The Quietened Mechanisms, by A Year In The Country

The Quietened Mechanisms

by A Year In The Country

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Box-set contains: album on all black CD, 2 x sheets of accompanying notes, 1 print, 4 x stickers and 3 x badges.

1) Cover and notes 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 CD (black on top, black on playable side).
4) 2 x folded sheets of accompanying notes from the contributors, printed on textured laid paper. Back of one sheet hand numbered.
5) 1 x print on textured fine art cotton rag paper.
5) 2 x 2.5 cm badges, 1 x 4.5 cm badge.
6) 2 x rectangular and 2 x circular stickers.

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White/black CD album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with fold-out insert and badge.

Further packaging details:
1) Custom printed using archival giclée pigment ink.
2) Includes 2.5 cm badge, secured with removable glue on string bound tag.
3) 1 x folded sheet of accompanying notes from the contributors, hand numbered on back.

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1.	The Heartwood Institute - Birkby and Allbright Mine 03:54		buy track
2.	Quakers Stang - The Hoffman Kiln 04:05		buy track
3.	Depatterning - Of Looms in the Housen 03:45		buy track
4.	Embertides - Ash, Oak & Sulphur 03:28		buy track
5.	Dom Cooper - Metallurgy 03:19		buy track
6.	Field Lines Cartographer - The Mill in the Forest 03:56		buy track
7.	Grey Frequency - Nottingham Canal 03:58		buy track
8.	Howlround - A Closed Circuit 03:58		buy track
9.	The Soulless Party - Rattler to the Tower 03:55		buy track
10.	Keith Seatman - Rural Flight 03:49		buy track
11.	Listening Center - Clarion of the Collapsed Complex 03:36		buy track
12.	Spaceship - The Stones Speak of Short Lives 04:01		buy track
13.	Sproatly Smith - Canary Babies 04:44		buy track
14.	Pulselovers - Fuggles 03:59		buy track
15.	Time Attendant - Hidden Parameters 03:57		buy track
16.	Vic Mars - Watchtower and Engine 03:55		buy track
17.	A Year In The Country / Stephen Prince - The Structure/Respite 04:00	info	buy track

about

The album is an exploration of abandoned and derelict industry, infrastructure, technology and equipment that once upon a time helped to create, connect and sustain society.

It wanders amongst deserted factories, discarded machinery, closed mines, mills and kilns and their echoes and remains; taking a moment or two to reflect on these once busy, functioning centres of activity and the sometimes sheer scale or amount of effort and human endeavour that was required to create and operate such structures and machines, many of which are now just left to fade away.

The CD and Bandcamp download include accompanying notes on the tracks by the contributors.

The Quietened Mechanisms is released as part of the A Year In The Country project, a set of year long journeys through spectral fields; cyclical explorations of an otherly pastoralism, the further reaches of folk culture and the spectral parallel worlds of hauntology - a wandering amongst subculture that draws from the undergrowth of the land.

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 releases.

Accompanying the music releases is a book called A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields which gathers and revises previous writing from A Year In The Country alongside new journeyings.

The book and the written posts on the site are intended to draw together and connect layered and, at times, semi-hidden cultural pathways and signposts, journeying from acid folk to edgelands via electronic music innovators and pioneers, folkloric film and photography, dreams of lost futures and misremembered televisual tales and transmissions.

"...the first book of it's kind to catalogue all these disparate strands, many of which cross over time and space to influence one another." DJ Food

"...an essential field guide to a distinct aesthetic that remains loosely defined, like a fluttering night moth that would die if pinned down."  Ben Graham, Shindig!

On A Year In The Country and its previous music 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

"…another exquisitely packaged affair… murky and ominous as befits the guiding thematic: places that are spectrally imprinted with past conflicts and struggles... a conceptual compilation of excellently eerie electronic music..." Simon Reynolds, author of Retromania and Energy Flash

“A Year In The Country… operating like some sinister rustic arts and crafts movement manifesting online via a Wi-Fi connected scrying mirror... an almanac of unearthly sonics to tide you through the winter nights." Shindig!

"...a response to British folk traditions that acknowledges the history without seeming beholden to it." John Coulthart, Feuilleton

www.ayearinthecountry.co.uk

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released October 2, 2018

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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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