Folklore Tapes

Theo Brown and the Folklore of Dartmoor explores the stories and folk beliefs of seven Dartmoor villages through experiments in sound and vision. It also celebrates the work of the late folklorist and artist Theo Brown, whose publications, papers, woodcuts and illustrations have lain dormant in the archives at Exeter University since her death in 1993.

This project reconceptualises Brown's field-work on Dartmoor through newly composed music and projection work. The work is scheduled for a late spring release in a lavish box set edition of records, essays, prints and a DVD of manipulated 8mm films shot on location on Dartmoor. The live performance will include both the audio and visual material from this release, as well as a short factual presentation on both Theo Brown and Dartmoor folklore.

This will be realised using OHP, slide and digital projectors, along with instruments such as synthesiser, clarinet, xylophone, guitar, tape loops, various percussion and echo unit.

The project was researched and executed by Ian Humberstone and David Chatton Barker, and forms the latest instalment of their successful series Folklore Tapes, in which contemporary artists are commissioned to reinterpret specific elements of folklore as a musical soundtrack. The project has received widespread acclaim and counts Clinic, Broadcast and Andy Votel among its many contributors.

"Folklore Tapes is one of the industry’s most distinctive labels" (A Closer Listen)

“Together with the research notes and the exquisite packaging - among some of the finest hand-crafted creations we've stocked” (Boomkat)

"Now, if you want a lesson in how to create an intriguing, secret world unto itself then here would be a good place to start." (A Year In The Country)

"This is music that looks at history afresh without ties to a particular genre or medium." (The List)

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N. Racker

N. Racker is a well known producer operating incognito. Think rumbling doom, hazy folklore and a dense library/soundtrack aesthetic; somewhere between Sunn O))), The Haxan Cloak and Morricone/Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. Releasing on Pre-Cert Home Entertainment, a label run by Demdike Stare and Andy Votel, the sound he makes is full of rumbling gloom, misery and arcane folk mystery, albeit with a distinctly Northern English slant.