The Restless Field (Night Edition)

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Album Info

Release Date: 2017-05-02

Label: A Year In The Country

Hand-finished box-set contains: album on all black CDr, 12 page string bound booklet, 4 x badge pack, 1 x large badge, 2 x landscape format stickers.

Limited edition of 104.

Further encasement details:
1) Booklet/cover art custom printed using archival giclée pigment ink.
2) Contained in a matchbox style sliding two-part rigid matt card box with cover print.
3) Fully black CDr (black on top, black on playable side).
4) Black string bound booklet: 12 pages (6 sides printed);
Printed on textured fine art cotton rag paper, heavy card and semi-transparent vellum.
Hand numbered on the reverse.
5) 4 x badge set, contained in a see-through polythene bag with a folded card header.
6) 1 x large badge.
7) 2 x vinyl style landscape format sticker.

The Restless Field is a study of the land as a place of conflict and protest as well as beauty and escape; an exploration and acknowledgment of the history and possibility of protest, resistance and struggle in the landscape/rural areas, in contrast with more often referred to urban events.

It takes inspiration from flashpoints in history while also interweaving personal and societal myth, memory, the lost and hidden tales of the land.

References and starting points include:

The British Miners Strike of 1984 and the Battle Of Orgreave.

Gerrard Winstanley & the Diggers/True Levellers in the 17th century.

The first battle of the English Civil War in 1642.

The burying of The Rotherwas Ribbon.

The Mass Tresspass of Kinder Scout in 1932.

Graveney Marsh/the last battle fought on English soil.

The Congested Districts Board/the 19th century land war in Ireland.

The Battle Of The Beanfield in 1985.

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