Either been too busy or not in the house long enough to log everything, but hey, look at these: life is being pretty good to me.
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I love everything that Poemme has done, and I’m so happy she’s made a winter record. This is going to be on regularly until spring. It’s the sound of snowfall in heaven.
Frozen Passages is an imagined journey into the far north of the continent, through boreal forest, across vast, barren landscape, through the iciest storm, and eventually finding warm refuge as the night brings a welcome calm to the tundra.
Just arrived today, from writer/designer Richard Littler, the latest SCARFOLK emanation.
Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight fever.
I have loved the SCARFOLK work forever, and am delighted to now possess an actual Annual (hardcover Annual books in this style were a mainstay Xmas publishing phenomenon back then). This stuff is always funny, bitter, weird and chilling in equal measure, and never less than witty and wonderful.
A Christmas necessity. Stand around your burning oil can at Yuletide as you roast some rats and read it to each other over the constant wail of sirens in the distance.
An unusual and lovely thing: a promo CD for Alison Cotton’s forthcoming 10-inch vinyl release THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND. Incredibly kind of her to pass on. And Alison asks, at her @alison_cotton Twitter place, if that you are in a position to review or arrange radioplay, that you get in touch with her for a promo CD.
It is, as expected, marvellous.
All from coldspring bandcamp com.
We have here Egregore and Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast Aside by Common Eider, King Eider. Fimbulvinter by Nytt Land. ᛉᛦ – Algir; eller Algir i Merkstave by Trepaneringsritualen. And the magnificent Twll Du by Llyn Y Cwn, which I’m listening to right now.
I mentioned this extraordinary record the other day. It was obviously necessary to own it on physical media. You can buy it too – it shipped out to me really fast.
Please excuse the slight crookedness of the photo, it has been A Day already
The one top left is 景 by 光淵 (Pool Of Light).
The other three are ITANGEON’s Summer Solstice bundle.
A quiet happy morning.
