Hwael Field 01 — The Country Between Songs
A route through shadow, heat, stone, water and cultivated ground.
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Geology Disco :: Where God Came Never
Experimental folk, field recordings, ritual textures and Staffordshire landscape
Lawrence Gordon Clark :: The Signalman
BBC ghost story: railway haunting, signals, telegraphy and dread
Music for a Country Being Managed
Public films, library music, tape clubs and Britain’s managed landscape
Micron Fields :: Medieval Tape Muzak
Hauntological ambient, field recordings, tape decay and edited rural memory
liana flores :: And so it Goes...
Bossa nova, folk and art pop moving from private rooms into social life.
L'Rain :: fata morgana
Experimental R&B, jazz, fractured pop and songs that refuse to settle
Component #4 :: When a House Is Not a Home
Pastoral electronica, dream pop, organ and badly catalogued memory
Yuri Norstein :: Hedgehog in the Fog
Animated folk tale, fog, forest, fear and unstable perception
Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou :: Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems
Experimental ambient, field recordings, piano and porous soundscapes
Phoebe Bridgers :: Lost Weekend
Ambient pop, borrowed melodies, disappearance inside a crowded record.
M G Boulter & Jenny Sturgeon :: Wild Convenor
Pastoral folk, close harmonies, lap steel and home-recorded intimacy.
Album Reviews
Grey Malkin :: Our Eyes Are Filled With Moss
Experimental folk, woodwinds, electronics and ritual body horror.
Essays
Ambient Folk Before 1995: The Rulebook That Never Existed
A prehistory built from recurrence, not one scene or lineage.
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Chelsea Wolfe :: The Dark
Gothic pop, dark folk, distortion, folklore and songs breached from within
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The Country Between Programmes
British television, regional lives, lost plays and an accidental archive
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Elanor Moss :: The Knife, The Needle
Folk songwriting, tape flaws, family memory and unreliable stories
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Maya Ongaku :: Nothing Space Music
Japanese ambient folk, Rhodes, field recordings and coastal stillness
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Blake Hornsby :: Brugmansia
Psych folk, fingerstyle guitar, field recordings and botanical unease
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Grandma Love :: Grandma Love
Hauntological electronica, family tapes, VHS decay and inherited memory
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yadayn :: Huis
Post-folk, fingerstyle guitar, chamber textures and shifting rooms
Essays
No Place to Be: The Hidden Geography of Nick Drake’s Pink Moon
Nick Drake's lyrics, landscape, mortality and the Pink Moon suicide myth
Film Reviews
David Gladwell :: Requiem for a Village
Rural England, memory, burial and the maintenance of a disappearing village
Album Reviews
Cinder Well :: A Blooming Body
Urban folk, piano, grief, brick, washing lines and landscape moving indoors