Hand Of Stabs - Black-Veined White (Dawn Edition)
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Singer: Hand Of Stabs
Title: Black-Veined White (Dawn Edition)
Short-info: Label: A Year In The Country ‎– Audiological Case Study #2 (Dawn Edition)
Type: CDr, Album, Limited Edition
Country: UK
Date of released: 27 Aug 2014
Category: Electronic, Rock
Style: Dark Ambient, Abstract, Ambient, Downtempo, Experimental, Neofolk
MP3 album size .rar: 1389 mb
APE album size .rar: 1701 mb
Digital formats: MP3 FLAC AUD MMF MOD ASF AA AAC VQF

Tracklist

1 Black-Veined White 68:33

Notes

Hand-finished white/black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with insert and badge.

Audiological Research and Pathways; Case #2.Audiological contents: Black-Veined White (68:33 minutes).

Limited to 52 copies.

Custom printed by A Year In The Country using archival Giclée pigment ink.
Includes 25mm/1″ badge, secured with removable glue on a tag which is string bound to the sleeve.
Back of the insert is hand numbered.

HoS personnel:
electric guitar, cello: captain rex standish
percussion, tenor recorder, mandocaster: james worse
velophone, electronics, bugle: jocelyn von bergdorff
voice: Kyra La Rubia (De Coninck)

www.soundcloud.com/stabhand

text used with kind permission:
Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2008 onwards.
British insects: butterflies. Version: 29th December 2011.
www.delta-intkey.com/britin/pap/www/aporia.htm

&:
Black-Veined White (Aporia cratœgi)
(Poem by Giles Watson, 2014.)
www.delta-intkey.com/angio/poems.htm

Artwork and packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.

Released by A Year In The Country.

Artifact #34/52:
Audiological Research and Pathways; Case #2

"Black-Veined White takes as its starting point the eponymous butterfly which was last seen in the UK in Rochester, the area in which HoS live, work and explore, in the 1920s...

...it utilises precise textual descriptions of the Black-Veined White by L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz alongside poetry that considers these 'air wraiths' by Giles Watson, to create a journey whereby Hand of Stab's hidden drones and textures create a form of (non-electronic) electronica played on and summoned from the land and soil, a journey which captures and summons the spirit of these winged creatures that have now departed from our shores.

Black-Veined White and the work of Hand of Stabs is a very particular, otherly form of cultural exploration and inquiry whereby the aggressive transgression of the likes of COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and early Einstürzende Neubauten has evolved and spread deeply foraging roots to create work that is more pastoral in its themes but still very far from the centre of things." (AYITC)

Hand of Stabs, from the South East of England, are a three-man collective who’s work draws inspiration from their exploration of local, often forbidden, landmarks. They create improvised sound pieces which can be simultaneously uplifting, difficult and intense using both traditional and homebuilt instruments.

Sharing a love of the history and sacred past of Medway Towns and surrounding countryside, and inspired by regular, often night-time walks through these spaces, they are creating a series of soundworks evoking and celebrating their essence.



A Year In The Country: An English idyll, a midnight sun...

"A Year In The Country is a year long journey through and searching for an expression of an underlying unsettledness to the English 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."

More information on the project at www.ayearinthecountry.co.uk
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