The Quietened Cosmologists, by A Year In The Country

The Quietened Cosmologists

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Night Edition box set
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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 stickers, 1 x large badge.

Limited edition of 104. Free UK shipping.

Further encasement details:
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) 1 x large badge.
7) 4 x vinyl style stickers.

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Dawn Edition in fold-out sleeve
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
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.	Field Lines Cartographer - OPS-4 04:27	buy track
2.	Pulselovers - Lonely Puck 04:32	buy track
3.	Magpahi - Chaika 02:21	buy track
4.	Howlround - Night Call, Collect 02:30	buy track
5.	Vic Mars - X-3 04:13	buy track
6.	Unit One - Voyages Of The Moon 04:30	buy track
7.	A Year In The Country / Stephen Prince - The March Of Progress/Frontier Dreams 04:05	buy track
8.	Keith Seatman - 093A-Prospero 02:45	buy track
9.	Grey Frequency - Phantom Cosmonauts 04:10	buy track
10.	Time Attendant - Adrift 04:26	buy track
11.	Listening Center - Mléčný Perihelion Weekend 04:28	buy track
12.	Polypores - The Amateur Astronomer 04:20	buy track
13.	David Colohan - Landfall At William Creek 04:35	buy track

about

The Quietened Cosmologists is a reflection on space exploration projects that have been abandoned and/or that were never realised, of connected lost or imagined futures and dreams, the intrigue and sometimes melancholia of related derelict sites and technological remnants that lie scattered and forgotten.

It takes as its initial starting points the shape of the future’s past via the discarded British space program of the 1950s to 1970s; the sometimes statuesque and startling derelict artifacts and infrastructure from the Soviet Union's once far reaching space projects; the way in which manned spaceflight beyond Earth's orbit/to the moon and the associated sense of a coming space age came to be largely put to one side after the 1969 to 1972 US Apollo flights.

More details via:
www.ayearinthecountry.co.uk/artifact-report-3752a-quietened-cosmologists-preorder

Also available at our Artifacts Shop and at Norman Records:
www.ayearinthecountry.co.uk/shop
www.normanrecords.com/records/167232

The Quietened Cosmologist is released as part of the A Year In The Country project, which via the posts on its website and music releases has carried out a set of year long explorations of an otherly pastoralism; the undercurrents and flipside of bucolic dreams, the further reaches of folk music and culture, work that takes inspiration from the hidden and underlying tales of the land and where such things meet and intertwine with the lost futures, spectral histories and parallel worlds of what has come to be known as hauntology.

The album is sent out into the world in two different hand-crafted Night and Dawn editions, produced using archival giclée pigment inks; presenting and encasing their journey in amongst tinderboxes, string bound booklets and accompanying ephemera.

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released October 3, 2017

Artwork/encasment design and fabrication by AYITC Ocular Signals Department

Artifact #5a / Library Reference Numbers: A010TQCD / A010TQCD

“‘Mléčný Perihelion Weekend’ by Listening Center takes us to a strange ticking otherworldy place, a place that feels at once vast and infinite, a haunting slice of space music… The record ends with ‘Landfall at William Creek’, David Colohan’s spectral hammered dulcimer peels away into the inky vastness of space, a beautiful end to a fine record.”
Andrew Young, Terrascope
www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Reviews_October_17.htm

“The Quietened Cosmologists’ features a dozen spectral suites, each exploring the various aspects, forgotten histories and what ifs of these golden age adventures... Pulselovers serve up ‘Lonely Puck’ – a wonderfully serene and affectionate love note mailed out from across the outer edges of the cosmos, a transmission from a long lost and forgotten outpost if you like, twinkle toned and radiantly awash in what sounds like shimmering cosmic church bell celebrations... While last one for this brief ride, Field Lines Cartographer’s ‘OPS-4’ with its binary shimmer tones and vapour rubbed ethereal detailing, cuts a finite line between the enchanting and the eerie, a ghost flotilla perhaps a sonic spectre of sorts or rather more, an orbital occurrence with past visions looped on endless replay.”
Mark Barton, The Sunday Experience
www,marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/the-quietened-cosmologists/

On previous A Year In The Country releases:

"A Year In The Country quietly go about their business releasing beautifully packaged music that is influenced by folk, electronica, drone as well as by landscape, time and place... each have themes running through them, tying the music together and seemingly telling a story as they unfold." Terrascope

"…one imagines such editions being buried in time capsules or cemented in stone walls for future generations to mull over: sedimentary layers of history..." A Closer Listen

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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. ... more

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