Label: Folklore Tapes

当店激推しレーベル英Folklore Tapes!!英国のディープな民俗学を探究、長年に渡り広く収集されてきた歴史のイメージをアブストラクトな音楽と実験的ビジュアルで作品化する、まさにインディペンデントな活動を行っているFolklore Tapes。本作は2023年に英国にて開催された"British Textile Biennial"への出展作品として制作されたフィルム[Larksong]のサントラ。撮影及び録音は1760年に繊維/農場労働者によって建てられたイングランドの史跡" Goodshaw Chapel"で行われており、当時の環境を周囲の風景と共に紹介するという作品。レーベルオーナーであり研究者のDavid Chatton Barkerをはじめ、このレーベルのオールスターと言える面々が様々な編成で楽曲を制作、現地の18世紀の合唱団やら礼拝堂の墓地で見つかった4つの墓碑銘からのインスピレーション、またチャペル内及び周囲でキャプチャーされたフィールドレコーディングなども取り入れた、摩訶不思議な没入型フォークロア。傑作。32ページブックレット付き。



• Twelve-inch 33rpm vinyl
• Housed in a hand numbered double sided screen printed sleeve
• Rubber stamp printed labels
• 32 page riso-printed chapbook
• A5 manilla insert with film link and grave songs
• Comes with D/L code
• Limited to 200

For the 2023 British Textile Biennial, collaborative artists Nick Jordan and Jacob Cartwright created a new film, Larksong, and textiles installation, in Goodshaw Chapel - a nonconformist Baptist chapel established by textile workers and farm labourers in 1760.

With the chapel as a central leitmotif, the film captures the surrounding landscape of cloughs, rivers and moorlands, laced with the remnants and imprints of the textile workers and industries that shaped the environment.

The musical score for the film, presented here on 12" record, has been created by musicians and artists David Chatton Barker, Mary Stark, Sam McLoughlin, Bridget Hayden and poetess Emily Oldfield. In addition to traditional instruments; recorders, piano and harmonium, sounds are derived from adapted spinning wheels, music boxes and film projectors. Larksong also features songs they have composed for the film, inspired by 18th century manuscripts from the Larks of Dean choir, and with lyrics from four gravestone inscriptions found in the chapel’s burial grounds. These recordings have been captured during a performance installation in the chapel, alongside experimental explorations in the studio. Field recordings captured in and around the chapel feature the bird calls of lark, curlew and thrush as well as wind through the trees and a trickling well.

Th collection of recordings have been stitched together into a timeless-sonic-fabric of immersive and emotional folkloric resonance, evoking a strong sense of place and echoes of layered histories.

Larksong also features a new poem written and read aloud in the chapel by Emily Oldfield. The poem was written from the perspective of a chapel pew. Connecting to an emotional, tactile sense of memory, rather than the language of history, the poem weaves together social, industrial and ecological themes; ruminating upon the changing landscape, social mores and working practices that have been witnessed since the founding of the chapel.

SIDE ONE

00:00 “Ramah” by Moses Heap.
01:00 “Improvisation I”. David Chatton-Barker + Sam Mcloughlin
04:14 “The Spinner”. Bridget Hayden.
05:30 “Weaver’s Music Box”. Devised and performed by Mary Stark
07:10. “Behold Young Man”. Epitaph I, set to music by Sam Mcloughlin. Vocal: Bridget Hayden
08:03 “Windy Moor on a Summers Day”. Bridget Hayden.
08:54 “God will Have Glory”. Set to music by Sam Mcloughlin.
10:05 “Improvisation II” David Chatton-Barker + Sam Mcloughlin.
11:18 “The Darks of Lean” Recorder Improvisation by Mark Stark + Bridget Hayden.
12:50 “John Nuttall Lies Here” Epitaph II, set to music by Sam Mcloughlin.

SIDE TWO:

00:00 “Improvisation III”. David Chatton-Barker + Sam Mcloughlin
03:44 “Improvisation IV”. Mary Stark + Bridget Hayden
04:25 “Ramah”. Moses Heap.
08:07 “How Suddenly”. Epitaph III - set to music by Sam Mcloughlin. Vocal Mary Stark
09.35 “The Spinner II”. Bridget Hayden
10:44 Wind Sound
11:38 “God Will Have Glory”. Epitsaph IV, set to music by Sam Mcloughlin
13:10 “The Pew Watches, The Hand Sows”. Written and performed by Emily Oldfield.