Film Reviews
Naomi Kawase :: The Mourning Forest
Drama on grief, care and the difficulty of following another person.
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
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
Hwael Field
Hwael Field 01 :: The Country Between Songs
A 1970s folk sequence tracing shadow, stone, sea, fields and morning light.
Essays
Music for a Country Being Managed
Public films, library music, tape clubs and Britain’s managed landscape
Album Reviews
Micron Fields :: Medieval Tape Muzak
Hauntological ambient, field recordings, tape decay and edited rural memory
Album Reviews
Component #4 :: When a House Is Not a Home
Pastoral electronica, dream pop, organ and badly catalogued memory