Hwael Field
Hwael Field 01 :: The Country Between Songs
A 1970s folk sequence tracing shadow, stone, sea, fields and morning light.
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
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
Film Reviews
Yuri Norstein :: Hedgehog in the Fog
Animated folk tale, fog, forest, fear and unstable perception
Album Reviews
M G Boulter & Jenny Sturgeon :: Wild Convenor
Pastoral folk, close harmonies, lap steel and home-recorded intimacy.
Essays
The Country Between Programmes
British television, regional lives, lost plays and an accidental archive
Album Reviews
Maya Ongaku :: Nothing Space Music
Japanese ambient folk, Rhodes, field recordings and coastal stillness
Album Reviews
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
Shearwater :: The New World
Art rock, field recordings, ecology and the friction of global assembly