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Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984

by The Inward Circles

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Lev
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Lev Frightening and somehow beautiful. Favorite track: To Your Fox-Skin Chorus.
Crashy88
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Crashy88 How do we create an elegy for a long-dead individual, whom we know as a "bog body"? Inward Circles have figured this out--a respectful, but innovative, piece of music that pays appropriate tribute while asking the right questions.
Dotflac
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Dotflac An irrevocable act leading to the futile attempt of its redemption constitues the skeleton of this release.

Dissonant strings and piano depicting the unnatural and uncultural facets of this event crave to collide, shatter and dissolve into aural shards only awaiting their return to the soil they rightfully made theirs. Sore modern classical compositions accusing their desecrators and begging for their final atonement.

A trying release whose peculiar beauty will unfurl like a black rose. Favorite track: Petition for Reinterment.
John Cratchley
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John Cratchley I've been an admirer of Richard Skelton's work for quite a while now and I think he has excelled himself with this new release...it is important,significant music with unimpeachable integrity.It is a prayer,an invocation,a protest and a plea...all of these things and achingly beautiful.
Sometimes (rarely) music can realign values,alter perspectives,shift the paradigm;and then things are never the same again.
This music is rare.

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I traced
the convolutions of
turf, laid out by men,
& made new windings with the mole
through undisturbed
barrows."

(Ronald Johnson, 'The Book of the Green Man')

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'Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984' is Richard Skelton’s second album as The Inward Circles, following 2014’s 'Nimrod is Lost in Orion and Osyris in the Doggestarre'. If his previous offering hovered ‘between the empyreal and the subterranean’, 'Belated Movements' is resolutely earthbound, beginning at ground level and slowly moving ever downward.

The title is a reference to ‘Lindow Man’, one of many bog bodies discovered in northern Europe in the twentieth century, and continues an archaeological theme which first surfaced in his 2013 *AR collaboration with Autumn Richardson, entitled 'Succession'. In particular, it is the last composition from that album, 'Relics', which can now be seen as starting point for much of Skelton's future work as The Inward Circles. But whereas 'Relics' dealt with the pollen remnants submerged beneath tarns in the remote Cumbrian uplands, 'Belated Movements' evokes a distinctly funerary landscape.

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released April 6, 2015

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