The A Year In The Country CDs etc are now sold out but the albums are available to download at our Bandcamp page, Amazon, The Tidal Store, 7digital etc and can be streamed on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube etc.
The A Year In The Country books are now sold out at our Shop and Bandcamp page but they are available at Amazon UK, Amazon US, Amazon Australia and their other worldwide sites and also from Lulu.
The books may also available to order from other bookshops etc, please direct any queries regarding that directly to them.
Friday 6th May 2022, is the last day of the A Year In The Country sale. Many items are half price or less and quite a few are already sold out or are down to the last few or even very last copy, so if you’ve ever thought about about exploring the undercurrents or taking a quietened journey then now would be the time to do it.
All the remaining CD and cassette copies of the albums etc are now only at our Bandcamp site and they are sold out at our Artifacts Shop.
The A Year In The Country books are still available for sale at Amazon UK, Amazon US and their various other international sites and Lulu. They may also available to order from other online and bricks and mortar bookshops etc (please ask the bookshops etc directly if you want to do that).
The A Year In The Country albums are also available digitally at Bandcamp and/or the likes of Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon etc.
Which just leaves me to say thanks to a fair few people…
The performers who have contributed music to the A Year In The Country releases: including Grey Frequency, Field Lines Cartographer, Vic Mars, Circle/Temple, The Heartwood Institute, David Colohan, Pulselovers, Sproatly Smith, Hand of Stabs, Michael Tanner, The Straw Bear Band, Polypores, The Rowan Amber Mill, Spaceship, Time Attendant, Cosmic Neighbourhood, Keith Seatman, Widow’s Weeds, Kitchen Cynics, Listening Center, Alaska, Panabrite, Unknown Heretic, Phonofiction, Magpahi, Lutine, United Bible Studies, Bare Bones, Endurance, Sharron Kraus, Dom Cooper, Quaker’s Stang, Embertides, Howlround, Depatterning, The Hare And The Moon, Racker & Orphan, The British Space Group, Unit One, Sophie Cooper, Harriet Lisa, Neil Whitehead, Dave Millsop, Zosia Sztykowski, The Soulless Party, She Rocola, Assembled Minds, The Séance, The Howling (Robin The Fog and Ken Hollings), Gavino Morretti, Ken Patterson (Caedmon), Handspan and Folclore Impressionista.
The people who have sold and distributed the A Year In The Country releases and/or lent their advice: Jim Jupp of Ghost Box Records, The state51 Conspiracy in particular, Shaun Yule, Juno Records, Piccadilly Records, Psilowave, Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona, all at Norman records especially Ant and Phil and Justin Watson of Front & Follow.
All who have bought and supported the A Year In The Country music releases, books and artifacts and everybody that visits the website and/or shares etc posts elsewhere online.
Everybody who has written about A Year In The Country and reviewed the various releases, including amongst others John Coulthart, Simon Reynolds, DJ Food, Jude Rogers, Ben Graham, Ian White, Matthew Sedition, Grey Malkin, Massimo Ricci, Warren Ellis, Sukhdev Sandhu, Joe Banks, Alan Boon, Dave Thompson and Bob Fischer of The Haunted Generation. Also, all at Terrascope, Avant Music News, Music Won’t Save You, Starburst, Fortean Times, Rockerilla, Bliss Aquamarine, Was Ist Das?, Shindig!, The Wire, The Active Listener, Include Me Out, Wyrd Daze, Folk Words, Landscapism, fRoots, The Sunday Experience, The Golden Apples of the Sun, Electronic Sound, Both Bars On, Rue Morgue, Mojo, Folk Radio, Goldmine, Saint Etienne Disco, Diabolique, Bandcamp Daily, Quiet World & Wonderful Wooden Reasons, Incendiary, Violet Apple, 33-45, Radio Limbo, We Are Cult, Folk Horror Revival, Forestpunk, Whisperin’ & Hollerin’, A Closer Listen, Mind De-Coder, The Guardian, Moof and Psychogeographic Review.
All those who have included A Year In The Country released tracks in their radio broadcasts, podcasts etc, including, again amongst others, Stuart Maconie, Gideon Coe, Daniel Jago, Alistair Gordon, Nick Luscombe, James Papademetrie and Pete Wiggs of the aforementioned The Séance, and all at Evening of Light, Kites and Pylons, More Than Human, The OST Show, Syndae, Sunrise Ocean Bender, Fractal Meat, Flatland Frequencies, The Unquiet Meadow, Gated Canal Community Radio, Phantom Circuit, Free Form Freakout, The Crooked Button, Project Moonbase, Space Folk Horror Lounge, Awkward Moments, Pull the Plug, Pic n’ Mix, On the Wire and You, the Night & the Music.
Ian Lowey for the dab hand design and editorial work for A Year In The Country and also Suzy Prince for the equally dab hand editorial work (both of Bopcap Books).
Verity Sharp for inviting me onto BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction and playing tracks from the A Year In The Country released albums and Rebecca Gaskell for her admirable production of the show, Gary Milne of BBC Archives for his compiling and curation of video spectres, Tales from the Black Meadow author Chris Lambert for the audio journeys he created to accompany the A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields book and William “Billy” Harron as always for accidentally pointing me in the direction of the undercurrents of folk.
Also my family for the ongoing support and to everybody whose work has inspired me on the wanderings, explorations and pathways of A Year In The Country.
Thanks and a tip of the hat to you all!
