Hwael Mag
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Between folk, hauntology and pastoral — an independent magazine of music and culture.
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Hwael Field 03 :: The Rooms Beyond the Field
Ten recent folk recordings moving through closeness, weather and small departures.
Ten recent folk recordings moving through closeness, weather and small departures.
Hwael Field 03 :: The Rooms Beyond the Field
Recent oblique folk moving through rooms, weather, distance and open ground.
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September 19, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Hwael Field 03 :: The Rooms Beyond the Field
Ten recent folk recordings moving through closeness, weather and small departures.
Ten recent folk recordings moving through closeness, weather and small departures.
Hwael Field 02 :: The Long Grass at Dusk
Is out now: ten 1970s folk songs moving through private rooms, weather, sorrow and pastoral ground.
Is out now: ten 1970s folk songs moving through private rooms, weather, sorrow and pastoral ground.
Hwael Field 02 :: The Long Grass at Dusk
A route through shadow, heat, stone, water and cultivated ground.
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September 18, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Hwael Field 02 :: The Long Grass at Dusk
Is out now: ten 1970s folk songs moving through private rooms, weather, sorrow and pastoral ground.
Is out now: ten 1970s folk songs moving through private rooms, weather, sorrow and pastoral ground.
M. Powell & E. Pressburger :: A Canterbury Tale
M. Powell & E. Pressburger :: A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Wartime pastoral drama of memory, pilgrimage and the English countryside.
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September 16, 2026 at 11:03 PM
M. Powell & E. Pressburger :: A Canterbury Tale
Gilroy Mere :: Furlongs
Gilroy Mere :: Furlongs
Pastoral electronics, South Downs, Ravilious and train rhythms
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September 15, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Gilroy Mere :: Furlongs
soccer Committee :: AM Reworks
soccer Committee :: AM Reworks
Ambient folk reworks tracing twenty years of Mariska Baars’s songcraft.
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September 14, 2026 at 9:34 PM
soccer Committee :: AM Reworks
Maisy Owen :: Interview
On poetry, distance, Nashville, folk and the places that remain.
On poetry, distance, Nashville, folk and the places that remain.
Maisy Owen :: Interview
Maisy Owen on poetry, distance, Nashville, folk and the places that remain.
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September 13, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Maisy Owen :: Interview
On poetry, distance, Nashville, folk and the places that remain.
On poetry, distance, Nashville, folk and the places that remain.
Ambient Folk 1995-2010: The Network Before the Scene
Ambient folk didn’t begin as a scene. It became one when distant records, labels, blogs and archives started hearing each other.
Ambient folk didn’t begin as a scene. It became one when distant records, labels, blogs and archives started hearing each other.
Ambient Folk 1995–2010: The Network Before the Scene
Ambient folk, CD-R culture, free-folk networks and the rise of circulation
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September 12, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Ambient Folk 1995-2010: The Network Before the Scene
Ambient folk didn’t begin as a scene. It became one when distant records, labels, blogs and archives started hearing each other.
Ambient folk didn’t begin as a scene. It became one when distant records, labels, blogs and archives started hearing each other.
Julia Holter :: Materia
Julia Holter :: Materia
Experimental chamber pop, fretless bass, improvisation and slowed time
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September 11, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Julia Holter :: Materia
Hwael Field 01 — The Country Between Songs
The first Hwael Trace follows shadow, stone, sea, fields and river through a landscape shaped by memory.
The first Hwael Trace follows shadow, stone, sea, fields and river through a landscape shaped by memory.
One by One — Hwael Trace
A route through shadow, heat, stone, water and cultivated ground.
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September 9, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Hwael Field 01 — The Country Between Songs
The first Hwael Trace follows shadow, stone, sea, fields and river through a landscape shaped by memory.
The first Hwael Trace follows shadow, stone, sea, fields and river through a landscape shaped by memory.
Lawrence Gordon Clark :: The Signalman
Clark turns Dickens’s railway ghost story into a study of signals, labour and warnings that cannot be used.
Clark turns Dickens’s railway ghost story into a study of signals, labour and warnings that cannot be used.
Lawrence Gordon Clark :: The Signalman (1976)
BBC ghost story: railway haunting, signals, telegraphy and dread
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September 9, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Lawrence Gordon Clark :: The Signalman
Clark turns Dickens’s railway ghost story into a study of signals, labour and warnings that cannot be used.
Clark turns Dickens’s railway ghost story into a study of signals, labour and warnings that cannot be used.
Geology Disco :: Where God Came Never
Geology Disco :: Where God Came Never
Experimental folk, field recordings, ritual textures and Staffordshire landscape
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September 8, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Geology Disco :: Where God Came Never
Music for a Country Being Managed
How public films and tape recordists helped give post-war Britain a language for hearing landscape.
How public films and tape recordists helped give post-war Britain a language for hearing landscape.
How Public Films Taught Britain to Hear Landscape
Public films, library music, tape clubs and Britain’s managed landscape
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September 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Music for a Country Being Managed
How public films and tape recordists helped give post-war Britain a language for hearing landscape.
How public films and tape recordists helped give post-war Britain a language for hearing landscape.
Micron Fields :: Medieval Tape Muzak
Micron Fields :: Medieval Tape Muzak
Hauntological ambient, field recordings, tape decay and edited rural memory
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September 7, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Micron Fields :: Medieval Tape Muzak
A bossa rhythm, a pair of silver shoes, a city arriving through the bass. Liana Flores’ And so it goes… reviewed at Hwael Mag.
liana flores :: And so it Goes...
Bossa nova, folk and art pop moving from private rooms into social life.
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September 5, 2026 at 9:43 AM
A bossa rhythm, a pair of silver shoes, a city arriving through the bass. Liana Flores’ And so it goes… reviewed at Hwael Mag.
L'Rain :: fata morgana
L'Rain :: fata morgana
Experimental R&B, jazz, fractured pop and songs that refuse to settle
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September 4, 2026 at 3:05 PM
L'Rain :: fata morgana
Component#4 :: When A House Is Not A Home
Component#4 :: When A House Is Not A Home
Pastoral electronica, dream pop, organ and badly catalogued memory
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September 3, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Component#4 :: When A House Is Not A Home
Yuri Norstein :: Hedgehog in the Fog
Yuri Norstein :: Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)
Animated folk tale, fog, forest, fear and unstable perception
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September 3, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Yuri Norstein :: Hedgehog in the Fog
Experimental ambient, field recordings, piano and porous soundscapes
Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou :: Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems
Experimental ambient, field recordings, piano and porous soundscapes
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September 1, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Experimental ambient, field recordings, piano and porous soundscapes
Phoebe Bridgers returns with Lost Weekend: folk, ambient and great arrangements crossed by a strange desire to disappear.
Phoebe Bridgers :: Lost Weekend
Six years after Punisher, Phoebe Bridgers returns with a record full of people that keeps looking for ways to disappear. Vocoder, silences, borrowed melodies and ambient tails turn Lost Weekend into a...
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September 1, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Phoebe Bridgers returns with Lost Weekend: folk, ambient and great arrangements crossed by a strange desire to disappear.
Boulter and Sturgeon turn distance, correspondence and landscape into the working materials of Wild Convenor.
M G Boulter & Jenny Sturgeon :: Wild Convenor
Written between Shetland and the Thames estuary, Wild Convenor treats distance less as separation than as a working method: songs sent out, altered elsewhere, and returned carrying something the other...
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August 31, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Boulter and Sturgeon turn distance, correspondence and landscape into the working materials of Wild Convenor.
Grey Malkin’s Our Eyes Are Filled With Moss turns folk ritual into matter: blood, stone, leaves, voices and decay in a strange, earthy record.
Grey Malkin :: Our Eyes Are Filled With Moss
In Our Eyes Are Filled With Moss, the human body does not last long. It becomes wood, mud, blood, earth and stone while voices, woodwinds and noise work around its edges. Grey Malkin makes folk the wa...
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August 29, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Grey Malkin’s Our Eyes Are Filled With Moss turns folk ritual into matter: blood, stone, leaves, voices and decay in a strange, earthy record.
A prehistory of ambient folk, from Sandy Bull and John Martyn to Virginia Astley, private press and Flying Saucer Attack.
Ambient Folk Before 1995: The Rulebook That Never Existed
Before ambient folk had a name, its materials were already scattered through folk revival, private press, field recording, minimalism and home tape. A history of a genre assembled backwards, from John...
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August 29, 2026 at 10:02 PM
A prehistory of ambient folk, from Sandy Bull and John Martyn to Virginia Astley, private press and Flying Saucer Attack.
Chelsea Wolfe’s The Dark moves through recovery, folklore and grief, with acoustic songs repeatedly disturbed by bass, noise and distortion.
Chelsea Wolfe :: The Dark
The Dark finds Chelsea Wolfe stripping some of the ceremony from her music. What remains is less mysterious, sometimes almost blunt: songs about leaving, returning to yourself, and discovering how ord...
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August 29, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Chelsea Wolfe’s The Dark moves through recovery, folklore and grief, with acoustic songs repeatedly disturbed by bass, noise and distortion.
Play for Today as an incomplete television atlas of Britain: landscape, class, folklore, regional life, videotape and memory.
Play for Today: Britain Between Programmes
For fourteen years, BBC1 used the single television play to look at Britain while it was changing. What survives of Play for Today is part drama, part social record, and part damaged archive.
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August 28, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Play for Today as an incomplete television atlas of Britain: landscape, class, folklore, regional life, videotape and memory.
Elanor Moss turns English folk into something intimate and faintly threatening on The Knife, The Needle.
Elanor Moss :: The Knife, The Needle
Elanor Moss’s debut keeps changing its story while you listen. A lover becomes a threat, a family memory changes hands, a tape machine pulls the music out of tune.
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August 28, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Elanor Moss turns English folk into something intimate and faintly threatening on The Knife, The Needle.