Editions
Wychcombe
A novel by Antonio Martellotta. The drought summer of 1976.
Pastoral
Pastoral on Hwael Mag: hedgerow songs, field and season — the landscape sung, English and beyond.
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
Album Reviews
liana flores :: And so it Goes...
Bossa nova, folk and art pop moving from private rooms into social life.
Album Reviews
Component #4 :: When a House Is Not a Home
Pastoral electronica, dream pop, organ and badly catalogued memory
Album Reviews
M G Boulter & Jenny Sturgeon :: Wild Convenor
Pastoral folk, close harmonies, lap steel and home-recorded intimacy.