Ghost1 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 FOLKLORE TAPES CALENDAR CUSTOMS BOX SET £62.00 http://www.folkloretapes.co.uk/product/folklore-tapes-calendar-customs-box-set https://bleep.com/release/93999-various-artists-folklore-tapes-calendar-customs-boxset *SOLD OUT* • four twelve-inch vinyl records containing thirty-eight tracks • includes the releases Merry May, Crown of Light (Midsummer Traditions and Folklore), Fore Hallowe’en, Midwinter Rites and Revelries • researched and executed by fifteen artists over a two year period (2014–2016) • forty-page booklet comprising illustrations, research notes and an in-depth calendar customs essay by Jez Winship • also includes a set of four postcards featuring original artwork by David Chatton Barker, a unique photogram print and download code • held by a hand-numbered and stamped foil embossed box • limited edition of 250 The high-days and holidays of the agrarian year mean little to many of us today. Estranged from the natural world and its solar cycle, we too often encounter such dates only as decorative names in the lifeless pages of pocket diaries and year-planners. Yet these occasions were deeply significant to our long-dead forefathers, who daubed each with a variety of vividly coloured customs, rites and rituals. The Folklore Tapes Calendar Customs series explores this heady world of seasonal symbolism creatively, through research and artistic reinterpretation. The Folklore Tapes Calendar Customs Box Set recounts the adventure so far, taking its listener on an arcane journey reeling around the four corners of the ritual year. With Merry May, we encounter the dances, games and fertility ceremonies that once greeted spring and the returning bounty of the soil. Pulling on our Crown of Light, we join the fires, feasts and fairies of Midsummer, with a full-swelled sun casting its enchanted energies around us. At the borderline festival of Samhain we bestride the threshold among the wandering spirits and tricksters that stepped this night Fore Hallowe’en. Our voyage spins to a close at the year’s end with Midwinter Rites and Revelries, where, clothed in evergreens, we forecast the sun’s rebirth beside ceremonial flames. For these compilation albums, each contributing artist researched a specific seasonal custom and, informed by their findings, conjured a sonic movement in response. The pieces are a magnetic assortment of sound collage and foley work, composed music and augmented field-recording. The release documents the Folklore Tapes group as it has evolved to be: a variegated host of musicians, storytellers, sound designers, academics and performance artists united by their desire to get off-the beaten-track in the eerie hinterlands of folk memory. These are playful retellings of long-forgotten observances; library sounds, carried forth on a wisp of smoke from the bonfires of ages past. The works are presented here on vinyl for the first time in remastered audio (each was originally released – and soon sold out – as a cassette album between 2014 and 2016). Accompanying the records is a horde of precious items: a photogram print, a set of four postcards featuring the original cassette release artwork, and a detailed booklet comprising illustrations, research notes and an in-depth seasonal customs essay. These treasures are housed in a hand-numbered and stamped cream foil-print blue box, published in a limited edition of 250. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mourning Wood Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I have some tapes and flexis from the ongoing series. always great packaging. this looks cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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