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

Track by The Heartwood Institute from The Layering album:

https://ayearinthecountry.co.uk/the-layering-preorder-and-release-dates/

Released on hand finished CD and digitally on 22nd September 2020.

The album explores the way that places are literally layered with history, and is an audio slicing through the layers of time. It journeys amongst the stories and characters of these layers, including, amongst other aspects, the structures built, events which took place and different era’s technologies and belief systems.

Such layering can go far back into pre-recorded history. Much of the earth is thought to have once been underwater, and it is likely that the majority of cities, towns and villages are built in fomer ocean areas. Current land masses have come to be formed, in part, through a layering of past marine, other life and plants, which in turn are then quarried or mined, subsequently being used to create the infrastructure of contemporary civilisation, and creating something of a cyclical, time-out-of-joint nature to the layers of time.

The layering of time can also take many other forms: modern homes and buildings are often built on top of the remains of previous settlements, which at times are discovered when new building work is carried out; contemporary roads and pathways follow the same routes as ancient roads and trails, which have been travelled down for millennia; often forgotten or abandoned tunnel networks, bunkers, railway lines, telephone exchanges etc lie under cities and towns; active and former mines thread underneath rural areas; churches are built on ancient places of worship, and then in turn are sometimes abandoned themselves, and become the sites for modern day revelries such as gigs, dance music events and so on.

The Layering is a reflection on how these, and other varied strata, are layered on top of one another, and/or sit side-by-side, with some being recorded, while others are forgotten or unknown, becoming part of a hidden or semi-hidden history.

The album features music and accompanying text on the tracks by: Circle/Temple, The Heartwood Institute, Sproatly Smith, A Year In The Country, Field Lines Cartographer, Howlround, Folclore Impressionista, Handspan, Widow’s Weeds, Listening Center, Vic Mars, Pulselovers and Grey Frequency.

Beneath The City Streets - The Heartwood Institute - from The Layering album

“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.“

Beneath The City Streets - The Heartwood Institute - from The Layering album

A Year In The Country

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