Film Reviews
Athina Rachel Tsangari :: Harvest
Folk western on enclosure: a village that keeps its borders in the body.
Landscape
Reviews and essays where landscape is the subject: pastoral folk, ambient and hauntology, and film rooted in place — coast, fog, and haunted terrain.
Essays
Ichiko Aoba and the Fifth Verse
Essay on Ichiko Aoba, Hateruma and who keeps an island song alive.
Film Reviews
Vittorio De Seta :: The Lost World (1954-1959)
Documentary shorts on southern labour, song and sea, Italy 1954–59.
Essays
Windham Hill: The Making of a Listening Place
Essay on Windham Hill and the landscape a label built around its music.
Film Reviews
Naomi Kawase :: The Mourning Forest
Drama on grief, care and the difficulty of following another person.
Essays
A Stone Without a Story
Flint: Where Folk Belief Placed the Power of the Stone
Album Reviews
Assistant :: Certain Memories
Indie pop on family, illness and the fragile work of remembering.
Editions
Wychcombe
A novel by Antonio Martellotta. The drought summer of 1976.
Film Reviews
John Mackenzie :: Red Shift
Love and violence recur across three eras in Cheshire.
Film Reviews
Colin Cant :: The Children of Green Knowe
A flooded house, family ghosts and an English winter.
Hwael Field
Hwael Field 02 :: The Long Grass at Dusk
Ten 1970s folk songs moving through belief, weather, sorrow and dusk.
Album Reviews
Gilroy Mere :: Furlongs
Pastoral electronics, South Downs, Ravilious and train rhythms