The Land and the Garden

by Vic Mars

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schmidtbuster You can almost imagine the little hedgehogs amongst the hedgerows Favorite track: Hedgerows And Conservation.

Heghoulian This remarkable album, a hymn to the Herefordshire countryside, is something I imagine Reverend Franklin (father of Stephen Franklin, protagonist of Penda’s Fen) would enjoy. I picture the good Reverend listening to it in his Worcestershire study, perhaps while sat at his typewriter, doing a little work on his manuscript, ‘The Buried Jesus’.
If you have any idea what I’m getting at here, you owe it to yourself to listen to this album. Favorite track: Butterflies, Bees And Other Insects.

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	1.	Walking On A Bearing 02:58
	2.	Butterflies, Bees And Other Insects 02:22
	3.	Collecting Pebbles And Stones 01:44
	4.	Wall of Ivy 02:00
	5.	Hedgerows And Conservation 03:02
	6.	Villages, Hamlets And Fêtes 03:11
	7.	Fences, Railway Lines And Other Obstacles 03:21
	8.	The Road Through The Village 03:26
	9.	A Stone Path 01:39
	10.	Hiking Attire 01:48
	11.	Rural Etiquette 02:55
	12.	Through The Gate 02:37
	13.	Sunrise At Trig Point 01:07
	14.	Bracken And Grassland 02:54
	15.	Villages, Hamlets and Fêtes (a different version) 03:38

about

Originally released on Clay Pipe Music 4th December 2015.

Artwork used by kind permission.

Vic Mars is a Herefordshire born musician currently based in London, he has recently returned from spending over a decade in Nagoya, Japan. In 2008 he released the mini-LP 'Kanransha' on Kentaro Togawa's Symbolic Interaction label, and 2012 saw the Bandcamp released library music inspired, 'Curriculum For Schools And Colleges: Volumes 1 &2'.

In 2013 whilst still based in Japan but on a visit home, Vic was stuck by the reprints of vintage British Railway posters hanging in his brothers house. Back in Japan, homesick and inspired by his childhood memories of the Herefordshire landscape he started the initial recordings for The Land and the Garden, carefully piecing together string and Mellotron soundscapes using archaic tracker software, and recording direct to cassette tape. During this time he immersed himself in the music of British classical composers such as Gustav Holst, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, the minimalist work of Wim Mertens and 1970’s children's BBC soundtracks such as those by Freddie Phillips, and Vernon Elliot.

In 2014 with the album half finished Vic moved back to the UK, and after a period of disruption where his equipment was still in transit, he completed the record in the spring of 2015.

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released December 4, 2015

Written by Vic Mars
Guitars on "Through The Gate" by Christopher Green
Artwork by Frances Castle

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