Second Hearing
Jackson C. Frank :: Jackson C. Frank
A 1965 folk album between its original sleeve and the stories told later.
2026
Everything Hwael Mag published in 2026: album and film reviews, essays and long-form writing on hauntology, ambient and pastoral sound — gathered by the year.
Album Reviews
Deniz Cuylan :: For Luca
Ambient folk of guitar, winds and memory, shaped around Luca.
Album Reviews
morimoto naoki :: Kou
Minimal ambient shaped by light, repetition and everyday detail.
Album Reviews
Sairie :: Beneath the Spreading Tree
Old folk materials, arrangements with something left unsettled.
Album Reviews
Ella Rae Cole :: Rocky Creek
Acoustic folk, fingerstyle guitar, Montana landscapes and family memory.
Film Reviews
Colin Cant :: The Children of Green Knowe
A flooded house, family ghosts and an English winter.
Album Reviews
Jason Dungan & Johan Carøe :: Routine
Ambient folk, zither, cello, tape and interrupted time
Essays
A Name Under the Record
An essay on attention, editorial risk and the human work of discovery.
Album Reviews
HUG :: HUG
Ambient folk of guitars, rain and frogs, where intimacy opens into distance.
Hwael Field
Hwael Field 03 :: The Rooms Beyond the Field
Recent oblique folk moving through rooms, weather, distance and open ground.
Hwael Field
Hwael Field 02 :: The Long Grass at Dusk
Ten 1970s folk songs moving through belief, weather, sorrow and dusk.
Film Reviews
M. Powell & E. Pressburger :: A Canterbury Tale
Wartime pastoral drama of memory, pilgrimage and the English countryside.