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In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (release)

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In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
WAP144CD-front.jpeg
Label(s) Warp Records
Catalogue No(s) WAP144
Release date(s) 27 Nov 2000
Format(s) CD, 12" (sky-blue vinyl)
Running time(s) 24:04


In a Beautiful Place out in the Country is an EP by Boards of Canada. Encompassing four tracks culled from the same recording sessions from which Boards of Canada would later produce Geogaddi,[1] the EP tends to favor a darker, more pastoral, and even elegiac atmosphere than its predecessor Music Has the Right to Children.

Although musically the EP is no great stylistic departure for the group, In a Beautiful Place out in the Country does represent a significant change in tone and subject matter. Of particular note are the references in the music and album art reflecting an interest by the brothers in the history of David Koresh’s millennialist sect, the Branch Davidians. The picture found directly beneath the disc on the CD release of the EP, for example, has been cropped from a picture of David Koresh.[2]

The most overt of these references is found in the track title Amo Bishop Roden, the real name of a woman who parted ways with Koresh before the 1993 Waco Siege. A less obvious reference to the Davidians is also found in the title track’s mantra “come out and live in a religious community in a beautiful place out in the country,” alleged to be a slogan used by Roden to proselytize for the Davidian sect.

References to the Davidian sect would continue to spill over into other Boards of Canada releases, notably on Geogaddi’s 1969, as well as their remix of Slag Boom Van Loon’s Poppy Seed.

The EP was released by Warp Records in both CD (WAP144CD) and 12” (WAP144) formats on November 27, 2000[3]. The latter was pressed on sky-blue vinyl.

In 2002, the song Kid For Today was featured in a BMW 7 Series commercial for British television.

Tracks

  1. "Kid For Today" – 6:23
  2. "Amo Bishop Roden" – 6:16
  3. "In a Beautiful Place out in the Country" – 6:07
  4. "Zoetrope" – 5:18

References

  1. ↑ https://bocpages.org/wiki/Interviews#2002-03:_OOR
  2. ↑ David-koresh.jpg
  3. ↑ https://bleep.com/release/5729-boards-of-canada-in-a-beautiful-place-out-in-the-country

Artwork

Discography Overview | view ⬢ edit
Albums Music Has the Right to Children ⬢ Geogaddi ⬢ The Campfire Headphase ⬢ Tomorrow's Harvest ⬢ Inferno
EPs Twoism ⬢ Hi Scores ⬢ Aquarius ⬢ Peel Session ⬢ In a Beautiful Place out in the Country ⬢ Trans Canada Highway
Singles Reach For The Dead ⬢ Introit / Prophecy At 1420 MHz
Rare / Early Releases Catalog 3 ⬢ Acid Memories ⬢ Closes Vol. 1 ⬢ Play by Numbers ⬢ Hooper Bay ⬢ Boc Maxima ⬢ Old Tunes Vol. 1 ⬢ Old Tunes Vol. 2 ⬢ Random 35 Tracks Tape ⬢ Boc Remii Vol. 1
Mixtapes Marcus Eoin's Campfire Mixtape ⬢ Societas x Tape
Live Sets Live @ Warp10 ⬢ Live @ Lighthouse ⬢ Live @ ATP ⬢ All Gigs
Promotional Releases Telephasic Workshop ⬢ MHTRTC (promo cassette) ⬢ Orange Romeda ⬢ Geogaddi (promo lp) ⬢ Geogaddi (test pressing) ⬢ Geogaddi (promo cassette) ⬢ ------ / ------ / ------ / XXXXXX / ------ / ------ ⬢ Reach For The Dead (promo cd) ⬢ Come To Dust (promo cd)
Compilation Exclusives Korona ⬢ Orange Romeda ⬢ Seven Forty Seven
Produced by BoC for Others Here Come The Rubber Cops ⬢ Orangutang
Bootleg Releases Unreleased Tracks
Other Kaleidoscope ⬢ Promotional Events ⬢ Promotional Items ⬢ Merchandise ⬢ Web media
Lead-up RSD 2013 ARG ⬢ Road to Inferno ⬢ 2026 Promo Campaign
To Be Determined BoCset



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