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A Year in the Country: Straying from the Pathways – Book

Hidden Histories, Echoes of the Future’s Past and the Unsettled Landscape... from the lost futures of hauntology and villages gone rogue to dystopian Brutalist architecture...

Yearly Indexes

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Links to all wanderings so far...

A field recording based mapping of real and imaginary film and television locations... Each track contains field recordings from one such location and a seeking of the spectral will-o’-the-wisps of their imagined or often hidden flipsides.

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  • The Nightmare Man Part 2 – Frankenstein-like Meddling, Vodaynoid Myths and Exploratory Portals: Wanderings 43/52
  • Grey Frequency – Immersion: Audio Visual Archive 42/52
  • The Nightmare Man Part 1 – Cold War Paranoia, The Island as Restorative Balm and Unsettling “Other”: Wanderings 42/52
  • The Corn Mother: Audio Visual Archive 41/52
  • The A Year In The Country: Straying From The Pathways Book – Released
  • The Dangers of Straying from the Path and Tales of Lycanthropy Part 4 – A Consideration of Red Riding Hood, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Company of Wolves and their Varying Degrees of Separation from Folk Horror: Wanderings 41/52
  • The Quietened Mechanisms: Audio Visual Archive 40/52
Detectorists, Layered Timeslips, Albion in the Overgrowth, The Unthanks and Secrets Never Told:

"When he blows this whistle there is a sense of a chill, unsettled wind running through the air and in the sequence the whistle’s tone acts as a carrier signal back through time..."

The Changes / The Disruption – Notes on a Flipside of the Pastoral Conversation

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“It travels to the same dark and anti-pastoral territory as David Rudkin/Alan Clarke’s Penda’s Fen and the Nigel Kneale scripted Murrain.”

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.

Vashti Bunyan: From Here To Before and Whispering Fairy Stories Until They Are Real

"serves as an entrancing exploration of a youthful journey of exploration and searching and also an associated self-created almost parallel sense of reality."

Arcadia – Views from a Not so Always Arcadian Idyll

“She was told the truth lay in the soil…”

Robert Macfarlane, Benjamin Myers, the Eerie Landscape and Unravelling of Dizzying Mazes

"The supernatural and paranormal have always been means of figuring powers that cannot otherwise find visible expression. Contemporary anxieties and dissents are here being reassembled and re-presented as spectres, shadows or monsters.”

The Watchers

Reflects on ancient trees' residing over growing layers of history and their stately, still form of time travel. Features music and accompanying text on the tracks by Grey Frequency, Field Lines Cartographer, Widow's Weeds ft Kitchen Cynics, Depatterning, A Year In The Country, Phonofiction, Pulselovers, Sproatly Smith, Vic Mars, The Heartwood Institute and Howlround.

Broadcast – Recalibration, Constellation and Exploratory Pop:

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“The video features Trish Keenan’s silhouette flickering and strobing in the landscape in ritualistic stances, as the natural world melds and dissolves into an unsettling almost psychedelic set of images…”

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 Jonny Trunk, Stephen Cracknell of The Memory Band and others...

The Films Of Old Weird Britain

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...celluloid flickerings from an otherly albion...

Hauntology and the deletion of spectres

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...the making of an ungenre...

The Quietened Village

A study of and reflection on lost, disappeared and once were villages and hamlets that have wandered off the maps or that have become shells of their former lives and times.

Filming The Owl Service; Tomato Soap and Lonely Stones

"I wanted to run. They looked too right. It was like a waking dream. Here were the people I’d thought about, who’d lived in my head for so long; but now they were real. I couldn’t accept that they were only actors."

Let me grab your soul away

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...Kate Bush and darkly cinematic flickerings through the meadows, moors and mazes…

The Twilight Language Of Nigel Kneale

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...cathode ray seances and the mists of memory...

Artifacts Shop

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

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