{"id":18235,"date":"2017-03-02T01:04:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T01:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18235"},"modified":"2017-03-02T01:04:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T01:04:32","slug":"the-marks-upon-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/03\/02\/the-marks-upon-the-land\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marks Upon The Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The latest release from A Year In The Country, The Marks Upon The Land<\/em>, sees the label pushing its roots into a new medium with a 60-page book collecting the monochrome imagery featured on the label’s website and CD packaging. That imagery\u2014described on the website as “explorations of an otherly pastoralism, a wandering amongst subculture that draws from the undergrowth of the land \u2013 the patterns beneath the plough, pylons and amongst the edgelands”\u2014converts the bucolically familiar into something more eerie or even sinister, a series of widescreen mutations that create pareidolia spectres through symmetry and layering. Seen in isolation, these images are arresting enough but they gain power by being collected together, fashioning a statement of intent.<\/p>\n

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Statement or not, it can be difficult to sell people semi-abstract imagery so it’s probably wise that The Marks Upon The Land<\/em> comes with a musical accompaniment in the form of two 4-track CDs\u2014Wild Hope Flowers<\/em> by David Colohan and Richard Moult, and The Dark Chamber<\/em> EP by A Year In The Country\u2014and a 12-track cassette, Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels<\/em> by A Year In The Country (the book will also be available on its own).\u00a0The Dark Chamber<\/em> is described as an audio exploration of the imagery in the book although I found that Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels<\/em> was just as fitting, if not more so, since the pieces are fluid soundscapes with a sinister edge.\u00a0The Dark Chamber<\/em> is a series of electronic instrumentals, one of which, The Dark Chamber<\/em>, is an uptempo piece of a kind more usually associated with city streets (bleating sheep and a distant rookery notify us that we’re still in the country). After appearing separately on previous A Year In The Country releases, David Colohan and Richard Moult provide a contrast to the electronic processing with four short piano-led songs, a reminder that the folk spirit still lurks in the hedgerows (what’s left of them).<\/p>\n

The Marks Upon The Land<\/em>\u00a0will be released on 6th March, 2017. Order details and previews may be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The Forest \/ The Wald<\/a>
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