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

Artwork from She Rocola’s Burn the Witch / Molly Leigh of the Mother Town.

 

“The song Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town draws from 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.” (Quoted from A Year In The Country.)

 

“Few 45s of the last couple of years can catch up with this one… ‘Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town’ is the kind of nursery rhyme you never learned at your mother’s knee but which buried itself in your memory regardless, to peer out of the soil while you’re hopscotching past and wrap bony fingers round your ankle; ‘Burn the Witch’ is freakish fiddles (by Andrea Fiorito) that scratch behind She’s icy vocal and spectral harmonies, a Hammer film condensed to two minutes of sound and effects.” (Quoted from a review by Dave Thompson at Goldmine)

 

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Elsewhere at A Year In The Country:

 

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She Rocola’s Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town: Audio Visual Archive 4/52

Artwork from She Rocola’s Burn the Witch / Molly Leigh of the Mother Town release.

 

“The song Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town draws from 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.” (Quoted from A Year In The Country.)

 

“She Rocola conjures one the most bewitching releases of the last few months with this EP on the fine label, A Year In The Country. Equal parts performance theatre, found sound and folksong (think Tiger Lillies meets the spookiest of Nurse With Wound) these tracks inhabit an especially cobwebbed and haunted corner of the imagination.

‘Burn The Witch’ begins with urgent stabs and wails of violin and an immediate sense of foreboding. Rocola intones the witches’ fate, vocal harmonies layering ghostlike amidst the baroque setting, her voice endlessly repeating ‘make her leave my mind…’ It is a short yet hugely effective piece, a subtle but powerful spell.

Second track ‘Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town’ is a music box filled shimmer of dread, acoustic guitars casting spectral shadows under the repeated nursery rhyme mantra of the verse… It is both utterly unique and completely hypnotic; this is gothic folk like you have never heard before. With shades of Siouxsie and a hint of Maxine Peake (from The Eccentronic Research Council’s Pendle Witch themed opus ‘1612 Overture’), this is music for when the dark falls and there is nothing but the sound of the rain and wind on the window pane.” (Quoted from a review at The Active Listener by Grey Malkin of Widow’s Weeds and formerly The Hare And The Moon.)

 

More details on Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh of the Mother Town here and at Bandcamp.

Visit She Rocola at Soundcloud here.

 

Elsewhere at A Year In The Country:

  1. Day #39/365: Burn The Witch by Ms She Rocola, a stately repose amongst the corn rigs and Victorian light catching
  2. Audiological Transmission #34/​​52​​: She Rocola – Burn The Witch
  3. Day #353/365: Audiological Reflections and Pathways #5; an ether gathering of behind the sofa folk flickerings

 

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Audiological Transmission #34/​​52​​: She Rocola – Burn The Witch

She Rocola-Burn The Witch-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-Day Edition-front of booklet-A Year In The CountryRevisitation #5.

Now, we have something of a soft spot for this here track and its companion.

In amongst the A Year In The Country releases it may well be a turning down more overtly folk horror (or should that be folk noir, more of which in a moment?) pathways, accompanied by the phantasmagorical remembering of childhood rhymes to be found in Molly Leigh, which is inspired by Ms Rocola’s…

“…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.

Transmissions sent, received, transmitted: the single garnered some rather fine considerations and scribing, a pairing of which are below:

She Rocola conjures one the most bewitching releases of the last few months… Burn The Witch” begins with urgent stabs and wails of violin and an immediate sense of foreboding. Rocola intones the witches’ fate, vocal harmonies layering ghostlike amidst the baroque setting, her voice endlessly repeating “make her leave my mind”… a subtle but powerful spell. Inspired by “childhood memories and by formative viewings of late-night folk-horror films from in front of and behind the sofa” this is a hallucinatory and haunting piece of folk noir.

“Second track “Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town” is a music box filled shimmer of dread, acoustic guitars casting spectral shadows under the repeated nursery rhyme mantra of the verse. The voice of the witch speaks, intertwining with the sounds of the children’s twisted game. It is both utterly unique and completely hypnotic; this is gothic folk like you have never heard before.

By Grey Malkin (of The Hare And The Moon) at The Active Listener.

She Rocola-Burn The Witch-revisiting-artwork-A Year In The Country

… few 45s of the last couple of years can catch up with this one… Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town” is the kind of nursery rhyme you never learned at your mother’s knee, but which buried itself in your memory regardless, to peer out of the soil whhile you’re hopscotching past, and wrap bony fingers round your ankle; “Burn the Witch” is freakish fiddles (by Andrea Fiorito) that scratch behind She’s icy vocal and spectral harmonies, a Hammer film condensed to two minutes of sound and effects.

By Dave Thompson (author of many a tome or two or hundred or so) at Goldmine.

 

Burn The Witch wanderings around these parts:She Rocola-Burn The Witch-Ellen Terry beetlewing dress-Zoe Lloyd-Mrs Nettleship-A Year In The Country
Day #39/365: Burn The Witch by Ms She Rocola, a stately repose amongst the corn rigs and Victorian light catching

The Victorian light catching in question is the photograph of Ms Rocola that accompanied the release, by Zoe Lloyd:

a stately repose amongst the rural landscape and corn rigs, a folkloric meandering through the textures of Sarah Moon and Deborah Turbeville (this particular entrancing of the soul was created using light catching techniques from previous eras – traditional wet plate to be more precise)...

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Night, Day, Arising, Owl Light and Dawn encasements:

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

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

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

 

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.

Elsewhere in the ether: She Rocola. Mr Whitney.

 

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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

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

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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

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 #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.

She Rocola-Burn The Witch-Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town-Night and Day Editions side by side-A Year In The CountryAudiological Research and Pathways; Case #5.
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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Top of CDr.                                                            Bottom of CDr.

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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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Top of CDr.                                                         Bottom of CDr.

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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.

 

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.

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

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 #39/365: Burn The Witch by Ms She Rocola, a stately repose amongst the corn rigs and Victorian light catching

She Rocola-Burn The Witch-Zoe Lloyd-A Year In The CountryFile under:
Trails and Influences: Electronic Ether. Case #3/52.

And while we’re on the subject of folk horror (see Day #37/365 at A Year In The Country)…

This is a song by a good friend and sometimes creative compadre Ms She Rocola (and her compatriots in sound).

She sent me a link to it a while ago and it stuck in my mind like billy-o… it’s all glacial presentation, jade eyed jealousy and enchantment, slightly unsettling violins and a wandering off into the lost lives of the Pendle trials.

Listen to the song here.

It’s also accompanied by a rather fine photograph by Zoe Lloyd;  a stately repose amongst the rural landscape and corn rigs, a folkloric meandering through the textures of Sarah Moon and Deborah Turbeville (this particular entrancing of the soul was created using light catching techniques from previous eras – traditional wet plate to be more precise).

View more here.

Track credits:
Music by Andrea Fiorito, Words by She Rocola.
Violin: Andrea Fiorito, Vocals: She Rocola.
Recorded by Andrea Fiorito & Joe Whitney 2013

 

A hop and a skip to the future:

Burn The Witch has been released as on a limited edition CD by A Year In The Country as part of our Audiological Case Studies series. View that at Day #272/365.

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Last Day of The A Year In The Country Sale

The A Year In The Country CDs etc are now sold out but the albums are available to download at our Bandcamp page, Amazon, The Tidal Store, 7digital etc and can be streamed on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube etc.

The A Year In The Country books are now sold out at our Shop and Bandcamp page but they are available at Amazon UKAmazon US,  Amazon Australia and their other worldwide sites and also from Lulu.

The books may also available to order from other bookshops etc, please direct any queries regarding that directly to them.

Friday 6th May 2022, is the last day of the A Year In The Country sale. Many items are half price or less and quite a few are already sold out or are down to the last few or even very last copy, so if you’ve ever thought about about exploring the undercurrents or taking a quietened journey then now would be the time to do it.

All the remaining CD and cassette copies of the albums etc are now only at our Bandcamp site and they are sold out at our Artifacts Shop.

The A Year In The Country books are still available for sale at Amazon UK, Amazon US and their various other international sites and Lulu. They may also available to order from other online and bricks and mortar bookshops etc (please ask the bookshops etc directly if you want to do that).

The A Year In The Country albums are also available digitally at Bandcamp and/or the likes of Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon etc.

Which just leaves me to say thanks to a fair few people…

The performers who have contributed music to the A Year In The Country releases: including Grey Frequency, Field Lines Cartographer, Vic Mars, Circle/Temple, The Heartwood Institute, David Colohan, Pulselovers, Sproatly Smith, Hand of Stabs, Michael Tanner, The Straw Bear Band, Polypores, The Rowan Amber Mill, Spaceship, Time Attendant, Cosmic Neighbourhood, Keith Seatman, Widow’s Weeds, Kitchen Cynics, Listening Center, Alaska, Panabrite, Unknown Heretic, Phonofiction, Magpahi, Lutine, United Bible Studies, Bare Bones, Endurance, Sharron Kraus, Dom Cooper, Quaker’s Stang, Embertides, Howlround, Depatterning, The Hare And The Moon, Racker & Orphan, The British Space Group, Unit One, Sophie Cooper, Harriet Lisa, Neil Whitehead, Dave Millsop, Zosia Sztykowski, The Soulless Party, She Rocola, Assembled Minds, The Séance, The Howling (Robin The Fog and Ken Hollings), Gavino Morretti, Ken Patterson (Caedmon), Handspan and Folclore Impressionista.

The people who have sold and distributed the A Year In The Country releases and/or lent their advice: Jim Jupp of Ghost Box Records, The state51 Conspiracy in particular, Shaun Yule, Juno Records, Piccadilly Records, Psilowave, Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona, all at Norman records especially Ant and Phil and Justin Watson of Front & Follow.

All who have bought and supported the A Year In The Country music releases, books and artifacts and everybody that visits the website and/or shares etc posts elsewhere online.

Everybody who has written about A Year In The Country and reviewed the various releases, including amongst others John Coulthart, Simon Reynolds, DJ Food, Jude Rogers, Ben Graham, Ian White, Matthew Sedition, Grey Malkin, Massimo Ricci, Warren Ellis, Sukhdev Sandhu, Joe Banks, Alan Boon, Dave Thompson and Bob Fischer of The Haunted Generation. Also, all at Terrascope, Avant Music News, Music Won’t Save You, Starburst, Fortean Times, Rockerilla, Bliss Aquamarine, Was Ist Das?, Shindig!, The Wire, The Active Listener, Include Me Out, Wyrd Daze, Folk Words, Landscapism, fRoots, The Sunday Experience, The Golden Apples of the Sun, Electronic Sound, Both Bars On, Rue Morgue, Mojo, Folk Radio, Goldmine, Saint Etienne Disco, Diabolique, Bandcamp Daily, Quiet World & Wonderful Wooden Reasons, Incendiary, Violet Apple, 33-45, Radio Limbo, We Are Cult, Folk Horror Revival, Forestpunk, Whisperin’ & Hollerin’, A Closer Listen, Mind De-Coder, The Guardian, Moof and Psychogeographic Review.

All those who have included A Year In The Country released tracks in their radio broadcasts, podcasts etc, including, again amongst others, Stuart Maconie, Gideon Coe, Daniel Jago, Alistair Gordon, Nick Luscombe, James Papademetrie and Pete Wiggs of the aforementioned The Séance, and all at Evening of Light, Kites and Pylons, More Than Human, The OST Show, Syndae, Sunrise Ocean Bender, Fractal Meat, Flatland Frequencies, The Unquiet Meadow, Gated Canal Community Radio, Phantom Circuit, Free Form Freakout, The Crooked Button, Project Moonbase, Space Folk Horror Lounge, Awkward Moments, Pull the Plug, Pic n’ Mix, On the Wire and You, the Night & the Music.

Ian Lowey for the dab hand design and editorial work for A Year In The Country and also Suzy Prince for the equally dab hand editorial work (both of Bopcap Books).

Verity Sharp for inviting me onto BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction and playing tracks from the A Year In The Country released albums and Rebecca Gaskell for her admirable production of the show, Gary Milne of BBC Archives for his compiling and curation of video spectres, Tales from the Black Meadow author Chris Lambert for the audio journeys he created to accompany the A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields book and William “Billy” Harron as always for accidentally pointing me in the direction of the undercurrents of folk.

Also my family for the ongoing support and to everybody whose work has inspired me on the wanderings, explorations and pathways of A Year In The Country.

Thanks and a tip of the hat to you all!

 

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Sale and A Final Wander Through The Restless Fields…

The A Year In The Country CDs etc are now sold out but the albums are available to download at our Bandcamp page, Amazon, The Tidal Store, 7digital etc and can be streamed on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube etc.

The A Year In The Country books are now sold out at our Shop and Bandcamp page but they are available at Amazon UKAmazon US,  Amazon Australia and their other worldwide sites and also from Lulu.

The books may also available to order from other bookshops etc, please direct any queries regarding that directly to them.

There’s currently a sale at the A Year In The Country Artifacts Shop and Bandcamp site, with many items half price or less.

The CDs that are currently available there are the final copies of the albums and stocks are generally fairly limited, so if you’ve ever thought about taking a visit to the quietened village, a wander through the restless field, tuning in to the furthest signals etc then now would be the time to do it…

ayearinthecountry.co.uk/shop

ayearinthecountry.bandcamp.com

Featuring and thanks to…
Folclore Impressionista, Grey Frequency, Howlround (Robin The Fog), Sproatly Smith, The Heartwood Institute, Field Lines Cartographer, Pulselovers, The Séance, Vic Mars, The Howling (Robin The Fog and Ken Hollings), Magpahi, Cosmic Neighbourhood, The Rowan Amber Mill, Polypores, Time Attendant, Mark Williamson (Spaceship), Sharron Kraus, Patterned Air / Assembled Minds, The Soulless Party, Depatterning, The Hare And The Moon / Widow’s Weeds, Dom Cooper (The Straw Bear Band etc), Handspan, Endurance, David Colohan, The British Space Group, Listening Centre, Hand of Stabs, Twalif X (Samandtheplants and David Chatton Barker of Folklore Tapes), She Rocola, Michael Tanner etc…⁣

Also thanks to Suzy Prince and Ian Lowey of Bopcap Books for the dab hand editorial work and all the people who have written about, broadcast tracks from, posted, shared and indeed bought the releases. A tip of the hat to you all!

“A Year In The Country quietly go about their business releasing beautifully packaged music that is influenced by folk, electronica, drone as well as by landscape, time and place. These compilations have themes running through them, tying the music together and seemingly telling a story as they unfold.” Terrascope

“[A Year In The Country has been building its] own otherworldly visions of Arcadian England. Both an exploration of a pastoral past and a rumination on a dystopian present… [the albums are] an almanac of unearthly sonics to tide you through the winter nights… audio Polaroids of a secret cartography… a gentle lullaby for post-dystopian dreams.” Shindig!

 

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The Watchers – Reviews, Broadcasts and Journeys amongst The Haunted Generation, The Unquiet Meadow, the Witching Hour and Other Flipside Furrows


A selection of reviews and broadcasts of The Watchers album:

“Individual trees provide very personal inspiration for some of the artists participating. Vic Mars takes Hertfordshire’s 900-year-old Eardisley Oak as the muse for his gentle, pastoral instrumental The Test of Time, and The Winter Dream of Novel’s Oak by Howlround is created from field recordings of an 800-year-old tree in Tilford, Surrey. It’s a warm, touching tribute to the receding wild woodlands of the British countryside, and – for maximum listening pleasure – perfect for an early summers’ evening constitutional through the copse or thicket of your choice.” Bob Fischer writing in his The Haunted Generation column in issue 381 of Fortean Times.

The Haunted Generation column also features Jonathan Sharp’s (whose work as The Heartwood Institute is included on The Watchers) Divided Time album which is released on Castles In Space. This was inspired by a cache of faded 1970s family snapshots that he discovered and which have a particularly intriguing character – the cover image conjures a spectral pastoral sense and seems to have tumbled backwards and forwards in time and has an “I can’t quite place what era it’s from” air to it. The Divided Time album can be visited here

…and in an interconnected manner with all things spectral and otherly pastoral the cover article for the issue is written by Gail-Nina Anderson and titled “Folk Horror Revival – Exploring the Haunted Landscape of British Cinema and Television”.

Bob Fischer also has a relatively new blog also called The Haunted Generation, which accompanies his column in Fortean Times and where you can find articles and interviews with Jonny Trunk, Drew Mulholland’s Three Antennas in a Quarry and Frances Castle/Clay Pipe Music’s Stagdale, to name just a few. Visit the blog here.

“Full of the trademark otherworldly pastoralism we’ve come to love from A Year In The Country releases, The Watchers opens with the haunting drone of Grey Frequency’s In A Clearing… There’s twinkling synths (Field Lines Cartographer’s A Thousand Autumns) and almost psychedelic oscillations (The Heartwood Institute’s The Trees That Watch The Stones’)… [and] Howlround’s A Winter Dream Of Novel’s Oak, an eerie echo peppered with birdsong…” Finlay Milligan, Electronic Sound magazine issue 54

“A Year In The Country continue to release their sumptuous CDs… A Thousand Autumns by Field Lines Cartographer celebrates an ancient oak, its cyclical shedding of thousands of leaves providing nutrients for next year’s leaves. The twinkling synth sounds like the falling leaves in the shafts of Autumnal sunlight… Sproatly Smith arrive with Watching You another song from the point of view of these ancient trees, bird song, female voice, synth and acoustic guitar. Tracing the journey from acorn to mighty hollowed oak, a bucolic folk tune… Vic Mars is next with The Test Of Time this song takes its inspiration from the great Eardisley oak tree, one of the oldest in Britain. A purely electronic piece of music which is both cathartic and gentle in nature, it’s stately and develops into a bucolic pastoral piece… This could be the label’s finest release yet.” Andrew Young, Terrascope

“Combines the enchanted ambience of Field Lines Cartographer and Vic Mars with the druidic declamations of Widow’s Weeds ft Kitchen Cynics and Sproatly Smith, the dark frequencies of Depattering and The Heartwood Institute with Pulselovers pulsations…” Raffaello Russo, Music Won’t Save You

“The music portrays a gentle patience, from the field recordings sprinkled throughout the album to delicate chimes and folksong.” Richard Allen, A Closer Listen

“A Year in the Country’s latest uncanny release is The Watchers, a celebration of Britain’s trees that mixes electronica with eerie folk…” Jude Rogers, writing in the Folk Column of The Guardian

As an aside I would highly recommend a visit to Jude Rogers’ article 2018’s Best Folk Folk Albums, also for The Guardian, where you can find the likes of You Are Wolf, Olivia Chaney, Trembling Bells, Lisa O’Neill and Stick In The Wheel. Well, recommend and also urge caution due to the potential wallet injuring nature of it. That can be visited here.

And then onto some of the radio etc broadcasts of the album:

Episode 260 of More Than Human’s radio show featured Depatterning’s Ook/Dair and Pulselover’s Circles Within Circles. Original broadcast on CiTR FM, the show is archived here. Their record label has featured releases by the likes of Ekoplekz, Jon Brooks, Kemper Norton, Pye Corner Audio and sometimes A Year In The Country travellers Time Attendant and can be visited here.

The Geography Trip and Front & Follow’s The Gated Canal Community Radio Show included Vic Mar’s The Test Of Time. Originally broadcast via Reform Radio the show is archived here and their Facebook page can be found here.

And as a further aside Front & Follow recently released The Blow Volume 6 collaborative album featuring work by also fellow sometimes A Year In The Country travellers Polypores and Field Lines Cartographer, which rather intriguingly “initially drew from long conversations about alternate realities and altered states of consciousness”. The album can be visited here.

Phantom seaside radio show and sometimes fellow A Year In The Country travellers The Séance included Phonofiction’s Xylem Flow. Originally broadcast on Brighton’s Radio Reverb, totallyradio and Sine FM the playlist for the show can be found here and the show is archived at Mixcloud here.

Grey Frequency’s In A Clearing and Pulselover’s Circles Within Circles were included in an episode of record label Sunrise Ocean Bender’s eclectic and rather finely esoteric show. Broadcast on WRIR FM the playlist can be found here and the show is archived at Mixcloud here.

Sproatly Smith’s Watching You and Grey Frequency’s In A Clearing were featured on two episodes of the spectrally hauntological and undercurrents of folk wanderings of The Unquiet Meadow. Orginally broadcast on Asheville FM the playlists for the show can be visited here and here. Their Facebook page can be found here.


And as another aside a recent episode of The Unquiet Meadow also featured the A Year In The Country released Man Of Double Deed by The Hare And The Moon, from the album From The Furthest Signals and She Rocola’s Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town – the playlist for that particular show can be visited here.

Grey Frequency’s In A Clearing was included on the podcast Wyrd Daze Six: Then Space Began To Toll, which was released for Wyrd Daze’s sixth birthday. That and it’s accompanying digital ezine can be viewed and listened to here.

In A Clearing was also featured on fellow A Year In The Country traveller Mat Handley of Pulselovers and Woodford Halse’s You, the Night and the Music radio show. Originally broadcast on Sine FM the show is archived at Mixcloud here.

Johnny Seven played Grey Frequency’s In A Clearing on episode 408 of Pull The Plug, alongside tracks by the previously mentioned Jonathan Sharp, sometimes A Year In The Country fellow traveller Listening Center and Jane Weaver. Originally broadcast on Resonance FM the show is archived here.

Howlround’s The Winter Dream Of Novel’s Oak was included in episode 86 of Mind De-Coder, alongside various psychedelic, folk and acid folk wanderings (both old and new), including Anne Briggs, Rowan : Morrison and Shide and Acorn. The accompanying post can be found here and the show is archived at Mixcloud here.

And finally Verity Sharp played Sproatly Smith’s Watching You on the “Lost voices, found in song” episode of BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, in amongst the show’s ongoing witching hour audio explorations. The show is archived here.

The Watchers features music and accompanying text on the tracks by Grey Frequency, Field Lines Cartographer, Widow’s Weeds ft Kitchen Cynics, Depatterning, A Year In The Country, Phonofiction, Pulselovers, Sproatly Smith, Vic Mars, The Heartwood Institute and Howlround.

It is inspired by ancient trees and their very stately, still form of time travel and the way in which they are observers over the passing of the years, centuries and even millennia, with some of these “mighty oaks” and their companions having lived through invasions of their island home undertaken by wooden ships, sword and arrow, the final days and passing of the old ways and the times of magic and witchcraft, the coming of the industrial revolution and the dawning of the digital era.

More details on the album can be found here.

 

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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Folk Horror Roots – From But a Few Seedlings Did a Great Forest Grow: Chapter 6 Book Images

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“Folk horror is a loosely defined genre of fictional works which create an alternative, flipside view of the landscape and pastoralism; these works draw from and/or are frequently set in the landscape, creating unsettled and unsettling tales, in contrast to more bucolic representations of the countryside as a place of calm and restful escape.

They may tell stories of the patterns underneath the plough, may include elements of a more hauntological nature rather than being purely rurally based and can take in the hidden, layered histories and atmospheres within places.

There is often a sense of their inhabitants living in, or becoming isolated from, the wider world, allowing moral beliefs to become untethered from the dominant norms and allowing the space for ritualistic, occult, supernatural or preternatural events, actions and consequences to occur.

As a phrase, “folk horror” conjures images of a trio of British films released between 1968 and 1973; Witchfinder General (1968), The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971) and The Wicker Man (1973).

Looking back today such films could be seen as a result or offshoot of there being, at the time of their production, a growing interest in folk music and culture, which was accompanied by a romantic sense of wishing to return to and embrace simpler and more natural or rural ways of living.

However rather than being an expression of such inclinations and idyllic bucolia, folk horror’s often bleak nihilistic nature and stories seem to be more an expression of the souring of related dreams and yearnings: a rural/folk reflected curdling of 1960s utopian optimism as it entered the 1970s.”

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“…both Witchfinder General and The Blood on Satan’s Claw featured Tony Tenser as their executive producer… films which could be seen to have their roots and onscreen expression in both the more art inclinations of their directors (Michael Reeves and Piers Haggard respectively) and the exploitation aspects of their producer Tony Tenser.

Although over time critical appreciation has tended to tip more towards the art side of things, without both sides of this coin one could debate whether these films would have existed or have come to be such resonant cultural artifacts…

Tony Tenser, with his exploitation sensibilities, seems to have been partly responsible for a considerable portion of the late 1960s/early 1970s arrival of folk horror as he was also executive producer on Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968), which deals with some of the themes of folk horror (a rural setting, connections to the old beliefs and magic).

This film is particularly memorable in its conjuring up of phantasmagorical occult scenes, which are made all the more striking by a film-stealing Barbara Steele as Lavina Morley, Black Witch of Greymarsh, who is dressed in striking, opulent and almost surreal folkloric garb, including a behorned headdress.

She serves as mistress of the film’s woozily transgressive dreamlike ritual ceremonies, helping create almost a film within a film…”

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“The late 1960s to around the mid 1970s was the main era for the production of the initial, classic examples of film and television that have come to be known as folk horror.

However, in terms of cinematic forebears, around 1960 there was a small grouping of horror and/or supernatural films which could be seen as being part of a lineage that would one day become or bring about what is known as folk horror.

These include Mario Bava’s Black Sunday from 1960, also starring Barbara Steele, Jack Clayton’s The Innocents from 1961 and Roger Vadim’s Et Mourir De Plaisir (or Blood and Roses to use its American title) from 1960.

Their tone and expression varies from the classic black and white gothic and grotesque horror of Black Sunday to the almost decadent aristocratic Technicolor sensuality of Et Mourir de Plaisir via the repressed supernatural hauntings amongst the reeds and willows of the British countryside in The Innocents.”

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“On British television a number of series and plays were produced around a roughly similar period to The Wicker Man, The Blood on Satan’s Claw and Witchfinder General, which could to varying degrees be connected to the phrase folk horror.

Such programmes could include the work of Nigel Kneale such as the pre-hauntological investigations of The Stone Tape (1972) and the nature terrors and conflicts of The Beasts (1976) and other notable series including the made-for-children but curiously disquieting likes of The Owl Service (1968) and Children of the Stones (1977).

Alongside which the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas, which often adapted M.R. James fiction, such as Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968), The Ash Tree (1975) and Play for Today broadcasts including Robin Redbreast (1970) and Penda’s Fen (1974), contain many of the themes of folk horror; landscape-set tales of the supernatural, the persecution of those who practice the old ways, the flipside and undercurrents of the land/history, rural isolation and sacrifice.

You could also cast the net wider and include the Czech New Wave fantasia of Valerie and her Week of Wonders (1970) and the high-fashion fairytale-gone-rotten in the woods of Italian-made Queens of Evil (1970).”

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“When A Year In The Country began in 2014, now-disappeared websites such as Folk Horror Review, which intermittently posted about such films and television as those mentioned above, felt like still fairly off the beaten track places: a wandering through the briars and undergrowth of a not overly harvested eldritch rural cultural landscape. This has changed somewhat in recent years.

While not quite yet an overtly mainstream genre name, as an example of how embedded folk horror has become as a descriptive phrase and cultural strand, if you should type it into a search engine then many millions of results will be returned.

Alongside which, a focal point of interest such as the website and social media group Folk Horror Revival has an online following which at the point of writing numbered in five figures, and in 2016 hosted its Otherworldly event at The British Museum.

Folk horror has also become a legitimate area of academic research as shown by conferences/events such as The Alchemical Landscape and A Fiend in the Furrows, which have concentrated on associated areas of study, accompanied by screenings of related film and television.”

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“In wider culture elements and influences of folk horror can be found in a number of areas and projects.

This is particularly so within music, including the sometimes Midwich-ian or Nigel Kneale-esque parallel worlds of Ghost Box Records and projects such as The Book of the Lost (2014) and Tales from the Black Meadow (2013), which alongside other elements featured music intended to accompany imagined, layered backstories which draw from the tropes of folk horror.

A song such as She Rocola’s “Burn The Witch” (released in 2014 by A Year In The Country) and its glacial, haunting tale of love and persecution could well be a soundtrack to a lost classic British folk horror film: one which may have accompanied the canonic trio of such things back when.”

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“While the Marshlight Software computer game Edgelands (2017) takes folk horror themes into interactive realms and is described as a psychogeographical folk tale:

“Magic and folklore… entangle the modern world… in an uncanny rustic adventure… you soon find yourself exploring an uncanny rustic twilight landscape in which familiar rural landmarks overlap with otherworldly occurrences, creating a dream-like blurring of the ordinary and the supernatural.””

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“Over the years from but a few seedlings, folk horror as a cultural strand has created ever growing reverberations that are still being felt throughout culture and indeed which may now only be truly flowering and finding fully fertile ground.”

 

Online images to accompany Chapter 6 of the A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields book, alongside some text extracts from the chapter:

Details of the book and the collection of its accompanying online images can be found at the Book’s Page, which will be added to throughout the year.

 

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

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Journeys in Otherly Pastoralism, the Further Reaches of Folk and the Parallel Worlds of Hauntology.

Paperback and Ebook are available at Amazon UK, Amazon US, Amazon Australia and their other international sites.

The book may also available to order from other bookshops etc, please direct any queries regarding that directly to them.

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

“An essential field guide to a distinct aesthetic that remains loosely defined, like a fluttering night moth that would die if pinned down.” Ben Graham, Shindig!

“A new book caught my eye recently – the title A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields, that goes in search of the darker, eerier side of the bucolic countryside dream by looking at films of a certain genre, books, TV series, music; it is great to have this fascinating subject explored so thoroughly and brought together under one title.” Verity Sharp, Late Junction, BBC Radio 3

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A Year In The Country is a set of year-long journeys through spectral fields; cyclical explorations of an otherly pastoralism, the outer reaches of folk culture and the spectres of hauntology. It is a wandering amongst subculture that draws from the undergrowth of the land.

As a project, it has included a website featuring writing, artwork and music which stems from that otherly pastoral/spectral hauntological intertwining, alongside a growing catalogue of album releases.

In keeping with the number of weeks in a year, the book is split into 52 chapters which draw together revised writings from the project alongside new journeyings. Connecting layered and, at times, semi-hidden cultural pathways and signposts, it journeys from acid folk to edgelands via electronic music innovators, folkloric film and photography, dreams of lost futures and misremembered televisual tales and transmissions.

It includes considerations of the work of writers including Rob Young, John Wyndham, Richard Mabey and Mark Fisher, musicians and groups The Owl Service, Jane Weaver, Shirley Collins, Broadcast, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Virginia Astley and Kate Bush, the artists Edward Chell, Jeremy Deller and Barbara Jones and the record labels Trunk, Folk Police, Ghost Box and Finders Keepers.

The book also explores television and film including Quatermass, The Moon and the Sledgehammer, Phase IV, Beyond the Black Rainbow, The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water, Bagpuss, Travelling for a Living, The Duke of Burgundy, Sapphire & Steel, General Orders No. 9, Gone to Earth, The Changes, Children of the Stones, Sleep Furiously and The Wicker Man.

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“Author Prince has pulled together a mass of material culled not only from the website and its associated albums, but also a great deal more that was written specifically for the book. And the result is spellbinding.” Dave Thompson, Goldmine

“This incredibly well-researched book, which is obviously written by a man with an enormous passion for this subject, is probably as comprehensive as it is possible to be. Stephen Prince’s densely packed tome covers everything from folkloric film and literature to electronic music to acid folk to folk horror to the dystopian fiction of John Wyndham and the classic unearthings of Nigel Kneale to the formation of under-the-furrows record labels like Trunk, Ghost Box and Finders Keepers. If you’re already interested in folk culture and want to be astonished by how deeply its roots run, you’ll treasure A Year in the Country enormously. Almost every one of the 52 chapters sideswiped me with a revelation that is already making me look at a genre I love with new, more appreciative eyes. Books this culturally valuable don’t grow on hedgerows, so make sure you harvest it immediately.” Ian White, Starburst

“An excellent compendium of Prince’s musings and meditations on all things wyrdly bucolic, uncanny, and elegiac, spanning a spectral spectrum from Richard Mabey to Zardoz, Virginia Astley to Sapphire & Steel.” Simon Reynolds, author of Retromania and Energy Flash

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Download two sample chapters at this web page: Contents list and sample chapters

Text extracts from the book can also be visited here.

The book has been designed/typeset by Ian Lowey of Bopcap Book Services and edited by Suzy Prince, who are the co-authors of The Graphic Art of the Underground: A Counter-Cultural History.

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Book Chapter List:

1. Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music: Folk Vs Pop, Less Harvested Cultural Landscapes and Acts of 
Enclosure, Old and New

2. Gather in the Mushrooms: Early Signposts and Underground Acid Folk Explorations

3. Hauntology: Places Where Society Goes to Dream, the Defining and Deletion of Spectres and the Making of an Ungenre

4. Cuckoos in the Same Nest: Hauntological and Otherly Folk Confluences and Intertwinings

5. Ghost Box Records: Parallel Worlds, Conjuring Spectral Memories, Magic Old and New and Slipstream Trips to the
 Panda Pops Disco

6. Folk Horror Roots: From But a Few Seedlings Did a Great Forest Grow

7. 1973: A Time of Schism and a Dybbuk’s Dozen of Fractures

8. Broadcast: Recalibration, Constellation and Exploratory Pop

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9. Tales From The Black Meadow, The Book of the Lost and The Equestrian Vortex: The Imagined Spaces of Imaginary Soundtracks

10. The Wicker Man: Notes on a Cultural Behemoth

11. Robin Redbreast, The Ash Tree, Sky, The Changes, Penda’s Fen Red Shift and The Owl Service: Wanderings Through Spectral Television Landscapes

12. A Bear’s Ghosts: Soviet Dreams and Lost Futures

13. From “Two Tribes” to WarGames: The Ascendancy of Apocalyptic Popular Culture

14. Christopher Priest’s A Dream of Wessex: Twentieth Century Slipstream Echoes

15. Sapphire & Steel and Ghosts in the Machine: Nowhere, Forever and Lost Spaces within Cultural Circuitry

16. Kill List, Puffball, In the Dark Half and Butter on the Latch: Folk Horror Descendants by Way of the Kitchen Sink

17. The Quietened Bunker, Waiting For The End of the World, Subterranea Britannica, Bunker Archaeology and The Delaware Road: Ghosts, Havens and Curious Repurposings Beneath Our Feet

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18. From The Unofficial Countryside to Soft Estate: Edgeland Documents, Memories and Explorations

19. The Ballad of Shirley Collins and Pastoral Noir: Tales and Intertwinings from Hidden Furrows

20. “Savage Party” and Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased): Glimpses of Albion in the Overgrowth

21. Uncommonly British Days Out and the Following of Ghosts: File under Psychogeographic/Hauntological Stocking Fillers

22. Gone to Earth: Earlier Traces of an Otherly Albion

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23. Queens of Evil, Tam Lin and The Touchables: High Fashion Transitional Psych Folk Horror, Pastoral Fantasy and Dreamlike Isolation

24. Luke Haines: Our Most Non-Hauntological Hauntologist

25. Tim Hart, Maddy Prior and “The Dalesman’s Litany”: A Yearning for Imaginative Idylls and a Counterpart to Tales of Hellish Mills

26. Katalin Varga, Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy : Arthouse Evolution and Crossing the Thresholds of the Hinterland Worlds of Peter Strickland

27. General Orders No. 9 and By Our Selves: Cinematic Pastoral Experimentalism

28. No Blade of Grass and Z.P.G.: A Curious Dystopian Mini-Genre

29. The Midwich Cuckoos and The Day of the Triffids: John Wyndham, Dystopian Tales, Celluloid Cuckoos and the Village as Anything But Idyll

30. Folk Archive and Unsophisticated Arts: Documenting the Overlooked and Unregulated

31. Folkloric Photography: A Lineage of Wanderings, Documentings and Imaginings

32. Poles and Pylons and The Telegraph Appreciation Society: A Continuum of Accidental Art

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33. Symptoms and Images: Hauntological Begetters, the Uneasy Landscape and Gothic Bucolia

34. The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water: Public Information Films and Lost Municipal Paternalisms

35. Magpahi, Paper Dollhouse and The Eccentronic Research Council: Finders Keepers/Bird Records Nestings and Considerations of Modern Day Magic

36. Vashti Bunyan: From Here to Before: Whispering Fairy Stories until They are Real

37. The Owl Service, Anne Briggs, The Watersons, Lutine and Audrey Copard: Folk Revisiters, Revivalists and Reinterpreters

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38. The Seasons, Jonny Trunk, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Howlround: A Yearning for Library Music, Experiments in Educational Music and Tape Loop Tributes

39. An Old Soul Returns: The Worlds and Interweavings of Kate Bush

40. The Stone Tape, Quatermass, The Road and The Twilight Language of Nigel Kneale: Unearthing Tales from Buried Ancient Pasts

41 Folklore Tapes and the Wyrd Britannia Festival: Journeying to Hidden Corners of the Land/the Ferrous Reels and Explorations of an Arcane Research Project

42. Skeletons: Pastoral Preternatural Fiction and a World, Time and Place of its Own Imagining

43. Field Trip-England: Jean Ritchie, George Pickow and Recordings from the End of an Era

44. Noah’s Castle: A Slightly Overlooked Artifact and Teatime Dystopias

45. Jane Weaver Septième Soeur and The Fallen by Watch Bird: Non-Populist Pop and Cosmic Aquatic Folklore

46. Detectorists, Bagpuss, The Wombles and The Good Life: Views from a Gentler Landscape

47. Weirdlore, Folk Police Recordings, Sproatly Smith and Seasons They Change: Notes From the Folk Underground, Legendary Lost Focal Points and Privately Pressed Folk

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48. The Moon and The Sledgehammer and Sleep Furiously: Visions of Parallel and Fading Lives

49. From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, Wintersongs, Pilgrim Chants & Pastoral Trails: Lullabies for the Land and Gently Darkened Undercurrents

50. Strawberry Fields and Wreckers: The Countryside and Coastal Hinterland as Emotional Edgeland

51. Zardoz, Phase IV and Beyond the Black Rainbow: Seeking the Future in Secret Rooms from the Past and Psychedelic Cinematic Corners

52. Winstanley, A Field in England and The English Civil War Part II: Reflections on Turning Points and Moments When Anything Could Happen

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“A Year In The Country is an excellent introduction to hauntology and related subjects, particularly as it guides the reader through some of the more obscure fields. There is a sensitivity here, and Prince has a talent for teasing out details.” Steve Toase, Fortean Times

“Embraces a wide range of avenues to bring together not only a sense of how far reaching and varied the origins, mainstays and current players of genres such as folk horror or hauntology can be, but crucially also how they intertwine and cross pollinate. Each chapter expertly charts its chosen subject’s impact upon the public consciousness as well as indicating that these artefacts are now part of a greater cultural cobweb that may well have threads and components that are radically different in genre or style but that equally have a strong commonality in their sense of unease and their haunted content; of similar ghosts in the machine (or spooks in the television and bookshelves). Further investigations delve into folklore, TV public information films and the landscape itself as a medium through which a certain mood, an uncanny, can be evoked.” Grey Malkin, Folk Horror Revival

“A written word accompaniment to the prolific hauntological label of the same name… a 340-page offering spread across 52 chapters, each one representing a week of the year. Bewitching stuff.” Electronic Sound – selected for their top ten books of the year in 2018

 

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Below is an online “cut out and keep” set of visual accompaniments to the chapters of the A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Field book.

 

Chapter 1: Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music: Folk Vs Pop, Less Harvested Cultural Landscapes and Acts of Enclosure, Old and New

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Left to right: the first and second British editions and the American edition of Rob Young’s Electric Eden book (2010-2011).

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The gatefold cover and vinyl of Forest’s album Full Circle (1970).

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The cover and vinyl of Kate Bush’s second album Lionheart (1978).

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Construction scaffolding for statue in The Wicker Man film (1973).

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Ghost Box Records logo/artwork.

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The cover of one of the editions of Steeleye Span’s All Around My Hat single (1975) and characters from The Womble’s television series (1973-1975).

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A period map showing enclosure/inclosure of the land.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 1 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 2: Gather in the Mushrooms – Early Signposts and Underground Acid Folk Explorations

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Artwork from the Gather in the Mushrooms: The British Acid Folk Underground 1968-1974 compilation album. Released in 2004 and curated by Bob Stanley.

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Once upon a time lost-lady-of-folk Vashti Bunyan as featured in the sleeve notes to Gather in the Mushrooms.

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CD insert cover for Trader Horne’s Morning Way album from 1970, featuring former Fairport Convention member Judy Dyble and Jackie McAuley.

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Left to right: Cover art for The Pentangle’s Basket of Light album, featuring their version of Lyke Wake Dirge and The Sallyangie’s Children of the the Sun, featuring a young Mike Oldfield and his sister.

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Gatefold photograph from Forest’s 1969 self-titled debut album.

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Artwork from the Early Morning Hush: Notes from the UK Folk Underground 1969-1976 compilation album from 2006, also curated by Bob Stanley.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 2 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 3: Hauntology – Places Where Society Goes to Dream, the Defining and Deletion of Spectres and the Making of an Ungenre

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Text from the debate around whether or not to delete hauntology as a music genre on Wikipedia. Bottom left – artwork by Demdike Stare, bottom right Ghost Box Records artwork.

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Left-right: stills from the intro sequence for The Owl Service, Children of the Stones and The Changes television series.

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Left-right: Daphne Oram and others working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, flexidisc of an advert for Bruton Music library music company, the cover art for The Season album by David Cain and Ronald Duncan.

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Left-right: cover art for the Ghost Box Records released Sleep Games and Stasis, both by Pye Corner Audio.

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A still from Panos Cosmatos’ film Beyond The Black Rainbow.

 

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Chapter 4: Cuckoos in the Same Nest – Hauntological and Otherly Folk Confluences and Intertwinings

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Left-right first row: The TV tie-in publication of Alan Garner’s The Owl Service novel, islanders in masks from The Wicker Man film and Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Left-right second row: cover art for the Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Withcults of the Radio Age album, cover art for The Owl Service’s The View From a Hill album, a still from the intro sequence for the Children of the Stones series and a Ghost Box Records logo.

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Left-right: cover art for The Owl Service’s The View From a Hill album – designed by Dom Cooper of The Owl Service/The Straw Bear Band/Bare Bones, cover art for the Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Withcults of the Radio Age album – designed by Julian House of The Focus Group/Ghost Box Records and released by Warp Records and cover artwork from the Gather in the Mushrooms: The British Acid Folk Underground 1968-1974 compilation album – released in 2004 and curated by Bob Stanley.

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Left-right first row: DVD cover art: the BFI’s release of The Changes television series, Network’s releases of Alan Garner’s The Owl Service and the Children of the Stones television series.

Left-right second row: DVD cover art: the BFI’s release of Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape, the Director’s cut release of The Wicker Man, Doctor Who stories The Stones of Blood featuring Tom Baker and The Daemons featuring Jon Pertwee.

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Members of the BBC Radiphonic Workshop.

 

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Chapter 5: Ghost Box Records – Parallel Worlds, Conjuring Spectral Memories, Magic Old and New and Slipstream Trips to the Panda Pops Disco

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Ghost Box Records logo and artwork.

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Left-right: The Radiophonic Workshop album by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and The Seasons album – poems by Ronald Duncan, Radiophonic music by David Cain (the Trunk Records reissue cover art).

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Left-right: a poster that accompanied the Ghost Box-released Belbury Poly’s Belbury Tales album and the CD front cover.

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The sleeves and artwork for the vinyl version of the The Advisory Circle’s Mind How You Go album (revised edition).

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The CD sleeve for The Belbury Poly’s New Ways Out album – design by Julian House, circle illustration by Jim Jupp.

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Artwork for The Soundcarriers Entropicalia album and accompanying poster, plus various Ghost Box related artwork.

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Left-right: poster artwork by Julian House, the cover to Sketches and Spells by The Focus Group, exhibition poster by Julian House.

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Ghost Box related artwork by Julian House.

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Left-right: mandala like Ghost Box related artwork by Julian House and the album cover art for The Invisible World of Beautify Junkyards.

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Video stills from #1: Witch Cults – collaborative work between Broadcast and Julian House to accompany the album Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witchcults of the Radio Age.

 

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Chapter 6 Book Images: Folk Horror Roots – From But a Few Seedlings Did a Great Forest Grow

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Left-right: stills from Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man.

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Still of islanders in folkloric animal masks from The Wicker Man.

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The Wicker Man poster.

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Curse of the Crimson Altar still: Barbara Steele in as Lavina Morley, Black Witch of Greymarsh, who is dressed in striking, opulent and almost surreal folkloric garb, including a behorned headdress.

Curse of The Crimson Altar-for one night only

A collage of images from Curse of the Crimson Altar.

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Poster for Mario Bava’s Black Sunday, featuring an illustration of Barbara Steel as Katia Vajda / Princess Asa Vajda.

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Stills from The Innocents.

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Et Mourir De Plaisir-Blood And Roses-1960-Roger Vadim-5

Stills and posters for Roger Vadim’s Blood and Roses, aka Et Mourir de Plaisir and Il Sangue e la Rosa.

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Left-right: introduction sequence images and text for Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape and Beasts and Alan Garner’s The Owl Service.

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Introduction sequence images for Alan Garner’s The Owl Service.

The Children Of The Stones series-intro 3Whistle and I'll Come To You-tv drama

Left-right: introduction sequence images and text from Children of the Stones and M.R. James’ Whistle and I’ll Come To You.

The Ash Tree-David Rudkin-MR James-A Ghost Story For Christmas-The BBC-A Year In The CountryRobin Redbreast-A Year In The Country-BFI DVD-1970-2

Left-right: image from David Rudkin’s adaptation of M.R. James’ The Ash Tree and Play For Today drama Robin Redbreast.

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Image from David Rudkin and Alan Clarke’s Penda’s Fen.

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Left-right: soundtrack artwork for Valerie and Her Week of Wonders and Queens of Evil aka Le Regine or Il Delitto del Diavolo.

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Masthead for Folk Horror Review site.

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Masthead for Folk Horror Revival site.

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Left-right: photograph of an The Alchemical Landscape event and poster for A Fiend in the Furrows.

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Left-right: cover art for Ghost Box Records’ In a moment… compilation album, Emily Jones’ and The Rowan Amber Mill’s The Book of the Lost and The Soulless Party’s Tales from the Black Meadow.

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Artwork and photograph from She Rocola’s Burn The Witch/Molly Leigh of the Mother Town, released by A Year In The Country.

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Image from Marshlight Software’s “psychogeographical folk tale” computer game Edgelands.

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A collage created from a selection of the above Chapter 6 accompanying images.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 6 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 7 Book Images: 1973 – A Time of Schism and a Dybbuk’s Dozen of Fractures

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Packaging for the A Year In The Country released Fractures album.

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Artwork from the Fractures album.

Delia Derbyshire in Room 12, along with her full panoply of equipment.

Delia Derbyshire / The BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

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Images from the early 1970 electricity blackouts in the UK.

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Adverts from double bill cinema showings of Don’t Look Now and The Wicker Man.

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A still from The Changes television series.

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The cover of the first edition of Richard Mabey’s Unofficial Countryside and connected television footage with Richard Mabey.

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Still from The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water Public Information film.

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Still from the introduction sequence of Psychomania.

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Left-right: Judy Dyble, Delia Derbyshire, the cover to Vashti Bunyan’s Just Another Diamond Day and Shelagh McDonald’s Let No Man Steal Your Thyme albums.

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Still from the Michael Fassbinder-directed German television series World on a Wire.

Soylent Green-film poster

Poster for Soylent Green.

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The Final Programme-1973-film still

Stills from The Final Programme.

Blue Blood-1973-Oliver Reed

Still from Blue Blood.

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Still from the title sequence of the final series of Quatermass.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 7 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 8 Book Images: Broadcast – Recalibration, Constellation and Exploratory Pop

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Image of Broadcast from an Invisible Jukebox article in Wire magazine.

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Left-right: Warp/Tommy Boy promotional photograph and a further promotional photograph.

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Left-right: stills from the television series Children of the Stones, Sky and The Owl Service.

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Left-right: the cover art to the Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witchcults of the Radio Age and Mother is the Milky Way albums.

Broadcast-Haha Sound-album art cover-Julian House-Warp RecordsValerie And Her Week Of Wonders soundtrack-BMusic-Finders Keepers-Trish Keenan-Broadcast-A Year In The Country

Left-right: the cover art to the Haha Sound album and the Finders Keepers/B-Music edition of the Valerie and Her Week of Wonders soundtrack album, featuring sleevenotes by Trish Keenan.

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Broadcast and The Focus Group-Witchcults video-Julian House

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Broadcast and The Focus Group video stills – collaborative work with Julian House of The Focus Group, Ghost Box Records and Intro design agency.

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Left-right: Introduction sequence stills from The Tomorrow People, The Owl Service and Camberwick Green.

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Left-right: photograph from Wire magazine interview with Broadcast, spread from Shindig! magazine and promotional photograph of Trish Keenan.

United States of America-band 2-A Year In The CountryUnited States of America-band 3-A Year In The CountryUnited-States-of-America-1200-2-band-3-A-Year-In-The-Country

Left-right: cover art to The United States of America eponymously titled album, promotional photograph of the band, collage made from promotional photograph of the band.

Mark Fisher-Ghosts Of My Life-Zero Books-hauntology-A Year In The Countrybroadcast-logo-a-year-in-the-country-2Broadcast-The Wire Magazine-A Year In The Country

Left-right: the cover of Ghosts of My Life book my Mark Fisher, Broadcast logo by Julian House, Wire magazine cover.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 8 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 9 Book Images: Tales from the Black Meadow, The Book of the Lost and The Equestrian Vortex – The Imagined Spaces of Imaginary Soundtracks

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Left-right: tales from the Black Meadow album cover art and accompanying photograph from the album/project.

The Book of the Lost-Emily Jones-The Rowand Amber Mill-CD albumThe Book Of The Lost-A Year In The CountryThe Book Of The Lost-1-A Year In The Country

Left-right: The Book of the Lost album by Emily Jones and The Rowan Amber Mill cover art, accompanying photographs from the album/project.

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Stills from The Equestrian Vortex introduction sequence in Berberian Sound Studio – sequence art directed by Julian House.

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Left-right: still from Berberian Sound Studio, poster art for the film by Julian House.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 9 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 10 Book Images: The Wicker Man – Notes on a Cultural Behemoth

  The Wickerman-rating

The Wicker Man’s film certificate.

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The poster for the 40th anniversary restoration and reissue.

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Various covers of The Wicker Man DVD and VHS releases, alongside book and record cover.

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Artwork for Willow’s Songs album of traditional British folk songs that inspired The Wicker Man’s soundtrack. Released by Finders Keepers Records.

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The Wickerman-trading card collection 1-A Year In The Country

The Wicker Man collector’s cards, folder and print plates.

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Left-right: poster artwork to accompany the 40th Anniversary soundtrack reissue and Nuada, a fanzine that focuses on The Wicker Man.

The Wicker Man book collection

Various covers of books written about The Wicker Man, the book of the music score and David Pinner’s Ritual which was one of the influences on the film.

 The Wicker Man OST soundtrack-Jonny Trunk-Trunk Records-A Year In The CountryThe Wickerman Willows Songs Gently Johnny 7 vinyl Record Store Day-Silva Screen International-A Year In The Country 2

The first officially licensed soundtrack album, released by Trunk Records. A Record Store Day single of the soundtrack.

 Ritual-David Pinner-First Edition-Finders Keepers Edition

The cover to David Pinner’s Ritual, reissued by by Finders Keepers Records.

Inside The Wicker Man-Allan Brown-1st edition and revised edition The Wicker Man book-Allan Brown-A Year In The Country 2Your Face Here-Ali Catterall-Simon Wells-The Wicker Man

Left-right: the covers of the two editions of Allan Brown’s Inside The Wicker Man book, the first page of the chapter on The Wicker Man in Simon Wells’ and Ali Catterall’s Your Face Here.

Sight & Sound-2013-The Wickerman-2010-The Films Of Old Weird Britain

Sight & Sound-2013-The Wickerman-2010-The Films Of Old Weird Britain-2

Vic Pratt’s Long Arm of the Lore article on The Wicker Man, published around the time of the film’s 40th anniversary in the BFI’s Sight & Sound magazine. Also the cover of Sight & Sound which featured Rob Young’s Pattern Under the Plough article on the flipside of British folkloric film.

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(First row, left-right): stills from Winstanley (1975), Akenfield (1974) and Sleep Furiously (2008).

(Second row, left-right): stills from Derek Jarman’s Journey to Avesbury (1971), Patrick Keiller’s Robinson in Space (1997) and Chris Petit’s London Orbital (2002).

(Third row, left-right): the cover art for a Blu-ray reissue of Quatermass and the Pit (1967) and a still from Penda’s Fen (1974).

 The Sneaker Pimps-How Do-Willows Song-Becoming X-Spin Spin Sugar-Kelli Ali-The Wicker Man 

(Left-right): cover art variations for Sneaker Pimp’s Becoming X album and Spin Spin Sugar, which featured How Do – a version of Willow’s Song. Cover art for a Record Store Day single issue of Willow’s Song/Gently Johnny.

 Kelli Ali-Rocking Horse and Butterfly

(Left-right): cover art to Kelli Ali’s folk inflected album Rocking Horse on record label One Little Indian and self-released album Butterfly, which featured a version of Willow’s Song.

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(Left-right, first row): back cover art for Pulp’s album We Love Life, which featured the song Wickerman, that included a sample from The Wicker Man’s soundtrack. Cover art to the sing Trees/Sunrise from the album.

(Left-right, second row): postcard of location featured in Pulp’s Wickerman song. Artwork from Ben Wheatley’s Kill List film.

 The Wicker Man-construction-production photograph

Photographs of the construction of one of The Wicker Man structures used in the film.

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(Left-right): production details sheet, still from a deleted scene and behind the scenes photograph.

 The Wicker Man BBC Scotland On Screen 2009 

Contermporary photographs of locations used in The Wicker Man.

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The Wicker Man-Cast And Crew-BBC 4-2005

The Wicker Man-Cast And Crew-BBC 4-2005-2

Stills from the BBC 4 series Cast and Crew (2005), which focused on The Wicker Man.

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Sing Cuckoo- The Story and Influence of The Wicker Man Soundtrack-Gothic-The Dark Heart Of Film-BFIPlayer-BFI-Jonny Trunk

 Sing Cuckoo- The Story and Influence of The Wicker Man Soundtrack-Gothic-The Dark Heart Of Film-BFIPlayer-BFI-Stephen Cracknell-Mike Lindsay 

Title and stills from the BFI documentary Sing Cuckoo: The Story and Influence of The Wicker Man Sound track.

(Middle photograph: Jonny Trunk of Trunk Records. Lower photograph Stephen Cracknell of The Memory Band and Mike Lindsay of Tuung.)

 

Text extracts from Chapter 10 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 11 Book Images: Robin Redbreast, The Ash Tree, Sky, The Changes, Penda’s Fen, Red Shift and The Owl Service – Wanderings Through Spectral Television Landscapes

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DVD covers for the BFI releases of Reshift, Robin Redbresat and The Changes.

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Still from Robin Redbreast and late 19th/early 20th century photograph of folkloric costume by Benjamin Stone.

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Title sequence stills from The Omega Factor, Noah’s Castle and Quatermass (all released in 1979).

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Stills from The Tomorrow People television series.

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Cover art for The Modern Poets books from the 1960s and 1970s and artwork by Julian House of Ghost Box Records.

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Stills from The Owl Service television series title/intro sequence.

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Stills from the Children of the Stones television series title/intro sequence.

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Stills from the television series Sky (1975) and below promotional literature.

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Stills from The Changes (1975) television series.

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Still from The Ash Tree television drama from 1975: M.R. James’ story adapted by David Rudkin.

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Pendas Fen-David Rudkin-A Year In The Country 3Pendas Fen-David Rudkin-A Year In The Country 2Pendas Fen-David Rudkin-A Year In The Country

Stills from Penda’s Fen (1974).

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Stills from Red Shift (1978).

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Pages from the Filming the Owl Service book published in 1970.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 11 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 12 Book Images: A Bear’s Ghosts – Soviet Dreams and Lost Futures

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Images from Jan Kempemaers’ Spomenik photography book/project – his photographs of structures that were created in Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s as memorials to the Second World War but which now apparently are largely abandoned.

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Images from Christopher Herwig’s Soviet Bus Stops book, published by Fuel.

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Images and the book cover for Danila Tkachenko’s Restricted Areas book from 2016, published by Dewi Lewis Publishing –  the photographs focus on abandoned hardware, secret cities and installations from the Soviet Union during the Cold War period.

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Ralph Mireb’s images of abandoned and incomplete Soviet era space shuttles (which are a curious simulacra of the American space shuttle in terms of design and can be found at the website Bored Panda).

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One of Alexander Marksin’s photographs of discarded Soviet space shuttle wooden wind-tunnel models.

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Soviet era hydrofoils and which were known as river rockets, made from the mid-1950s to mid-1970s.

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The cover of Rebecca Litchfield’s Soviet Ghosts, a book released in 2014 which focuses on the extent of abandonment in the former Soviet Union and its satellite states in the Eastern Bloc.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 12 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 13 Book Images: From “Two Tribes” to War Games – The Ascendancy of Apocalyptic Popular Culture

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(Left-right): cover art for singles; Blondie’s Atomic, Nena’s 99 Red Baloons and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s Enola Gay.

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(Left-righ)t: cover art for singles; The Pirahnas’ Tom Hark/Getting Beaten Up, Joan Lewie’s Stop the Cavalry and Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s Two Tribes.

nik_kershaw-i_wont_let_the_sun_go_down_on_me-Strawberry Switchblade-Since Yesterday-Ultravox-Dancing With Tears In My Eyes-single covers-stroke

(Left-right): cover art for singles; Nik Kershaw’s I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me, Strawberry Switchblade’s Since Yesterday and Ultravox’ Dancing with tears in my eyes.

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Cover variations for Nevil Shute’s 1957 novel On the Beach.

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Video still from Blondie’s Atomic single.

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Stills from the UK Government’s Civil Defence Protect and Survive information films.

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Cover art for Kate Bush’s Breathing single and the Never for Ever album which included Breathing in its tracklist.

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International variations of the posters for the WarGames film (1983).

Ferris Bueller's Day Off-still

Still from the1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; WarGames actor Matthew Broderick front right.

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Stills of text created by the main computer in WarGames.

The Hunger Games-film poster artworkThe Tripods-television series-John Christopher

Poster artwork for the dystopic young adult orientated film The Hunger Games and the 1980s British television adaptation of John Christopher’s Tripods book series.

WarGames-Sheedy-and-Broderick-with-Professor-film still

Still from WarGames showing the underground command centre.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 13 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 14 Book Images: Christopher Priest’s A Dream of Wessex – Twentieth Century Slipstream Echoes 

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Original hardback cover of A Dream of Wessex – painting by Paul Nash, published by Faber & Faber in 1977.

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Toward the Unknown Region chapter of Rob Young’s Electric Eden book, which includes writing on a Dream of Wessex in a chapter which focuses on hauntological work, Ghost Box Records and arcane contemporary cultural explorations of the pastoral.

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Artwork by Julian House for Ghost Box Records

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(Left-right): original paper back cover of A Dream of Wessex, photographs of the inner flaps from the book’s dust jacket.

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Still from the Sapphire & Steel television series, which shares a similar use of eerie or otherly faceless imagery with the paperback edition of A Dream of Wessex.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 14 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 15 Book Images: Sapphire & Steel and Ghosts in the Machine – Nowhere, Forever and Lost Spaces within Cultural Circuitry

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TV Times television listing magazine with Sapphire & Steel cover, ITC promotional material and promotional image from the series.

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Images from Sapphire & Steel’s intro sequence.

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Still of faceless character from Sapphire & Steel.

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Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life book cover and still from Sapphire & Steel’s final television episode.

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Publicity still from Sapphire & Steel’s final television episode.

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Cover to Nigel Kneale’s novelisation of the final series of Quatermass (also written by him).

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Screenshots of glitches from one of the DVD releases of Sapphire & Steel.

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Image from the Channel 4 television series Ghosts in the Machine, a programme which compiled experimental video artwork.

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Television listings magazine scan for the first episode of Sapphire & Steel.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 15 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 16 Book Images: Kill List, Puffball, In the Dark Half and Butter on the Latch – Folk Horror Descendants by Way of the Kitchen Sink

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French poster for Ben Wheatley’s film Kill List and still from one of its final sequences.

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Still from one of the domestic scenes in Kill List.

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Still from Kill List and the symbol which is carved into the back of the mirror.

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Cover to Adam Scovell’s book Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange and images from the final sequence of the films The Wicker Man and Queens of Evil.

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Poster for Nicholas Roeg’s film Puffball.

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Record label for Kate Bush’s Aerial album, logo/still from the television series Grand Designs and the cover to David Keenan’s book England’s Hidden Reverse, which focuses on the work of Coil, Current 93 and Nurse With Wound.

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Logo for the Play For Today strand of television dramas and stills from the Play for Today episode Robin Redbreast.

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Newspaper adverts for the early 1970s cinema double bill of Don’t Look Now and The Wicker Man.

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Images of Rita Tushingham from Puffball.

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Film still (or possibly a publicity photograph) of Rita Tushingham from A Taste of Honey.

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Covers for Kate Bush’s album Aerial and her single Cloudbusting.

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Cover for Kate Bush’s The Red Shoes album and cover art for her film The Line, The Cross & The Curve.

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DVD cover for Nicholas Roeg’s Devil’s Eyeball film, AKA Puffball.

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Still from the film The Company of Wolves.

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Poster for Alastair Siddons In the Dark Half film.

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Stills from In the Dark Half.

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Stills from Josephine Decker’s film Butter on the Latch.

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Cover to the album of Bulgarian folk songs Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares which 4AD released in the 1980s and a still from David Lynch’s 2006 film Inland Empire.

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Stills from Butter on the Latch.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 16 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 17 Book Images: The Quietened Bunker, Waiting for the End of the World, Subterranea Britannica, Bunker Archaeology and The Delaware Road – Ghosts, Havens and Curious Repurposings Beneath our Feet

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Photographs of decommissioned bunkers.

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The Dawn and Night editions of the A Year In The Country released album The Quietened Bunker, featuring work by Keith Seatman, Grey Frequency, A Year In The Country, Panabrite, Polypores, Listening Center, Time Attendant, Unknown Heretic and David Colohan.

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The cover of Richard Ross’ book Waiting for the End of the World and photographs from the book.

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Subterranea Britannica logo and covers to the books Subterranean Britain: Cold War Bunkers by Nick Catford and The Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring Posts by Mark Dalton.

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Images from Paul Virilio’s book Bunker Archaeology, featuring abandoned World War II German bunkers and related installations that lie along the coast of France.

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Cover of and photographs from Christopher Herwig’s book Soviet Bus Stops.

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Photographs from Jan Kempenaers book and project Spomenik, featuring former Soviet Union Cold War memorials.

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Still from the final scene of the original Planet of the Apes film from 1968.

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Flyer and map for The Delaware Road event featuring amongst others Dolly Dolly, Howlround, Radionics Radio, Ian Helliwell and Saunders & Hill. Organised by Buried Treasure, the event took place at Kelvedon Hatch decommissioned underground bunker.

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The entrance to Kelvedon Hatch decommissioned bunker.

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Road signs for decommissioned bunkers.

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Estate agent’s sign for available for sale decommissioned bunker.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 17 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 18 Book Images: From The Unofficial Countryside to Soft Estate – Edgeland Documents, Memories and Explorations: Chapter 18 Book Images

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Photograph of an edgeland area from Karl Hyde and Kieran Evans’ Edgeland/The Outer Edges film and album project.

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Photograph of discarded industrial equipment by Veloelectroindustrial.

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Covers of the original edition of Richard Mabey’s The Unofficial Countryside and the Little Toller reissue with an introduction by Iain Sinclair.

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Image from a 1975 television programme also called The Unofficial Countryside, which featured Richard Mabey.

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Covers of the book Edgelands – Journeys into England’s True Wilderness is a 2012 book by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts.

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CD and DVD covers from the film, music and photography project by Karl Hyde and Kieran Evans’ Edgeland/The Outer Edges and a still from the film.

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Cover of Edward Chell’s 2013 Soft Estate and pages from inside the book.

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Soft Estate artwork by Edward Chell, featuring plant life illustrations roadside verges/soft estate land laser etched onto brightly chromed exhaust pipes.

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Paintings from Edward Chell’s Soft Estate project.

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Images from Edward Chell’s Soft Estate book, featuring artwork from the Soft Estate project in Little Chef roadside cafes.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 18 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 19 Book ImageS: The Ballad of Shirley Collins and Pastoral Noir – Tales and Intertwinings from Hidden Furrows

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Cover art and back cover text from the albums Folk Routes, New Routes by Davy Graham and Shirley Collins and The Harvest Years and Anthems in Eden, both by Shirley and Dolly Collins.

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America Over the Water book cover design, in which Shirley Collins documents the time in the late 1950s when she went folk song collecting in the Southern States of the USA with Alan Lomax and a photograph from one of Alan Lomax’s song collecting journeys.

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Cover art for Shirley Collin’s 2016 album Lodestar and the tracklisting.

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Poster for the documentary film The Ballad of Shirley Collins, directed by Rob Curry and Tim Plester.

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Images from The Ballad of Shirley Collins.

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Cover and inner sleeve art for the vinyl edition of the No Roses album by Shirley Collins and The Albion Country Band, featuring a photograph of Shirley Collins and Ashley Hutchings.

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Artwork from the CD compilation Early Morning Hush – Notes from the UK Folk Underground 1969-1976 released in 2006, compiled by Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne and featuring Shirley Collin’s version of Poor Murdered Woman.

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Cover art and CD of the Fountain of Snow compilation of Shirley Collins’ work released in 1992 by Durtro / David Tibet of Current 93.

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Cover art of Coil’s Horse Rotorvator album and one of the covers of David Keenan’s book England’s Hidden Reverse, which focused on work by amongst others Coil.

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Cover art to Shirley Collin’s collaborator’s Cyclobe’s album Sulphur-Tarot-Garden and a photograph of Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown of Cyclobe.

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Images from the book Haunted Air, compiled by Ossian Brown of Cyclobe and which featured found photographs of Halloween from previous eras.

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Image from The Ballad of Shirley Collins trailer, featuring Shirley and Dolly Collins.

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Images from the exhibition Pastoral Noir, curated by Justin Hopper and exhibited at Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh, USA in 2016.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 19 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 20 Book Images: “Savage Party” and Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) – Glimpses of Albion in the Overgrowth

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Images from the folkloric-esque “Savage Party” trailer of British youth-orientated soap opera Hollyoaks.

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Photograph of band Stealing Sheep and images from the video to their Shut Eye.

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Image of the band Coco Rosie from newspaper periodical Arthur, plus Devandra Banhart and Joanna Newsom.

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Image from the “Halloween on Hollyoaks” trailer which was was in part a homage to Dario Argento’s Suspiria film from 1977.

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Images from the Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) television series that was broadcast in 2000-2001, which was produced by Charlie Higson, who also wrote and directed some episodes and starred comedians Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer alongside Emilia Fox and former Doctor Who Tom Baker.

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Images from Edgar Wright & Simon Pegg’s Hot Fuzz film of 2007.

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Cover art from the John Barleycorn Reborn series of dark Britannica compilation albums of wyrd, exploratory, underground etc folk that were released by Cold Spring beginning in 2007.

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Images from Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).

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Rotating from top left: stills from The Wicker Man, The Monster Club, The Curse of the Crimson Altar and Penda’s Fen.

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Tom Baker as Doctor Who in the 1970s.

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Image of Gareth Thomas in the cult science fiction television series Blake’s 7 (1978-1981).

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Image from The League of Gentleman television series that was broadcast from 1999-2002.

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Cover art of the Trunk Records release of The Wicker Man.

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Image from Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and Ken Russell’s film Altered States.

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Image from the television series Doomwatch and Ken Russell’s Altered States.

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Image from The Raiders of the Lost Ark film and the animated series Scooby Doo.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 20 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 21 Book Images: Uncommonly British Days Out and the Following of Ghosts – File under Psychogeographic / Hauntological Stocking Fillers

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One of the covers to ason Hazeley, Robin Halstead, Joel Morris and Alex Morris’ Bollocks to Alton Towers: Uncommonly British Days Out guide book published in 2005.

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Images connected to the places visited in the Uncommonly British Days Out books.

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Map from the Uncomonly British Days Out books.

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Cover of Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life book and inner sleeve jacket from one of the Uncommonly British Days Out books.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 21 can be viewed here.

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 Chapter 22 Book Images: Gone to Earth – Earlier Traces of an Otherly Albion

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Poster and costume design artwork from Powel and Pressburger’s film Gone to Earth.

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Front and back cover of an edition of Mary Webb’s Gone to Earth novel.

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Stills/publicity image from Gone to Earth and Spanish film poster for the version re-edited at the instigation of producer David O. Selznick, which was known as The Wild at Heart (here translated as Wild Heart).

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Still of Hazel Woodus, played by Jennifer Jones in Gone to Earth.

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Still of the local squire and Hazel from Gone to Earth.

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Still from the “Harp in Heaven” song sequence from Gone to Earth.

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Sleeve and vinyl of the Finders Keepers Records release of the George Auric and Isla Cameron song “O Willow Waly” from The Innocents.

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Collage of stills and still from the film Malá Morská Víla/The Little Mermaid.

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Cover art from the Finders Keepers Records vinyl and download release of extra tracks from the soundtrack to Valerie and her Week of Wonders from 1970.

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Cover art for Kate Bush’s Red Shoes album, a still from Powell and Pressburger’s 1948 film of the same name and cover art for Kate Bush’s film The Line, the Cross & the Curve.

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Cover art to David Sylvian’s albums Gone to Earth and Secrets of the Beehive (the second of which has artwork by Vaughan Oliver and Nigel Grierson working as 23 Envelope) and his single A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil.

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UK first and later edition and American edition over designs for Rob Young’s book Electric Eden.

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Cover art for Kate Bush’s album Never for Ever, Julian Cope’s Fried, David Sylvian’s Secrets of the Beehive and Talk Talk’s The Colour of Spring.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 22 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 23 Book Images: Queens of Evil, Tam Lin and The Touchables – High Fashion Transitional Psych Folk Horror, Pastoral Fantasy and Dreamlike Isolation

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Poster/promotional artwork for Queens of Evil aka Le Regine or Il Delitto del Diavolo (1970), Tam Lin aka The Devil’s Widow (1970) and The Touchables (1968).

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Stills from Queens of Evil.

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Screengrab from Psychedelic Folkloristic website.

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1960s/early 1970s (?) fashion by Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell.

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Images from Czech New Wave film Daisies (1966).

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Screenshot from Queens of Evil.

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Image of the procession in The Wicker Man (1973).

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Cover art for the Liege & Lief by Fairport Convention and First Utterance by Comus.

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Still of the giant inflatable bubble home from The Touchables (1968) film.

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Robert Freemantle’s adaptation of The Touchable film and promotional still, also from the film.

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Still from The Touchables.

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Collage of stills from The Touchables.

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Cover art for the Nirvana album All of Us, featuring the track All of Us (The Touchables Theme).

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Posters for the film Performance (1970).

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Stills from The Touchables.

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Stills from Tam Lin aka The Devil’s Widow (1970)

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Ava Gardner, Ian McShane, Stephanie Beacham and others  in stills from Tam Lin.

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Still from the final sequence of Planet of the Apes (1968).

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Director Roddy McDowell on the set of Tam Lin and as Caesar in Planet of the Apes.

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Stills from Tam Lin.

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Still from the opening sequence of the film Psychomania (1973).

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Promotional still of Pentangle, who created some of the soundtrack for Tam Lin.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 23 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 24 Book Images: Luke Haines – Our Most Non-Hauntological Hauntologist

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Collage of images from Luke Haines and The Auteurs book, album, singles and videos.

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Cover to the 1999 The Auteurs album How I Learned to Love the Bootboys.

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Cover to Luke Haines’ 2006 solo album Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop.

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Cover to Luke Haines’ 2011 solo album Nine and a Half Psychedelic Meditations on British Wrestling of the 1970s and early ’80s.

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Covers for the three Black Box Recorder albums released between 1998 and 2003; England Made Me, The Facts of Life and Passionoia.

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Cover to Moon Wiring Club’s Shoes Off and Chairs Away and a review in Uncut of the same album by Rob Young, author of Electric Eden.

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Cover and promotional image for Luke Haines’ British Nuclear Bunkers solo album.

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Tracklisting for Luke Haines’ British Nuclear Bunkers.

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Covers for Luke Haines’ 2009 and 2011 autobiographical books Bad Vibes and Post Everything.

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Still from a promotional video made to accompany British Nuclear Bunkers.

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Cover to Luke Haines’ 2015 album Smash the System.

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Stills from promotional video made to accompany Smash the System.

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Cover art to Earl Brutus’ single The S.A.S. and the Glam that Goes With It and the album Tonight You Are The Special One. Central image – promotional photograph of Earl Brutus.

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Still from A Clockwork Orange from 1971.

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The front and back cover artwork to The Auteurs’ single “The Rubettes” from 1999.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 24 can be viewed here.

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Chapter 25 Book Images: Tim Hart, Maddy Prior and “The Dalesman’s Litany” – A Yearning for Imaginative Idylls and a Counterpart to Tales of Hellish Mills

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Cover art for Tim Hart and Maddy Prior’s Folk Songs of Olde England Volume 1, featuring The Dalesman’s Litany.

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Image from one of the vinyl editions of Folk Songs of Olde England, featuring Maddy Prior and Tim Hart in silhouette.

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Packaging for the Night and Dawn editions of the A Year In The Country releases album Fractures, featuring Circle/Temple, Sproatly Smith, Keith Seatman, Listening Center, The British Space Group, The Hare And The Moon ft Alaska / Michael Begg, Time Attendant, The Rowan Amber Mill, Polypores, A Year In The Country and David Colohan.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 25 can be viewed here.

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Katalin Varga, Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy – Arthouse Evolution and Crossing the Thresholds of the Hinterland Worlds of Peter Strickland: Chapter 26 Book Images

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Still from the intro sequence to The Duke of Burgundy, created by Julian House of Intro.

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Stills from Katalin Varga and Berberian Sound Studio.

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Still from Berberian Sound Studio.

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Still from David Cronenberg’s Videodrome, which shares a number of themes with The Duke of Burgundy; the stepping into an altered reality via recorded media and the degradation of its listeners, watchers and participants.

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Poster for Berberian Sound Studio, by Julian House of Intro.

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Stills from The Equestrian Vortex, a film within a film, created by Julian House of Intro;

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Cover art to the soundtrack album for The Duke of Burgundy and a still from the film.

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Stills from The Duke of Burgundy.

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Still from the 1979-87 British television sitcom Terry and June – quoted by Peter Strickland as an influence on The Duke of Burgundy.

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Still from Katalin Varga.

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Stills from Josephine Decker’s Butter on the Latch film from 2013.

Still from Katalin Varga.

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The Scala Cinema in London and one of it’s poster format cinema programmes.

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A still from The Duke of Burgundy – from a sequence influenced by Stan Brakhage’s Mothlight.

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Stills from experimental film maker Stan Brakhage’s Mothlight film from 1963, which layered natural elements and insects to create a rapidly moving montage.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 26 can be viewed here.

 

General Orders No. 9 and By Our Selves – Cinematic Pastoral Experimentalism: Chapter 27 Book Images
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Poster and stills from General Orders No. 9 – the 2009 film by Robert Persons.

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Artwork from God Speed You Black Emperors song “Dead Flag Blues” from their 1997 album F# A# ∞, which in some ways could almost be a companion piece to General Orders No. 9, with its sense of lyrically beautiful apocalyptic dread.

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Publicity still for Andrew Kötting’s film By Our Selves (2015).

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Still from By Our Selves.

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John Clare as played by Toby Jones, who is accompanied by a straw bear and a vintage photograph of somebody wearing a folkloric straw bear costume.

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Author Alan Moore with the straw bear from the film.

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A still from the film, featuring the straw bear and Toby Jones.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 27 can be viewed here.

 

No Blade of Grass and Z.P.G. – A Curious Dystopian Mini-Genre: Chapter 28 Book Images

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Film posters for Z.P.G. (1972), Silent Running (1972) and Soylent Green (1973).

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Film posters for The Omega Man (1971) and Logan’s Run (1976) and DVD cover for the television series Noah’s Castle (1979).

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Film poster for No Blade of Grass and two different covers for John Christopher’s The Death of Grass novel from 1956, which the film was based on.

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Image from the title sequence for No Blade of Grass.

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Stills of biker gang from No Blade of Grass.

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Stills from No Blade of Grass.

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Stills from No Blade of Grass’ non-conventional narrative sequences.

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Overseas poster for Z.P.G.

The screenplay was by Frank De Felitta and Max Ehrlich – the second of whom also published a novel based on the screenplay called The Edict in 1971 prior to the film’s release, the cover of which is shown above.

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Overseas poster for Z.P.G. featuring actress Diane Cilento.

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Lobby card for Z.P.G.

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Campaign sheet/press book for Z.P.G.

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Still from the end sequence of Z.P.G.

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Still from the end sequence of Planet of the Apes (1968).

 

Text extracts from Chapter 28 can be viewed here.

 

The Midwich Cuckoos and The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham, Dystopian Tales, Celluloid Cuckoos and the Village as Anything but Idyll: Chapter 29 Book Images

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French fim poster for The Village of the Damned, the 1960 film adaptation of John Wyndham’s 1957 novel The Midwich Cuckoos.

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Stills from The Village of The Damned, including the iconic-ally eyed children.

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Poster for the film version of Nigel Kneale’s Quatermass and the Pit (1967).

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Hardback cover for John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids book.

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Promotional artwork for the final series of Nigel Kneale’s Quatermass (1979) and the BFI DVD release of his The Stone Tape (1972).

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Image from Village of the Damned, including Martin Stephens (second from right in the above still). Still from The Innocents (1961).

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Still from the title sequence to the 1981 television adaptation of John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids and the television tie-in novel’s cover.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 29 can be viewed here.

 

Folk Archive and Unsophisticated Arts – Documenting the Overlooked and Unregulated: Chapter 30 Book Images

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Images from Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art (2005), the book featuring work collected by Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane.

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Photograph from the Jeremy Deller instigated Procession through Manchester and the cover to the English Civil War Part II book.

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Cover and images from Barbara Jones’ Unsophisticated Arts book, originally released in 1951 and republished in 2013 by Little Toller Books.

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Cover and images from Barbara Jones’ Unsophisticated Arts book, originally released in 1951 and republished in 2013 by Little Toller Books and the poster of the accompanying Black Eyes & Lemonade exhibition (1951).

 

Text extracts from Chapter 29 can be viewed here.

 

Folkloric Photography – A Lineage of Wanderings, Documentings and Imaginings: Chapter 31 Book Images

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Folkloric photography by Benjamin Stone from the late 19th and early 20th century, when he photographed British traditional customs.

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Left: photograph by Benjamin Stone. Right: villagers from the 1970 Play for Today television drama Robin Redbreast.

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Covers to the British folkloric photography books: Homer Sykes Once a Year: Some Traditional British Customs (1977), Sarah Hannant’s Mummers, Maypoles and Milkmaids: A Journey Through the English Ritual Year (2011), Merry Brownfield’s Merry England – the Eccentricity of English Attire (2012) and Henry Bourne’s Arcadia Britannica: A Modern British Folklore Portrait (2015).

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Image from Homer Sykes Once a Year, a collection of photographs from seven years of journeying around Britain, reissued in 2016 by Dewi Lewis Publishing.

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Procession and folkloric ritual photographs from Sarah Hannant’s Mummers, Maypoles and Milkmaids book.

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Images from Merry Brownfield’s Merry England book of folkloric and traditional rituals, costumes, work outfits etc.

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Images from Henry Bourne’s Arcadia Britannica, a collection of generally posed portraits of those in folkloric costume.

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Cover and images from Charles Fréger’s Wilder Mann: The Image of the Savage originally published in 2012 by Dewi Lewis Publishing.

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Actor in yeti/abominable snowman costume from 1970s British BBC television series Doctor Who.

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Images from Axel Hoedt’s book Once a Year from 2013 which focuses on folkloric rituals and costumes from the Swabian Alemannic carnival known as Fasnacht, Fastnacht or Fasnet, a custom in southwest Germany.

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Images from Laura Thompson’s Senseless photography series from 2016 in which she produced staged photographs of figures in the landscape dressed in costumes made from disposable manmade objects, which recall European folkloric or mythical costume but refracted through a science fiction-esque lens.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 31 can be viewed here.

 

Poles and Pylons and The Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society – A Continuum of Accidental Art: Chapter 32 Book Images

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Images from Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society website.

 

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Image from the Telegraph Poles and Electricity Pylons website.

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Cover to Rob Young’s Electric Eden book from 2010 and the accompanying compilation album, both of  which depict a farmer ploughing the land in a traditional horse-drawn manner under the gaze of electricity pylons.

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Photograph of an abandoned railway station from the website Disused Stations.

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Logo for Subterranea Britannica and the covers Cold War Bunkers book by Nick Catford (published by Subterranea Britannica) and The Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring Posts by Mark Dalton.

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Covers to the two editions of The Music Library book, which collects the covers of music library albums. Compiled by Jonny Trunk and published by FUEL.

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Images from Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane’s Folk Archive book (2005).

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The cover of Barbara Jones Unsophisticated Arts book (1951) and the associated Black Eyes and Lemonade exhibition.

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Cover of Christopher Herwig’s Soviet Bus Stops book published in 2015 by FUEL.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 32 can be viewed here.

 

Symptoms and Images – Hauntological Begetters, the Uneasy Landscape and Gothic Bucolia: Chapter 33 Book Images

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The British Film Institute’s Flipside strand of DVD/Blu-ray releases logo and a selection of the discs.

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Stills from the BFI Flipside releases films Requiem for a Village and Beat Girl.

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Cover for the BFI Flipside release of José Ramón Larraz film Symptoms (1974) and a still from the film featuring actress Angela Pleasance.

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Still from Symptoms.

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Still from Symptoms and the poster for Peter Strickland’s film The Duke of Burgundy (designed by Julian House of Intro design agency/Ghost Box Records).

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Still from Symptoms featuring Angela Pleasance.

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Poster for The Duke of Burgundy featuring actress Chiara D’Anna who plays one of the main characters in The Duke Of Burgundy.

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Pages from fashion photographer Deborah Turbeville’s book Past Imperfect, published by Steidl.

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Still from Symptoms.

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Cover of Film Quarterly magazine featuring Susannah York in Robert Altman’s film Images (1972).

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Arrow Blu-ray release of Images, featuring artwork by Twins of Evil and a still from the film.

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Exterior/landscape stills from Images.

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Interior still from Images.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 33 can be viewed here.

 

The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water – Public Information Films and Lost Municipal Paternalisms: Chapter 34 Book Images

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Still from Public Information Film The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water (1973).

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DVD cover for the Charley Says release of 280 Public Information Films from the Central Office of Information Archives.

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Cover and contents for the book Scarred For Life – Growing Up in the Dark Side of the Decade – Volume One: The 1970s, by Stephen Brotherstone and Dave Lawrence, published in 2017.

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Still from the final scene of The Wicker Man, featuring the characters Sergeant Howie, Miss Rose, Lord Summerisle and Willow (played by Edward Woodward, Diane Cilento, Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland).

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Still from The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 34 can be viewed here.

 

Magpahi, Paper Dollhouse and The Eccentronic Research Council – Finders Keepers/Bird Records Nestings and Considerations of Modern Day Magic: Chapter 35 Book Images

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Cover to Magpahi’s (Alison Cooper) Magpahi EP compilation, released by Jane Weaver’s Bird Records in collaboration with Finders Keepers Records in 2008 and the Watchbird Alluminate album by Jane Weaver Septiéme Souer (2011), featuring Demdike Stare, The Focus Group, Emma Tricca, Wendy Flower, Susan Christie, Amworth Kirk, Magpahi and Samandtheplants.

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Cover and packaging design for the cassette album Devon Folklore Tapes Vol. IV – Rituals and Practices, featuring Magpahi and Paper Dollhouse.

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Soundtrack album covers for Peter Stickland’s films Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy, created by Broadcast and Cat’s Eyes respectively. Cover design/artwork by Julian of Intro design agency / Ghost Box Records.

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Cover for Natural Lancashire / Supernatural Lancashire album released in 2009 by Finders Keepers records; a collaborative work by Alison or A. Cooper (Magpahi) and Folklore Tapes collaborator and co-founder of the Hood Faire record label Sam McLoughlin (samantheplants).

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Publicity photograph of Crystal Mirrors – Alison Cooper and Gwendolen Osmond, whose work was jointly released by Folklore Tapes and Hood Faire.

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Covers to various albums featuring work by Magpahi; Mistletoe & Cold Winter Skies released by Was Ist Das? in 2014 and several A Year In The Country released themed compilations; The Forest/The Wald (2016) and All The Merry Year Round and The Quietened Cosmologists (both 2017).

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Finders Keepers Records logo.

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Publicity still of Jane Weaver for the album The Fallen by Watchbird (costume/aesthetic also featured in The Fallen by Watchbird video by kluncklick).

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Cover and vinyl of the “O Willow Waly” / “Et Mourir de Plaisir / Blood & Roses” single released by Finders Keepers in 2013. Music by George Auric and Isla Cameron and Jean Prodromidés respectively, also respectively taken from the films The Innocents (1961) and Et Mourir de Plaisir / Blood & Roses (1960).

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Cover and CD for Paper Dollhouse’s A Box Painted Black (2012), released by Bird Records in collaboration with Finders Keepers Records. Recorded by Astrud Steehouder working as solo artist.

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Left – still from 1988 film Paperhouse. Right –  image from 1972 television series Escape into the Night. Centre image – cover to Catherine Storr’s 1958 novel Marianne Dream,  which both film and the series are based on

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Cover to the The Eccentronic Research Council’s 1612 Underture album, released in 2012 by Bird Records.

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Adrian Flanagan, Maxine Peake and Dean Honer of The Eccentronic Research Council.

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Cover to Kings Have Long Arms and Phil Oakey’s Rock and Roll is Dead single, Add N To (X)’s Avant Hard and I Monster’s Daydream in Blue.

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CD and inner sleeve of 1612 Underture.

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Stills from the extended video/film by kluncklick which accompanied the 1612 Underture album.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 35 can be viewed here.

 

Vashti Bunyan – From Here to Before – Whispering Fairy Stories until They are Real: Chapter 36 Book Images

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Poster/flyer design for cinema showings of the Vashti Bunyan: From Here to Before (2008) documentary made by Kieran Evans.

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Poster artwork for the film Finisterre by Kieran Evans and Paul Kelly in collaboration with Saint Etienne.

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Cover artwork for the Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind compilation of Vashti Bunyans singles and demos, plus early vinyl singles.

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Promotional photographs, charts and text of Vashti Bunyan.

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Vashti Bunyan and her boyfriend Robert Lewis travelling in the horse and cart which they used to travel to the Hebridean Islands.

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Devendra Banhart and  Joanna Newsom – musicians influenced by Vashti Bunyan, who have been loosely connected under the label “freak folk”.

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Covers for the Vashti Bunyan albums Lookaftering (2005) and Heartleap (2014) – both released by Fatcat.

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Cover art for Vashti Bunyan’s Just Another Diamond Day album and recording studio sheets.

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Vashti Bunyan on her stage post 2000.

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Vashti Bunyan’s 1960s producer Joe Boyd and artist John James who was one of her companions for parts of her journey to the Hebridean islands.

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Image from From Here to Before of Vashti Bunyan and her partner in their folkloric, late 1960s-esque, gypsy like garb.

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Image of Vashti Bunyan from From Here to Before.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 36 can be viewed here.

 

The Owl Service, Anne Briggs, The Watersons, Lutine and Audrey Copard – Folk Revisiters, Revivalists and Re-interpreters: Chapter 37 Book Images

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Cover art for the albums Jane Weaver Septième Soeur’s Fallen by Watch Bird (2010), the acid folk compilation Gather in the Mushrooms (2004) and The Owl Service’s The View from a Hill (2010).

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Cover art and booklet for The Owl Service album The View from a Hill.

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Promotional photograph of Mellow Candle, cover art for Nancy Wallace’s Old Stories album and The Straw Bear Band’s Vexed Soul EP.

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Image from The Owl Service television series and cover to the television tie-in release of the book. Cover of Jeanette Leech’s Seasons They Change – The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk book.

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Photograph of singer Anne Briggs.

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Covers for Anne Briggs’ eponymous album and The Time Has Come albums.

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Title image from Travelling for a Living, a 1966 documentary by Derrick Knight that focuses on folk band The Watersons.

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Image from Travelling for a Living of a folk club audience.

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Photographs of The Watersons, circa the making of Travelling for a Living.

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Eugene Doyen’s photographs of the 1980s Medway garage punk scene, featuring amongst others The Milkshakes, Bruce Brand, Billy Childish, Micky Hampshire, Tracy Emin and Sexton Ming.

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Photographs of Cecil Sharp House – The English Folk Dance and Song Society.

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Cover art for Lutine’s White Flowers album, released by Front & Follow.

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Cover art for the 4AD released albums His Name Is Alive’s Livonia and The Moon and the Melodies by Harold Budd, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymond (The Cocteaua Twins), featuring artwork Vaughan Oliver and Nigel Grierson working as 23 Envelope.

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Cover and sleeve of Audrey Copard’s 1956 folk revival album titled English Folk Songs.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 37 can be viewed here.

 

The Seasons, Jonny Trunk, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Howlround – A Yearning for Library Music, Experiments in Educational Music and Tape Loop Tributes: Chapter 38 Book Images

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Members of The Radiophonic Workshop.

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Covers of the albums The Radiophonic Workshop by BBC Radiophonic Workshop and The Seasons by Ronald Duncan and David Cain. Cover of the first edition of the book The Music Library, compiled and curated by Jonny Trunk.

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Members of BBC Radiophonic Workshop, including Daphne Oram.

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Doctor Who television series intro, featuring music created by Delia Derbyshire in 1963 utilising Ron Grainer’s score.

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Images from Simon Reynold’s article “Haunted Audio” that focused on hauntological music and culture – printed in the November 2006 issue of Wire magazine.

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Sleeve art for the Glo-Spot Electrosonic album.

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Sleeve art for Tummy Touch Records’ albums featuring music from the KPM music library.

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Jonny Trunk of Trunk Records.

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Sleeve art from the Trunk Records library music-related releases; The Super Sounds of Bosworth (1996) which brings together work from The Bosworth Music Archive, G-Spots (2009) which is subtitled “The spacey folk electro-horror sounds of the Studio G Library”, Dawn of the Dead (2004) – the soundtrack of which used library music in part from the Music De Wolfe label and Stand by for Adverts (2011), subtitled “Rare Jingles, Jazz and Advertising Electronics” and which features work by Barry Gray.

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Covers to the 2005 and 2016 editions of The Music Library book; published by FUEL, compiled and curated by Jonny Trunk.

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Cover of The Trunk Records’ release of Ronald Duncan and David Cain’s The Seasons album and a photograph of David Cain.

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Covers of the Trunk Records releases Carl Orff & Gunild Keetman’s Music for Children/Schulwerk and Classroom Projects, both released in 2013.

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Sleeve art from the album The Langley Schools Music Project Innocence & Despair.

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Logos for Jonny Trunk’s long-running The OST Show on radio station Resonance FM and Trunk Records.

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Cover art for the single Do it the Safety Way by Max Bygraves with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, From the Bunker – an album compiled by Andrew Weatherall and artwork by Pete Fowler.

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Cover art to the Ghost Box Records released Mind How You Go by The Advisory Circle, Ghost Box Record’s logo, an image from the television series The Changes, artwork from a Moon Wiring Club release and a photograph of Broadcast from Wire magazine.

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Covers of the Howlround album Ghosts of Bush, the label from the album and related promotional material.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 38 can be viewed here.

 

An Old Soul Returns – The Worlds and Interweavings of Kate Bush: Chapter 39 Book Images

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Image from the introduction to television series Bagpuss (1974) made by Smallfilms and the cover art for Kate Bush’s Never for Ever album.

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Image from one of the promotional videos which accompanied the single release of Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights.

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Cover art for Kate Bush’s single breathing, promotional image for The Ninth Wave section of her The Hounds of Love album and image of her from the Experiment IV single’s promotional video.

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Cover art for Kate Bush’s Cloudbusting single and an image from its promotional video.

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Different covers for Peter Reich’s A Book of Dreams memoir and images and from Kate Bush’s Cloudbusting single’s promotional video.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 39 can be viewed here.

 

The Stone Tape, Quatermass, The Road and The Twilight Language of Nigel Kneale – Unearthing Tales from Buried Ancient Pasts: Chapter 40 Book Images

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Sleeve of the BFI DVD release of Nigel Kneale’s Stone Tape.

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Website masthead image from The Folk Horror Revival website.

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Logo of record label Stone Tape Recordings, cover art for The Owl Service’s The View from a Hill album and sleeve art and vinyl of Iain Sinclair’s Stone Tape Shuffle album released by Test Centre in 2012.

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Image which accompanied the 2015 BBC Radio production of Nigel Kneale’s Stone Tape.

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Cover art for the soundtrack album of Berberian Sound Studio, featuring music by Broadcast, cover art for The Equestrian Vortex music release by Andrew Liles and the England’s Hidden Reverse book by David Keenan.

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Promotional image from television series Life on Mars (2006-2007) and title sequence of The Last Train (1999)

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Poster for the film Quatermass and the Pit (1967).

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Cover art for the Ghost Box Record’s release of The Séance at Hobs Lane by Mount Vernon Arts Lab.

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Title and credit sequence images for Nigel Kneale’s final series of Quatermass.

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Image from the title sequence of the television series Noah’s Castle (1979).

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Image from Nigel Kneale’s lost television play The Road (1963).

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Cover of the We are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale book, edited by Neil Snowdon.

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Covers for the books We are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale, the two editions of Into the Unknown: The Fantastic Life of Nigel Kneale by Andy Murray and published by Headpress, Kim Newman’s Quatermass and the Pit published by the BFI in 2014 and the collection of essays The Twilight Language of Nigel Kneale, which was edited by Sukhdev Sandhu, published by Strange Attractor and Texte und Töne and designed by Seen Studios.

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Cover of The Twilight Language of Nigel Kneale book and the accompanying cassette tape Restligests, featuring specially-composed work by The Asterism, Emma Hammond, Hong Kong In The 60s, Listening Center, The Real Tuesday Weld, Robin The Fog of Howlround and Mordant Music.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 40 can be viewed here.

 

Folklore Tapes and the Wyrd Britannia Festival – Journeying to Hidden Corners of the Land/the Ferrous Reels and Explorations of an Arcane Research Project: Chapter 41 Book Image

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Folklore Tapes logo and masthead.

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Cover art for various Folklore Tapes releases including “Mid-Winter Rites & Revelries”, “Inland Water”, “Ornithology”, “Memories of Hurstwood” and “Stanton Drew Stone Circle”.

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Packaging for Folklore Tapes Vo. IV – Rituals & Practices, featuring work by Magpahi and Paper Dollhouse.

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Flyer for the Wyrd Britannia festival of 2012 that took place in Halifax and Hebden Bridge. Organised by James Glossop, the festival was to mark the relaunch of the Calderdale libraries Wyrd Britannia collection of films, books and music.

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DVD covers and a still from films/programmes shown as part of Wyrd Britannia; The Wicker Man (1973), Robin Redbreast (1970) and Penda’s Fen (1974).

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Cover art to the eponymously titled single by Magpahi, the Tales from the Black Meadow book of stories by Chris Lambert published in 2013 and Andy Roberts’ book Albion Dreaming.

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Artwork and images from the Tales from the Black Meadow album and project.

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Poster and images from the Echo of Light performance from the Wyrd Britannia festival; presented by Folklore Tapes and featuring Alison Cooper (Magpahi), Sam McLouglin (who also performs as Samandtheplants and co-oversees the record label Hood Faire) and David Chatton Barker.

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Items from the Calderdale libraries Wyrd Britannia collection, which were on display at the Wyrd Britannia festival; including a number of Quatermass films, The Miners Hymn (2010), albums by 1960s/1970s acid folk band Forest, The Owl Service’s fine folk revisiting album The View from a Hill (2010), a 3 disc DVD reissue of The Wicker Man, The Stone Tape (1972), Trembling Bells Abandoned Love (2010), Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (2009) and the Gather in the Mushrooms compilation of underground 1960s/early 1970s acid folk released in 2004.

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Books from the Wyrd Britannia collection which were also on display, including Bob Pegg’s (of the early 1970s the-darker-shade-of-folk band Mr Fox) Rites and Riots (1981), George Stewart Evan’s The Pattern Under the Plough (1966), Alfred Watkins’ The Old Straight Track and The Cylinder Musical-Box Handbook (1968) by Graham Webb.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 41 can be viewed here.

 

Skeletons – Pastoral Preternatural Fiction and a World, Time and Place of its Own Imagining: Chapter 42 Book Images

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Poster and DVD cover for Nick Whitfield’s Skeletons film.

The plot involves two suited, slightly shabby (or even seedy in one case), privately-contracted investigators who walk through the British countryside to visit couples and others who want to exhume and clear out the secrets and skeletons in one another’s closets before for example getting married.

This is done via visiting a form of portals to the couples’ histories, that are accessed through the cupboards in their houses and which allow the investigators to view and experience the hidden parts of their customers lives.

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Poster for the 2012 film The Wall / Die Wand.

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Poster for the 1984 film Ghostbusters – Skeletons has been described as a very British Ghostbusters; if you were to put the comedic paranormal investigators story of Ghostbusters through a British pastoral and independent film filter, it might just come out a little like this.”

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Still of two of the main investigator characters at work, about to visit one of the portals.

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Still from the film of the boss of the investigators.

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Stil from the film of the boat which one of the investigators lives in.

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Promotional images from the 1979-1982 British television series Sapphire & Steel; both Sapphire & Steel and Skeletons deal with a pairing of investigators who in some ways could be said to be working with problems based around a modern updating of supernatural concerns and stories.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 42 can be viewed here.

 

Field Trip-England – Jean Ritchie, George Pickow and Recordings from the End of an Era: Chapter 43 Book Images

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Cover and vinyl disc of the 1960 album Field Trip-England; released by Folkways it contains recordings made by Jean Ritchie and George Pickow as they travelled around England recording literally the music of the folk of the land.

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Left: image taken from the booklet that accompanies Field Trip-Engand. Right: “The Fool” character from the Haxey Hood traditional folklore celebration.

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Back cover and vinyl disc label of Field Trip-England.

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Jean Ritchie recording music contained on the album and the cover to the booklet that accompanies it.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 43 can be viewed here.

 

Noah’s Castle – A Slightly Overlooked Artifact and Teatime Dystopias: Chapter 44 Book Images

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Still from the opening sequence to the 1979 British television series Noah’s Castle, based on John Rowe’s 1975 novel.

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Left-right: television series related images; cover to the DVD of The Owl Service, stills from the opening sequences of Children of the Stones and The Changes, publicity booklet for Sky, cover to the BFI DVD release of The Stone Tape.

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Image of the family home from Noah’s Castle.

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Posters for a 1970s mini-genre of largely cinematic science fiction that dealt with societal, ecological and resource collapse, overpopulation and the resulting attempts at control: Z.P.G. (1972), Silent Running (1972), Soylent Green (1973), Logan’s Run (1976) and No Blade of Grass (1970).

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Stills from the end credit sequence of Noah’s Castle.

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Poster for the 2012 film The Hunger Games.

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Still from Noah’s Castle.

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Title credit for the television series Quatermass (1979).

 

Text extracts from Chapter 44 can be viewed here.

 

Jane Weaver Septième Soeur and The Fallen by Watch Bird – Non-Populist Pop and Cosmic Aquatic Folklore: Chapter 45 Book Images

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The cover of the vinyl release of The Fallen by Watchbird album by Jane Weaver Septième Soeur, released by Finders Keeper/Bird Records.

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Left: a selection of elements from The Fallen by Watchbird boxset release.

Right the cover of the CD version of The Fallen by Watchbird, Watchbird Alluminate albums and the Europium Alluminate mix album.

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Covers of albums by some of the contributors to The Fallen by Watchbird including releases by Susan Christie, Wendy & Bonnie, 9Bach and Jane Weaver’s former band Misty Dixon.

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Cover art for The Watchbird Alluminate album.

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Covers of releases by some of the collaborators on The Watchbird Alluminate album including Demdike Stare, The Focus Group, Emma Tricca, Wendy Flower, Anworth Kirk, Magpahi, Samandtheplants and Susan Christie.

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Cover art for The Europium Alluminate mix CD was compiled by Jane Weaver alongside Finders Keepers Records co-founder Andy Votel and it is described as:

‘A 70 minute transmission of cosmic aquatic folklore, flickering luminescent lullabies & hand-plucked pop.’

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Images connected to the Czech New Wave films Daisies (1966), Valerie and her Week of Wonders (1970) and Malá Morská Víla (1976).

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Collage created using images from Malá Morská Víla (also known as The Little Mermaid but something of a world away from the more well-known mainstream 1989 Disney film).

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Video and promotional images from The Fallen by Watchbird.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 45 can be viewed here.

 

Detectorists, Bagpuss, The Wombles and The Good Life – Views from a Gentler Landscape: Chapter 46 Book Images

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Image from The Good Life, the BBC sitcom broadcast from 1975-1978.

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Cover for Steeleye Span’s single All Around My Hat, released in 1975 and an image from The Wombles television series broadcast in 1973-1975.

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Images from the introduction sequence of British television series Bagpuss, first broadcast in 1974.

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Images from The Clangers (1969-74) and Ivor the Engine (1975-77) television series.

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Cover art for the Trunk Records album releases of Clangers and Ivor the Engine.

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Left-right; cover art for The Female Frolic album by The Critics Group / Frankie Armstrong, Sandra Kerr and Peggy Seeger, the Electric Eden book by Rob Young and an image from Bagpuss.

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Image from Bagpuss.

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Image from the Detectorists television series, which first began to be broadcast in 2014.

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Images from the film By Our Selves (2015).

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Title sequence from the television series Fawlty Towers, first broadcast by the BBC in 1975-1979.

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Cover art for the single release of the Detectorists theme song, sung by Johnny Flynn.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 46 can be viewed here.

 

Weirdlore, Folk Police Recordings, Sproatly Smith and Seasons They Change – Notes from the Folk Underground, Legendary Lost Focal Points and Privately Pressed Folk: Chapter 47 Book Images

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Cover art and CD from the album Weirdlore, released in 2012 by Folk Police Recordings.

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Covers of fRoots magazine, edited by Ian Anderson who coined the phrase weirdlore.

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Logo image for the Police Recordings record label.

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Covers of album releases by Sproatly Smith, The Woodbine & Ivy Band and Harp and a Monkey.

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Logos and associated images from record labels/projects Was Ist Das?, Hood Faire, Front & Follow, Stone Tape Records, Clay Pipe Music, Folklore Tapes and Rif Mountain.

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Artwork from The Weirdlore album.

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Artwork from Sproatly Smith’s The Minstrel’s Grave.

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Left: cover art and vinyl for the Static Caravan release of The Woodbine & Ivy Band and Sproatly Smith’s versions of Gently Johnny, released in 2012.

Right: poster art for The Wicker Man film from 1973.

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Front and back cover of the book Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk (2010) by Jeanette Leech.

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Covers for the books Rob Young’s Electric Eden (2011), Shindig magazine’s Witches Hats and Painted Chariots (2013), The Electric Muse: The Story of Folk into Rock (1975) and a spread from  Dave Thompson’s Seance at Syd’s (2015).

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Photographs of Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom.

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Artwork from Early Morning Hush: Notes From the Folk Underground 1969-76, released in 2006 and compiled by musician and writer Bob Stanley, which included privately pressed folk amongst its tracks.

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Cover art for albums by Stone Angel, Shide & Acorn and Midwinter.

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Cover art to Cademon’s eponymous album and Oberon’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream.

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Photographs of the Night and Dawn editions of The Forest / The Wald album released by A Year In The Country in 2016.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 47 can be viewed here.

 

The Moon and the Sledgehammer and Sleep Furiously – Visions Of Parallel and Fading Lives: Chapter 48 Book Images

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Images from the 1971 documentary The Moon and the Sledgehammer, directed by Philip Trevelayn.

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Image from the 1974 film Akenfield.

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Image from Ben Rivers’ Two Years at Sea film from 2011.

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Cover art from DVD releases of Two Years at Sea, Sleep Furiously, The Moon & the Sledgehammer and Sleep Furiously.

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Images from Gideon Koppel’s 2008 film Sleep Furiously.

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Poster artwork and an image from 2009 film General Orders No. 9.

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Cover design and image from Paul Hill’s Dark Peak, White Peak photography book from 1990.

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Image from Sleep Furiously.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 48 can be viewed here.

 

From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, Wintersongs, Pilgrim Chants & Pastoral Trails – Lullabies for the Land and Gently Darkened Undercurrents: Chapter 49 Book Images

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CD artwork for Virginia Astley’s 1983 album From Gardens Where We Feel Secure.

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Cover art for different editions of Rob Young’s book Electric Eden.

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CD and artwork for Virginia Astley’s album From Gardens Where We Feel Secure.

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Cover art for the vinyl edition of Virginia Astley’s From Garden Where We Feel Secure.

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Cover art for different editions of the 1999 album Wintersongs by Plinth, which was made by Michael Tanner with Steven Dacosta, accompanied by Nicholas Palmer and Julian Poidevin.

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Cover art and packaging for Sharron Kraus’ 2013 album Pilgrim Chants & Pastoral Trails.

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Cover art for the Night Mare album which accompanied Sharron Kraus’ Pilgrim Chants & Pastoral Trails and further artwork/packaging from Pilgrim Chants.

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Cover art for His Name Is Alive’s album Livonia, designed by 23 Envelope work (Vaughan Oliver and Nigel Grierson).

 

Text extracts from Chapter 49 can be viewed here.

 

Strawberry Fields and Wreckers – The Countryside and Coastal Hinterland as Emotional Edgeland: Chapter 50 Book Images

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Still from Frances Lea’s 2012 film Strawberry Fields.

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Further stills from Frances Lea’s 2012 film Strawberry Fields.

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Stills from the film Wreckers (2011), directed by D. R. Hood.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 50 can be viewed here.

 

Zardoz, Phase IV and Beyond the Black Rainbow – Seeking the Future in Secret Rooms from the Past and Psychedelic Cinematic Corners: Chapter 51 Book Images

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Laser disc release of Zardoz, cover of the Phase IV soundtrack release and still from Beyond the Black Rainbow.

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Behind the scenes image from Zardoz. Left-right; director John Boorman, actress Charlotte Rampling and actor Sean Connory.

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Still from Zardoz.

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Still of the Eternals from Zardoz.

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Stills from Zardoz.

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Still from Zardoz and magazine cover art.

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Stills from Phase IV, directed by Saul Bass.

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Stills from the end sequence of Phase IV.

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Still from Phase IV.

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Stills from Beyond the Black Rainbow, directed by Panos Cosmatos.

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Limited edition VHS video cassette and poster of Beyond the Black Rainbow, released by Mondo.

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Inside of the gatefold sleeve vinyl release of the Beyond the Black Rainbow soundtrack (created by Jeremy Schmidt working as Sinoia Caves).

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Cover art for the archival compilation album I Am the Center: Private Issue New Age in America – 1950-1990 (released in 2013 by Light in the Attic).

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Still from Beyond the Black Rainbow.

 

Text extracts from Chapter 51 can be viewed here.

 

Winstanley, A Field in England and The English Civil War Part II – Reflections on Turning Points and Moments When Anything Could Happen: Chapter 52 Book Images

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Credits still from Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo’s 1975 film Winstanley.

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Still of the lead actor from Winstanley.

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Poster for Ben Wheatley’s film A Field in England (2013). Design and illustration by Twins of Evil (Luke Insect and Kenn Goodall).

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Behind the scenes still from Winstanley.

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Stills from Winstanley.

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Alternative poster design for A Field In England.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(Why thankyou, good sirs !)

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

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

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

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

Visit Electronic Sound here.

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

 

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A Year In The Country at The Golden Apples of the Sun: Artifact Report #44/52a

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The Golden Apples of the Sun radio show and site is one of my favourite places online to visit… on the shows you will find a vast range of music nestled next to one another and may well hear Brian Eno, Shirley and Dolly Collins, Broadcast, Tangerine Dream, The Focus Group, Keith Seatman, CAN, Leyland Kirby, Link Wray, Air, Devandra Banhart, Andrew Weatherall, Emerald Web, Kraftwerk, DJ Shadow, The Assisant, The KLF, Jon Brooks, The Hardy Tree and Jane Weaver to name but a few.

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The shows are organised and curated by Claude Mono, often with guest hosts and throughout its eclectic music wanderings there are themes or strands that loosely often connect the shows, which are in part explorations of when the flipside or undercurrents of pastoralism meets the spectres and imagined parallel worlds of hauntology.

Or to quote the show itself:

“The Golden Apples collective is a small informed and passionate group of music-lovers who each Sunday afternoon (and via re-stream) curate a musical odyssey through psych-tinged realms such as pastoral folk, glitch, lo-fi electronica, hauntology and hypnagogic pop. Through blissful reverie and sun-dappled hallucinogenic soundscapes, find yourself transported to a world beyond time, where both past and future intermingle, and where sound rules supreme.”

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The blog/site is also well worth a wander around and I will often find a number of semi-hidden cultural curios that have me planning to squirrel away some time to explore them (recently that has included links to the rare 2006 documentary The Eternal Children directed by David Kleijwegt that focused on what was known as weird or freak folk in the earlier 2000s and fellow companions – work by the likes of Antony & The Johnsons, Coco Rosie and the aforementioned Devandra Banhart).

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Over the years the show has included a fair few tracks from the A Year In The Country releases and on the 10th September 2017 there was a show where “Claude visits A Year In The Country”, which featured something of a gathering of selections from the A Year In The Country releases, including David Colohan, The Rowan Amber Mill, Sproatly Smith, A Year In The Country, She Rocola, Circle/Temple and Sproatly Smith.

The show then wandered off into music by sometimes A Year In The Country contributor Vic Mars, alongside the also aforementioned Broadcast, Emerald Web, Jon Brooks, Jane Weaver and Kraftwerk.

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I particularly liked the above semi-scientific graph representation of the elements of the show.

Anyways, I thought about now would be a good time to post a number of links to some of the previous episodes of The Golden Apples of the Sun that featured A Year In The Country releases.

Originally broadcast on RTR FM, the playlists and streams are archived at the links below:

Episode 337: Claude visits A Year In The Country: featuring Fractures, Burn The Witch/Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town, The Quietened Village, In Every Mind, The Forest / The Wald, Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels & From The Furthest Signals

Episode 200: featuring Burn The Witch/Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town & Torridon Gate (She Rocola & Howlround)

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Episode 266: featuring In Every Mind (A Year In The Country):
“This sound journey is a true audio bell curve commencing with the vinyl crackle of dust from the nettles style original British acid folk, some US Espers-esque psych folk and prairie modern from Meg Baird and Speck Mountain…the show then meanders through the hazy electronica of Noveller, Lutine and Haelos heading towards a single epic extended high through 20 minutes of a most (in)famous Nurse With Wound and Stereolab collaboration. Over the bell curve and new West Coast meets East Coast from Heron Oblivion and finally some crystalline lo-fi timeless moments from the Golden Apples archives of 2010, 2011 and 2012.”

Episode 295 & Episode 314: both featuring The Forest / The Wald (The Rowan Amber Mill, Magpahi & The Hare And The Moon):
“Claude musically meanders through private press folk, funk and psych, some spiritual jazz and lo-fi electronic gospel, Balearic beats, baroque pop and electronica.”

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Episode 315: featuring Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels (A Year In The Country):
“…Claude returns and weeks of field study, archaeological digging, explorations of secret rural Holloways, learning the Rites of Mu and Hypnagogia all come together…its a strange beautiful musical trip….”

Episode 336: featuring The Quietened Village (Listening Center)

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Episode 273Episode 274 & Episode 335: all featuring Fractures (Circle/Temple, The Hare And The Moon & Polypores)

Episode 219: featuring In Every Mind (A Year In The Country)

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Episode 307: featuring Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels & The Dark Chamber EP
“This edition of the Golden Apples is hosted by Claude Mono. It commences with a soundscape from Under The Skin the unsettling sci-fi film that creates a strange brooding dystopian landscape within contemporary Glasgow and its surrounds. More soundscapes from A Year In The Country, Broadcast, Pram, The Dandelion Set, Stereolab and space-psych from Our Solar System…immersive listening…”

Episode 335: featuring The Quietened Cosmologists (Unit One and Field Lines Cartographer)

You can also visit The Golden Apples of the Sun at RTR FM’s website here.

Tip of the hat to all involved. Much appreciated.

 

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

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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:

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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)

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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)

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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.

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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…

 

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Day #353/365: Audiological Reflections and Pathways #5; an ether gathering of behind the sofa folk flickerings…

She Rocola-Molly Leigh-inner booklet page-A Year In The CountryTrails and Influences: Electronic Ether. Case #49/52.

(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, She Rocola’s Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town.

When I think of those songs, my mind will sometimes wander along to flickering cathode ray and celluloid tales of what has come to be known as folk horror.

Folk horror gathering-A Year In The Country

In many ways there is a lot that fits/could fit into that particular category; as has been mentioned around these parts – and elsewhere before – in practise it often refers to a particular canonic trio of films – The Wickerman, Blood On Satan’s Claw and The Witchfinder General…

…and then if I’m thinking of such things, my mind will often wander along to ether collections of such things and interrelated tales.

…and as I gather interconnected intertwinings for this particular pathway and reflection I come to see that I have wandered amongst such stories from the shadows beneath the plough more than a time or two… and actually just how varied and multitudinous the outgrowths and gatherings of such stories is, beyond, including and quite possibly taking as its heart/centre that canonic trio…

Along which lines, a dybbuk’s dozen of folk-horror gatherings (covens?), travellings and intertwining pathways around these parts:

Day #21/365: In The Dark Half

Day #37/365: Folk Horror Review and a wander through a green and not always pleasant land

Folk Horror Review-A Year In The Country

Day #73/365: A wander through A Field In England with Twins of Evil and other travelling companions…

A Field In England-Intro-Julian House-film still-A Year In The Country 4

Day #90/365: The Wickerman – the future lost vessels and artifacts of modern folkloreThe Wicker Man-Hessian Bag Edition-Insert-A Year In The Country-2

Day #106/365: The whisperings of Willow O Waly

Miss-Jessell-Clytie-Jessop-manifests-by-the-lake-The Innocents 1961-A Year In The Country

Day #113/365: A box of rural horror films and glances at unlit landscapes…

The Wicker Man-Blood On Satans Claw-Whistle and Ill come to you-Village Of The Damned-BFI 10 Great Rural Horror films-A Year In The Country

Day #127/365: Robin Redbreast…

Robin Redbreast-A Year In The Country-BFI DVD-1970-2

Day #135/365: Kill List

Kill List

Day #181/365: Queens Of Evil; “What sort of conjurers are you?” – “Persuaders, your eminence, hidden persuaders.”

Queens of Evil-1970-Le Regine-A Year In The Country 4

Day #188/365: The Ash Tree; Sacred Disobedience, an unorthodox guidance and further fields In England

The Ash Tree-David Rudkin-MR James-A Ghost Story For Christmas-The BBC-A Year In The Country

Day #218/365: A wander around Red Shift, layers of history, the miasma/amber of cultural replications and associated reinterpretations/utilitarianisms

Play-For-Today-1200-Red Shift-Alan Garner-BFI-BBC-A-Year-In-The-Country-smaller

Day #313/365: A further slightly overlooked artifact; Tam Lin, a goddess abroad in the land and the end of utopian dreams?

Tam Lin-1970-screenshot 2-Ava Gardner-lighter-A Year In The Country.jpg

Day #323/365: From flipsides of a coin to The Flipside; tales from behind the scenes of termagant hunting found in the ether airwaves after a walk through green and not always pleasant lands…

 

Vincent Price-Michael Reeves-Witchfinder General-on set-A Year In The Country

 

Elsewhere amongst the ether you could wander amongst…

A further gathering of cathode ray and celluloid flickers.

Fiend In The Furrows: an academic consideration/debating of such culture.

A gathering place of discussion and collecting.

A History Of British Folk Horror (tread gently)

 

I feel that after travelling down the pathways of this particular day in this particular year in the country it may be apt to quote a certain aforementioned lionheartess:

The first time in my life, I leave the lights on, to ease my soul…

…and to once again pack among my belongings the thoughts below:

“We were keen to conjure up the psychedelic witch party at the mansion scenario too, also to keep the idea ‘pop’ and tongue in cheek, very conscious of not becoming too dry.” (James Cargill)

Encasing and envoying.