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...

The Shildam Hall Tapes

“…unedited sections of the film and its soundtrack have surfaced, found amongst old filmstock…” Features work by Gavino Morretti, Sproatly Smith, Field Lines Cartographer, Vic Mars, Circle/Temple, A Year In The Country, The Heartwood Institute, David Colohan, Listening Centre and Pulselovers.

Gallery

Visual work from A Year In The Country

Artifacts Shop

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

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 Albion

A music and field recording map of Britain: featuring work by Bare Bones, David Colohan, Grey Frequency, Field Lines Cartographer, Howlround, A Year In The Country, Keith Seatman, Magpahi, Sproatly Smith, Widow’s Weeds, Time Attendant, Spaceship, Pulselovers, The Heartwood Institute and Vic Mars.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...