February 2012
17 posts
Tor Falcon: Diary of a Wild Place: February, Maps... →
torfalcon:
I love maps. Ordinance Survey maps, crinkled with contour lines. Ancient maps in museums with obligatory sea monster. Road maps with branches of Ikea marked. I have maps in my head too. Maps of places I know, full of colours and shapes. And maps of places I don’t know but I’ve imagined.
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“I was born, like other men, in a spot of earth which I loved because I had...”
– G. K. Chesterton (via riversofgold)
cathy's clown
ever since discovering cathy’s clown was number one the day i was born, i have been obsessed by it. by the way the melody sits on such a simple chord structure, and the way the words float on the tune
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WatchYears - ‘scratching’
by Bartholomäus Traubeck
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Watchfernhillmusic:
fernhill at the bbc in glasgow during celtic connections
January 2012
14 posts
protectorofthesmall:
P A D D Y T U N N E Y //...
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Watchjulie murphy with ceri jones. this is ‘essex song’: a collage of bushes and briars and her own work, describing an essex she didn’t know, and an essex she did know. from her forthcoming album, ‘a quiet house’
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Watchcarn llidi from pwll deri. music via the car cd player is edwards’ grip by llio rhydderch. south westerly courtesy the atlantic
lisawhitehare asked: re samuel palmer again - yes, what a wonderful painter! - i first came across his work at art school when i was living, funnily enough, in a place called shoreham (but not that one) - and remember reading something he had said about a particular quality of late-afternoon light, when the sun is very low and brilliant, and it would appear that buildings had become luminous, as if the stonework...
December 2011
7 posts
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GothamAcme: Howard's Top Albums of the Year →
gothamacme:5. King Creosote and Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mind and Fernhill - Canu Rhydd
“Diamond Mind” is a melancholy documentary of life in a Scottish fishing village. Jon Hopkins supplies the found sound and lovely fiddle and piano arrangements that evoke Fife’s windswept isolation in winter. Kenny Anderson’s keening tenor narrates the everyday lives of fisherman at sea and the families they...
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lisawhitehare:
hollobone:
Poor Old Horse, John...
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November 2011
31 posts
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Watchthis beautiful mix features my friend christine cooper, alongside other exquisite examples of music and spoken word
WatchTreat your ears right. Listen to this album.
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the atlantic rim, the cusp of manawyddan’s cauldron, bejewelled near ynys lochtyn, ceredigion
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the atlantic rim, the cusp of manawyddan’s cauldron, bejewelled near ynys lochtyn, ceredigion
Watchthe atlantic rim, the cusp of manawyddan’s cauldron, bejewelled near ynys lochtyn, ceredigion
