The CDs are now sold out but the album is available to download at our Bandcamp page.
Racker&Orphan Twalif X CD.
Dusk Edition £11.00. Dawn Edition £13.00. Day Edition. £18.00. Night Edition £25.00.
Audiological Research and Pathways; Case #7.
Audiological contents: Twalif X (50.51 minutes).
Twalif X is an audiological journey through one night; the album was recorded between dusk and dawn on the 12th/13th May 2014 in Robin Wood, Bears Wood, Knott Wood and on Eagle Crag.
All recordings were captured on one microphone and processed/mixed by N. Racker (samandtheplants / Supernatural Lancashire / Finders Keepers Records) and D. Orphan (Folklore Tapes / Pre-Cert Home Entertainment).
The imagery for the release was created by N. Racker & D. Orphan using photographs taken during the outing and spliced with original artwork by A Year In The Country.
“…sometimes it is as though when listening to Twalif X that you are almost next to these explorers and you find that you have travelled with them to the otherly, darker corners of the woodlands and landscape. A work that is both calm and quietly unsettling, experimental with bursts of folkloric melody that appears with the coming of the dawn…” (AYITC).
All editions custom printed and hand-finished by A Year In The Country.
Available via our: Artifacts Shop, Discogs Audiological Archive and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.
Includes free UK shipping. Normally ships in 7-14 days.
Dusk Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £11.00.
Hand-finished all black CDr in matt recycled sleeve with insert.
Top of CDr. Bottom of CDr.
Custom printed/hand-finished by A Year In The Country using archival Giclée pigment ink.
Back of the insert is hand numbered.
Dawn Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £13.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with insert and badge.
Top of CDr. Bottom of CDr.
Custom printed/hand-finished by A Year In The Country 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 the insert is hand numbered.
Day Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £18.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in 10 page string bound booklet packaging.
Top of CDr. Bottom of CDr.
Day Edition Details:
1) Booklet custom printed/hand-finished by A Year In The Country using archival Giclée pigment ink.
2) Wrapped in wax sealed, hand stamped black tissue paper.
3) White/black CDr (white on top, black on playable side).
4) CDr held in protective fleece-lined sleeve.
5) Jute string bound 14.4cm x 13.2cm booklet:
a) Hand bone creased cover.
b) 10 pages (5 sides printed);
c) Front and rear covers are printed on 310gsm textured fine art cotton rag paper.
d) Two inner sheets are printed on 245gsm paper.
e) One inner sheet is printed on semi-transparent 110gsm vellum paper.
f) Hand numbered.
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 25mm badge pack, 1 x unique hand-produced natural ephemera print pack.
Top of CDr. Bottom of CDr.
Night edition details:
1) Booklet/cover art custom printed/hand-finished by A Year In The Country using archival Giclée pigment ink.
2) Contained in a matchbox style sliding two-part rigid matt card box.
3) Printed box cover print.
4) Fully black CDr (black on top, black on playable side).
5) 4 x 25mm/1″ badge set, contained in a see-through polythene bag with a folded card header.
6) 1 x pack containing unique natural ephemera print; hand-produced by D. Orphan and N. Racker.
7) Black string bound 12.8cm x 12.8cm booklet:
a) Hand numbered.
b) Hand bone creased cover.
c) 12 pages (6 sides printed).
d) Front and rear covers are printed on 310gsm textured fine art cotton rag paper.
e) Two inner sheets are printed on 245gsm paper.
f) Two inner sheets are printed on semi-transparent 110gsm vellum paper.
Twalif X packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.
Available via our: Artifacts Shop, Discogs Audiological Archive and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola.
Includes free UK shipping. Normally ships in 7-14 days.
Preview the album below:
Elswhere in the ether:
davidchattonbarker.com / folkloretapes.co.uk / nracker.co.uk / samalexmcloughlin.tumblr.com / soundcloud.com/david-orphan
The work of N. Racker and D. Orphan amongst the pathways of A Year In The Country:
Day #7/365: Folklore Tapes; the ferrous reels of arcane research projects
Day #32/365: Wyrd Britannia, Folklore Tapes, Magpahi and English Libraries
Day #57/365: A bakers dozen of Mr David Chatton Barker
Day #97/365: Ms A. Cooper, Natural/Supernatural Lancashire & the various nestings of Magpahi…
Day #226/365: Traces From A Delerium Of Forests…
The library of A Year In The Country Audiological Research and Pathways series includes:
Case Study #1: Grey Frequency: Immersion
Case Study #2: Hand of Stabs: Black-Veined White
Case Study #3: Michael Tanner: Nine of Swords
Case Study #5: She Rocola: Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town
Case Study #6: Howlround: Torridon Gate
Case Study #7: Racker & Orphan; Twalif X
