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

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

Yearly Indexes

Links to all wanderings so far...

Artifacts Shop

Open the door of our local shop... Artifacts and audiological explorations...

All The Merry Year Round

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

Gallery

Visual work from A Year In The Country

A Year In The Country – Undercurrents

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

The Quietened Cosmologists

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

From The Furthest Signals

Lost transmissions filtered through the white noise of space and time… Featuring Circle/Temple, David Colohan, Sharron Kraus, Time Attendant, Depatterning, Field Lines Cartographer, Grey Frequency, Keith Seatman, Polypores, The Hare And The Moon, Pulselovers, A Year In The Country and Listening Center.

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

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

Wanderings #39/52a: A Shindig Double Header And Wanderings Amongst Pop Culture’s Semi-Hidden Reverse

A wandering and intertwining amongst Radiophonic-esque electronica, hauntology and acid/psych/exploratory folk…

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

Wandering Amongst Shadowed Furrows/The Hidden Reverse

Week #45/52: Quatermass finds and ephemera from back when

Wanderings amongst artifacts of visitings ancient and modern...

Day #234/365: Scherenschnitte: nocturnal strigiformes

...fields in England & otherly folkloric tales and signifiers via patience and a neatness of hand…

Day #202/365: Filming The Owl Service

...the wolf in every mind...

Day #162/365: Hauntology & societies dreaming places…

...the deletion of spectres and the making of an ungenre...

Day #131/365: John Benjamin Stone; records of folkloric rituals…

...light catching from other eras...

Day #87/365: Faded foundlings and Tender Vessels

...tumbling forth from forgotten stories...

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

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

Day #69/365: Charles Frégers Wilder Mann

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

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

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

Day #18/365: Willows Songs

...highland laments and folklore foundlings...

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

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

Day #3/365: Gather In The Mushrooms

...A starting point via the British acid folk underground...