Terrascopædia Volume 6 - 2024 to date
Terrascopædia Volume 6 was launched in February 2024 with issue 22, featuring new cover art by Karen Attfield
Terrascopædia issue 24 published January 2025
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Terrascopædia issue 23 published September 2024
Terrascopædia issue 24 published in January 2025. Interviews include Californian solo artist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Barbara Manning, an update on the musical explorations of Ben Chasny, also known as Six Organs of Admittance, and a chat with Jeffrey Alexander about his project The Heavy Lidders. As ever, each copy is entirely hand made from cover to cover, typeset one letter, one word and one line at a time, and is printed in full colour using hand-cut acid-free, laid paper on a 1926 vintage 10cwt Arab Foolscap Folio treadle press. Cover size: Large Post Quarto (8 inches by 10 inches). 24 pages. 150 copies printed.
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Terrascopædia issue 23 published in September 2024. Interviews include Californian solo artist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Meg Baird, 1970s Rockfield/UA recording artists Hobo, Norwich-based ragged guitar and lap-steel country-rockers Brown Horse and and interview with folk songstress, multi-instrumentalist (and letterpress artist!) Sally Anne Morgan. Each copy is entirely hand made from cover to cover, typeset one letter, one word and one line at a time, and is printed in full colour on hand-made acid-free, laid paper cut to Small Post quarto (9 inches by 7 inches) on a fully restored 1926 vintage, 10cwt Arab Foolscap Folio treadle press. 150 copies printed.
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Terrascopædia issue 22 published March 2024
Terrascopædia issue 22 was published in February 2024. Interviews include Andrew Lauder, A&R guru at Liberty/UA Records in England during the 1970s; Empty House which is the latest solo guise of Fred Laird, who we've followed from the early days of Earthling Society to Taras Bulba and beyond; and Seawind of Battery, a debut instrumental album conjuring up cosmic Americana atmospheres rich in nostalgic melancholia and the ambient peacefulness of secluded nature. Each copy is entirely hand made from cover to cover, typeset in 12pt Poliphilus, and printed in full colour on Matrix Fine Laid paper cut to Small Post quarto (9 inches by 7 inches) on a fully restored 1926 vintage, 10cwt Arab Foolscap Folio treadle press. 150 copies printed.