #35/52; Michael Tanner – Nine of Swords CD album – Night/Day editions

Day #338/365: Artifact #48/52; Michael Tanner Nine of Swords limited edition CD released – Dusk / Dawn Editions

Mr Tanner’s Bandcamp Ether Victrola can be found here.

 

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Day #338/365: Artifact #48/52; Michael Tanner Nine of Swords limited edition CD released – Dusk / Dawn Editions

The CDs are now sold out but the album may be available to download from Michael Tanner’s Bandcamp page.

Michael Tanner Nine of Swords CD album. Dusk Edition £10.00.  Dawn Edition £12.00
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Audiological Research and Pathways; Case #3
Audiological contents: Nine of Swords (54.20 minutes).

Available at our Artifacts Shop, our Discogs Audiological Archive and our  Bandcamp page.
Prices include free UK shipping. Normally ships within 7-14 days.

Custom printed and hand-finished by A Year In The Country.

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Nine of Swords was created by using nine tarot cards allocated to nine sonorous, percussive instruments which were played in the order of their drawing from the deck.

Its method of creation recalls the random cut-up literary techniques of William Burroughs or automatic writing and the resulting work is a 68 minute journey which is a balm to contemporary intensity of input.

No plug-ins or FX were used in the making of Nine of Swords; the music in the album was guided purely using the (non)choices of the turns of the cards.

 

Also available as a limited edition Night boxset and Day string bound booklet: see Day #245/365.
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Dusk Edition: Limited to 52 copies. £10.00.
Hand-finished packaging; all black CDr in matt recycled sleeve with insert.

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Top of CD.                                                              Bottom of CD.

Artwork custom printed by A Year In The Country using archival Giclée pigment ink.
Hand numbered on the back of the insert.

 

Dawn Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £12.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with insert and badge.
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Top of CD.                                                           Bottom of CD.

Artwork custom printed by A Year In The Country using archival Giclée pigment ink.
Includes 25mm/1″ badge, secured with removable glue on a tag which is string bound to the sleeve.
Back of the insert is hand numbered.

 

Album credits:

All music written & played by Michael Tanner.

Recorded at Greenwitch 04/06/2014 using an X-Y positioned Beyer M101 and Shure SM57.

4 x Water Bowls. 2 x Singing Bowls. 2 x Temple Bells. 1 x Cymbals.

No plug-ins or FX were used in the making of this piece.

 

Artwork and packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.

 

Available at our Artifacts Shop, our Discogs Audiological Archive and our  Bandcamp page.
Prices include free UK shipping. Normally ships within 7-14 days.

 

An excerpt from this Audiological Case Study can be listened to via our Mark II Ether Victrola below:

 

Visit Michael’s work at Day #120/365 of A Year In The Country.

Visit Michael Tanner in the ether here: www.iamplinth.bandcamp.com
(where you may also find him working under the names Plinth, The Cloisters, Taskerlands and The A. Lords).

 

The library of A Year In The Country Audiological Research and Pathways series includes:
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
Case Study #6: Howlround: Torridon Gate
Case Study #7: Racker & Orphan; Twalif X

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Day #245/365: Artifact #35/52; Michael Tanner – Nine of Swords CD album – Night/Day editions

The CDs are now sold out but the album may be available to download from Michael Tanner’s Bandcamp page.

Michael Tanner – Nine of Swords CD album. Night Edition £25.00.  Day edition £18.00.

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Audiological Research and Pathways; Case #3
Audiological contents: Nine of Swords (54.20 minutes).

Nine tarot cards allocated to nine sonorous, percussive instruments, played in the order of their drawing from the deck.

Available via our: Artifacts ShopDiscogs Audiological Archive and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.
Prices include free UK shipping. Normally ships within 7-14 days.

 

Night Edition: Limited to 52 copies. £25.00.

Box-set contains: album on all black CDr, 12 page string bound booklet hand signed by Michael Tanner, 4x25mm badge set & 8 x sticker set.

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Top of CDr.                                                                       Bottom of CDr.

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Night edition details:

1) Booklet/cover art 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 signed by Michael Tanner.
b) Hand numbered.
c) Hand bone creased cover.
d) 12 pages (6 sides printed).
e) Contains 4 image, 1 image/credits and 1 credits page.
f) Front and rear covers are printed on 310gsm textured fine art cotton rag paper.
g) Two inner sheets are printed on 245gsm paper.
h) 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) 8 x 35mm/1.4″ waterproof sticker set contained in a see-through polythene bag with a folded card header.

 

Day Edition: Limited to 52 copies. £18.00.

White/black CDr album in 10 page string bound booklet packaging hand signed by Michael Tanner.

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Top of CDr.                                                                     Bottom of CDr.

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Day Edition Details:

1) Booklet artwork 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 signed by Michael Tanner
b) Hand bone creased cover.
c) 10 pages (5 sides printed);
d) Contains 3 images, one credits/image page, one credits page.
e) Front and rear covers are printed on 310gsm textured fine art cotton rag paper.
f) Two inner sheets are printed on 245gsm paper.
g) One inner sheet is printed on semi-transparent 110gsm vellum paper.
h) Hand numbered.

5) CDr held in protective fleece-lined sleeve.

 

Album credits:

All music written & played by Michael Tanner.

Recorded at Greenwitch 04/06/2014 using an X-Y positioned Beyer M101 and Shure SM57.

4 x Water Bowls.  2 x Singing Bowls.  2 x Temple Bells.  1 x Cymbals.

No plug-ins or FX were used in the making of this piece.

 

Artwork and packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.

 

Available via our: Artifacts ShopDiscogs Audiological Archive and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.
Prices include free UK shipping. Normally ships within 7-14 days.

 

An excerpt from this Audiological Case Study can be listened to via our Mark II Ether Victrola below:

 

Visit Michael’s work at Day #120/365 of A Year In The Country.

Visit Michael Tanner in the ether here: www.iamplinth.bandcamp.com
(where you may also find him working under the names Plinth, The Cloisters, Taskerlands and The A. Lords).

 

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 5

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

 

The Changes / The Disruption – Notes on a Flipside of the Pastoral Conversation – Part 1: Wanderings 1/52 (And the Start of a New Yearly Cycle)
Grey Frequency’s Immersion: Audio Visual Archive 1/52
The Changes / The Disruption – Notes on a Flipside of the Pastoral Conversation – Part 2: Wanderings 2/52
Hand of Stabs – Black-Veined White: Audio Visual Archive 2/52
Robert Macfarlane, Benjamin Myers, The Eeriness of the English Countryside and Unravelling of Dizzying Mazes: Wanderings 3/52
Michael Tanner’s Nine of Swords: Audio Visual Archive 3/52
When Haro Met Sally, John Hughes, Stranger Things, Twins of Evil, Hauntology and Dark Seed – Parallel World Reimaginings and Phantasms: Wanderings 4/52
The Quietened Village – Preorder and Release Dates
She Rocola’s Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town: Audio Visual Archive 4/52
Night of the Comet Part 1 – Shopping and Respect in “Empty Cities” at the End of the World: Wanderings 5/52
Howlround – Torridon Gate: Audio Visual Archive 5/52
Luciana Haill’s Apparitions – A Modern-Day Conjuring of Phantasms and Peering Down the Corridors of Time: Wanderings 6/52
Twalif X – Racker&Orphan: Audio Visual Archive 6/52
Night of the Comet Part 2 – Post-Apocalyptic Positivity in “Empty Cities” at the End of the World: Wanderings 7/52
The Quietened Village – Preorder
A Year In The Country – Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels: Audio Visual Archive 7/52
The Debatable Lands, Undulating Waters, In The Sunshine We Rode The Horses and Ufology – Audio Undercurrents Part 1: Wanderings 8/52
Fractures: Audio Visual Archive 8/52
The Delaware Road, Mo’Wax, UNKLE, DJ Shadow, Tricky, Portishead, Massive Attack, Boards of Canada, Moon Wiring Club, DJ Food, Belbury Poly, The Memory Band, Grantby, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Andrea Parker – Universe Creation and Spectral Lines in the Cultural Landscape: Wanderings 9/52
The Quietened Bunker: Audio Visual Archive 9/52
John Carpenter’s Christine Part 1 – Anthropomorphisation, Magical Realism and Rock’n’Roll Dream Lovers: Wanderings 10/52
A Year In The Country – Spectral Fields – Wyrd Kalendar Mix 3 and the “What is hauntology? And why is it all around us?” BBC Archive Film
No More Unto the Dance: Audio Visual Archive 10/52
The Quietened Village – Released
John Carpenter’s Christine Part 2 – Autonomous Zones, Night Time Edgelands and the Restoration of the Natural Order: Wanderings 11/52
The Forest / The Wald: Audio Visual Archive 11/52
Hot Fuzz aka Rural Weapon Part 1 – Flash and Spectacle Amongst the Bucolia: Wanderings 12/52
The Restless Field: Audio Visual Archive 12/52
Hot Fuzz aka Rural Weapon Part 2 – The Village Gone Rogue: Wanderings 13/52
From The Furthest Signals: Audio Visual Archive 13/52
Reflections on Brutalism Part 1 – This Brutal World and a Study of The Shape of the Futures Past: Wanderings 14/52
Undercurrents – Audio Visual Archive 14/52
Reflections on Brutalism Part 2 – This Brutal World, Industrial Inspirations for Blade Runner, Memories of the Space Age and the Future Takes a Tumble: Wanderings 15/52
The Quietened Cosmologists – Audio Visual Archive 15/52
Reflections on Brutalism Part 3 – J. G. Ballard and Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise and All Mod Con Dystopias: Wanderings 16/52
All The Merry Year Round – Audio Visual Archive 16/52
Reflections on Brutalism Part 4 – A Return to the Experimentations and Aesthetics of This Brutal World and Paul Virilio’s Bunker Archaeology: Wanderings 17/52
The Watchers – Album Preorder and Release Dates
Audio Albion – Audio Visual Archive 17/52
Reflections on Brutalism Part 5 – A Curious Collector’s Piece and a Return to Acts of Enclosure: Wanderings 18/52
The Shildam Hall Tapes – Audio Visual Archive 18/52
Michael Radford’s 1984 Part 1 – The Privations of an Alternative Past, Present and Future, V for Vendetta and the Last Inch: Wanderings 19/52
The Quietened Village – Writing, Broadcasts and Traces of Ghosts
The Quietened Mechanisms – Audio Visual Archive 19/52
Michael Radford’s 1984 Part 2 – Pop Music Controversies and Pastoral Escape/Non-Escape: Wanderings 20/52
The Watchers – Preorder
The Corn Mother – Audio Visual Archive 20/52
Broken Folk, Is it Clearer? and Akiha Den Den – Audio Undercurrents Part 2: Wanderings 21/52
Grey Frequency – Immersion: Audio Visual Archive 21/52
A Midsummer Night’s Happening, Weirdshire and The Delaware Road: Ritual & Resistance – A Spectral Summer is a-Coming in: Wanderings 22/52
Hand of Stabs – Black-Veined White: Audio Visual Archive 22/52
The Fountain in the Forest – Further Explorations of Hidden History, Timeslip, the Ending of Arcadian Idylls and Pulp Fiction Subversion: Wanderings 23/52
No More Unto The Dance: Audio Visual Archive 23/52
The Watchers – Released
Stand By Me – The Undercurrents of an Unsupervised Journey Away from the White Picket Fences: Wanderings 24/52
Michael Tanner – Nine of Swords: Audio Visual Archive 24/52
Brick High-Rise – A Rather Curious Lego Simulacra of Ballardian Transgression: Wanderings 25/52
She Rocola – Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town: Audio Visual Archive 25/52
Looker and the Imagined Omnipotence of the 1980s Computer – Part 1: Wanderings 26/52
Howlround – Torridon Gate: Audio Visual Archive 26/52
The Watchers – Reviews, Broadcasts and Journeys amongst The Haunted Generation, The Unquiet Meadow, the Witching Hour and Other Flipside Furrows
Electric Dreams and the Imagined Omnipotence of the 1980s Computer – Part 2: Wanderings 27/52
Echoes And Reverberations – Preorder and Release Dates
Racker & Orphan – Twalif X: Audio Visual Archive 27/52
The Folk Horror Revival: Urban Wyrd Books – Exploring Hidden Narratives from Between the Forgotten Cracks: Wanderings 28/52
A Year In The Country – Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels: Audio Visual Archive 28/52
Wolfen – Urban Decay, Sidestepping Genre Expectations, Lost Visions and a Brief Visit to The Keep’s Dreamscape: Wanderings 29/52
Fractures: Audio Visual Archive 29/52
A Very Peculiar Practice and Battles with the Old Guard: Wanderings 30/52
Echoes And Reverberations – Preorder
The Quietened Bunker: Audio Visual Archive 30/52
Day of the Triffids Part 1 – The Farmers Becoming the Hunted: Wanderings 31/52
The Forest / The Wald: Audio Visual Archive 31/52
Day of the Triffids Part 2 – Post-Apocalyptic Debate / Optimism: Wanderings 32/52
The Marks Upon The Land: Audio Visual Archive 32/52
The Prisoner Part 1 – A Visit to a Real Life High-Definition Dream: Wanderings 33/52
The Restless Field: Audio Visual Archive 33/52
Echoes And Reverberations – Released
The Prisoner Part 2 – Ongoing Battles and a Circle of Escape: Wanderings 34/52
From The Furthest Signals: Audio Visual Archive 34/52
The Quiet Earth – Loneliness and Redemption in the Empty City Film: Wanderings 35/52
The A Year in the Country: Straying from the Pathways Book – Release Date 8th October 2019
Undercurrents: Audio Visual Archive 35/52
The Folklore on Screen, Folk Horror in the 21st Century, The Geographies of Folk Horror and Contemporary Folk Horror in Film and Media Conferences – A Return to Investigations of the Spectral Landscape: Wanderings 36/52
The Quietened Cosmologists: Audio Visual Archive 36/52
Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca, In Time and Anon – Striving for the Stars in a Brutalist Retro Future and Other Near Future Tales: Wanderings 37/52
All The Merry Year Round: Audio Visual Archive 37/52
The Dangers of Straying from the Path and Tales of Lycanthropy Part 1 – The Cautionary Warnings of Little Red Riding Hood and The Company of Wolves: Wanderings 38/52
Audio Albion: Audio Visual Archive 38/52
A Year In The Country at The Haunted Generation and Kites and Pylons
The Dangers of Straying from the Path and Tales of Lycanthropy Part 2 – The Company of Wolves, the Thwarted Pop Career of Danielle Dax and the Bridging of Worlds: Wanderings 39/52
The Shildam Hall Tapes: Audio Visual Archive 39/52
The Dangers of Straying from the Path and Tales of Lycanthropy Part 3 – Hollywood Dons the Red Cloak Once More and Reveals “What They Did Next”: Wanderings 40/52
Echoes And Reverberations Reviews and Broadcasts (and Something of a Revisiting of The Quietened Village, The Corn Mother, The Quietened Bunker, The Watchers, The Quietened Mechanisms and All The Merry Year Round)
The Quietened Mechanisms: Audio Visual Archive 40/52
The Dangers of Straying from the Path and Tales of Lycanthropy Part 4 – A Consideration of Red Riding Hood, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Company of Wolves and their Varying Degrees of Separation from Folk Horror: Wanderings 41/52
The A Year In The Country: Straying From The Pathways Book – Released
The Corn Mother: Audio Visual Archive 41/52
The Nightmare Man Part 1 – Cold War Paranoia, The Island as Restorative Balm and Unsettling “Other”: Wanderings 42/52
Grey Frequency – Immersion: Audio Visual Archive 42/52
The Nightmare Man Part 2 – Frankenstein-like Meddling, Vodaynoid Myths and Exploratory Portals: Wanderings 43/52
Racker & Orphan – Twalif X: Audio Visual Archive 43/52
Constructing The Wicker Man and Explorations of the Bright, Beautiful and Serene Anti-Horror of Summerisle from Back When: Wanderings 44/52
The Quietened Journey – Preorder and Release Dates
A Year In The Country – Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels: Audio Visual Archive 44/52
Designed in the USSR 1950-1989 and Further Wanderings Amongst a Bear’s Ghosts: Wanderings 45/52
Fractures: Audio Visual Archive 45/52
Seph Lawless’ Abandoned Theme Park Images and the Duality of a Library of Loss: Wanderings 46/52
The Quietened Journey – Preorder
No More Unto The Dance: Audio Visual Archive 46/52
In the Company of Ghosts – The Poetics of the Motorway Part 1 and The Joy of Motorway Service Stations – Considerations of Faded Futuristic Glamour: Wanderings 47/52
The Forest / The Wald: Audio Visual Archive 47/52
In the Company of Ghosts – The Poetics of the Motorway Part 2 – The Romance of the Open Road in 1970s Chocolate Bar Adverts and the Stark Glamour of Radio On: Wanderings 48/52
A Year In The Country: Straying From The Pathways – Wanderings Amongst a “Haunted House of a Book”
From The Furthest Signals: Audio Visual Archive 48/52
British Rail: Designed 1948-97 – Notes from an Impossibly Far Off History: Wanderings 49/52
Audio Albion: Audio Visual Archive 49/52
The Quietened Journey – Released
Woodshock – A Rudderless Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole: Wanderings 50/52
The Shildam Hall Tapes: Audio Visual Archive 50/52
Strange Invaders – Paranoia, Safety and a Gently Skewed 1950s via the 1980s: Wanderings 51/52
The Quietened Mechanisms: Audio Visual Archive 51/52
The Corn Mother: Audio Visual Archive 52/52
Edge of Darkness, Lost Futures, Mark Fisher, Look Around You, Moon Stallion and Universal Harvester – The End of a Yearly Cycle and Something of a Round Up: Wanderings 52/52

 

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

 

Gallery: Year 5

Click the links below to view artwork from the various A Year In The Country galleries:

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

 

 

Year 5:
The images below are of artwork from the A Year In The Country released albums etc, some of which has not previously been displayed anywhere other than in the albums’ packaging.

Grey Frequency – Immersion: Audio Visual Archive 1/52

Hand Of Stabs – Black-Veined White: Audio Visual Archive 2/52

Michael Tanner – Nine Of Swords: Audio Visual Archive 3/52

She Rocola – Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh of the Mother Town: Audio Visual Archive 4/52

Howlround – Torridon Gate (artwork by Howlround): Audio Visual Archive 5/52

Twalif X – Racker&Orphan: Audio Visual Archive 6/52
(The imagery for the release was created using photographs taken during the outing by Racker&Orphan which were than collaged and intertwined with original artwork by A Year In The Country.)

A Year In The Country – Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels: Audio Visual Archive 7/52

Fractures: Audio Visual Archive 8/52

The Quietened Bunker: Audio Visual Archive 9/52

No More Unto The Dance: Audio Visual Archive 10/52

The Forest / The Wald – Audio Visual Archive 11/52

The Restless Field – Audio Visual Archive 12/52

From The Furthest Signals – Audio Visual Archive 13/52

Undercurrents – Audio Visual Archive 14/52

The Quietened Cosmologists – Audio Visual Archive 15/52

All The Merry Year Round – Audio Visual Archive 16/52

Audio Albion – Audio Visual Archive 17/52

The Shildam Hall Tapes – Audio Visual Archive 18/52

The Quietened Mechanisms – Audio Visual Archive 19/52

The Corn Mother – Audio Visual Archive 20/52

The Corn Mother – Audio Visual Archive 21/52

Hand of Stabs: Black-Veined White – Audio Visual Archive 22/52

No More Unto The Dance: Audio Visual Archive 23/52

Michael Tanner – Nine of Swords: Audio Visual Archive 24/52

She Rocola – Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town: Audio Visual Archive 25/52

Howlround – Torridon Gate (artwork by Howlround): Audio Visual Archive 26/52

Racker & Orphan – Twalif X: Audio Visual Archive 27/52

A Year In The Country – Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels: Audio Visual Archive 28/52

Fractures: Audio Visual Archive 29/52

The Quietened Bunker: Audio Visual Archive 30/52

The Forest / The Wald: Audio Visual Archive 31/52

The Marks Upon The Land: Audio Visual Archive 32/52

The Restless Field: Audio Visual Archive 33/52

From The Furthest Signals: Audio Visual Archive 34/52

Undercurrents: Audio Visual Archive 35/52

The Quietened Cosmologists: Audio Visual Archive 36/52

All The Merry Year Round: Audio Visual Archive 37/52

Audio Albion: Audio Visual Archive 38/52

The Shildam Hall Tapes: Audio Visual Archive 39/52

The Quietened Mechanisms: Audio Visual Archive 40/52

The Corn Mother: Audio Visual Archive 41/52

Grey Frequency – Immersion: Audio Visual Archive 42/52

Racker & Orphan – Twalif X: Audio Visual Archive 43/52

A Year In The Country – Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels: Audio Visual Archive 44/52

Fractures: Audio Visual Archive 45/52

No More Unto The Dance: Audio Visual Archive 46/52

The Forest / The Wald: Audio Visual Archive 47/52

From The Furthest Signals: Audio Visual Archive 48/52

Audio Albion: Audio Visual Archive 49/52

 

Click the links below to view artwork from the various A Year In The Country galleries:

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

 

 

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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…

Electronic Sound Magazine-issue 21-Fractures album review-A Year In The Country

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

The Restless Field review-Electronic Sound magazine-issue 30-photograph

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.”

Electronic Sound magazine-issue 35-The Quietened Cosmologists review-A Year In The Country

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

(Why thankyou, good sirs !)

Electronic Sound magazine-issue 36-All The Merry Year Round album review-CD-A Year In The Country-2

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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A Year In The Country at Music Won’t Save You: Artifact Report #41/52

Music Wont Save You-Raffaello Russo

Over the months and years Raffaello Russo has written about the A Year In The Country releases at his Music Won’t Save You site and in Rockerilla magazine a fair few times, most recently about The Quietened Cosmologists.

There have been links to the reviews at A Year In The Country before but I thought it would be good to gather together links to some of those reviews…

Music Wont Save You-reviews-A Year In The Country

Michael Tanner – Nine Of SwordsA Year In The Country – Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels / The Quietened Village

“Pratica ambientale e spirito folk si fondono nell’operazione, declinati nelle visionarie stille acustiche di The Straw Bear Band e di Sproatly Smith…” (From the review of The Quietened Village.)

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Fractures / The Quietened Bunker / A Year In The Country – No More Unto The Dance / The Forest/The Wald

“Il percorso attraverso i misteri di ambienti rurali abbandonati seguito attraverso sei uscite a tiratura limitata nel corso dell’anno dal cenacolo artistico dell’etichetta A Year In The Country ne ha condotto i protagonisti a esplorare luoghi reconditi, memorie cristallizzate in un altrove spazio-temporale e persino a inseguirne visioni spettrali proiettate verso uno spazio in(de)finito.” (From the review of The Forest/The Wald).

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The Restless Field / From The Furthest Signals / A Year In The Country – UndercurrentsThe Quietened Cosmologists

“Sempre più orientati alle componenti antropiche e post-industriali del paesaggio, gli itinerari tra suono e immaginazione del cenacolo artistico A Year In The Country segnano in “The Quietened Cosmologists” una nuova tappa dedicata alle visioni futuribili allegate a costruzioni funzionali all’esplorazione spaziale.” (From the review of The Quietened Cosmologists).

The Music Won’t Save You website is an archive of Raffaello Russo’s writing and features literally hundreds of articles and reviews that take in a wide, eclectic selection of music (looking at the indexes on the site is one of those “When does the gent sleep?” moments) and although largely in Italian, if you’re not fluent in that language they can be read in (fractured) English via online translation services.

Tip of the hat and thanks to him for the support.

 

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A Year In The Country Artifacts / The British Library Sound Archive

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File under: Artifacts / Preserved For Posterity

Well, here’s a nice thing…

There are physical copies of all the A Year In The Country audiological artifacts now present and correct at The British Library’s Sound Archive.

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(You see that modernist building? Well, if you look really closely you may just be able to see a Night, Dawn etc Edition or two peaking out…)

If you should not know, The British Library is a nationally owned building/institution in the centre of London (next door to St Pancras railway station to be precise), that is visitable by the public, wherein can be found copies of all books and periodicals published in the UK.

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(For those times when you just can’t find anything to read / Tomorrow’s World looks at the latest in home storage systems.)

Alongside that, they also selectively archive music, field recordings, film etc, which is where the A Year In The Country artifacts come in…

Over the years they have amassed a couple or more records etc or to quote the British Library:

“Over 1 million discs, 185,000 tapes, and many other sound and video recordings.”

A crate diggers delight indeed.

At the time of writing there are over 625 kilometres of shelves in the British Library and that’s apparently growing by 12 kilometres each year (that would be 388 / 7.5 miles in old money then).

Blimey.

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(Rumours of DJ Shadow trying to “accidentally” get locked in here over night have been widely exagerated.)

There’s a lovely video of the sound archive by Wire magazine, where Nathan Budzinski interviews Popular Music Curator Andy Linehan, Audio Engineer/Conservation specialist Will Prentice, and Wildlife Sounds Curator Cheryl Tipp. Visit that here.

(As an aside, the Wire footage of the sound archive shelves makes me think of the classic Twilight Zone episode where a chap who loves just being left to read find himself all alone amongst the bounties of a library in a post-apocalyptic world – well, it reminds me of that until the twist at the end of the episode.)

You can search the Sound And Moving Image Catalogue here.

If you should find yourself around central London, you can visit the Sound Archive in person and listen to items; details here. The British Library’s main home in the ether is here, the Sound Archive here.

 

If it should be of interest to you, below is a list of all the A Year In The Country released items and editions in the archive:

Grey Frequency-Dawn Edition-opened 2-A Year In The Country copyHand of Stabs-Black-Veined White-Dusk Edition-opened 2-A Year In The CountryMichael Tanner-Nine Of Swords-Dusk Edition-opened front-A Year In The CountryShe Rocola-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-Owl Light Edition-A Year In The Country-all parts

Immersion by Grey Frequency: Audiological Case Study #1 (Dawn Edition)

Black-Veined White by Hand of Stabs:  Audiological Case Study #2 (Dawn Edition)

Nine Of Swords by Michael Tanner:  Audiological Case Study #3 (Dusk Edition)

Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town by She Rocola:  Audiological Case Study #5 (Owl Light Edition)

Howlround-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-Dusk Edition-front of sleeve disc and insertTwalif X-Day Edition-Orphan & Racker-A Year In The Country-inside of booklet 2A Year In The Country-In Every Mind-Dawn edition opened 2-audiological construct-transmission resonances volume 1

Torridon Gate by Howlround:  Audiological Case Study #6 (Dusk Edition)

Twalif X by Racker&Orphan:  Audiological Case Study #7 (Day Edition)

In Every Mind by A Year In The Country:  Transmission Resonances: Volume 1 (Dawn Edition)

Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels by A Year In The Country:  Audiological Transmission Artifact #1 (Dawn Edition)

Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels by A Year In The Country: Audiological Transmission Artifact #1(Midnight Archaic Encasements Edition)

Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Dawn Edition-opened-A Year In The Country-700The Quietened Village-opened etc-A Year In The CountryFractures-release date-all items-A Year In The Country

The Quietened Village: Audiological Transmissions Artifact #2 (Night Edition)
Audiological explorations by Howlround, Time Attendant, The Straw Bear Band, Polypores, Rowan Amber Mill, Cosmic Neigbourhood, The Soulless Party, A Year In The Country, Sproatly Smith and David Colohan.

The Quietened Village: Audiological Transmissions Artifact #2 (Duskfall Edition)

Fractures: Audiological Transmissions Artifact #3 (Night Edition)
Audiological explorations by  Circle/Temple, Sproatly Smith, Keith Seatman, Polypores, The Listening Center, The British Space Group, The Hare And The Moon ft Alaska/Michael Begg, Time Attendant, The Rowan Amber Mill, A Year In The Country and David Colohan.

The Quietened Bunker-Night Edition-opened-A Year In The CountryNo More Unto The Dance-Dawn Edition opened-A Year In The Countrythe-forest-the-wald-dawn-edition-back-a-year-in-the-country

The Quietened Bunker: Audiological Transmissions Artifact #4 / ATA004N (Night Edition) Audiological explorations by Keith Seatman, Grey Frequency, A Year In The Country, Panabrite, Polypores, Listening Center, Time Attendant, Unknown Heretic and David Colohan.

No More Unto The Dance by A Year In The Country: Audiological Transmissions Artifact #5 / ATA005D (Dawn Edition)

The Forest / The Wald: Audiological Transmissions Artifact #6 / ATA006D (Dawn Edition)
Audiological explorations by Bare Bones, Magpahi, Polypores, Time Attendant, David Colohan, Sproatly Smith, The Hare And The Moon ft Alaska, The Rowan Amber Mill, The Séance with Lutine, Cosmic Neighbourhood and A Year In The Country.

Phew…

 

A tip of the hat to James Tugwell of the British Library. Much appreciated.

 

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Week #24/52: Fractures Signals #3; A Dybukk’s Dozen Gathering (/Looping?) From Around These Parts

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File Under: Trails And Influences / Year 2 wanderings

So, out of curiousity and leading on from Fractures, I thought I would have a wander around the various wanderings and pathways of A Year In The Country, to peruse and investigate how many visitings to the very particular year of 1973 there have been…

Quite a few it would seem.

Along which lines, below is a dybukk’s dozen gathering of such things from around these parts.

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1) Day #87/365: Faded foundlings and Tender Vessels…
…still something of a favourite… home made craft-isms that are just a touch or two unsettling.

2) Week #2/52: The Tomorrow People in The Visitor, a Woolworths-esque filter and travels taken…
…ah, that theme tune and intro still seems to quietly disquiet me…

3) Day #343/365: Veils and Mirrors – forebearing, chanellings, rendings, listing of names…
I have something of a soft-spot for Glynis Jones Veils and Mirrors… It’s a gentle, unsettling (that word again) piece of music that seems as though it has pierced/rended a very particular veil and is quietly, allowing other shadows to come through…

4) Day #290/365: The first three minutes of Psychomania…
How to describe Psychomania? A sort of British carrier bag zombie version of a biker film? That’s somehow or other getting there. Soon(ish) to have a brush and scrub up via the BFI/Flipside, which is nice.

5) Day #271/365: The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water and a hop and skip to lost municipal paternalisms…
Well, I don’t think it would be right to gather such things and times without wandering towards this. Terrifying a generation for generations. One of Fractures “conspicuous junctures and signifiers” indeed.

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6) Day #267/365: Morning Way. Trader Horne.
Ah and there was me thinking “After The Spirit Of… it will be nice to enjoy a touch of early 1970s explorative acid/psych folk” but… “Dreaming strands of nightmare, Are sticking to my feet“. Very lovely work nonetheless.

7) Day #239/365: The jump cuts of hauntological antecedents…
As accidental, hauntological, otherly graphic design goes, this is pretty much there…

8) Day #160/365: Edgelands Report Documents; Cases #1a (return), #2a-5a.
Wanderings amongst the indomatibilities of nature via The Unofficial Countryside. Further Fractures “conspicuous junctures and signifiers“…

9) Day #195/365: World On A Wire; a curiously prescient Simulacron
Ah, nothing like a touch of glamour amongst the grit. Admittedly, it’s all zeros and ones smoke and mirrors…

10) Day #90/365: The Wickerman – the future lost vessels and artifacts of modern folklore
Well, another “I don’t think it would be right to gather such things and times without wandering towards this” moments. Something of a cultural behemoth (monolith? megalith?). Considerations and gatherings of future departed encasements… Fractures “conspicuous juncture and signifiers” number 3 around these parts it would seem.

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11) Week #3/52: I Still Dream Of Orgonon; A Book Of Dreams, the rarity of argent chains and moments of discovery…
And still dreaming of such things. May well also include Ms (Mrs?) Kate Bush’s fond farewell when she stepped upon the boards once again. Pop(ular) music as cinema indeed.

12) Week #6/52: Tomorrow’s People, further considerations of the past as a foreign country and hauntology away from its more frequent signifiers and imagery…
Light-catchery from a “Paradise Enclosed” (to quote Mr Rob Young / Electric Eden).

13) Day #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…
Wellsprings inspired from and via banshee howls… To end on Fractures “conspicuous juncture and signifiers” number 4.

 

A loop begins to form?

“Sorry sir, your name’s not on the list, you’re not getting in.”

“But I’m a plus one.”

“Hmmm.”: Day #278/365: Dybukk’s Dozen of 1973; A Gathering, Conflagration and Surveying…

 

Index: Year 2

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

 

 A Year In The Country-Year 2-Fractures 1Year 2… and so the wanderings begin again…
 Airwaves-Image 1 of 52-A Year In The CountryAudiological Transmission #1/52: Airwaves – The Chatter Amongst The Land
The Duke Of Burgundy-Peter Strickland-Julian House-Intro-A Year In The Country-1 Week #1/52: The Duke Of Burgundy and Mesmerisation…
 Airwaves-Transmission 2-A Year In The CountryAudiological Transmission #2/52: Airwaves – A Cracked Sky
 The Tomorrow People in The Visitor-paperback book-novel-1973-Piccolo TV Times-Roger Price and Julian Gregory-5Week #2/52: The Tomorrow People in The Visitor, a Woolworths-esque filter and travels taken…
 Airwaves-Transmission-3-Night Mesh-A-Year-In-The-CountryAudiological Transmission #3/​​52: Airwaves – Night Mesh
Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-all editions-A Year In The Country-700Audiogical Transmissions Artifact #1: Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels CD released – Dawn, Dusk, Day and Night Editions
Peter-Reich-A-Book-Of-Dreams-Picador-1974-Kate-Bush-Cloudbusting-A-Year-In-The-Country-lighterWeek #3/52: I Still Dream Of Orgonon; A Book Of Dreams, the rarity of argent chains and moments of discovery…
Airwaves-Transmission-4-Flutter Once More-A-Year-In-The-CountryAudiological Transmission #4/​​52: Airwaves – Flutter Once More
Bollocks To Alton Towers-Uncommonly British Days Out-Robin Halstead-Jason Hazeley-Alex Morris-Joel Morris-A Year In The Country-coverWeek #4/52: The Following Of Ghosts – File Under Psychogeographic / Hauntological Stocking Fillers
Airwaves-Transmission-5-Fading From A Distance-More-A-Year-In-The-Country-landscapeAudiological Transmission #5/​​52: Airwaves – Fading From A Distance
The Right Side Of The Hedge-Country Life Today-Chris Chapman-Ian Niall-A Year In The CountryWeek #5/52: The Right Side Of The Hedge – gardens where (should we?) feel secure and velocipede enhanced long arms…
Audiological Transmission 6 of 52-Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels–Imparting-Received-1200Audiological Transmission #6/​​52: Airwaves – Imparting Received
Tomorrows People-Jeremy Sandford-Ron Reid-1974-book-British festivals-A Year In The CountryWeek #6/52: Tomorrow’s People, further considerations of the past as a foreign country and hauntology away from its more frequent signifiers and imagery…
Airwaves-Transmission-7-Songs From The Sentinels-A-Year-In-The-Country-1200Audiological Transmission #7/​​52: Airwaves – Songs From The Sentinels
Blue Streak-British Space Progam-British Space Group-Ian Holloway-Quiet World-A Year In The Country-4Week #7/52: Eyes Turned Skywards; once streaks in the sky, almost futures and reverberations in the ether
Airwaves-Songs From The Sirens-Midnight Archaic Encasements and Dawn Light Editions with tapes-A Year In The Country-Audiogical Transmissions Artifact #1: Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels cassettes pre-order – Midnight Archaic Encasements and Dawn Light Ferrous Reels Editions
08-Airwaves-Transmission-8-Songs-From-The-Sentinels-A-Year-In-The-Country-1200Audiological Transmission #8/​​52: Airwaves – Tales And Constructs
Spaceship UK-The Untold Story Of The British Space Programme-Jim Jupp-Belbury Poly-Daphne Oram-Ken Hollings-Ghost Box-A Year In The Country-2Week #8/52: The Untold Story Of The British Space Programme and explorations by / courtesy of Misters Jupp, Hollings, Seatman and Mrs Oram…
Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Eventide Ether Envoy-components-A Year In The Country-narrow cropAudiogical Transmissions Artifact #1: Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels Eventide Ether Envoy Edition download card set released
09-Airwaves-Transmission-9-Songs-From-The-Sentinels-A-Year-In-The-Country-1200Audiological Transmission #9/​​52: Airwaves – They Have Departed Once More
Soviet Bus Stops-Christopher Herwig-Fuel-A Year In The CountryWeek #9/52: Christopher Herwig’s Soviet Bus Stops, echoes of reaching for the cosmos, folkloric breakfast adornment and other artfully pragmatic curio collectings, encasings and bindings…
10-Airwaves-Transmission-10-Songs-From-The-Sentinels-A-Year-In-The-Country-1200-black fillAudiological Transmission #10/​​52: Airwaves – To Be Sheltered
Stephen Coates-X Ray Audio-Strange Attractor-DJ Food-The Horse Hospital-A Year In The Country-2Week #10/52: X-Ray Audio, make do and mend and further resourcefulness from times and domains gone by…
11-Airwaves-Transmission-11-Songs-From-The-Sentinels-A-Year-In-The-Country-1200Audiological Transmission #11/​​52: Airwaves – A Measuring
The-Quietened-Village-cover-artwork-David-Colohan-Howlround-Soulless-Party-Richard-Moult-PolyporesTime-Attendant-Sproatly-Smith-A-Year-In-The-CountryThe Quietened Village. Coming soon.
Penguin Modern Poets-Julian House-Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age-A Year In The Country-2Week #11/52: The Modern Poets, otherly pastoralism and brief visits to flickering worlds…
 12-Airwaves-Transmission-12-Songs-From-The-Sentinels-A-Year-In-The-Country-1200Audiological Transmission #12/​​52: Airwaves – For My Gentle Scattering
 The Ghost In The MP3-Takahiro Suzuki-Ryan Maguire-Ghosts Of My Life-Mark Fisher-hauntology-A Year In The Country-4Week #12/52: The Ghost In The MP3 and considerations of past/future loss
The Quietened Village-boxes-A Year In The CountryThe Quietened Village. Coming soon indeed.
Scott Walker-Tilt-The Farmer In The City-A Year In The Country-4Week #13/52: Farmer In The City, the impossibility of unknowing and particularly archaic/contemporary recording methods
The Quitened Village-front of both editions-A Year In The CountryThe Quietened Village album: Dawn and Night Editions – pre-order and release dates
The Quietened Village-AT 13 of 52-David Colohan-A Year In The CountryAudiological Transmission #13​/​​​​52: The Quietened Village – David Colohan – At The Confluence Of The Mitta Mitta & Murray
The Stone Tape-Radio 4-Nigel Kneale-Peter Strickland-James Cargill-Broadcast-Life On Mars-Andrew Liles-The Dark-A Year In The CountryWeek #14/52: The Stone Tape and a number of layerings…
Howlround-Flying Over A Glassed Wedge-The Quietened Village-A Year In The Country-1200Audiological Transmission #14​​/​​​​​52: The Quietened Village – Howlround – Flying Over A Glassed Wedge
TQV-preorder photo-3 in a rowThe Quietened Village. Available for pre-order.
The Quietened Village-preorder-A Year In The CountryAudiological Transmission #15​/​​​​​52: The Quietened Village – The Straw Bear Band – The Drowning Of Mardale Green
Phase IV-soundtrack-Saul Bellow-A Year In The CountryWeek #15/52: Phase IV / a revisiting / the arrival of artifacts lost and found and curious contrasts
16 of 52-Damnatorum-The Soulless Party-The Quietened Village-A Year In The Country-1200Audiological Transmission #16​/​​​​​​52: The Quietened Village – The Soulless Party – Damnatorum
Tyneham-A Tribute-Dr Andrew Norman-A Year In The CountryWeek #16/52: The Quietened Village’s Library Of Loss; Volume #1/4a – (One corner of) A further library of loss…
The Quietened Village-release gathering-A Year In The CountryThe Quietened Village Released / Corporeal Wanderings Commence / Spectral Containment Invitee / Ghost Box Guest
The Quietened Village-17 of 52-Polypores-A Year In The CountryAudiological Transmission #17​/​​​​​​52: The Quietened Village – Playground Ritual
The Quietened Village-A Year In The Country-Hugh Lucas-Harry Gill-Dick Dawson-Hilda-Edmund Perry-Lost VillagesWeek #17/52: The Quietened Village’s Library Of Loss; Volume #2/4a – Further Encasements And Bindings
Audiological Transmission #18​​/​​​​​​​52: The Quietened Village
Fractures-A Year In The Country-700 coverComing Soon: Fractures
Imber village-The Quietened Village-A Year In The Country-2Week #18/52: The Quietened Village’s Library Of Loss; Volume #3/4a – Light Catching Traces
Fractures – Coming Soon IndeedFractures-Night and Dawn Editions-A Year In The Country
The Quietened Village-Audiological Transmission 19-The Rowan Amber Mill-A Year In The CountryAudiological Transmission #19​​/​​​​​​​52: The Quietened Village – Separations
Lost Villages-DVD-Henry Buckton-1st Take-The Quietened Village-A Year In The CountryWeek #19/52: The Quietened Village’s Library Of Loss; Volume #4/4a – Ocular Encasment And New Arrivals…
Fractures-Dawn Edition-front-A Year In The CountryFractures – Dawn and Night Editions – Pre-Order and Release Dates
AT 20 of 52-Fractures 1973-Circle Temple-A Year In The Country-bAudiological Transmission #20​/​52​​: Fractures – The Osmic Projector​/​Vapors of Valtorr
The Quietened Village-Duskfall Edition-front-A Year In The CountryThe Quietened Village – Duskfall Edition available for pre-order
Ghost Box Records-Wood St Galleries-Pittsburgh-Justin Hopper-A Year In The CountryWeek #20/52: Pastoral Noir, if onlys, a seeking of names / the ether giveth and the ether taketh away
Fractures 21 of 52-Sproatly Smith-A Year In The Country-1200Audiological Transmission #21​/​52​​: Fractures – The Land Of Green Ginger
The Quietened Village-4 albums-A Year In The CountryThe Quietened Village – Duskfall Edition released / a gathering of transmissions / something of a return as a spectral containment invitee…
Wolfgang Buttress-TheHive-Be-One-Caught By The River-A Year In The CountryWeek #21/52: Be•One / Where Have They All Gone? (Subtitled Not With A Bang Or Whimper But Without A Buzz)
Fractures-Night-componentsFractures – Night and Dawn Editions CD Album Pre-Order
Fractures-22 of 52-Keith Seatman-A Year In The Country-1200Audiological Transmission #22​/​52​​: Fractures – Seeing The Invisible
1973-Blackout-power cut-A Year In The CountryWeek #22/52: Fractures Signals #1; Flickerings From Days Of Darkness
Fractures-Track 23 of 52-Listening Centre-A Year In The Country-1200Audiological Transmission #23​/​52​​: Fractures – Triangular Shift
The Quietened Village-01 cover-A Year In The Country-3The Quietened Village / ether wanderings / a gathering of transmissions
Delia Derbyshire-Hook Films-Test Shoot-A Year In The CountryWeek #23/52: Fractures Signals #2; An Intertwining Of Rather Fine Simulacras / The Work Of Ms Delia Derbyshire / A world out of tune / The Duke Of Burgundy / The Berberian Sound Studio / The Work Of Mr Julian House … And Music And Maths Of The Past But Also Very Much Of The Future
Fractures-release date-all items-A Year In The CountryFractures – Night and Dawn Editions Released
Ghost-Box-Records-logo-Guest Shop-Fractures-A Year In The CountrySpectral Containment Invitee #2; Fractures at The Ghost Box Records Guest Shop / Amongst the pages of The Belbury Parish Magazine
Fractures-Week 24-British Space Project-Ian Holloway-A Year In The Country-1200Audiological Transmission #24​/​​52​​: Fractures – An Unearthly Decade
1973-A Gathering-A Year In The Country-4Week #24/52: Fractures Signals #3; A Dybukk’s Dozen Gathering (/Looping?) From Around These Parts
Grey Frequency-Immersion-one off prints-A Year In The CountryAudiological Transmission #25/​​52​​: Immersion – Coastline, Black Sky
The Wickerman-Unstoppable Trading Cards-Binder-A Year In The CountryWeek #25/52: Fractures Signals #4; A Behemoth Comes Once More A Knocking…
Hand-of-Stabs-250-Black-Veined-White-inner-pageAudiological Transmission #26/​​52​​: Black-Veined White (Excerpt #1) – Hand of Stabs
Shirley Collins-No Roses-A Year In The CountryWeek #26/52: Shirley Collins and further considerations of pastoral noir
BC-Bunker-Dawn and Duskfall-coverThe Quietened Bunker – Coming Soon
Fractures-transmission gathering-2Fractures – a gathering of transmissions
Michael Tanner-Nine of Swords-inner page-2-A Year In The CountryAudiological Transmission #27/​​52 ​​- Nine of Swords (Excerpt #1) – Michael Tanner
Sapphire and Steel-ghosts in the machine-A Year In The Country-2Week #27/52: Sapphire & Steel, various ghosts in the machine and a revisiting of broken circuits…
Audiological Transmission #28​/​​​​52​​: Fractures – Elastic Refraction
Symptoms-1974-BFI-A Year In The Country-3Week #28/52: Symptoms and gothic bucolia
The Quietened Bunker-Night and Dawn Editions-front-A Year In The CountryThe Quietened Bunker – preorder and release dates
The Quietened Bunker-29 of 52-Keith Seatman-A Year In The Country-strokeAudiological Transmission #29/​​​​52​​: The Quietened Bunker – Lower Level Clock Room
A-Pylons-A Hankering After The Past?-A Year In The Country-2Week #29/52: Hauntology and the genre that dare not speak its name
Fractures-digital distribution and gathering-2-with strokeFractures – ether wanderings and a gathering of transmissions
The Quietened Bunker-Grey Frequency-Drakelow Tunnels-A Year In The CountryAudiological Transmission #30​/​​​​​52​​: The Quietened Bunker – Drakelow Tunnels
The Quietened Bunker-secret bunker tourist road signs-A Year In The Country-2Week #30/52: The Quietened Bunker Archives #1; A Lovely Day Out / Not Your Average Des Res
The Quietened Bunker-Night Edition-all items-A Year In The CountryThe Quietened Bunker. Night and Dawn Editions preorder.
The Quietened Bunker-Panabrite-A Year In The CountryAudiological Transmission #31/​​​​52​​: The Quietened Bunker – Aggregates II
Blondie-Atomic-The Smiths-Ask-Nena-99 Red Balloons-Trailblazers-Sky Arts-A Year In The CountryWeek #31/52: The Quietened Bunker Archives #2; Songs For The Bunker – The Once Was Ascendance Of Apocalyptic Pop
Time Attendant-Crafty Mechanics-The Quietened Bunker-A Year In The Country-with strokeAudiological Transmission #32/​​​​​52​​: The Quietened Bunker – Crafty Mechanics
Wargames-1983 film-A Year In The CountryWeek #32/52: Bunker Archives #3: Wargames, Hollywood phantoms and phantasms and the only winning move is not to play
The Quietened Bunker-Night and Dawn Editions-release date-A Year In The Country-2The Quietened Bunker – Night and Dawn editions released
The Quietened Bunker-David Colohan-A Year In The Country-1400-2Audiological Transmission #33​/​​​​​​52​​: The Quietened Bunker – Waiting For The Blazing Skies
Paul Virilio-Bunker Archaeology-Princeton Architectural Press-A Year In The Country-2bWeek #33/52: Bunker Archives #4; Paul Virilio’s Bunker Archaeology and accidental utilitarian art
She Rocola-Burn The Witch-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-Day Edition-front of booklet-A Year In The CountryAudiological Transmission #34/​​52​​: She Rocola – Burn The Witch
Danila tkachenko-Restricted Areas-Dewi Lewis Publishing-A Year In The CountryWeek #34/52: Restricted Areas – Further Wanderings Amongst A Bear’s Ghosts
Howlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-all itemsAudiological Transmission #35/​​52​​: Howlround – Torridon Gate (excerpt)
The Belbury Poly-New Ways Out-Ghost Box Records-Jim Jupp-A Year In The CountryWeek #35/52: Belbury Poly’s New Ways Out and strutting your stuff at the Panda Pops disco
No More Unto The Dance-A Year In The CountryComing Soon – No More Unto The Dance
No More Unto The Dance-both editions-A Year In The CountryA Year In The Country – No More Unto The Dance pre-order and release dates
No More Unto The Dance-Night Edition landscape sticker 4-A Year In The CountryAudiological Transmission #36​/​​​52​​: No More Unto The Dance – Dark Days
Gone To Earth-1950-Powell and Pressburger-Jennifer Jones-poster-costume-A Year In The CountryWeek #36/52: Gone To Earth – “What A Queen Of Fools You Be”, Something Of A Return Wandering And A Landscape Set Free
no-more-unto-the-dance-image-2-week-37-a-year-in-the-countryAudiological Transmission #37​/​​​52​​: No More Unto The Dance – Plaintive Resonations
transmissions-sent-the-quietened-bunker-a-year-in-the-country-9b-with-strokeThe Quietened Bunker – A Gathering Of Transmissions
Edge Of Darkness-1985-BBC A Year In The Country-4Week #37/52: Edge Of Darkness, stepping into the vortex, reshuffling and sweeping the board…
No More Unto The Dance-Night Edition opened-A Year In The Country copyNo More Unto The Dance – Dawn and Night editions pre-order
no-more-unto-the-dance-image-3-week-38-a-year-in-the-country-copyAudiological Transmission #38​/​​​​52​​: No More Unto The Dance – Future Dissolvation
Like Haines-Maximum Electronic Rock N RollWeek #38/52: Mr Haines – “our most non-hauntological hauntologist” – the evidence mounts
no-more-unto-the-dance-image-4-week-39-a-year-in-the-countryAudiological Transmission #39​/​​​​52​​: No More Unto The Dance – A Moment Of Optimism
IBM 1401-A Users Manual-Jóhann Jóhannsson-A Year In The Country-1Week #39/52: An elegy to elegies for the IBM 1401 / notes on a curious intertwining
no-more-unto-the-dance-night-and-dawn-editions-front-a-year-in-the-country-1A Year In The Country – No More Unto The Dance Night and Dawn Editions released
no-more-unto-the-dance-track-5-a-year-in-the-countryAudiological Transmission #40​/​​​​52​​: No More Unto The Dance – When Did It All Break?
john-paynter-toys-and-techniques-the-school-is-full-of-music-a-year-in-the-country-2Week #40/52: The School Is Full Of Noises and gazing into a utopian future…
the-forest-the-wald-cover-a-year-in-the-countryThe Forest / The Wald – Coming Soon
weekly-music-41-twalif-x-rackerorphan-folklore-tapes-a-year-in-the-countryAudiological Transmission #41/​​​52​​: Twalif X (excerpt) – Racker&Orphan
butter-on-the-latch-josephine-decker-a-year-in-the-country-4Week #41/52: The Dark Pastoral Of Butter On The Latch
the-forest-the-wald-both-editions-a-year-in-the-countryThe Forest / The Wald – Dawn and Night Editions Preorder and Release Dates
the-forest-the-wald-weekly-track-01-magpahi-a-year-in-the-countryAudiological Transmission #42​/​​​​52​​: Hawthorn Heart – The Forest / The Wald
robert-voit-the-new-trees-a-year-in-the-country-3Week #42/45: The New Trees
the-forest-the-wald-weekly-track-02-polypores-a-year-in-the-country-1400Audiological Transmission #43/​​​​52​​: Deep Undergrowth – The Forest / The Wald
all-hallows-quietened-bunker-transmission-sheet-rue-morgue-a-closer-listen-include-me-out-ytnatm-a-year-in-the-country-strokeThe Quietened Bunker – A Timely Gathering Of Transmissions
broadcast-mother-is-the-milky-way-a-year-in-the-country-1Week #43/52: Broadcast – Mother Is The Milky Way and gently milling around avant-garde, non-populist pop
the-forest-the-wald-night-edition-opened-a-year-in-the-country-250The Forest / The Wald – Preorder
the-forest-the-wald-weekly-track-03-the-hare-and-the-moon-a-year-in-the-country-1400Audiological Transmission #44​/​​​​​52​​: A Whisper In The Woods – The Forest / The Wald
the-touchables-1968-film-a-year-in-the-country-2Week #44/52: The Touchables and a pop-art pastoral playland
the-forest-the-wald-weekly-track-04-the-seance-with-lutine-a-year-in-the-country-1400Audiological Transmission #45/​​​​​52​​: Trees Grew All Around Her – The Forest / The Wald
quatermass-nigel-kneale-time-out-september-1979-a-year-in-the-country-4Week #45/52: Quatermass finds and ephemera from back when
the-forest-the-wald-released-dawn-and-night-editions-a-year-in-the-country-bThe Forest / The Wald – Night and Dawn Editions released
the-forest-the-wald-weekly-track-05-time-attendant-a-year-in-the-country-1400Audiological Transmission #46/52: Fantastic Mass – The Forest / The Wald
midnight-movies-band-a-year-in-the-country-3Week #46/52: Midnight Movies, (re)findings, crumbling textures and a certain geometric otherlyness…
airwaves-revisitation-1-a-year-in-the-countryAudiological Transmission #47/52: Airwaves – A Gathering / Revisitation #1a
 shirley-collins-death-and-the-lady-nick-abrahams-a-year-in-the-country-1Week #47/52: Shirley Collins voyages anew…
quietend-village-track-48-of-52-a-year-in-the-country-1400Audiological Transmission #48/52: The Quietened Village – Bunk Beds / Revisitation #2a
death-in-vegas-trans-love-energies-a-year-in-the-country-1Week #48/52: Death In Vegas, Trans-Love Energies and tumbling through the wormhole
fractures-49-of-52-the-rowan-amber-mill-a-year-in-the-country-1400Audiological Transmission #49/52: Fractures – Ratio (Sequence) / Revisitation #3a
the-forest-the-wald-transmissions-sentThe Forest / The Wald – A Gathering Of Transmissions
veloelectroindustrial-edgelands-wasteland-photography-harworth-machine-a-year-in-the-country-2Week #49/52: The Wanderings Of Veloelectroindustrial
the-quietened-bunker-revisiting-a-year-in-the-country-strokeAudiological Transmission #50​/​52: The Quietened Bunker – Comms: Seen Through The Grey / Revisitation #4a
british-library-sound-and-moving-image-archive-itemsA Year In The Country Artifacts / The British Library Sound Archive
monumental-folies-stuart-barton-book-1972-a-year-in-the-country-1Week #50/52: Monumental Follies – An Exposition On The Eccentric Edifices Of Britain (to give the book its full title)
no-more-unto-the-dance-a-year-in-the-country-revisitation-5-1400Audiological Transmission #51/52: The Experiment Ends – No More Unto The Dance / Revisitation #5a
deep-country-neil-ansell-a-year-in-the-country-1Week #51/52: Deep Country – Five Years In The Hills / Two Years At Sea And Becoming A Non-Rolling Stone
the-forest-the-wald-52-of-52-revisitation-6a-a-year-in-the-country-1400Audiological Transmission #52/52: The Forest / The Wald – The Abney Ritual / Revisitation #6a
roger-phillips-trees-of-great-britain-a-year-in-the-country-3bWeek #52/52: An Arboreal Collection Or Two And Hello And Goodbye…

 

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

 

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Day #350/365: Audiological Reflections and Pathways #3; A balm to contemporary intensity of input…

Michael Tanner-Nine of Swords-inner page-2-A Year In The CountryFile under: Trails and Influences. Electronic Ether. Case #47/52.

(Retransmission:) If you should look closely amongst this particular year in the country you may well see that around these parts there has been activity which has involved the encasing of disturbances in the airwaves.

Audiological Reflections and Pathways is inspired by those particular encasings and the related work/creators of said work…

Along which lines, Michael Tanner’s Nine of Swords.

When I think of this particular work by Michael Tanner and its “balm to contemporary intensity of input” (to quote myself), my mind tends to wander towards what is sometimes known as new age culture/music…

…and as I’ve wandered through this particular year in the country, elements of such culture has appeared and arisen, albeit work far from the centre of such things (more of which in a moment)…

Emerald Web-Dragon Wings and Wizard Tales-Finders Keepers Records-A Year In The Country…sometimes this has been depictions of an utter corruption of new age systems of thought and belief in Beyond The Black Rainbow (see Day #254/365)…

…or via the music/work of the likes of Supernatural Lancashire encasement and envoying accompaniers Emerald’s Web (see Day #178/365)…

…or here and there in related visual work…

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I Am The Center-Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990-Light In The Attic-A Year In The Country

…or as has been briefly mentioned around these parts before: I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America, 1950-1990 (see also Day #254/365)…

This is new age music/culture but not quite in the form which it is normally thought of – these are audiological travellers who have wandered far from expected pathways – or who were never wanderers down them to begin with; in the just mentioned encasing and collecting it is a world of rascal gurus, army veterans turned harpist turned Looney Tune-r turned imaginer of soundtracks back to Atlantis, early twentieth century stage stars who temporarily became a baroness before creating audio-mystical work accompanied by rain falling in an alley…

…as mentioned in this particular gathering’s title this was often a culture of individually tape-released/privately pressed music that sometimes sold by the carload and more but which was unlikely to have ever bothered conventional attention or chart placings…

Caedmon-acid folk psych folk-Seasons They Change-A Year In The Country

(As an aside, in that way such work reminds me of acid/psych folk private vinyl pressings; music that has often become particularly precious – in pecuniary and other ways – to its listeners and has gone on to have audiences and influence that are quite possibly considerably beyond what might have been expected of these scarcely reproduced/encased artifacts… its curious how such niches and overlooked corners of cultural can develop and burrow away over the years.)

Some of the related “new age” work points towards pathways that later have come to be known as dark ambient; music that is soothing but with an unsettling undertone…

…which I suppose brings me back round to Nine of Swords and the sense of it being an audiological balm, a journey to partake for what, by modern comparisons, is quite a considerable length of time… but one where the shadows may be only just held at bay…

Jeanette Leech-Seasons They Change-The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk-A Year In The CountryEarlier pathway:
Day #93/365: Seasons They Change and the sweetly strange concoctions of private pressings

Other pathway: Light In The Attic.

Source encasings and envoyings.

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Day #331/365: Artifact #47/52; Hand of Stabs Black-Veined White CD album released – Dusk / Dawn Editions

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

Hand of Stabs Black-Veined White CD album. Dusk Edition £10.00.  Dawn Edition £12.00
Hand of Stabs-Black-Veined White-Dusk and Dawn Editions-A Year In The Country
Audiological Research and Pathways; Case #2
Audiological contents: Black-Veined White (68:33 minutes).

Available at our Artifacts Shop, our Discogs Audiological Archive and our  Bandcamp page.
Prices include free UK shipping. Normally ships within 7-14 days.

Custom printed and hand-finished by A Year In The Country.

Black-Veined White takes as its starting point the eponymous butterfly which was last seen in the UK in Rochester, the area in which HoS live, work and explore, in the 1920s…

…it utilises precise textual descriptions of the Black-Veined White by L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz alongside poetry that considers these ‘air wraiths’ by Giles Watson, to create a journey whereby Hand of Stab’s hidden drones and textures create a form of (non-electronic) electronica played on and summoned from the land and soil, a journey which captures and summons the spirit of these winged creatures that have now departed from our shores.

The resulting work is essentially a concept album about the extinction of the Black-Veined White in the British isles.

Black-Veined White and the work of Hand of Stabs is a very particular, otherly form of cultural exploration and inquiry whereby the aggressive transgression of the likes of COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and early Einstürzende Neubauten has evolved and spread deeply foraging roots to create work that is more pastoral in its themes but still very far from the centre of things.” (AYITC)

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In their own words:

“Hand of Stabs, from the South East of England, are a three-man collective who’s work draws inspiration from their exploration of local, often forbidden, landmarks. They create improvised sound pieces which can be simultaneously uplifting, difficult and intense using both traditional and homebuilt instruments.

Sharing a love of the history and sacred past of Medway Towns and surrounding countryside, and inspired by regular, often night-time walks through these spaces, they are creating a series of soundworks evoking and celebrating their essence.

 

Dusk Edition: Limited to 52 copies. £10.00.
Hand-finished packaging; all black CDr in matt recycled sleeve with insert.

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Top of CD.                                                             Bottom of CD.

Artwork custom printed by A Year In The Country using archival Giclée pigment ink.
Hand numbered on the back of the insert.

 

Dawn Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £12.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with insert and badge.
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Top of CD.                                                   Bottom of CD.

Artwork custom printed by A Year In The Country using archival Giclée pigment ink.
Includes 25mm/1″ badge, secured with removable glue on a tag which is string bound to the sleeve.
Back of the insert is hand numbered.

 

Album credits:

Hand of Stabs-A Year In The Country 4HoS personnel:
electric guitar, cello: captain rex standish. percussion, tenor recorder, mandocaster: james worse.
velophone, electronics, bugle: jocelyn von bergdorff.
voice: Kyra La Rubia (De Coninck).

text used with kind permission: Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2008 onwards.
British insects: butterflies. Version: 29th December 2011.
www.delta-intkey.com/britin/pap/www/aporia.htm

&:
Black-Veined White (Aporia cratœgi). (Poem by Giles Watson, 2014.)

 

Artwork/packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department

 

Available at our Artifacts Shop, our Discogs Audiological Archive and our  Bandcamp page.
Prices include free UK shipping. Normally ships within 7-14 days.

 

 

Box-set Night Editions and string bound booklet Day Editions also available.
See Day #238/365.
Hand of Stabs-Black-Veined White-Night Edition-boxset-A Year In The Country Hand of Stabs-Black-Veined White-Day Edition-cover-A Year In The Country

 

Visit Hand of Stabs in the ether herehere and here.

Peruse Hand of Stabs at A Year In The Country: Day #155/365.

 

The library of A Year In The Country Audiological Research and Pathways series includes:
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
Case Study #6: Howlround: Torridon Gate
Case Study #7: Racker & Orphan; Twalif X

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Day #325/365: Artifact #46/52; Grey Frequency Immersion CD album released – Dusk / Dawn Editions

Grey Frequency Immersion CD album. Dusk Edition £10.00.  Dawn Edition £12.00Grey Frequency-Dusk and Dawn Editions-front covers-A Year In The CountryAudiological Research and Pathways; Case #1
Audiological contents: 01 Hemlock Stone (19:01). 02 Coastline, Black Sky (16:41).

Available at our Artifacts Shop, our Discogs Audiological Archive and our  Bandcamp page.
Prices include free UK shipping. Normally ships within 7-14 days.

Both editions custom printed and hand-finished by A Year In The Country.

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Immersion was the first Audiological Research and Pathways case study that was sent forth at
A Year In The Country and I am pleased and indeed proud to be able to return to it.

Not least because it gives me the chance to return to the recordings contained myself. This is transportative music, something that sends and allows my mind to travel elsewhere; it is meditative and quietly unsettling.

The phrase that comes to mind when I think of Grey Frequency’s work is broken signals; a scanning or overview of the ghosts in the airwaves, transmissions discovered via edgeland explorations and forays…

…when I listen to Immersion it feels like a capturing of activity hidden deep below the surface of things, the inexorable power of nature and it’s movement/force against it’s own edifices and those of civilisation over many years; a capturing of the sound of those self same rending and collapsing into the below.

Lovely stuff.” (AYITC)

 

Dusk Edition: Limited to 52 copies. £10.00.
Hand-finished packaging; all black CDr in matt recycled sleeve with insert.
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Top of CD.                                                             Bottom of CD.

Artwork custom printed by A Year In The Country using archival Giclée pigment ink.
Hand numbered on the back of the insert.

 

Dawn Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £12.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with insert and badge.
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Top of CD.                                                          Bottom of CD.
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Artwork custom printed by A Year In The Country using archival Giclée pigment ink.
Includes 25mm/1″ badge, secured with removable glue on a tag which is string bound to the sleeve.
Back of the insert is hand numbered.

 

Artwork/packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department (utilising visual work/source material by Gavin Morrow).

 

Available at our Artifacts Shop, our Discogs Audiological Archive and our  Bandcamp page.
Prices include free UK shipping. Normally ships within 7-14 days.

 

Box-set Night Editions and string bound booklet Day Editions also available.
See Day #224/365.
Grey Frequency-Immersion-Night Edition-A Year In The Country-2 Grey Frequency-Immersion album-A Year In The Country

 

Below is the video which accompanies the Hemlock Stone track:

Visit Grey Frequency in the ether here.

Peruse Grey Frequency at A Year In The Country: Day #192/365.

 

The library of A Year In The Country Audiological Research and Pathways series includes:
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
Case Study #6: Howlround: Torridon Gate
Case Study #7: Racker & Orphan; Twalif X

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Day #308/365: Artifact #44/52 released; Twalif X – Racker&Orphan limited CD album. Dusk / Dawn / Day / Night Editions.

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

Racker&Orphan Twalif X CD.
Dusk Edition £11.00. Dawn Edition £13.00. Day Edition. £18.00.  Night Edition £25.00.
Twalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folker Tapes-A Year In The Country-all editions with narrower border
Audiological Research and Pathways; Case #7.
Audiological contents: Twalif X (50.51 minutes).

Twalif X is an audiological journey through one night; the album was recorded between dusk and dawn on the 12th/13th May 2014 in Robin Wood, Bears Wood, Knott Wood and on Eagle Crag.

All recordings were captured on one microphone and processed/mixed by N. Racker (samandtheplants / Supernatural Lancashire / Finders Keepers Records) and D. Orphan (Folklore Tapes / Pre-Cert Home Entertainment).

The imagery for the release was created by N. Racker & D. Orphan using photographs taken during the outing and spliced with original artwork by A Year In The Country.

…sometimes it is as though when listening to Twalif X that you are almost next to these explorers and you find that you have travelled with them to the otherly, darker corners of the woodlands and landscape. A work that is both calm and quietly unsettling, experimental with bursts of folkloric melody that appears with the coming of the dawn…” (AYITC).

All editions custom printed and hand-finished by A Year In The Country.

Available via our: Artifacts ShopDiscogs Audiological Archive and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.
Includes free UK shipping. Normally ships in 7-14 days.

 

Dusk Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £11.00.
Hand-finished all black CDr in matt recycled sleeve with insert.
Twalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folklore Tapes-A Year In The Country-front of sleeve-narrower border
Twalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folklore Tapes-black top and bottom CD

Top of CDr.                                                             Bottom of CDr.

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Custom printed/hand-finished by A Year In The Country using archival Giclée pigment ink.
Back of the insert is hand numbered.

 

Dawn Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £13.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with insert and badge.
Twalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folklore Tapes-A Year In The Country-front of sleeveTwalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folklore Tapes-A Year In The Country-all itemsTwalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folklore Tapes-A Year In The Country-inside sleeve 1Twalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folklore Tapes-A Year In The Country-inside of sleeve 2Twalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folklore Tapes-A Year In The Country-white top and black bottom CD.jpg
Top of CDr.                                                          Bottom of CDr.

Twalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folklore Tapes-A Year In The Country-back of sleeveTwalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folklore Tapes-A Year In The Country-badge

Custom printed/hand-finished by A Year In The Country using archival Giclée pigment ink.
Includes 25mm/1″ badge, secured with removable glue on a tag which is string bound to the sleeve.
Back of the insert is hand numbered.

 

Day Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £18.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in 10 page string bound booklet packaging.
Twalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folklore Tapes-A Year In The Country-front of bookletTwalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folklore Tapes-A Year In The Country-inside booklet credit pageTwalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folklore Tapes-A Year In The Country-inside of booklet 2

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Top of CDr.                                                          Bottom of CDr.

Twalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folklore Tapes-A Year In The Country-wrapping and wax seal

Day Edition Details:
1) Booklet custom printed/hand-finished by A Year In The Country 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) CDr held in protective fleece-lined sleeve.
5) 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.
f) Hand numbered.

 

Night Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £25.00.
Hand-finished box-set contains: album on all black CDr, 12 page string bound booklet, 4 x 25mm badge pack, 1 x unique hand-produced natural ephemera print pack.
Twalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folklore Tapes-A Year In The Country-parts-narrower borderTwalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folklore Tapes-A Year In The Country-open boxTwalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folklore Tapes-A Year In The Country-inner booklet page 2 Twalif X-Orphan & Racker-David Orphan-Samandtheplants-N Racker-Folklore Tapes-A Year In The Country-booklet inner credit page
Twalif X-Orphan & Racker-A Year In The Country-black top and bottom CD
Top of CDr.                                                             Bottom of CDr.

Twalif X-Night Edition-Orphan & Racker-A Year In The Country-badge pack Twalif X-Night Edition-Orphan & Racker-A Year In The Country-print pack

Night edition details:
1) Booklet/cover art custom printed/hand-finished by A Year In The Country 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) 4 x 25mm/1″ badge set, contained in a see-through polythene bag with a folded card header.
6) 1 x pack containing unique natural ephemera print; hand-produced by D. Orphan and N. Racker.
7) Black string bound 12.8cm x 12.8cm booklet:
a) Hand numbered.
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.

Twalif X packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.

 

Available via our: Artifacts ShopDiscogs Audiological Archive and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.
Includes free UK shipping. Normally ships in 7-14 days.

Preview the album below:

 

Elswhere in the ether:
davidchattonbarker.com / folkloretapes.co.uk / nracker.co.uk / samalexmcloughlin.tumblr.com / soundcloud.com/david-orphan

 

The work of N. Racker and D. Orphan amongst the pathways of A Year In The Country:
Day #7/365: Folklore Tapes; the ferrous reels of arcane research projects
Day #32/365: Wyrd Britannia, Folklore Tapes, Magpahi and English Libraries
Day #57/365: A bakers dozen of Mr David Chatton Barker
Day #97/365: Ms A. Cooper, Natural/Supernatural Lancashire & the various nestings of Magpahi…
Day #226/365: Traces From A Delerium Of Forests…

 

The library of A Year In The Country Audiological Research and Pathways series includes:
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
Case Study #6: Howlround: Torridon Gate
Case Study #7: Racker & Orphan; Twalif X

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Day #304/365: Artifact #43/52; She Rocola Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town CDs released – Owl Light / Dawn Editions

She Rocola Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother town CD.
Owl Light Edition £6.00.  Dawn edition £8.00.
She Rocola-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-Dawn Edition-A Year In The Country-Owl Light and Dawn Editions
Audiological Research and Pathways; Case #5.
Audiological contents: Burn The Witch (2.20) / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town (2.41).

Available via our: Artifacts ShopDiscogs Audiological Archive and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.
Prices include free UK shipping. Normally ships within 7-14 days.

 

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.

 

Owl Light Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £6.00.
3″ mini-CDr in see-through wallet sleeve.
She Rocola-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-Owl Light Edition-A Year In The Country-front coverShe Rocola-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-Owl Light Edition-A Year In The Country-all partsShe Rocola-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-Owl Light Edition-A Year In The Country-rear cover

Custom printed and hand-finished by A Year In The Country.
Printed using archival Giclée pigment ink.
Includes two card inserts in see-through plastic wallet.
Back of the credit insert is hand numbered.

 

Dawn Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £8.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with insert and badge.
She Rocola-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-Dawn Edition-A Year In The Country-front cover-narrower borderShe Rocola-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-Dawn Edition-A Year In The Country-all parts

She Rocola-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-Dawn Edition-A Year In The Country-inside-2She Rocola-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-Dawn Edition-A Year In The Country-inside-1 Howlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-white black CDr
Top of CDr.                                                         Bottom of CDr.

She Rocola-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-Dawn Edition-A Year In The Country-back cover
Artwork custom printed by A Year In The Country using archival Giclée pigment ink.
Includes 25mm/1″ badge, secured with removable glue on a tag which is string bound to the sleeve.
Back of the insert is hand numbered.

 

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.

 

She Rocola-Ellen Terry beetlewing dress-Zoe Lloyd-Mrs Nettleship-A Year In The CountryVictorian wet-plate photograph of She Rocola by Zoe LLoyd.

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

 

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.

 

She Rocola-Burn The Witch-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-Night Edition-box set-A Year In The CountryShe Rocola-Burn The Witch-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-Day Edition-front of booklet-A Year In The Country 

She Rocola-Burn The Witch-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-The Arising Edition-print and front of CD-A Year In The CountryAlso available as a limited box set Night Edition, string bound booklet Day Edition and The Arising Edition archival print and 3″ CD.

Visit those at Day #272/365 and Day #279/365.

 

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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Day #287/365: Artifact #41/52; Howlround Torridon Gate CD released – Dawn, Day, Dusk & Night Editions

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

Howlround Torridon Gate CD.
Dusk Edition £10.00. Dawn Edition £12.00. Day Edition. £18.00.  Night Edition £25.00.

Howlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-all items

 

 

 

 

Audiological Research and Pathways; Case #6.
Audiological contents: Torridon Gate (23.43 minutes).

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.

All editions custom printed and hand-finished by A Year In The Country.

Available via our: Artifacts ShopDiscogs Audiological Archive and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.
Includes free UK shipping. Normally ships in 7-14 days.

 

Dusk Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £10.00.
Hand-finished all black CDr in matt recycled sleeve with insert.
Howlround-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-Dusk Edition-front of sleeveHowlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-all black CDr
Top of CDr.                                                            Bottom of CDr.

Howlround-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-Dusk Edition-front of sleeve disc and insertHowlround-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-Dusk Edition-front of sleeve disc and insert-2

Printed using archival Giclée pigment ink.

Back of the insert is hand numbered.

 

Dawn Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £12.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with insert and badge.Howlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-Dawn Edition-front of sleeveHowlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-white black CDr
Top of CDr.                                                         Bottom of CDr.

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Howlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-Dawn Edition-back of sleeve
Custom printed using archival Giclée pigment ink.

Includes 25mm/1″ badge, secured with removable glue on a tag which is string bound to the sleeve.

Back of the insert is hand numbered.

 

Day Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £18.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in 10 page string bound booklet packaging.
Howlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-Day Edition-front of bookletHowlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-Dawn Edition-reel and transparent pageHowlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-Day Edition-reel with transparent text page on topHowlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-white black CDr
Top of CDr.                                                         Bottom of CDr.

Howlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-black tissue paper and wax seal wrapping
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.
f) Hand numbered.
5) CDr held in protective fleece-lined sleeve.

 

Night Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £25.00.
Hand-finished box-set contains: album on all black CDr, 12 page string bound booklet, 4 x 25mm badge pack, 1 x original Howlround tape cutting pack.
Howlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-all parts-narrow border-Night EditionHowlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-closed box-Night EditionHowlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-open box-Night EditionHowlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-badge and tape packs-Night EditionHowlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-all black CDr
Top of CDr.                                                            Bottom of CDr.

Howlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-Night Edition-inner page Howlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-reel and transparent page-Night Edition Howlround-Torridon Gate-Robin The Fog-Chris Weaver-A Year In The Country-reel with transparent page laid on top-Night Edition


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.
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) Pack containing original Howlround tape cutting.

 

Credits:

Produced by Robin The Fog & Chris Weaver, April – June 2014.

Mastered by James Edward ‘Butterscotch’ Barker.

Presented with gratitude to Tony Alpe and Kathryn Everett.

Artwork by Robin The Fog.

Packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.

www.howlround.co.uk

 


Available via our: Artifacts ShopDiscogs Audiological Archive and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.
Includes free UK shipping. Normally ships in 7-14 days.

 

Visit the ghost signals of Howlround at Day #142/365 of A Year In The Country.

 

The library of A Year In The Country Audiological Research and Pathways series includes:

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
Case Study #6: Howlround: Torridon Gate

Grey Frequency-Immersion-Night Edition-A Year In The Country-2Hand of Stabs-Black-Veined White-Night Edition-boxset-A Year In The CountryMichael Tanner-Nine Of Swords-Night Edition-box set-A Year In The Country

 

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Day #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

The CDs and prints 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. The Arising Edition.
Archival print and 3″ CD. £28.00. Limited edition of 52.

She Rocola-Burn The Witch-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-The Arising Edition-print and front of CD-A Year In The Country

Audiological Research and Pathways; Case #5.
Audiological contents: Burn The Witch (2.20) / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town (2.41).

Printed and hand-finished by A Year In The Country.
Available via our: Artifacts ShopDiscogs Audiological Archive and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.

Free UK shipping. Normally ships in 7-14 days.

She Rocola-Burn The Witch-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-The Arising Edition-scroll and CD-A Year In The Country

She Rocola-Burn The Witch-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-The Arising Edition-print-A Year In The Country

She Rocola-Burn The Witch-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-The Arising Edition-print and CD-A Year In The Country

She Rocola-Burn The Witch-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-The Arising Edition-back of CD insert-A Year In The Country

She Rocola-Burn The Witch-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-The Arising Edition-print numbering-A Year In The Country She Rocola-Burn The Witch-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-The Arising Edition-signature-A Year In The Country
The print features an extended version of the Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town cover artwork.

Print size: A3; 42 x 29.7cm / 16.5 x 11.7 inches (includes 1.5cm / 0.6 inch border).

Printed on textured fine art cotton rag paper using true black archival Giclée pigment inks (museum/gallery quality inks – resistant to fading for 75+ years).

Hand numbered and signed by the AYITC Ocular Signals Department.

Shipped string bound.

 

3″/8cm 2-track white-topped mini CDr, includes the songs Burn The Witch and Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town.

CD insert is hand numbered and signed by She Rocola.

Insert is printed on textured fine art cotton rag paper using true black archival Giclée pigment inks.

 

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.

 

She Rocola-Ellen Terry beetlewing dress-Zoe Lloyd-Mrs Nettleship-A Year In The CountryVictorian wet-plate photograph of She Rocola by Zoe LLoyd.

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.

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

 

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

 

She Rocola-Burn The Witch-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-Night Edition-box set-A Year In The CountryShe Rocola-Burn The Witch-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-Day Edition-front of booklet-A Year In The Country

Also available as a limited box set Night Edition and string bound booklet Day Edition (see above).
Visit those at Day #272/365.

 

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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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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