“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… The album is themed around the notion that the year 1973 was a cultural and psychic tipping point.” (Quoted from the album’s text and writing at The Ghost Box Records Guest Shop.)
Includes work 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.
“A skillfully weighted blend of dark folklore and synthesised experimentation, Fractures is a bit special.” Electronic Sound
Tracks from the album were also broadcast amongst the traditional and digital radio airwaves at:
Evening Of Light / The Golden Apples Of The Sun #1 / The Golden Apples Of The Sun #2 / The Séance / Radio: More Than Human / You, The Night And The Music #1 / You, The Night And The Music #2 / fRoots Radio / Free Form Freakout, Project Moonbase and in a circular manner at the Test Transmission Archive.
Elsewhere at A Year In The Country:
- Fractures – Night and Dawn Editions Released
- Audiological Transmission #20/52: Fractures – The Osmic Projector/Vapors of Valtorr
- Audiological Transmission #21/52: Fractures – The Land Of Green Ginger
- Audiological Transmission #22/52: Fractures – Seeing The Invisible
- Week #22/52: Fractures Signals #1; Flickerings From Days Of Darkness
- Audiological Transmission #23/52: Fractures – Triangular Shift
- Week #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
- Audiological Transmission #24/52: Fractures – An Unearthly Decade
- Week #25/52: Fractures Signals #4; A Behemoth Comes Once More A Knocking…
- Audiological Transmission #28/52: Fractures – Elastic Refraction
- Audiological Transmission #49/52: Fractures – Ratio (Sequence) / Revisitation #3a
- 1973 – A Time of Schism and a Dybbuk’s Dozen of Fractures: Chapter 7 Book Images