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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.

Yearly Indexes

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Links to all wanderings so far...

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  • All The Merry Year Round – Audio Visual Archive 16/52
  • Reflections on Brutalism Part 3 – J. G. Ballard and Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise and All Mod Con Dystopias: Wanderings 16/52
  • The Quietened Cosmologists – Audio Visual Archive 15/52
  • Reflections on Brutalism Part 2 – This Brutal World, Industrial Inspirations for Blade Runner, Memories of the Space Age and the Future Takes a Tumble: Wanderings 15/52
  • Undercurrents – Audio Visual Archive 14/52
  • Reflections on Brutalism Part 1 – This Brutal World and a Study of The Shape of the Future’s Past: Wanderings 14/52
  • From The Furthest Signals: Audio Visual Archive 13/52
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Open the door of our local shop... Artifacts and audiological explorations...

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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.”

Gallery

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Visual work from A Year In The Country

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…”

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.

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.”

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…”

The Corn Mother – Reflections on an Imaginary Film

In the early 1970s a folk horror-esque screenplay made the rounds of the film industry but remained unmade until 1982; in the plot a 19th century rural village descends into a maelstrom where reality & unreality merge and it becomes the kingdom of the corn mother… Features music by Gavino Morretti, Pulselovers, The Heartwood Institute, United Bible Studies, A Year In The Country, Widow's Weeds, Depatterning, Sproatly Smith and Field Lines Cartographer.

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...

Audio Albion

A music and field recording map of Britain: featuring work by Bare Bones, David Colohan, Grey Frequency, Field Lines Cartographer, Howlround, A Year In The Country, Keith Seatman, Magpahi, Sproatly Smith, Widow’s Weeds, Time Attendant, Spaceship, Pulselovers, The Heartwood Institute and Vic Mars.

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...