The Forest / The Wald, by A Year In The Country

The Forest / The Wald

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Hand-finished box-set contains: album on all black CDr, 12 page string bound booklet, 4 x badge pack, 4 x round stickers, landscape format sticker and individual one-off print.

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1) Booklet/cover art custom printed using archival giclée pigment ink.
2) Contained in a matchbox style sliding two-part rigid matt card box with cover print.
3) Fully black CDr (black on top, black on playable side).
4) Black string bound booklet: 12 pages (6 sides printed);
Printed on textured fine art cotton rag paper, heavy card and semi-transparent vellum.
Hand numbered on the reverse.
5) 4 x badge set, contained in a see-through polythene bag with a folded card header.
6) 4 x vinyl style round stickers.
7) 1 x vinyl style landscape format sticker.
8) One-off print on textured fine art cotton rag paper, hand numbered on the reverse.

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Hand-finished white/black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with inserts and badge.

Limited edition of 104. Free UK shipping.

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.

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1.	Bare Bones - The Abney Ritual 05:21	buy track
2.	Magpahi - Hawthorn Heart 02:18	buy track
3.	Polypores - Deep Undergrowth 06:56	buy track
4.	Time Attendant - Fantastic Mass 05:24	buy track
5.	David Colohan - Waldeinsamkeit 08:57	buy track
6.	Sproatly Smith - Tomo's Tale 04:11	buy track
7.	The Hare And The Moon ft Alaska - A Whisper In The Woods 06:37	buy track
8.	The Rowan Amber Mill - Ocarina Procession 03:27	buy track
9.	The Séance with Lutine - Trees Grew All Around Her 05:40	buy track
10.	Cosmic Neighbourhood - Equinox 03:27	buy track
11.	A Year In The Country / Stephen Prince - Where Once We Wandered Free 05:06	buy track

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Also available at:
Our Artifacts Shop; www.ayearinthecountry.co.uk/shop

Norman Records; www.normanrecords.com/records2/162121-various-the-forest-the-wald

The Forest / The Wald is a study and collection of work that reflects on fragments and echoes of tales from the woodland and its folklore.

Such wooded realms are deeply embeded in our folk and popular
culture stories: their boughs and undergrowth being seen as places where spirits both good and bad may reside, visitors from elsewhere in the cosmos have laid down roots or where unwary travellers can come undone.

The album takes as one of its initial reference points Electric Eden author Rob Young’s observations of the roots of the word folk as being “...the music of the ‘Volk’, a word born of the Teutonic Wald, the wild wood where society was organised ad hoc, bottom-up and frequently savage...”; places where rituals endured and perplexed their heirs.

Although today they are often tamed and managed it takes but a wandering into the heart of one to realise just how near to being far from the comforts and securities of civilisation we are.

In amongst The Forest / The Wald can be found field recording folk that captures greenwood rituals performed in the modern day, echoes of fantastical childhood rhymes, sylvan siren calls that tremble through tangles of branches, electronics pressed into the summoning of otherworldly arboreal creations unearthed amidst the creeping thickets and elegies to woodland intrustions, solitudes and seasons.

Wald considerations by Rob Young.

Artwork / encasement design and fabrication by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.

Audiological Transmission Artifact #6.
Library Reference Numbers: ATA006N / ATA006D

Further details at:
ayearinthecountry.co.uk/forest-wald-released/

Released as part of the A Year In The Country project, a set of year long journeys through and searching for an expression of an underlying unsettledness to the bucolic countryside dream; an exploration of an otherly pastoralism, a wandering amongst subculture that draws from the undergrowth of the land, the patterns beneath the plough, pylons and amongst the edgelands.

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released November 14, 2016

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A Year In The Country UK

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. ... more

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