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The Corn Mother: Night Wraiths

by A Year In The Country / Stephen Prince

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    3) 1 x folded sheet of accompanying notes, printed on textured laid paper, hand numbered on back.

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about

The Corn Mother: Night Wraiths album is both a soundtrack to accompany The Corn Mother novella and a standalone piece of work.

The novella and album are explorations and relections “of the whispers that tumble forth from the corn mother’s kingdom”. A place and story where fact, fiction, reality and dreams blur into one:

1878: A villager is forced to flee from her home after rumours begin that she has cursed the crops. Her vengeful spirit, known as the corn mother, is said to visit those responsible in the night, bringing ill fortune and an all-encompassing sense of guilt.

1982: A film called The Corn Mother begins to be made. Although the plot is fictional, it closely resembles the story of the fleeing villager. The film is completed but never released, with all known copies disappearing after its production company collapses.

1984: A lifelong quest begins to find the near-mythical film.

2020: All mentions of The Corn Mother begin to disappear from the world, calling into question if the film ever existed.

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released March 16, 2020

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As with the A Year in the Country project as a whole, which they are released as part of, the book and album's structure are inspired by the cycle of the year. Following the number of seasons, the book is split into four sections; it has 52 chapters (which could also be considered scenes or episodes), the same number as there are weeks in the year; relating to the number of days in a non-leap year, each chapter’s text contains no more than 365 words; and as there are days in a week, the album has seven tracks.

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"After the first The Corn Mother album was released I would find myself still thinking about the story of this 'imaginary film', wondering what had happened to particular characters connected to it and so on. It felt like a story that was unfinished and which continues to echo off into the dreamscapes of imagination. Those ongoing echoes resulted in The Corn Mother novella and The Corn Mother: Night Wraiths album." Stephen Prince

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“A ghostly collection that marries ambient noise, sparse instrumentation and murky electronics to a suitably unsettling effect. Eerie, elegant and ever so evocative.” Thomas Patterson, Shindig!

"Spectral, swooping electronics and ominous analogue washes create a barren, shadowed landscape... Chillingly effective and genuinely unsettling, the synth pulses and growls are an adept soundtrack to the terrors in the book itself and work in a similar manner; subtle, pervasive and with a creeping sense of unease... a spooked sense of yearning and obsession played out in the ghost-strewn harmonies..." Grey Malkin, Folk Horror Revival

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The A Year in the Country project began in 2014, and is a set of year-long journeys though the undercurrents and flipsides of bucolic dreams; it is a wandering amongst subculture that draws from the further reaches of folk culture, the hidden and underlying tales of the land and where they meet and intertwine with the spectral histories of what has come to be known as hauntology. As a project, it has included a website featuring writing, artwork and music which stems from that otherly pastoral/spectral hauntological intertwining, alongside a growing catalogue of album and book releases.

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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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