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.
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 Shop, Discogs Audiological Archive and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.
Free UK shipping. Normally ships in 7-14 days.
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.
Artwork and packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.
Victorian 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.
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 Shop, Discogs 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:
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
