"Meic Stevens' epic tribute to a Merthyr labour martyr - 'Dic Penderyn'. The band are sharp, their playing by turn breathily atmospheric, or paced and driving. Vocalist Linda Owen Jones carries all before her in splendid fashion" fRoots

Dic Penderyn

Moussa Kouyate is the Bristol Griot translating an ancient kora playing and story telling West African tradition to the streets of Bristol. Falling ill this year he spent some days in hospital. This is a tribute based on words he spoke to trumpeter storyteller David Mowat from our new album The Bristol Griot (available soon). In the band are the BEJE rhythm section Federico Leonori on bass, Paolo Adamo drums, with Emmy Broughton concert harp and Suntou Susso on djembe. Please tell us what you think!

What are reparations? And what’s the role of faith communities in this conversation? 

We speak to Edwina Peart, Inclusion and Diversity Coordinator, and Rebecca Woo, Campaigns Coordinator, about the reparations conversation that is just beginning amongst British Quakers.
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FURTHER INFO
Find links to Woodbrooke courses and other resources at: www.quaker.org.uk/reparations 
Swarthmore Lecture: www.woodbrooke.org.uk/swarthmore 
Ann Morgan, on Lancaster Quaker involvement in slave economies: https://youtu.be/RiC39-UepCE 
Join the climate justice year of learning: www.quaker.org.uk/efcj
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QUOTED
Richard Reddie (2007) Abolition
Adrienne Maree Brown (2019) Pleasure Activism: https://bookshop.quaker.org.uk/Pleasure-Activism-The-Politics-of-Feeli_9781849353267 
Verene Shepherd, Sam Sharpe lecture 2019: https://www.baptist.org.uk/Articles/564908/Sam_Sharpe_Lecture.aspx 
Others mentioned: Brené Brown, Hilary Beckles

A Quaker Take

On reparations: what are reparations?

chill pill

a rehearsal, I assume for a Christmas parade, in Es Castell 15th October 2015 in the car park. Drums and trumpets. 
Includes the church bells
Bit of a sharp jump near end where I stopped and started again. Abrupt stop
Image taken a year previously slightly earlier in day

rehearsing for Christmas / Nadal / Navidad in Es Castell

I missed out recording in the early morning as it was a bit to breezy to record, it was very overcast and even a few spots of rain could be felt.  However before breakfast I noticed that in the barn the Swallows were really singing well, so I got the gear out and had a go. In the barn it was not as breezy as outside, so you could say that it made up for earlier.  
Recorded in the barn next to the Nature School in the little village of Palupohja in the Alam Pedja reserve Estonia at 7.17am on the 18th of May2017.  
Equipment; A pair of Sennheiser MKH8020 microphones, a Sound Devices MixPre microphone pre-amp and a Marantz PMD661 solid state recorder.  Recording 3018.

Swallows in song - 18 May 2017 - 7.17am

Be Still And Cool

Track 4 of 27.
Dawn Chorus with Robin and Chiffchaff in song.   5th of May 2017 beginning at 5.32am at the edge of the Old Pine Wood.	  6m30.	A good range of other species sing in the distance.  It was a really cold morning and on the way back, in the final few hundred meters I really felt the cold.  It felt much more cold than the figure of -1°C would suggest it should have been.
Species; Robin, Chiffchaff, Common Crane, Cuckoo, Gray Necked Woodpecker, Blackbird, Dunnock, Great Tit, Wood Pigeon, Rooks, Tree Pipit and Songthrush.  
Recording 2971.
To help you find my albums, here is a list of the names of them as sound cloud is not structured in such a way as to make it easy to find material that is a long way down or at the bottom of the page, so it is easier to search for the albums if you know their names, here is a list.
Put any of these names in the search bar and press enter.
Central America . . . Belize.
Garden of songs.
Forest Home.
Out of the blue.
Jungle report.
Wild enough.
Na Luum Ca - revisited.
South America . . . Brazil.
Xixuau (2 disc production).
South America . . . Guyana.
Karanambu.
Iwokrama.
South America . . . Peru (4 disc production).
Otorongo & Tahuayo.
Europe . . . Finland.
Natures Song.
At the blue moment.
Europe . . . Estonia.
Soomaa.
Europe . . . Wales / Ireland.
Morning Birds 3.
Europe . . . Ireland.
Morning Birds 1.
Morning Birds 2.
The joy of birdsong.
Birds of the great Saltee.
Saltee Revisited.
Songs of silence.
Aubade.
More Suburban Birds.

Heart Of Alam Pedja - track 4 of 27

The fluting calls of White-crowned shamas fill the valley as the sun sets over the jungles of Maliau NP, Borneo. Recorded with Sony PCM D10, Lom MikroUsi mics and BubbleBee Windbubbles. 1-hour version on Youtube at https://youtu.be/0RyOT0yRSH4

Read about my expedition to Borneo at https://mindful-audio.com/blog/sound-recording-borneo

Borneo Rainforest - Evening - Dusk Chorus With Shama

Graham Dunning explores the world as a giant record player in his new tape Something About Still Trying. Well known as a turntable experimentalist  Dunning brings this sensibility to field recording in this album which sees him building a giant stylus out of a stick for A Tracing of a Single Tide, re-configuring a windmill as a huge turntable in Windchange, and finding a recording which sounds like a scratch loop to compose the opening title track.
Something About Still Trying is out January 30 on cassette.

A Tracing Of A Single Tide (excerpt)  - Graham Dunning - Something About Still Trying out Jan 30

Poem text and crucial background: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/07/05/singularity-marissa-davis

rehearsing for Christmas / Nadal / Navidad in Es Castell

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