Film Reviews
Vittorio De Seta :: The Lost World (1954-1959)
Documentary shorts on southern labour, song and sea, Italy 1954–59.
Pastoral
Pastoral on Hwael Mag: hedgerow songs, field and season — the landscape sung, English and beyond.
Essays
Windham Hill: The Making of a Listening Place
Essay on Windham Hill and the landscape a label built around its music.
Album Reviews
The Balloonist :: Spirit Duplicator
Revisits the schoolrooms and half-heard pop of an 80s childhood.
Editions
Wychcombe
A novel by Antonio Martellotta. The drought summer of 1976.
Album Reviews
Ella Rae Cole :: Rocky Creek
Acoustic folk, fingerstyle guitar, Montana landscapes and family memory.
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.
Album Reviews
Gilroy Mere :: Furlongs
Pastoral electronics, South Downs, Ravilious and train rhythms
Essays
Ambient Folk 1995-2010: The Network Before the Scene
Ambient folk, CD-R culture, free-folk networks and the rise of circulation
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