All The Merry Year Round (Night Edition)

Hand-finished box-set contains: album on all black CDr, 12 page string bound booklet, 4 x badge pack, 4 x stickers, 1 x large badge. Limited to 104 copies. All The Merry Year Round is an exploration of an alternative or otherly calendar that considers how traditional folklore and its tales now sit alongside and sometimes intertwine with cultural or media based folklore; stories we discover, treasure, are informed and inspired by but which are found, transmitted and passed down via television, film and technology rather than through local history and the ritual celebrations of the more longstanding folkloric calendar. However, just as with their forebears there is a ritualistic nature to these modern-day reveries whereby communal or solitary seances are undertaken when stepping into such tales via flickering darkened rooms lit by screens, although their enclosed nature is in contrast to more public traditional folklore rituals. Accompanying which with the passing of time some televisual and cinematic stories continue or begin to resonate as they gain new layers of meaning and myth; cultural folklore that has come to express and explore an otherly Albion, becoming a flipside to traditional folklore tales and sharing with them a rootwork that is deeply embedded in the land. In amongst All The Merry Year Round can be found wanderings down such interwoven pathways, travelling alongside straw bear and cathode ray summonings alike. 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 square and 2 x round vinyl style stickers. Hand-finished and custom printed by A Year In The Country.