She Rocola - Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town (Dawn Edition)

She Rocola
Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town (Dawn Edition)

Album UK 2014 on A Year In The Country label
Folk (Folk)

Audiological Research and Pathways; Case #5. Limited to 52 copies. White/black CDr in textured recycled fold out sleeve with insert and badge. Custom printed and hand-finished by A Year In The Country. Printed 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. Credits: Burn The Witch (2014) Words: She Rocola. Music: Andrea Fiorito. Vocals: She Rocola. Violin: Andrea Fiorito. Recorded and produced by Joe Whitney and Andrea Fiorito. Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town (2014) Words: She Rocola. Music: She Rocola/Joe Whitney. Vocals & Guitar: She Rocola. Bass & Toy Piano: Joe Whitney. Recorded and produced by Joe Whitney. www.soundcloud.com/sherocola www.flytowhitneysmoon.com Artwork and packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department. Victorian wet-plate photograph of She Rocola by Zoe LLoyd. Ms She Rocola wears an "Ellen Terry Beetle wing dress". The dress was originally designed and made by Mrs Nettleship in the 19th century: The intention was to make the original dress "...look as much like soft chain armour as I could and yet have something that would give the appearance of the scales of a serpent... (it is) sewn all over with real green beetle wings, and a narrow border in Celtic designs, worked out in rubies and diamonds". www.zoelloyd.co.uk The song Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town draws from Ms She Rocola's own personal folklore and that of her home town; childhood experiences of chasing her playmates around Molly Leigh's grave and the rhymes which accompanied such games. It is an audiological conjuring of hazy, sleepy small-hours memories and dreams from those times. Burn The Witch's story is interconnected with those childhood memories and is in part inspired by formative viewings of late-night folk-horror films from in front of and behind the sofa. Here at A Year In The Country, we are proud to be able to send these stories out into the world. Available via our: Artifacts Shop, Discogs Audiological Archive and our Bandcamp Ether Victrola. The full current library of the A Year In The Country Audiological Research and Pathways series: Case Study #1: Grey Frequency: Immersion Case Study #2: Hand of Stabs: Black-Veined White Case Study #3: Michael Tanner: Nine of Swords Case Study #5: She Rocola: Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town A Year In The Country: An English idyll, a midnight sun... "A Year In The Country is a year long journey of and searching for an expression of my underlying unsettledness to the English bucolic countryside dream… and 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 folk music, folklore and what has been labelled hauntological culture." More information on the project at www.ayearinthecountry.co.uk