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A Year at the Country on Willows Songs
GOLDEN APPLES SUMMER SCHOOL
Running from December 2023 through to February 2024, The Golden Apples of the Sun presents ’Summer School’. The show’s regular presenters, guests and friends present a curated season of weekly 2-hour explorations to different musical places. Summer School commences Sunday 24 December with ‘Summerisle Song Mists’.
Fitting perfectly between the Winter Solstice and Chistmastide Summer, School commences with ‘Summerisle Song Mists’. Inspired by The Wickerman and the psychogeography of its musical influences.
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Golden Apples Lord Summerisle Theme
Far Black Furlong – Far Black Furlong – The East Room (2006)
Carl Turney & Brian Campbell – SumerIsIcumenIn – Folklore Tapes Calendar Customs Vol.II – Merry May (2015)
Magnet – Lullaby – The Wickerman OST (1973)
The Owl Service – Wake the Vaulted Echo (excerpt) – Wake the Vaulted Echo
Ivan The Tolerable – Gently Johnny – Library Of The Occult (2021)
Woodwose – Frenetique – Dancing Stones (2012)
Matt Berry – Fire Chant Alternate – Kill The Wolf (2020)
Matt Berry – Village Dance – Kill The Wolf (2020)
Doves – Reprise – Lost Souls
Doves – Reprise (Music Box)
Gwenno – Hi A Skoellyas Liv A Dhagrow (excerpt) – Le Kov (2018)
David Colohan – Loving Couples – The Ruined Church (excerpt) – Ballads Of Seduction, Fertility And Ritual Slaughter(2023)
Gwenno – Tonnow – Tresor (2022)
Hanna Peel – Pregnant – The Midwich Cuckoos (2022)
Hannah Peel – Ecovocative (Paddy Kingsland Remix) – Unheard Delia
Arianne Churchman – Fire Rites – Folklore Tapes Calendar Customs Vol.III – Mid-Winter Rites & Revelries
CLANN – Unseelie – Seelie (2017)
Keith Seatman and Douglas E Powell (feat Belbury Poly) – Broken Folk – Broken Folk EP (2018)
Murmur Mori – Willow’s Song ( The Wicker Man ) – self titles cassette (2014)
Johnny Jewel – Decay (excerpt) – Home OST
Pulp – Wickerman – We Love Life (2001)
Pulp – Sunrise (excerpt) – We Love Life (2001)
David Colohan – Loving Couples – The Ruined Church excerpt Ballads Of Seduction, Fertility And Ritual Slaughter
Gazelle Twin & NYX – Fire Leap – Deep England (2021)
The Hardy Tree – Chuffy – The Stone Tape Analysing A Ghost By Electronic Means (2023)
Lutine – So it Goes (Pete Wiggs mix) – Died of Love Remixes (2016)
CLANN – The Faerie Court (Under Sun) – Seelie
Magnet – Sunset (excerpt) – The Wickerman OST (1973)
Sneaker Pimps – How Do (Willows Song) – Becoming X (1996)
Yage – The Hunters Moon – The Woodlands of Old (2008)
Dialogue Appointment with The Wickerman
Cocteau Twins – Alice – Violaine EP (1996)
Jane Weaver – Arrows (Loops Variation) – Loops In The Secret Society (2019)
Matt Berry – October Son Live – Matt Berry and the Maypoles (2015)
The Heartwood Institute – The Old Way – Astercote
July Skies – Girl On The Hill – The Weather Clock (2008)
Vic Mars – Ystradfellte – The Beacons (2023)
Sproatly Smith – Gently Johnny – The Yew and the Hare
Murmur Mori – The Age of Conquest – Murmur Mori
WANT MORE?
Ballads Of Seduction, Fertility And Ritual Slaughter (2023)
About the LP – Why create it? here
Track by Track here
Ballads Of Seduction, Fertility And Ritual Slaughter on Bandcamp
The Stone Tape Analysing A Ghost By Electronic Means (2023)
Christmas Day 2022 marked 50 years since the original broadcast of the ground-breaking BBC supernatural thriller, ‘The Stone Tape’, written by Nigel Kneale.
In early 2023 Hidden Britain commissioned a group of UK based musicians to produce a new piece of work inspired by this extraordinary 1972 TV film.
Folk Horror Tracks – List of almost 200 Tracks
This list is very complete and very recommended as a Launch Pad. Also includes a list of Finnish Folk Horror for a real deep dive.
The list is by Liero and can be found here
…and the Finnish Folk Horror list here
Pulp’s track Wickerman
Jarvis Cocker reciting “Wickerman” (Rough Trade East, 5th Dec 2011) with slide show by Jarvis.
“Eight minutes long, “Wickerman” is the album’s centrepiece: it’s about a real river that flows underneath Sheffield, channelled through “dirty brickwork conduits.” Cocker’s lyrics make me think of John Cooper Clarke’s “Beasley Street” or Morrissey’s “river/ the color of lead.” This is a stream of memory that carries Jarvis back to moments in love, like a first kiss in a shabby cafe where outside “a child’s toy horse ride… played such a ridiculously tragic tune.” This girl is a composite of lost lovers: he recalls another riverbank vignette, “except you were somebody else”. The river is also a witness, a Cocker-like observer of ordinary lives, flowing beneath “pensioners gathering dust like bowls of plastic tulips” and passing an old sweets factory that burned down decades ago leaving “caverns of nougat and caramel.” Finally, the river is also some kind of life-force, the polluted pulse of a bygone England, distorted by industrialisation yet indomitable. Jarvis imagines following its course all the way through and surfacing “surrounded by grass and trees”. Like Neil Young, he knows he’ll find “her” there”.
From Simon Reynolds review of We Love life (2-001) posted at Reynolds Retro
Wickerman
Just behind the station, before you reach the traffic island, a river runs through’ a concrete channel.
I took you there once; I think it was after the Leadmill.
The water was dirty & smelt of industrialisation
Little mesters coughing their lungs up & globules the colour of tomato ketchup.
But it flows. Yeah, it flows.
Underneath the city through’ dirty brickwork conduits
Connecting white witches on the Moor with pre-raphaelites down in Broomhall.
Beneath the old Trebor factory that burnt down in the early seventies.
Leaving an antiquated sweet-shop smell & caverns of nougat & caramel.
Nougat. Yeah, nougat & caramel.
And the river flows on.
Yeah, the river flows on beneath pudgy fifteen-year olds addicted to coffee whitener
And it finally comes above ground again at Forge Dam: the place where we first met.
I went there again for old time’s sake
Hoping to find the child’s toy horse ride that played such a ridiculously tragic tune.
It was still there – but none of the kids seemed interested in riding on it.
And the cafe was still there too
The same press-in plastic letters on the price list & scuffed formica-top tables.
I sat as close as possible to the seat where I’d met you that autumn afternoon.
And then, after what seemed like hours of thinking about it
I finally took your face in my hands & I kissed you for the first time
And a feeling like electricity flowed through’ my whole body.
And I immediately knew that I’d entered a completely different world.
And all the time, in the background, the sound of that ridiculously heartbreaking child’s ride outside.
At the other end of town the river flows underneath an old railway viaduct
I went there with you once – except you were somebody else –
And we gazed down at the sludgy brown surface of the water together.
Then a passer-by told us that it used to be a local custom to jump off the viaduct into the river
When coming home from the pub on a Saturday night.
But that this custom had died out when someone jumped
Landed too near to the riverbank
Had sunk in the mud there & drowned before anyone could reach them.
I don’t know if he’d just made the whole story up, but there’s no way you’d get me to jump off that bridge.
No chance. Never in a million years.
Yeah, a river flows underneath this city
I’d like to go there with you now my pretty & follow it on for miles & miles, below other people’s ordinary lives.
Occasionally catching a glimpse of the moon, through’ man-hole covers along the route.
Yeah, it’s dark sometimes but if you hold my hand, I think I know the way.
Oh, this is as far as we got last time
But if we go just another mile we will surface surrounded by grass & trees & the fly-over that takes the cars to cities.
Buds that explode at the slightest touch, nettles that sting – but not too much.
I’ve never been past this point, what lies ahead I really could not say.
I used to live just by the river, in a dis-used factory just off the Wicker
The river flowed by day after day
“One day” I thought, “One day I will follow it” but that day never came
I moved away & lost track but tonight I am thinking about making my way back.
I may find you there & float on wherever the river may take me.
Wherever the river may take me.
Wherever the river may take us.
Wherever it wants us to go.
Wherever it wants us to go.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: danny greene, Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show, rtrfm
This edition is about musically hitting all the continents that aren’t Antarctica. sorry, Antarctica!
with danny
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PLAYLIST
2:03:02 Azumah and Smiles Makema – Woza Moya – Long Time Ago
2:07:50 Nyati Mayi and the Astral Synth Transmitters – Try Sunshine – Lulanga Tales
2:13:09 Anders Brorby – Baby, You’re Disharmonic – Constant Shallowness Leads to Body Horror
2:16:20 Ashtray Navigations – Greatest Imaginary Hits – Mushfinger Cadaver
2:24:14 Ivan the Tolerable – And Everything Had its Place – Out of Season
2:30:52 Cos – Perhaps Next Record
2:32:12 Hector Morlet – The Swimming Pool (Slow Version) – The Variety Show
2:35:37 John Dwyer etc – Hypogeum – Gong Splat
2:38:03 Bruce Haack – Bods (excerpt) – Captain Entropy
2:44:42 Grupo Almendra – Tu Y Yo
2:50:07 Oki feat Umeko Ando – Iuta Upopo (Pestle Song) – Tonkori in the Moonlight
2:56:13 Jussi Kehtisalo – Murenee – Rock Boat
3:00:47 Furchick & Toxic Chicken – Fagpack – Furchick Puzzled by Toxic Chicken
3:03:11 Adelic Penguin – Ryuichi Sakamoto – Esperanto
3:10:47 Groupshow – Incredibly Comfortable Slippers – Greatest Hits
3:16:04 Toxic Chicken – Everything Comes Together – Cosmic Dreams
3:20:34 Setting – A Sun Harp – Shone a Rainbow Light On
3:30:01 Sabiwa – Pupa – Island No 16 – Memories of Future Landscapes
3:35:46 Paavoharju – Yon Mustia Kukkia – Yon Mustia Kukkia
3:38:26 Bullenradar – Let me hate Your Welcome – There is No Hunger in your Shame
3:44:52 Kilynn Lunsford – Local Wall – Custodians of Human Succession
3:48:08 Taraf de Haidouks & Ursari de Clejani – Hora Ca La Ursari Dumbala Dumba
3:52:06 Calum Bowen – Frog Temple – Pikuniku Original Soundtrack
3:54:40 position normal – Whistle Conversion 4 – Modern and Unique
3:57:03 David Ornette Cherry – Najour – Organic Nation Listening Club
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Laura Makabresku is a Polish visual artist and photographer born in 1987. Surreal and spiritual elements are the basis for each photograph. During the creation, she turns most often to myths and fairy tales, which gives access to new unknown experiences in everyday life. She lives and works in Krakow (Poland).
Taka deep dive at her www here but lots more photos constantly being updated on her Facebook here
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: A Colourful Storm, Efficient Space, Elaine Tierney, Jack Rollo, NTS Radio, Time Is Away
Two recent beautiful compilation LPs that come recommended to listeners of The Golden Apples of the Sun who are sure to enjoy the music and the creative process.
Time is Away is the London-based duo of Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney who host a monthly show on NTS Radio. Over eight years they have made tender and heartfelt transmissions through countless mixes, sound works, live appearances and radio. Exploring deeply human themes of memory, persistence and resistance using an assemblage of source material, the duo’s unique mode of storytelling saw their first officially licensed compilation Balades released in 2022 and Searchlight Moonbeams in 2023.
“… two visionary storytellers who map personal, poetic and sometimes playful dérives through the histories of their imagination. The voice is an instrument, a letter from home, the colour of pomegranates… pastoral mysteries and idyllic myths weaved from an inventory of dreams…”
Time is Away on NTS Radio – listen here
A snapshot of some of the themed editions
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with Emma Daisy
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2:01:00 Vashti Bunyan & Devandra Banhart – How could you let me go
2:06:00 Adrienne lenker – Ruined
2:10:00 Museum of no art – Textile trance – spell by mehrnaz rohbakhsh
2:18:00 Yirinda – thurum voi (look there)
2:20:00 Heathcote Blue – It rained all night
2:23:00 Mary Lattimore – And then he wrapped his wings around me
2:29:00 Nika Mo – unmoving morning (graceless)
2:36:00 Lee Hannah – Mountain Spring
2:38:00 Romeo Walker – BLIZZARD 1
2:42:00 Alf the great – time is gone
2:45:00 Lonnie Holley – Kindness will follow your tears
2:49:00 Beverly Glenn-Copeland – a spell for the present moment (spell by adrienne maree brown)
2:51:00 Mary Lattimore – Blink
2:59:00 Angel Olsen – Something on your mind
3:03:00 Jameson Feakes – Neutral Pausy
3:08:00 Elianie – Seasonal
3:13:00 e.s. hughes – Lake Seppings Summer
3:14:00 Jacob Diamond – New Museum
3:22:00 e.s. hughes – Forest
3:26:00 Pool Boy – poet
3:29:00 Grievous Bodily Calm – Perennial Stream
3:32:00 Naomie Klaus – Clinic’s voice server
3:38:00 Australian Art Orchestra / Hand to Earth – Old people song
3:47:00 Aja Monet – why my love?
3:51:00 Mindy Meng Wang – Chi – Energy
3:57:00 Mary Lattimore – It was late and we watched the motel burn
3:58:00 Jameson Feakes – The Wanstead Rag
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Birak, diger rokwell, Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show, rtrfm, summer
Diger Rokwell exploring Birak textured summery tunes all episode long. Its hot, its broadcasting from Boorloo – celebrating the transition to Birak and the summer months with a diverse offering of light filled heat to highlight your Sunday.
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Solstice – TStewart & Machinedrum
Oofoe & Sugar Cane Davis – Blueberry Beach
HNNY – Sunday
DJ Impozible – Ice Cream Truck
Sunny Reyne – Insanity
NAMESAKE – West Coast (feat. Boyboy)
Sault – Wildfire
Seb Wildblood & Laraaji – Slice
Jay O – 22
Childish Gambino – Feels Like Summer
Mato – Summer Madness
Jackie Mittoo – Summer Breeze
Blu Mar Ten – Adrift on Deep Water
Netsky & Babi Lemmens – Everybody Love the Sunshine
LTJ Bukem – Cosmic Interlude
Jazzanova – Nowhere (I Can Go)
TStewart & Machine drum – Elysian Opening
Boards of Canada – The Code of the Fire
Boards of Canada – Sunshine Recorder
Tourist – Someone else
Khurangbin – Summer Madness
The Style Council – Long Hot Summer
Beach House – The Hours
The Beach Boys – Surfer Girl
Cate Le Bon – The Light
Danny Saber – Indian Summer
The Soul Surfers – Summer Madness
David Astri – Safe & Sound
Brian Bennett – Solstice
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show, rtrfm, tristan gibbs
Brought to you by Tristan and the letter ‘ironical extra L’
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Oval – Wildwasser – Romantiq
Vanishing Twin – Lazy Garden – Afternoon X
Andrzej Korzynski – The Night the Screaming Stops – Possession OST
Large Plants – District Messenger – The Thorn
Desmond Simmons – Tracers – Alone on Penguin Island
Matt Berry – Top Brass Two – Simplicity
Alan Hawkshaw & Brian Bennett – Mermaid – KPM 1000 Series: Synthesis
Cate Brooks – Curig – Easel Studies
Shackleton – Eine Dunkle Wolke – The Scandal of Time
Spellling – Dirty Desert Dreams – Mazy Fly
Hiroshi Yoshimura – Something Blue – Surround
Caterina Barbieri – Math of You – Myuthafoo
Elaine Howley – Silent Talk – The Distance Between Heart and Mouth
The Gadgets – Railway Line Through Blubberhouses – Love Curiosity Freckles and Doubt
Julia Holter – Sun Girl
Experimental Audio Research – One – The Koner Experiment
Laurel Halo – Atlas – Atlas
Lucy Railton – Blush Study – Corner Dancer
Teresa Winter – New Water – Proserpine
Desmond Simmons – Alone on Penguin Island – Alone on Penguin Island
Drinks – Greasing Up – Hippo Lite
Movietone – We Rode On – The Sand and the Stars
Josephine Foster – Dawn of Time – Domestic SpherePK
L’Rain – 5 to 8 Hours a Day (WWwaG) – I Killed Your Dog
Hiroshi Yoshimura – Surround – Surround