Hand-finished white/black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with inserts and badge.
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.
Audiological contents created by Circle/Temple, Sproatly Smith, Keith Seatman, Polypores, The 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.
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Further encasement details:
1) Custom printed using archival Giclée pigment ink.
2) Includes 25mm/1″ badge, secured with removable glue on string bound tag.
3) Back of one insert hand numbered.
Further Notes and Scribings:
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.
As a reaction to such, this was a possible high water mark of folk rock, psych/acid folk and an accompanying yearning to return to an imagined pastoral idyll.
Looking back, culture, television broadcasts and film from this time often seem imbued with a strange, otherly grittyness; to capture a sense of dissolution in relation to what was to become post-industrial Western culture and ways of living.
Such transmissions and signals viewed now can seem to belong to a time far removed and distant from our own; the past not just as a foreign country but almost as a parallel universe that is difficult to imagine as once being our own lands and world.
Selected initial reference points and signals: Delia Derbyshire leaving The BBC/The Radiophonic Workshop and reflecting later that around then “the world went out of time with itself”. Electricity blackouts in the UK and the three day week declared. The Wickerman released. The Changes recorded but remained unreleased. The Unofficial Countryside published. The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water released.
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Further Audiological Contents Details:
1) The Osmic Projectors/Vapors of Valtorr - Circle/Temple
2) The Land Of Green Ginger - Sproatly Smith
3) Seeing The Invisible - Keith Seatman
4) Triangular Shift - The Listening Center
5) An Unearthly Decade - The British Space Group
6) A Fracture In The Forest - The Hare And The Moon ft Alaska/Michael Begg
7) Elastic Refraction - Time Attendant
8) Ratio (Sequence) - The Rowan Amber Mill
9) The Perfect Place For An Accident - Polypores
10) A Candle For Christmas/311219733 - A Year In The Country
11) Eldfell - David Colohan
Artwork and packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.
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