Spirit Library launch tour: Jamaica, Hong Kong, Austria, Italy, Bangkok, Oswestry
Live footage from the launch tour
Making a Spirit Library with silicon and oxide
Recording between a Garden and the sea… The new album kind of started with an impromptu. Fingal’s cave in Scotland had the most stunning acoustic, sound sparking off the mostly hexagonal basalt lava columns, spinning in the most entrancing way. Deep in the cave in the almost black, on a narrow ledge above pulsing...
NORWAY – looking for light and wilderness between recordings
There’s something about light. Light wrapped around the day, driving away all but a relic of night. Sun from the north, across the top of the world, preternatural. Full bright on wind blown, mare’s tail waterfalls and a wonderfully strange, quiet, midnight gloaming. Light bursting inside a huge chunk of glacier, city block sized, mint...
A Sound of Birds tour 2018
2018 A SOUND OF BIRDS TOUR 24/3 – WORLDBRIDGER, Llanrhaedr (Ugandan permaculture benefit) https://tinyurl.com/y8vevwcn 31/3 EOSTRE fest Y Dolydd 4/4 REGGAE INNOVATION, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reggae-innovation-conference-tickets-43928155295 13/4 The FACE of WATER, the FACE of SNOW with Jane Siberry (Freedom from Torture/Medecins Sans Frontiers benefit) In Good Hands Shrewsbury https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3385303 6/5 WENLOCK POETRY FESTIVAL the Edge, Much Wenlock...
Music and Myth Festival ’17, Thailand – the dim lit subterranea of the ancient mind
Soft warm wind on the worm brown water, a coiling slither from the deep green heartland, the Temple of Dawn sparkling in the darkness, water around and in everything. A hall painted with shifting light, a hundred instruments new and strange – pulsing the life-beat of these ancient lands, with me astonished and inspired...
Vagabond Language tour ’17
Evelyn Waugh captures the evanescence of song so beautifully in these lines from Brideshead Revisited: Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones… We scrawl songs and stories as signs, for our selves and each other, of the mystery as we pass. They are joyful outbursts, full of...
Fundraising for ‘World of Hope’ Hothouse Flowers, Linda Thompson, Peggy Seeger, Lau, Kris Drever and the Oyster Band,
Very happy to be able to support POSTCARDS FOR PEACE’s fundraising and awareness project A WORLD OF HOPE. Postcards for Peace works in peace, diversity and inclusion advocacy with young people around the world. The contributors pay tribute to the esteem...
Cyprus and Parliament – cross party committee on music
Busy schedule this trip – Oxford, Cyprus and Parliament in a little over a week : ) Visual feast to begin with at the Bodleian and the Byzantine studies institute in OXFORD showing hidden gospels of the mountain monastery at Garima in Northern Ethiopia. Airports – and Heathrow particularly – not my favourite place. Now sun...