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Paul Giovanni’s soundtrack gives Summerisle a past it never had. Our new essay traces its invented folklore, broken ritual calendar and the Christian memory concealed inside Sumer is icumen in.
The Wicker Man: Music and the Geography of Summerisle
Music gives Summerisle a geography, rearranges its seasons, instructs its bodies and manufactures the historical continuity on which its authority depends.
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Hiraeth :: Kasteiung On Kasteiung, Hiraeth turns liturgical song, field recordings and harsh noise into a penitential pastoral, where water overwhelms architecture and the voice keeps surfacing from beneath the noise.
Hiraeth :: Kasteiung
On Kasteiung, Hiraeth turns liturgical song, field recordings and harsh noise into a penitential pastoral, where water overwhelms architecture and the voice keeps surfacing from beneath the noise.
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Charlotte Jacobs turns voice, memory and machine into an interior architecture. On Word Passed the Time, language loses definition as time moves through it.
Charlotte Jacobs :: Word Passed the Time
Across seven movements, Charlotte Jacobs turns duration into an interior geography. Voices change distance, memories survive as edits, language slowly relinquishes meaning until only pressure remains.
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New on Hwael Mag: The Twelve Hour Foundation :: Expanded & Repurposed. Analogue synthesisers, found sounds and field recordings preserve the memory of educational television, library music and a modernist future once thought capable of being catalogued.
The Twelve Hour Foundation :: Expanded & Repurposed
In Expanded & Repurposed, The Twelve Hour Foundation recover the sounds of educational television, civic modernism and analogue machinery, turning them into compact electronic pieces between memory, f...
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United Bible Studies was never simply a band. It became an open collective where landscape, collaboration and small independent labels shaped one of the least documented stories in contemporary British and Irish experimental folk. New on Hwael Mag. @michaeltanner.bsky.social
United Bible Studies: An Irish Folk Scene
Formed in Dublin by two students who liked the Incredible String Band. What followed was a rotating cast of two hundred, a transatlantic touring circuit, two record labels, and a body of work that no ...
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New on Hwael Mag — a long read on @claypipemusic.bsky.social: the record as a hand-made object, and why the label stays small on purpose.
Clay Pipe Music at Low Tide
For fifteen years Frances Castle's Clay Pipe Music has treated the record as a hand-made object — illustrated, numbered, bound to a place. A field guide to a label that maps a minor, overlooked Englan...
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