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Spectral Containment Invitee #2; Fractures at The Ghost Box Records Guest Shop / Amongst the pages of The Belbury Parish Magazine

Ghost-Box-Records-logo-Guest Shop-Fractures-A Year In The Country

Following on from The Quietened Village’s visits around those parts, Fractures is now available amongst rather fine company at The Ghost Box Records Guest Shop.

The compilation is themed around the notion that the year 1973 was a cultural and psychic tipping point. Contributors include…

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, A Year In The Country and David Colohan.

The Belbury Parish Magazine-Ghost Box Records-Jim Jupp-Fractures-A Yaer In The Country

In an intertwined manner, it can also be found amongst the pages and notifications of The Belbury Parish Magazine.

Tip of the hat once again to Mr Jim Jupp.

 

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Fractures – Night and Dawn Editions Released

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

Dawn Edition £12.00. Night Edition £25.00.
Fractures-release date-all items-A Year In The Country

Fractures is a gathering of studies and explorations that take as their starting point the year 1973; a time when there appeared to be a schism in the fabric of things, a period of political, social, economic and industrial turmoil, when 1960s utopian ideals seemed to corrupt and turn inwards.

Audiological contents created by 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, A Year In The Country and David Colohan.

Fractures-release date-booklets-A Year In The Country

Both editions hand-finished and custom printed using archival giclée pigment ink by A Year In The Country.

Available via our Artifacts Shop, our Bandcamp Ether VictrolaNorman Records and The Ghost Box Records Guest Shop.
Release date 13th June 2016.

 

Night Edition. Limited to 104 copies. £25.00.
Hand-finished box-set contains: album on all black CDr, 12 page string bound booklet, print, 4 x badge pack and 2 x stickers.
Fractures-Night Edition-front of box-A Year In The CountryFractures-Night-components
Further encasement 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 with cover print.
3) Fully black CDr (black on top, black on playable side).
4) Black string bound booklet: 12 pages (6 sides printed);
Printed on textured fine art cotton rag paper, heavy card and semi-transparent vellum.
Hand numbered on the reverse.
5) 4 x  badge set, contained in a see-through polythene bag with a folded card header.
6) 2 x vinyl style stickers.
7) Print on textured fine art cotton rag paper; numbered on the reverse, selected from one of 7 designs.

Fractures-release date-prints

 

Dawn Edition. Limited to 104 copies. £12.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with inserts and badge.
Fractures-Dawn Edition-front-A Year In The CountryFractures-Dawn Edition-back-A Year In The Country
Further encasement details:
1) Custom printed using archival Giclée pigment ink.
2) Includes 25mm/1″ badge, secured with removable glue on string bound tag.
3) Back of one insert hand numbered.

 

Notes and Scribings:
Fractures is a gathering of studies and explorations that take as their starting point the year 1973; a time when there appeared to be a schism in the fabric of things, a period of political, social, economic and industrial turmoil, when 1960s utopian ideals seemed to corrupt and turn inwards.

Fractures-release date-stickers-A Year In The Country

As a reaction to such, this was a possible high water mark of the experimentations of psych/acid folk, expressions of eldritch undertones in the land via what has become known in part as folk horror and an accompanying yearning to return to an imagined pastoral idyll.

Looking back, culture, television broadcasts and film from this time often seem imbued with a strange, otherly grittyness; to capture a sense of dissolution in relation to what was to become post-industrial Western culture and ways of living.

Such transmissions and signals viewed now can seem to belong to a time far removed and distant from our own; the past not just as a foreign country but almost as a parallel universe that is difficult to imagine as once being our own lands and world.

Fractures-release date-badge packs-A Year In The Country-hc

Fractures is a reflection on reverberations from those disquieted times, taking as its initial reference points a selected number of conspicuous junctures and signifiers: Delia Derbyshire leaving The BBC/The Radiophonic Workshop and reflecting later that around then “the world went out of time with itself”. Electricity blackouts in the UK and the three day week declared. The Wickerman released. The Changes recorded but remained unreleased. The Unofficial Countryside published. The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water released.

 

Further Audiological Contents Details:
1) The Osmic Projector/Vapors of Valtorr – Circle/Temple
2) The Land Of Green Ginger – Sproatly Smith
3) Seeing The Invisible – Keith Seatman
4) Triangular Shift – Listening Center
5) An Unearthly Decade – The British Space Group
6) A Fracture In The Forest – The Hare And The Moon ft Alaska/Michael Begg
7) Elastic Refraction – Time Attendant
8) Ratio (Sequence) – The Rowan Amber Mill
9) The Perfect Place For An Accident – Polypores
10) A Candle For Christmas/311219733 – A Year In The Country
11) Eldfell – David Colohan

Artwork and encasement design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.

 

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 two compilations each have themes running through them, tying the music together and seemingly telling a story as they unfold.Terrascope on Fractures and The Quietened Village.

Another excellent snapshot of current experimental music, showing the coexistence of darkness, strangeness, and profound beauty.Bliss Aquamarine on Fractures.

 

Available via our Artifacts Shop, our Bandcamp Ether VictrolaNorman Records and The Ghost Box Records Guest Shop.
Release date 13th June 2016.

 

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Fractures – Night and Dawn Editions CD Album Pre-Order

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

Dawn Edition £12.00. Night Edition £25.00.
Fractures-Night and Dawn Editions-A Year In The Country
Audiological Transmissions Artifact #3
Fractures is a gathering of studies and explorations that take as their starting point the year 1973; a time when there appeared to be a schism in the fabric of things, a period of political, social, economic and industrial turmoil, when 1960s utopian ideals seemed to corrupt and turn inwards.

Audiological contents created by 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, A Year In The Country and David Colohan.

Both editions hand-finished and custom printed using archival Giclée pigment ink by A Year In The Country.

Available via our Artifacts Shop, our Bandcamp Ether VictrolaNorman Records and The Ghost Box Records Guest Shop.
Pre-order from today 30th May 2016. Release date 13th June 2016. 

 

Night Edition. Limited to 104 copies. £25.00.
Hand-finished box-set contains: album on all black CDr, 12 page string bound booklet, print, 4 x badge pack and 2 x stickers.
Fractures-Night Edition-front of box-A Year In The CountryFractures-Night-components

Fractures-Night Edition-opened box-A Year In The Country Fractures-Night Edition-booklet 1-A Year In The CountryFractures-Night Edition-booklet 2-A Year In The Country
Fractures-all black cdr-A Year In The Country
Top of CD.                                                            Bottom of CD.

Further encasement 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 with cover print.
3) Fully black CDr (black on top, black on playable side).
4) Black string bound booklet: 12 pages (6 sides printed);
Printed on textured fine art cotton rag paper, heavy card and semi-transparent vellum.
Hand numbered on the reverse.
5) 4 x  badge set, contained in a see-through polythene bag with a folded card header.
6) 2 x vinyl style stickers.
7) Print on textured fine art cotton rag paper; numbered on the reverse, selected from one of 7 designs.

 

Dawn Edition. Limited to 104 copies. £12.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with inserts and badge.
Fractures-Dawn Edition-front-A Year In The Country
Fractures-Dawn Edition-opened-A Year In The CountryFractures-Dawn Edition-back-A Year In The Country
Fractures-white and black CDr-A Year In The Country
Top of CD.                                                          Bottom of CD.

Further encasement details:
1) Custom printed using archival Giclée pigment ink.
2) Includes 25mm/1″ badge, secured with removable glue on string bound tag.
3) Back of one insert hand numbered.

 

Notes and Scribings:
Fractures is a gathering of studies and explorations that take as their starting point the year 1973; a time when there appeared to be a schism in the fabric of things, a period of political, social, economic and industrial turmoil, when 1960s utopian ideals seemed to corrupt and turn inwards.

As a reaction to such, this was a possible high water mark of the experimentations of psych/acid folk, expressions of eldritch undertones in the land via what has become known in part as folk horror and an accompanying yearning to return to an imagined pastoral idyll.

Fractures-Night Edition-landscape sticker artwork for posting-A Year In The Country-outline

Looking back, culture, television broadcasts and film from this time often seem imbued with a strange, otherly grittyness; to capture a sense of dissolution in relation to what was to become post-industrial Western culture and ways of living.

Such transmissions and signals viewed now can seem to belong to a time far removed and distant from our own; the past not just as a foreign country but almost as a parallel universe that is difficult to imagine as once being our own lands and world.

Fractures is a reflection on reverberations from those disquieted times, taking as its initial reference points a selected number of conspicuous junctures and signifiers: Delia Derbyshire leaving The BBC/The Radiophonic Workshop and reflecting later that around then “the world went out of time with itself”. Electricity blackouts in the UK and the three day week declared. The Wickerman released. The Changes recorded but remained unreleased. The Unofficial Countryside published. The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water released.

 

Further Audiological Contents Details:
1) The Osmic Projector/Vapors of Valtorr – Circle/Temple
2) The Land Of Green Ginger – Sproatly Smith
3) Seeing The Invisible – Keith Seatman
4) Triangular Shift – Listening Center
5) An Unearthly Decade – The British Space Group
6) A Fracture In The Forest – The Hare And The Moon ft Alaska/Michael Begg
7) Elastic Refraction – Time Attendant
8) Ratio (Sequence) – The Rowan Amber Mill
9) The Perfect Place For An Accident – Polypores
10) A Candle For Christmas/311219733 – A Year In The Country
11) Eldfell – David Colohan

Artwork and encasement design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.

 

Available via our Artifacts Shop, our Bandcamp Ether VictrolaNorman Records and The Ghost Box Records Guest Shop.
Pre-order from today 30th May 2016. Release date 13th June 2016. 

 

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The Quietened Village – Duskfall Edition released / a gathering of transmissions / something of a return as a spectral containment invitee…

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

Duskfall Edition. Limited to 104 copies. £13.00.
All black CDr album in fold out bound sleeve with inserts and badge.
The Quietened Village-4 albums-A Year In The Country

Audiological Transmissions Artifact #2

Available at our Artifacts Shop our Bandcamp Ether Victrola and at Norman Records.
Normally ships in 7-14 days. Includes free UK postage.

Audiological contents created by Howlround, Time Attendant, The Straw Bear Band, Polypores, The Soulless Party, The Rowan Amber Mill, Cosmic Neigbourhood, A Year In The Country, Sproatly Smith and David Colohan.

The Quietened Village-opened etc-A Year In The Country
Further encasement details:

Hand-finished and custom printed using archival giclée pigment ink by A Year In The Country.
One insert is hand numbered, the badge is attached to the tag with removable glue.

The Quietened Village-prerelease note-A Year In The Country

 

Transmissions sent, received, transmitted from and via The Quietened Village:

The Quietened Village-Terrascope-A Year In The Country

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… The Quietened Village is generally sombre and ghostly, beautifully conveying a sense of loneliness and the passing of time…Terrascope, courtesy of Mr Simon Lewis.

Was Ist Das-The Quietened Village-A Year In The Country

A somewhat fine and rather beautiful handwritten consideration of / reflection on The Quietened Village can be found at Was Ist Das?.

Further related transmissions courtesy of Messrs Papademetrie and Wiggs via the phantom seaside radio of The Séance.

Shindig magazine-The Quietened Village-A Year In The Country

Amongst the often lysergic considerations of Shindig!, courtesy of Messrs Joe Banks, Andy Morton and Jon Mills:

For lovers of the sounds of nature, both violent and serene.”

The Active Listener header-The Quietened Village-A Year In The Country

Amongst further sometimes also lysergic considerations at The Active Listener:

“...a compelling collection of complimentary pieces from a disparate band of artists… the beauty of this release is that even though the constituent parts are all very strong indeed and all worthy of mention, it’s as a whole that “A Quietened Village” impresses most, and it’s not just down to the music. AYITC’s releases are all meticulously packaged, with “A Quietened Village” proving to be no exception, its… editions boasting string-bound booklets, badges, stickers and all sorts of other goodies, not to mention carefully orchestrated visuals that perfectly accompany the music contained within.

Tip of the hat to Mr Nathan Ford and fellow travellers for their ongoing support. Thankyou kindly.

Via the scribings of Wire, wherein it may well be considered as “…post-hauntological folk” by Mr Dan Barrow.

…and via the reflections and wanderings of Mr Matthew Sedition.

Include Me Out-Robin Tomens-The Quietened Village-A Year In The Country

And finally, considerations of The Quietened Village courtesy of Mr Robin Tomens at Include Me Out – a place in the ether well worth a wander and an hour or two of your time indeed.

The Quietened Village is available at our Artifacts Shop our Bandcamp Ether Victrola and at Norman Records.
Normally ships in 7-14 days. Includes free UK postage.

 

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As an interconnected aside, the Night edition of The Quietened Village is once again a visitor at the Ghost Box Guest Shop. Back instock would be the technical phrase I do believe. Thankyou indeed to Mr Jim Jupp.

 

And as an actual final point…

 

 

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The Quietened Village – Duskfall Edition available for pre-order

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

Duskfall Edition. Limited to 104 copies. £13.00.
All black CDr album in fold out bound sleeve with inserts and badge.The Quietened Village-Duskfall Edition-front-A Year In The CountryAudiological Transmissions Artifact #2

Pre-order available today 18th May 2016. Release date 25th May 2016
Available at our Artifacts Shop our Bandcamp Ether Victrola and at Norman Records.
Includes free UK postage.

Audiological contents created by Howlround, Time Attendant, The Straw Bear Band, Polypores, The Soulless Party, The Rowan Amber Mill, Cosmic Neigbourhood, A Year In The Country, Sproatly Smith and David Colohan.

The Quietened Village-Duskfall Edition-opened 1-A Year In The Country copy The Quietened Village-Duskfall Edition-back-A Year In The CountryThe Quietened Village-all-black-CDr-A-Year-In-The-Country-
Top of CDr.                                                            Bottom of CDr.

Further encasement details:

Hand-finished and custom printed using archival giclée pigment ink by A Year In The Country.

One insert is hand numbered, the badge is attached to the tag with removable glue.

The Quietened Village-prerelease note-A Year In The Country

Transmissions sent, received, transmitted:

The music conjures roofless walls holding spirits not populations, skeletal spires pointing accusative fingers skywards, submerged shadows reflecting in water, crumbled remains wreathing a cliff’s base…Folk Words

This evocative album offers a score for crumbled communities, abandoned villages and sunken spires, honoring history with quiet grace befitting its title.” Richard Allen, A Closer Listen

… impressively coherent. Its themes are tackled with sadness, hope and respect for the past, and will almost certainly supply prescient pointers for the future direction of nature, society and art. If the new epoch sounds like this, we may not be condemned after all.” Thomas Blake, Folk Radio UK

The album evokes a beautifully atmospheric pastoral reverie, and a ghostly sense of loss…” Belbury Parish Magazine, Ghost Box Records

 

 

Pre-order available today 18th May 2016. Release date 25th May 2016
Available at our Artifacts Shop our Bandcamp Ether Victrola and at Norman Records.
Includes free UK postage.

 

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Fractures – Dawn and Night Editions – Pre-Order and Release Dates

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

Dawn Edition £12.00. Night Edition £25.00.
Fractures-Night and Dawn Editions-A Year In The Country
Audiological Transmissions Artifact #3
Fractures is a gathering of studies and explorations that take as their starting point the year 1973; a time when there appeared to be a schism in the fabric of things, a period of political, social, economic and industrial turmoil, when 1960s utopian ideals seemed to corrupt and turn inwards.

Audiological contents created by Circle/Temple, Sproatly Smith, Keith Seatman, Polypores, 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.

Both editions hand-finished and custom printed using archival Giclée pigment ink by A Year In The Country.

To be available via our Artifacts Shop and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.
Pre-order 30th May 2016. Released 13th June 2016.

 

Night Edition. Limited to 104 copies. £25.00.
Hand-finished box-set contains: album on all black CDr, 12 page string bound booklet, 4 x badge pack, 1 x print, and 2 x stickers.
Fractures-Night Edition-front of box-A Year In The CountryFractures-Night-components

Dawn Edition. Limited to 104 copies. £12.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with inserts and badge.Fractures-Dawn Edition-front-A Year In The CountryFractures-Dawn Edition-opened-A Year In The CountryFractures-Dawn Edition-back-A Year In The Country

Notes and Scribings:
Fractures is a gathering of studies and explorations that take as their starting point the year 1973; a time when there appeared to be a schism in the fabric of things, a period of political, social, economic and industrial turmoil, when 1960s utopian ideals seemed to corrupt and turn inwards.

As a reaction to such, this was a possible high water mark of the experimentations of psych/acid folk, expressions of eldritch undertones in the land via what has become known in part as folk horror and an accompanying yearning to return to an imagined pastoral idyll.

Fractures-Night Edition-landscape sticker artwork for posting-A Year In The Country-outline

Looking back, culture, television broadcasts and film from this time often seem imbued with a strange, otherly grittyness; to capture a sense of dissolution in relation to what was to become post-industrial Western culture and ways of living.

Such transmissions and signals viewed now can seem to belong to a time far removed and distant from our own; the past not just as a foreign country but almost as a parallel universe that is difficult to imagine as once being our own lands and world.

Fractures-print for posting-A Year In The Country

Fractures is a reflection on reverberations from those disquieted times, taking as its initial reference points a selected number of conspicuous junctures and signifiers: Delia Derbyshire leaving The BBC/The Radiophonic Workshop and reflecting later that around then “the world went out of time with itself”. Electricity blackouts in the UK and the three day week declared. The Wickerman released. The Changes recorded but remained unreleased. The Unofficial Countryside published. The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water released.

To be available via our Artifacts Shop and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.
Pre-order 30th May 2016. Released 13th June 2016.

 

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Fractures – Coming Soon Indeed

Fractures-Night and Dawn Editions-A Year In The Country

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

Audiological Transmissions Artifact #3
Fractures is a gathering of studies and explorations that take as their starting point the year 1973; a time when there appeared to be a schism in the fabric of things, a period of political, social, economic and industrial turmoil, when 1960s utopian ideals seemed to corrupt and turn inwards.

Fractures-Night Edition-landscape sticker artwork for posting-A Year In The Country-outline

Audiological explorations by:
Circle/Temple (The Straw Bear Band / The Owl Service / Rif Mountain)
Sproatly Smith
Keith Seatman (Test Transmission / Found Objects)
Polypores
Listening Center (Elsewhere in the ether / The Twilight Language of Nigel Kneale)
The British Space Group (Ian Holloway / Quiet World / Wonderful Wooden Reasons / Wyrd Britain)
The Hare And The Moon ft Alaska / Michael Begg
Time Attendant
The Rowan Amber Mill (Miller Sounds / The Book Of The Lost)
A Year In The Country
David Colohan (United Bible Studies)

 

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Coming Soon: Fractures

Fractures-A Year In The Country-700 cover

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

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.

 

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The Quietened Village Released / Corporeal Wanderings Commence / Spectral Containment Invitee / Ghost Box Guest

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

Well, the time has come for The Quietened Village to fly the nest and begin its corporeal (and sometimes zeros and ones) wander out into the world.

Available at our Artifacts Shop, our Bandcamp Ether Victrola, the Ghost Box Guest Shop and Norman Records.

Spectral Containment Invitee…
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We are pleased to say that The Quietened Village is a visitor at the Ghost Box Guest Shop.

The album evokes a  beautifully atmospheric pastoral reverie, and a ghostly sense of loss…

Belbury Parish-The Quietened Village-A Year In The Country-site
…and is mentioned in amongst the pages of The Belbury Parish Magazine.

Tip of the hat to Mr Jupp and House for their support.

 

Norman Records logo-The Quietened Village-A Year In The Country
It can also be found at Norman Records. Tip of the hat to all the good folk there also, in particular Messrs Anthony, Ian and Phil.

 

Preview The Quietened Village below:

 

Encasement Details Re-Transmission:

The Quietened Village-Night Edition-A Year In The CountryNight Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £25.00.
Hand-finished box-set contains: album on all black CDr, 12 page string bound booklet, 4 x badge pack and 2 x stickers.

 

The Quietened Village-Dawn Edition-A Year In The CountryDawn Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £12.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with inserts and badge.

 

 

Notes and Scribing:
The Quietened Village-Night Edition-back cover image
The Quietened Village is a study of and reflection on the lost, disappeared and once were homes and hamlets that have wandered off the maps or that have become shells of their former lives and times.

Inspired in part by images of sections of abandoned, submerged villages and the spires of their places of worship re-appearing from the surfaces of reservoirs and lakes, alongside thoughts of dwellings that have succumbed to the natural erosion of the coastline and have slowly tumbled into the sea.

Some of the once were and lost villages which were seedlings for this body of work still stand but their populations are no more, those who lived there evicted at short notice and never to return so that their homes and hearths could be used as training grounds for those who would fight during great conflicts between nations.

Such points of reference have been intertwined with possibly more bodeful reasons for this stilling and ending; thoughts of Midwich Cuckoos-esque fictions or dystopic tales told and transmitted in times gone by and imagined/re-imagined in amongst the strands of The Quietened Village.

The Quietened Village-release date-opened-A Year In The Country

Audiological Contents Details:
1) At The Confluence Of The Mitta Mitta & Murray – David Colohan
2) Flying Over A Glassed Wedge – Howlround
3) The Drowning Of Mardale Green – The Straw Bear Band
4) Damnatorum – The Soulless Party
5) Playground Ritual – Polypores
6) Separations – The Rowan Amber Mill
7) Day Blink – Time Attendant
8) 47 Days and Fathoms Deep – A Year In The Country
9) Lost Villages Of Holderness – Sproatly Smith
10) Bunk Beds – Cosmic Neighbourhood

A further tip of the hat once more to all who have carried out and contributed audiological explorations and also to all those who have supported The Quietened Village, via scribing, transmissions, pecuniary interactions…

Available at our Artifacts Shop, our Bandcamp Ether Victrola, the Ghost Box Records Guest Shop and Norman Records.

 

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The Quietened Village. Available for pre-order.

TQV-preorder photo-3 in a rowAudiological Transmissions Artifact #2

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

Available at our Artifacts Shop and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola and in a transmission from the future manner: also to be available at The Ghost Box Records Guest Shop and Norman Records.

Audiological contents created by Howlround, Time Attendant, The Straw Bear Band, Polypores, The Soulless Party, The Rowan Amber Mill, Cosmic Neigbourhood, A Year In The Country, Sproatly Smith and David Colohan.

TQV-preorder photo-opened

Night Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £25.00.
Hand-finished box-set contains: album on all black CDr, 12 page string bound booklet,
4 x badge pack and 2 x stickers.

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

 

Notes and Scribings:
The Quietened Village is a study of and reflection on the lost, disappeared and once were homes and hamlets that have wandered off the maps or that have become shells of their former lives and times.

The Quietened Village-preorder-A Year In The CountryInspired in part by images of sections of abandoned, submerged villages and the spires of their places of worship re-appearing from the surfaces of reservoirs and lakes, alongside thoughts of dwellings that have succumbed to the natural erosion of the coastline and have slowly tumbled into the sea.

Some of the once were and lost villages which were seedlings for this body of work still stand but their populations are no more, those who lived there evicted at short notice and never to return so that their homes and hearths could be used as training grounds for those who would fight during great conflicts between nations.

Such points of reference have been intertwined with possibly more bodeful reasons for this stilling and ending; thoughts of Midwich Cuckoos-esque fictions or dystopic tales told and transmitted in times gone by and imagined/re-imagined in amongst the strands of The Quietened Village.

The Quietened Village-preorder 2-A Year In The Country

Thankyou for your interest good sir and ladies and to all those who have contributed their explorations.

Further details also available for perusement around these parts here.

Available at our Artifacts Shop and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola and in a transmission from the future manner: also to be available at The Ghost Box Guest Shop and Norman Records.

 

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The Quietened Village album: Dawn and Night Editions – pre-order and release dates

Dawn Edition £12.00. Night Edition £25.00.
The Quitened Village-front of both editions-A Year In The Country
Audiological Transmissions Artifact #2

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

Available to pre-order on 11th April 2016 at our Artifacts Shop and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.
Release date 25th April 2016.

In a transmission from the future manner: also to be available at The Ghost Box Guest Shop and Norman Records.

The Quietened Village is a study of and reflection on the lost, disappeared and once were homes and hamlets that have wandered off the maps or that have become shells of their former lives and times.

Audiological contents created by Howlround, Time Attendant, The Straw Bear Band, Polypores, The Soulless Party, The Rowan Amber Mill, Cosmic Neigbourhood, A Year In The Country, Sproatly Smith and David Colohan.

Both editions hand-finished and custom printed using archival giclée pigment ink by A Year In The Country.

 

Night Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £25.00.
Hand-finished box-set contains: album on all black CDr, 12 page string bound booklet,
4 x badge pack and 2 x stickers.
The Quietened Village-Night Edition-front of box-A Year In The Country
The Quietened Village-Night Edition-A Year In The CountryThe Quietened Village-Night Edition-inner first page-lighter-A Year In The CountryThe Quietened Village-Night Edition-inner vellum and notes page-lighter-A Year In The Country

The Quietened Village-all-black-CDr-A-Year-In-The-Country-
Top of CD.                                                               Bottom of CD.

Further encasement 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 with cover print.
3) Fully black CDr (black on top, black on playable side).
4) Black string bound booklet: 12 pages (6 sides printed);
Printed on textured fine art cottage rag paper, heavy card and semi-transparent vellum.
Hand numbered on the reverse.
5) 4 x  badge set, contained in a see-through polythene bag with a folded card header.
6) 2 x vinyl style stickers.

 

Dawn Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £12.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with inserts and badge.
The Quietened Village-Dawn Edition-A Year In The Country
The Quietened Village-Dawn Edition-opened-A Year In The CountryThe Quietened Village-Dawn Edition-back-A Year In The Country
The Quietened Village-white-black-CDr-A-Year-In-The-Country
Top of CD.                                                      Bottom of CD.

Further encasement details:
1) Custom printed using archival Giclée pigment ink.
2) Includes 25mm/1″ badge, secured with removable glue on string bound tag.
3) Back of one insert hand numbered.

 

Notes and Scribings:
The Quietened Village is a study of and reflection on the lost, disappeared and once were homes and hamlets that have wandered off the maps or that have become shells of their former lives and times.

Inspired in part by images of sections of abandoned, submerged villages and the spires of their places of worship re-appearing from the surfaces of reservoirs and lakes, alongside thoughts of dwellings that have succumbed to the natural erosion of the coastline and have slowly tumbled into the sea.

Some of the once were and lost villages which were seedlings for this body of work still stand but their populations are no more, those who lived there evicted at short notice and never to return so that their homes and hearths could be used as training grounds for those who would fight during great conflicts between nations.

Such points of reference have been intertwined with possibly more bodeful reasons for this stilling and ending; thoughts of Midwich Cuckoos-esque fictions or dystopic tales told and transmitted in times gone by and imagined/re-imagined in amongst the strands of The Quietened Village.

The Quietened Village-Night Edition-back cover image

Further Audiological Contents Details:
1) At The Confluence Of The Mitta Mitta & Murray – David Colohan
2) Flying Over A Glassed Wedge – Howlround
3) The Drowning Of Mardale Green – The Straw Bear Band
4) Damnatorum – The Soulless Party
5) Playground Ritual – Polypores
6) Separations – The Rowan Amber Mill
7) Day Blink – Time Attendant
8) 47 Days And Fathoms Deep – A Year In The Country
9) Lost Villages Of Holderness – Sproatly Smith
10) Bunk Beds – Cosmic Neighbourhood

Artwork and packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.

 

Available to pre-order on 11th April 2016 at our Artifacts Shop and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.
Release date 25th April 2016.

In a transmission from the future manner: also to be available at The Ghost Box Guest Shop and Norman Records.

 

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Audiogical Transmissions Artifact #1: Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels Eventide Ether Envoy Edition download card set released

The cards are now sold out but the album is available to download at our Bandcamp page, Amazon, The Tidal Store, 7digital etc and can be streamed on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube etc.

Eventide Ether Envoy Edition. £6.00.
Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Eventide Ether Envoy-print-A Year In The Country
Audiological Transmissions Artifact #1
Encasement details: lined envelope with double-side printed download code card, vinyl style sticker, vellum semi-transparent print, 10.8 x 7.9cm signed and numbered print on heavy weight textured cotton rag paper, 2 x double-side printed Notes & Scribings and Tracklisting inserts.

Hand-finished and custom printed using archival Giclée pigment ink by A Year In The Country.

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

Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Eventide Ether Envoy-components-A Year In The Country-wide crop-2Audiological Contents: The Chatter Amongst The Land. A Cracked Sky. Night Mesh. Flutter Once More. Fading From A Distance. Imparting Received. Songs From The Sentinels. Tales And Constructs. They Have Departed Once More. To Be Sheltered. A Measuring. For My Gentle Scattering. (51 minutes).

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Retransmission: Notes and Scribings on Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels;
Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Eventide Ether Envoy-vellum print-A Year In The Country
A study of the tales told/required to be told by the sentinels/senders that stand atop the land; a gathering of scattered signals plucked from the ether, cryptograms that wander amongst the airwaves, fading, tired and garbled messages which have journeyed from nearby or who knows where…

The Airwaves set of audiological constructs are an exploration that begins with and via silent but ever chattering broadcast towers; their transmissions and sometimes secrets – the songs they weave from their own particular language and emanations.

These stilled, quietly brooding sentinels/senders are part of a network of threads, both corporeal and those less tangible, carrying on their shoulders the weight and responsibilities of passing forward those innumerable stories; of joy, day-to-day life, institutional watchfulness, our entertainments or in conclusion harbingers of storms sent from our own hands.

Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Eventide Ether Envoy-reverse print-A Year In The Country

Airwaves harvests, weaves with and recasts the transmissions found amongst the gossamer strands of that network, intertwining these with and through the medium of cathodic reverberations/mechanisms while also taking ministrations from the wellsprings and flows of an otherly pastoralism, travelling through and amongst the brambled flipside of an Arcadian idyll and the subcultural undergrowth of the wald.

The resulting work, though drawn in part from the beauty and bounty of the landscape wherein these sentinels stand, seems to often summon unbidden some sense of loss, of the ghosts and fractures of a landscape and psyche that still contains the echoes and fragments of cold conflicts and end of days once planned for by national behemoths and those who stood beside them.

Further perusing of Airwaves notes, scribings and audiological transmissions can be carried out here.

 

Credits:
Audiological construction by A Year In The Country.
Artwork and packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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Audiogical Transmissions Artifact #1: Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels cassettes pre-order – Midnight Archaic Encasements and Dawn Light Ferrous Reels Editions

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

Midnight Archaic Encasements Edition £23.00.
Dawn Light Ferrous Reels Edition £8.00.Airwaves-Songs From The Sirens-Midnight Archaic Encasements and Dawn Light Editions with tapes-A Year In The Country-Audiological Transmissions Artifact #1
A study of the tales told/required to be told by the sentinels/senders that stand atop the land; a gathering of scattered signals plucked from the ether, cryptograms that wander amongst the airwaves, fading, tired and garbled messages which have journeyed from nearby or who knows where…

Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Midnight Archaic Encasements Edition-landscape stickerAudiological Contents: The Chatter Amongst The Land. A Cracked Sky. Night Mesh. Flutter Once More. Fading From A Distance. Imparting Received. Songs From The Sentinels. Tales And Constructs. They Have Departed Once More. To Be Sheltered. A Measuring. For My Gentle Scattering. (51 minutes).

Both editions hand-finished and custom printed using archival Giclée pigment ink by
A Year In The Country.

Available via our: Artifacts Shop and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.
Pre-order: begins shipping on 7th March 2016. Includes free UK shipping.

 

Midnight Archaic Encasements Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £23.00.
Hand-finished box-set contains: album on black cassette with inserts, MP3 files/artwork/notes & scribing on 3″ CDr, 4 x sticker pack, 1 x landscape sticker, download card & vellum print in lined envelope, cotton rag print in lined envelope.
Airwaves-Songs From The Sirens-Midnight Archaic Encasements Edition-front of box-A Year In The Country

Airwaves-Songs From The Sirens-Midnight Archaic Encasements Edition-front of box-A Year In The Country-artifact components
Airwaves-Songs From The Sirens-Midnight Archaic Encasements Edition-front of box-A Year In The Country-opened box-2
Further encasement details:
1) Printed using archival Giclée pigment ink by A Year In The Country.
2) Contained in a rigid two part matt cardboard box.
3) Cassette inlay and 2 x inserts are double-side printed.
4) Both envelopes feature textured linings.
5) CD contains the album as MP3s plus Ocular Accompaniment artwork and Notes & Scribings for each track.
6) “Belt and braces” download code for the album and CD files included.
7) Hand signed and numbered.

8) Each edition contains one of 4 prints on textured cotton rag paper in a sealed envelope.

Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Midnight Archaic Encasements Edition print 2 Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Midnight Archaic Encasements Edition print 3Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Midnight Archaic Encasements Edition print 1Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Midnight Archaic Encasements Edition print 4

 

Dawn Light Ferrous Reels Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £11.00.
Hand-finished cassette set contains: album on white cassette with inserts, download card/sticker/vellum print in lined envelope.
Airwaves-Songs From The Sirens-Dawn Light Ferrous Reels Edition-front of box-A Year In The Country Airwaves-Songs From The Sirens-Midnight Archaic Encasements Edition-artifact components-A Year In The Country
Further encasement details:
1) Printed using archival Giclée pigment ink by A Year In The Country.
2) Envelope features textured lining.
3)  Download code for the album plus Ocular Accompaniment artwork and Notes & Scribings for each track.
4) Inserts and download card are double-side printed.
5) Back of one of the inserts is hand signed and numbered.

 

Retransmission: Notes and Scribings on Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels;
A study of the tales told/required to be told by the sentinels/senders that stand atop the land; a gathering of scattered signals plucked from the ether, cryptograms that wander amongst the airwaves, fading, tired and garbled messages which have journeyed from nearby or who knows where…

Airwaves-Dawn Light tape-vellum-A Year In The Country

The Airwaves set of audiological constructs are an exploration that begins with and via silent but ever chattering broadcast towers; their transmissions and sometimes secrets – the songs they weave from their own particular language and emanations.

These stilled, quietly brooding sentinels/senders are part of a network of threads, both corporeal and those less tangible, carrying on their shoulders the weight and responsibilities of passing forward those innumerable stories; of joy, day-to-day life, institutional watchfulness, our entertainments or in conclusion harbingers of storms sent from our own hands.

Airwaves Midnight tape-vellum 1-A Year In The Country

Airwaves harvests, weaves with and recasts the transmissions found amongst the gossamer strands of that network, intertwining these with and through the medium of cathodic reverberations/mechanisms while also taking ministrations from the wellsprings and flows of an otherly pastoralism, travelling through and amongst the brambled flipside of an Arcadian idyll and the subcultural undergrowth of the wald.

The resulting work, though drawn in part from the beauty and bounty of the landscape wherein these sentinels stand, seems to often summon unbidden some sense of loss, of the ghosts and fractures of a landscape and psyche that still contains the echoes and fragments of cold conflicts and end of days once planned for by national behemoths and those who stood beside them.

Further perusing of Airwaves notes, scribings and audiological transmissions can be carried out here.

 

Credits:
Audiological construction by A Year In The Country.
Artwork and packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.

 

 

 

Available via our: Artifacts Shop and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.
Pre-order: begins shipping on 7th March 2016. Includes free UK shipping.

 

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Audiogical Transmissions Artifact #1: Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels CD released – Dawn, Dusk, Day and Night Editions

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

Dusk Edition £10.00. Dawn Edition £12.00. Day Edition. £18.00.  Night Edition £25.00.
Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-all editions-A Year In The Country-700Audiological Transmissions Artifact #1
A study of the tales told/required to be told by the sentinels/senders that stand atop the land; a gathering of scattered signals plucked from the ether, cryptograms that wander amongst the airwaves, fading, tired and garbled messages which have journeyed from nearby or who knows where…

Audiological Contents: The Chatter Amongst The Land. A Cracked Sky. Night Mesh. Flutter Once More. Fading From A Distance. Imparting Received. Songs From The Sentinels. Tales And Constructs. They Have Departed Once More. To Be Sheltered. A Measuring. For My Gentle Scattering.
(51 minutes)

All editions hand-finished and custom printed using archival Giclée pigment ink by
A Year In The Country.

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

 

Night Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £25.00.
Hand-finished box-set contains: album on all black CDr, 12 page string bound booklet,
4 x badge pack, 2 x stickers, 1 x individual print.
Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Night Edition-opened-A Year In The Country-700
Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Night Edition-part opened-A Year In The Country-700
Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Night Edition-badge pack and one off artwork-A Year In The Country-700
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Top of CDr.                                                            Bottom of CDr.

1) Booklet/cover art/artwork custom printed using archival Giclée pigment ink.

2) Contained in a matchbox style sliding two-part rigid matt card box with cover print.

3) Fully black CDr (black on top, black on playable side).

4) Black string bound booklet: 12 pages (6 sides printed);
Printed on textured fine art cottage rag paper, heavy card and semi-transparent vellum.
Hand signed and numbered on the reverse.

5) 4 x  badge set, contained in a see-through polythene bag with a folded card header.

6) 2 x vinyl style stickers.

7) Each box contains a different Airwaves artwork print, printed on textured fine art cottage rag paper. Hand signed and numbered on the reverse.

 

Dusk Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £10.00.
Hand-finished all black CDr in matt recycled sleeve with inserts.
Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Dusk Edition-front-A Year In The Country-700
Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Dusk Edition-all items-A Year In The Country-700Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-all black CDr-A Year In The Country-
Top of CDr.                                                            Bottom of CDr.

Custom printed using archival Giclée pigment ink.

Back of one insert is hand signed and numbered.

 

Day Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £18.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in 10 page string bound booklet.
Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Day Edition-front-A Year In The Country-700
Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Day Edition-text-A Year In The Country-700Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Day Edition-text 2-A Year In The Country-700Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-packaging and wax sealed-A Year In The Country-Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-white black CDr-A Year In The Country
Top of CDr.                                                         Bottom of CDr.

1) Booklet custom printed using archival Giclée pigment ink.

2) White/black CDr (white on top, black on playable side).

3) String bound booklet: 10 pages (5 sides printed);
Printed on textured fine art cottage rag paper, heavy card and semi-transparent vellum.
Hand signed and numbered on the reverse.

4) Wrapped in wax sealed, hand stamped black tissue paper.

 

Dawn Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £12.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with inserts and badge.
Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Dawn Edition-front-A Year In The Country-700
Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Dawn Edition-opened-A Year In The Country-700Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-Dawn Edition-back-A Year In The Country-700Airwaves-Songs From The Sentinels-white black CDr-A Year In The Country
Top of CDr.                                                         Bottom of CDr.

Custom printed using archival Giclée pigment ink.

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

Back of one insert is signed and hand numbered.

 

Notes and Scribings on Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels;
A study of the tales told/required to be told by the sentinels/senders that stand atop the land; a gathering of scattered signals plucked from the ether, cryptograms that wander amongst the airwaves, fading, tired and garbled messages which have journeyed from nearby or who knows where…

The Airwaves set of audiological constructs are an exploration that begins with and via silent but ever chattering broadcast towers; their transmissions and sometimes secrets – the songs they weave from their own particular language and emanations.

These stilled, quietly brooding sentinels/senders are part of a network of threads, both corporeal and those less tangible, carrying on their shoulders the weight and responsibilities of passing forward those innumerable stories; of joy, day-to-day life, institutional watchfulness, our entertainments or in conclusion harbingers of storms sent from our own hands.

Airwaves harvests, weaves with and recasts the transmissions found amongst the gossamer strands of that network, intertwining these with and through the medium of cathodic reverberations/mechanisms while also taking ministrations from the wellsprings and flows of an otherly pastoralism, travelling through and amongst the brambled flipside of an Arcadian idyll and the subcultural undergrowth of the wald.

The resulting work, though drawn in part from the beauty and bounty of the landscape wherein these sentinels stand, seems to often summon unbidden some sense of loss, of the ghosts and fractures of a landscape and psyche that still contains the echoes and fragments of cold conflicts and end of days once planned for by national behemoths and those who stood beside them.

Further perusing of Airwaves notes, scribings and audiological transmissions can be carried out here.

 

Credits:
Audiological construction by A Year In The Country.
Artwork and packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.

 

 

 

 

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