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This is the 2016 first edition, which has a different tracklisting to the 2019 reissue. It does not include a Bandcamp download/stream.
All black CDr album in fold out bound sleeve with inserts and badge.
The Quietened Village is a study of and reflection on the lost, disappeared and once were homes and hamlets that have wandered off the maps or that have become shells of their former lives and times.
Audiological Contents created by Howlround, Time Attendant, The Straw Bear Band, Polypores, Rowan Amber Mill, Cosmic Neigbourhood, The Soulless Party, A Year In The Country, Sproatly Smith and David Colohan.
Limited to 104 copies. Includes free UK shipping. Normally ships in 7-14 days.
Hand-finished and custom printed using archival giclée pigment ink by A Year In The Country.
One insert is hand numbered, the badge is attached to the tag with removable glue.
Further Notes and Scribings:
The Quietened Village is a study of and reflection on the lost, disappeared and once were homes and hamlets that have wandered off the maps or that have become shells of their former lives and times.
Inspired in part by images of sections of abandoned, submerged villages and the spires of their places of worship re-appearing from the surfaces of reservoirs and lakes, alongside thoughts of dwellings that have succumbed to the natural erosion of the coastline and have slowly tumbled into the sea.
Some of the once were and lost villages which were seedlings for this body of work still stand but their populations are no more, those who lived there evicted at short notice and never to return so that their homes and hearths could be used as training grounds for those who would fight during great conflicts between nations.
Such points of reference have been intertwined with possibly more bodeful reasons for this stilling and ending; thoughts of Midwich Cuckoos-esque fictions or dystopic tales told and transmitted in times gone by and imagined/re-imagined in amongst the strands of The Quietened Village.
Further details:
ayearinthecountry.co.uk/quietened-village-album-dawn-night-editions/
Further Audiological Contents Details:
1) At The Confluence Of The Mitta Mitta & Murray - David Colohan
2) Flying Over A Glassed Wedge - Howlround
3) The Drowning Of Mardale Green - The Straw Bear Band
4) Damnatorum - The Soulless Party
5) Playground Ritual - Polypores
6) Separations - Rowan Amber Mill
7) Day Blink - Time Attendant
8) 47 Days and Fathoms Deep - A Year In The Country
9) Lost Villages Of Holderness - Sproatly Smith
10) Bunk Beds - Cosmic Neighbourhood
Artwork and packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.
Audiological Transmissions Artifact #2.
Transmissions sent, received, transmitted:
"The music conjures roofless walls holding spirits not populations, skeletal spires pointing accusative fingers skywards, submerged shadows reflecting in water, crumbled remains wreathing a cliff’s base..." Folk Words
"This evocative album offers a score for crumbled communities, abandoned villages and sunken spires, honoring history with quiet grace befitting its title." Richard Allen, A Closer Listen
"... impressively coherent. Its themes are tackled with sadness, hope and respect for the past, and will almost certainly supply prescient pointers for the future direction of nature, society and art. If the new epoch sounds like this, we may not be condemned after all." Thomas Blake, Folk Radio UK
“The album evokes a beautifully atmospheric pastoral reverie, and a ghostly sense of loss…” Jim Jupp, Ghost Box Records
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The A Year In The Country project is a set of year-long journeys through spectral fields - explorations of an otherly
pastoralism, the outer reaches of folk culture & the spectres of hauntology.
As a project it has included a website featuring writing, artwork & music which stems from that otherly pastoral/spectral hauntological intertwining, alongside a growing number of book & album releases.
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