Ghost Signals

"A Year In The Country make excellent music and excellent books about all things dark rural, folk horror, liminal England and hauntology." Stuart Maconie, Freak Zone, BBC Radio 6 "Stephen Prince is a multimedia artist who's been building his own otherworldly visions of Arcadian England under the name A Year In The Country. Both an exploration of a pastoral past and a rumination on a dystopian present, his recordings marry spectral folk to an electronic otherworld, whilst he has written books of non-fiction that investigate the inner-psyche of our collective histories. He is one of our most authoritative and tireless guides... for any self-respecting hauntologist A Year In The Country is a treasure trove of wyrd delights." Thomas Patterson, Sarah Gregory and Ben Graham, Shindig! "A Year In The Country epitomises the confluence of interest and dark synergy between nature, myth, occultism and ghost traces of hauntological memory." Rob Young, The Magic Box "Stephen Prince's impressively comprehensive multimedia project A Year In The Country has explored and documented some of the lesser-trodden pathways between pastoral folk music and Radiophonic electronica, as well as actively contributing to these genres with a succession of hugely enjoyable musical releases. He has created a tangled, overgrown enclave of twisted, rustic oddness and continues to weave his own darkly entrancing magic over the countryside." Bob Fischer, Fortean Times' The Haunted Generation columnist, writing at his website and in Electronic Sound magazine "A Year In The Country is steadily building up a body of work that presents an alternative view of rural Britain and the project's output is consistently fascinating." Psychogeographic Review Press quotes on A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields, also written by Stephen Prince and released as part of the A Year In The Country project: "A new book caught my eye recently - the title A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields, that goes in search of the darker, eerier side of the bucolic countryside dream by looking at films of a certain genre, books, TV series, music; it is great to have this fascinating subject explored so thoroughly and brought together under one title." Verity Sharp, Late Junction, BBC Radio 3 "An excellent compendium of Prince's musings and meditations on all things wyrdly bucolic, uncanny, and elegiac." Simon Reynolds, author of Retromania and Energy Flash