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Set among the cultural hinterlands of wyrd, otherly pastoral, folk, psychedelic and hauntological culture, the novella written by Stephen Prince follows the journey of a song through time: one that appears to bring disarray to all who hear it. Is this coincidence or something more?
1799: A young woman who lives at the Shildam Hall country mansion writes a lament for a lover she can never be with, and locks it away forever.
1840: The song is discovered by one of her relatives and begins a journey through time. It entrances those who hear it, but does it also lead to their potential demise?
1969: A film set among the decadent milieu of late 1960s counterculture commences production at Shildam Hall, before collapsing amidst potential scandal after the song is rediscovered.
2004: A recording of the song is stumbled upon but all who listen to it seem to disappear...
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78 pages. Softcover.
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The novella and the accompanying The Shildam Hall Tapes: The Falling Reverse album, also by Stephen Prince, are further explorations of an imaginary abandoned film that first began on an album called The Shildam Hall Tapes released in 2018, which featured music by Gavino Morretti, Sproatly Smith, Field Lines Cartographer, Vic Mars, Circle/Temple, A Year In The Country, The Heartwood Instititute, David Colohan, Listening Center and Pulselovers.
All of the above albums and novella can be listened to and read as standalone pieces of work. They also interconnect with the story and world of the near-mythical imaginary lost folkloric fever dream film The Corn Mother, which was explored in the 2020 novella The Corn Mother and album The Corn Mother: Night Wraiths, both of which were written and recorded by Stephen Prince; and also the 2018 album The Corn Mother, which again featured music by a variety of performers, including a number of those mentioned above, alongside Depatterning, United Bible Studies and Widow's Weeds.
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As with the A Year In The Country project as a whole, which they are released as part of, the novellas' and albums' structures are inspired by the cycle of the year. Following the number of seasons, the novellas are each split into four sections; they have 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 albums each have seven tracks.
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The A Year In The Country: Threshold Tales book - AVAILABLE AT AMAZON, LULU ETC
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The A Year In The Country: Lost Transmissions book - AVAILABLE AT AMAZON, LULU ETC
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The A Year In The Country: Cathode Ray and Celluloid Hinterlands book - OUT OF STOCK HERE, AVAILABLE AT AMAZON, LULU ETC
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The A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields book - OUT OF STOCK HERE, AVAILABLE AT AMAZON ETC
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The A Year In The Country: Straying From The Pathways book - OUT OF STOCK HERE - AVAILABLE AT AMAZON, LULU ETC
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The Corn Mother novella - OUT OF STOCK HERE - AVAILABLE AT AMAZON, LULU ETC
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The Marks Upon The Land art book - OUT OF STOCK HERE - AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
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The Shildam Hall Tapes: The Falling Reverse –
Dawn Light edition in fold-out sleeve.
A Year In The Country / Stephen Prince
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The Layering – Dawn Light edition in fold-out sleeve
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The Quietened Dream Palace – Dawn Light edition in fold-out sleeve
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The Corn Mother: Night Wraiths –
Dawn Light edition in fold-out sleeve
A Year In The Country / Stephen Prince
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The Corn Mother: Night Wraiths –
Nightfall edition boxset
A Year In The Country / Stephen Prince
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The Quietened Journey – Dawn Light Edition in fold-out sleeve
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The Quietened Journey – Nightfall Edition boxset
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Echoes And Reverberations – Dawn Rising edition in fold-out sleeve
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The Watchers – Dawn Light Edition in fold-out sleeve
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The Watchers – Nightfall edition boxset
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The Quietened Village – Dawn Light Edition in fold-out sleeve
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The Quietened Village – Nightfall Edition Boxset
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The Corn Mother – Dawn Rising edition - Gatefold CD
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The Quietened Mechanisms – Dawn Light edition in fold-out sleeve
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The Quietened Mechanisms – Nightfall edition box set
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The Shildam Hall Tapes – Dawn Light edition in fold-out sleeve
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The Shildam Hall Tapes – Nightfall Edition boxset
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Audio Albion – Nightfall Edition box set
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Audio Albion – Dawn Light Edition in fold-out sleeve
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All The Merry Year Round – Dawn edition in fold-out sleeve
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All The Merry Year Round – Night edition box set
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The Quietened Cosmologists – Dawn Edition in fold-out sleeve
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The Quietened Cosmologists – Night Edition box set
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The Quietened Village - Duskfall Edition in fold-out bound sleeve. 2016 edition.
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Undercurrents –
Dawn edition in fold-out sleeve
A Year In The Country / Stephen Prince
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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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