Sampler for the new Grey Frequency album, 'Cold Geometry'.
Digital download and limited cassette versions available:
https://greyfrequency.bandcamp.com/album/cold-geometry

Track-list:
Dusk Gives Way To Night
Dyatlov Pass
Rainhill 
Signal And Serenade
Future Ghosts Past
Counting Decibels

'Cold Geometry' album sampler

Burn the Witch



I saw her kiss his cheek
I saw him fall in love

I wanted him for mine
Until the end of time

It's all her fault
She looked at him with round green eyes

It's all her fault 
She talks to him with fancy words

It's all her fault
She smiled at him with full red lips

It's all her fault
She makes him laugh using her wit

Stick her in the ducking stool
Baptise her with fire
Drown or burn for all to spurn
Just make her leave my mind



Music by Andrea Fiorito
Words by She Rocola

Violin: Andrea Fiorito
Vocals: She Rocola

Recorded by Andrea Fiorito & Joe Whitney 2013

Photo of She Rocola by Zoe Lloyd

https://www.facebook.com/she.rocola

Released by http://ayearinthecountry.co.uk/ September 2014

Recording archived in The British Library

Burn The Witch ~ She Rocola

Part of the year-long Piano in the Woods project. This month featured poet Ben Hickman, Canterbury Scratch Orchestra and a fire breather performing at night in the rain. www.pianointhewoods.com

Sam Bailey and Ben Hickman - Piano in the Woods 7 (2013-11-03)

Sam Bailey and Luke Blake - Piano in the Woods 12 (2014-04-06)

Featuring Medway-based 'neolithic soul drone' trio Hand of Stabs improvising to the dancing of Angela Pickard.

Hand of Stabs with Angela Pickard - Piano in the Woods 12 (2014-04-06)

Simon Smith - Piano in the Woods 13 (2014-05-03)

Sam Bailey and Toma Gouband - Piano in the Woods 13 (2014-05-03)

Michael Tanner - Table Harp, Zithers, Bowed Strohviol 
Emma Morton - Voice
Alison Cotton - Viola
Gemma Williams - Clarinet

Arrangements by Michael and Alison. 
Recorded at Greenwitch in Lewes, East Sussex, 2014

A cover of the traditional song made popular by Shirley and Dolly Collins, featuring Emma Morton from Lutine and Alison Cotton from The Left Outsides/Trimdon Grange Explosion.

For the compilation accompanying the Film 'The Ballad Of Shirley Collins' - More info at:

http://shirleycollinsmovie.com/


Plinth - One Night As I Lay On My Bed

Piano in the Woods + Hand of Stabs + Juha Virtanen at Smugglers Festival 2014-08-30

Available as a limited edtion box set and string bound booklet versions.

From the Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town release.

Available here: http://ayearinthecountry.co.uk/she-rocola-burn-the-witch-day-272365/

She Rocola: Burn The Witch

From the album Fractures: 
Pre-order 30th May 2016. Released 13th June 2016. 

Audiological exploration by Sproatly Smith.

Further details: 
ayearinthecountry.co.uk/fractures-dawn-night-editions-pre-order-release-dates/ 

Fractures audiological contents created by Circle/Temple, Sproatly Smith, Keith Seatman, Polypores, Listening Center, The British Space Group, The Hare And The Moon ft Alaska/Michael Begg, Time Attendant, The Rowan Amber Mill, A Year In The Country and David Colohan. 


Notes and Scribings: 
Fractures is a gathering of studies and explorations that take as their starting point the year 1973; a time when there appeared to be a schism in the fabric of things, a period of political, social, economic and industrial turmoil, when 1960s utopian ideals seemed to corrupt and turn inwards. 

As a reaction to such, this was a possible high water mark of the experimentations of psych/acid folk, expressions of eldritch undertones in the land via what has become known in part as folk horror and an accompanying yearning to return to an imagined pastoral idyll. 

Looking back, culture, television broadcasts and film from this time often seem imbued with a strange, otherly grittyness; to capture a sense of dissolution in relation to what was to become post-industrial Western culture and ways of living. 

Such transmissions and signals viewed now can seem to belong to a time far removed and distant from our own; the past not just as a foreign country but almost as a parallel universe that is difficult to imagine as once being our own lands and world. 

Fractures is a reflection on reverberations from those disquieted times, taking as its initial reference points a selected number of conspicuous junctures and signifiers: Delia Derbyshire leaving The BBC/The Radiophonic Workshop and reflecting later that around then “the world went out of time with itself”. Electricity blackouts in the UK and the three day week declared. The Wickerman released. The Changes recorded but remained unreleased. The Unofficial Countryside published. The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water released.

Audiological Transmission #21​/​52​​: Fractures - The Land Of Green Ginger - Sproatly Smith

“A Year In The Country is a set of year long journeys through and searching for an expression of an underlying unsettledness to the bucolic countryside dream; an exploration of an otherly pastoralism, the patterns beneath the plough, pylons and amongst the edgelands… it is a wandering about and through the trails of things that have influenced, inspired and intrigued me along the way, which will quite possibly take in the further flung reaches of work with its roots in folkloric concerns and what has been labelled hauntological culture.“

Audiological Transmission #21/52: Fractures - The Land Of Green Ginger - Sproatly Smith

A Year In The Country

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