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The Quietened Dream Palace

by A Year In The Country

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    1) Custom printed using archival giclée pigment ink.
    2) Includes metal badge, secured with removable glue on string bound tag.
    3) 1 x folded sheet of accompanying notes, printed on textured laid paper, hand numbered on back.

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The Quietened Dream Palace is an exploration of closed down cinemas, including those which have been abandoned, become derelict, reopened as something new or demolished and there is little or no trace of any more.

In part it explores the way that peoples' experiences and memories of such cinemas, the stories told in them and the buildings themselves have now become merely the ghostly spectres of history and memory. Alongside this the album reflects on the opulent historic design lineage of cinemas and the way that closed, abandoned etc cinemas and recollections of them can become faded snapshots of previous eras' and places' design and character.

It is also an interconnected exploration of how closed down cinemas once summoned the stories of their phantom dream worlds via the conjuring/seancing of celluloid film and its flickering light projections, and how this medium and related analogue projection equipment is largely no longer used, with both them and the accompanying skills of analogue projectionists, along with an associated way of life, increasingly becoming lost to time.

The music and accompanying text draws from and intertwines personal and wider cultural and historic memories as it wanders amongst "quietened dream palaces" and the times when they still cast their spell over audiences.

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released November 17, 2020

Artwork/packaging design and fabrication by AYITC Ocular Signals Department
Artifact #17a
Library Reference Number: AYITC17TQDP
Released by A Year In The Country
www.ayearinthecountry.co.uk

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The Quietened Dream Palace was planned and a considerable proportion of the related artwork, text and music was created prior to the global events of 2020.

Its central themes relating to abandoned etc cinemas were never intended to refer to or interconnect with the need for cinemas to stay closed during 2020 but we understand that the album will potentially, in part, have a different resonance in the new and changed landscape.

We wish the UK and overseas cinemas all the best in these challenging times. Here’s to many more years of them transporting audiences via the stories projected and told in them.

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"A set of tracks rooted in real world experience, but which still manage to reach out and touch the unreal and the ethereal..." Stuart Douglas, We Are Cult
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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.
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