This place is a hand-me-down wetsuit,
Squeezing you into the person you were:
One of the cousins in the car parked up
At the end of the lane where the land ends.

Selves return, the tide of the years is out,
The sound of the saint’s bell, muffled and clear,
Cannot be carried off to some museum:
You will always reach Inishkeel Island.

Summers at once, hard to tell apart,
The strung-together spoils of another
Afternoon on all fours, fishing for crabs,
Time’s uncoiled wire hanger in your hand

(You prod the poor creatures, until their last
Play is to cling to what pains them, as our
Belonging is intensification 
Of the longing to hold on to a stretch of sand,

Or sweep of hills, or the feel underfoot
Of a day in the life of the heather
Surrounding the fort at Loughadoon,
Where a boat and its post joke like old friends.)

Received, passed on, this was your father’s gift,
The chance to know you might be found somewhere,
Here, amongst the nights running from kids’ pub
To adults’ pub, along the shore that winds


Through Rossbeg and Portnoo, inside the knit
Weave of a jumper it takes a whole hour 
To buy from Hugh, once talk of relations
And a tangle of yarns have been exchanged.

This new pilgrimage moves with the rust
Of mountains in autumn, and marsh and river
Bathed in yellow light straight from the taps
Of a cottage lost to childhood’s bogland;

And it comes as the disappearing act
Of rainbows over the beach at Tramore,
And as regulars at Nancy’s sensing the room
Truer for their having left and returned;

And it arrives, across an alphabet 
Of dunes, as the voice of our daughter,
Strapped to my chest, she a mad accordion
Who bellows in the language of the wind,

One who is still entering the world, and yet
to know that we don’t really ever 
find the words (ours are the odd consonant
of kelp, and vowels pooled like ink on the strand); 

But you - who were her water and her craft,
Prepared to break that night, breathing in for four
And out for eight - offer now these waves at Narin
Which seem to say what you both understand.

Donegal Revisited [BBC Radio 4, 2022-03-29]

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Yaxkin Melchy Ramos and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo: "Capybara Hot Springs"

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Thirty years ago, LA producer Aaron Paar realized his dream of launching a label with the debut of Worldship Music, dropping the now cult classic Planet Eater EP in the late summer of 1995. Crafted on his newly acquired SP1200 and refined with mix engineer extraordinaire Greg “Ski” Royal, the record became the label’s very first release and a true vanguard single. Overflowing with the raw swing and deep grooves of classic US house, these tracks still radiate the timeless energy of the mid-90s underground. Now carefully remastered and reissued in a strictly limited edition, Planet Eater EP returns as an essential piece of house history for DJs, collectors, and true heads alike.

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Matt' Radio Slave' Edwards and Joel Martin's critically acclaimed Quiet Village project follow-up, 2024's 'Reunion' with the Vanessa Daou collaboration, 'Naked Hunger' on September 5th, '25.

'Naked Hunger', which comes in 'Vocal Mix' and 'Spoken Word Mix' versions, sees Quiet Village employ their hypnotic sensibilities to one of house music's most tantalising vocal talents in Daou, resulting in a mid-tempo house cut that completely envelops.

While the vocal mix of 'Naked Hunger' leans into the interplay between Vanessa Daou's cosseting song voice and spoken vocals, with the rest of the track embracing a subtly dubby ethereal musicality, Quiet Village ramp up the instrumentation on the 'Spoken Vocal' version with bass guitar and piano flourishes accompanying her sultry poetic delivery.

'Naked Hunger', Daou's first collaboration with Quiet Village, marks her first release since 2019's 'Little Black Dress'.

Throughout her illustrious career, the acclaimed three-time #1 Billboard Dance Chart topper has collaborated with Danny Tenaglia, David Morales, Mood II Swing, Ralphi Rosario, Terry Farley (Farley & Heller), Charles Webster, Horse Meat Disco's Severino Panzetta, Hifi Sean, and Eli Escobar.

Friends since meeting at Goldie's legendary MetalHeadz sessions at London's Blue Note in the '90s, Quiet Village, aka Matt Edwards and Joel Martin, began releasing their brand of dubbed-out, balearic-and-beyond tracks in 2005 via NYC's Whatever We Want Records. The duo's 2008 'Silent Movie' LP was a critical smash hit that resulted in remix commissions for the likes of Bryan Ferry, The Gorillas, Leftfield, Francois K, Massive Attack and many more.

After a few years in the wilderness, unable to use their nom de plume due to contractual restrictions, the pair launched The Quiet Village label in 2024 with 'Reunion', a stunning 6/8 time urban jazz odyssey, a favourite of the likes of Luke Una, Gilles Peterson and Ryan Elliott.

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Glisz was born in Italy but works in the studios of Los Angeles - and his latest EP was inspired by a trip to Morocco. 
His musical style is very much in keeping with this continent-hopping behaviour, as organic textures, ethnic melodies and traditional African and Middle Eastern instruments meet downtempo grooves, sustained basslines and 21st century production wizardry. To celebrate the release of his new, 'NO:MAD' EP, he's captured the essence of his approach and translated it to an hour long session that mxies his own music with fellow pioneers like Four Tet, DJ Zoze and more.
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Juno Daily - In The Mix: Glisz

David Farnell joined the RAF as part of his National Service. In this clip he describes arriving at Edinburgh Field, the Royal Australian Air Force base, where he worked in operations. He goes on to tell a remarkable story about being invited to witness the Taranaki detonation (6 October 1957) from the air. This was the third and final round of Operation Antler in Maralinga, South Australia.

This is a short extract from an in-depth interview. David Farnell was recorded for the Oral History of British Nuclear Test Veterans project in 2024. The interviewer was Joshua A Bushen. This project was run in partnership with National Life Stories and the full interview can be accessed at the British Library.

Transcript:
Ohh, you know to actually see those three V bombers, which they were, they were designed for dropping atom bombs on somebody. And I, anyway, they came over and you could sit there, they were there to be seen. But we were all told to sign the Official Secrets Act. So there were things you felt you couldn’t really talk about a great deal.

Yeah.

And then the day came when I heard about this bomb that was going to be suspended from balloons. And there was a flight, a flying officer, no, a flight, what’s the, pilot officer. That’s the lowest rank of officer. In the dark blue dress uniform of the Royal Australian Air Force. Anyway, he’d started bragging about this flight that was going up. To watch, to look out for these balloons breaking free. And it was a RAAF Lincoln bomber, which looks like a Lancaster but is slightly newer, I think. It’s got those two big fins at the end and a rear gunner’s turret, a middle turret and the forward gunner. And it was armed to shoot down the balloons should they float away. And I said, ‘Ohh, I wouldn’t mind going up in that,’ and he fixed it, just like that.

Yeah.

He said, ‘I fixed it, turn up at such and such a time and such and such a place’. So I did. And they put me in the little white wellies. White overalls. Quartz fibre dosimeter. The other one, I’ve forgotten what it’s called, a badge.

Oh a film badge, is it?

Yeah, a film badge. Patch for one eye, lest I see the detonation and be blinded in the other one. And I got on this aeroplane, and the captain welcomed me on board and sat me down and told me where to go. And that was it. We took off, flew to Maralinga.

David Farnell: Witnessing Operation Antler

In this installment, Zen Buddhist monk Brother Phap Huu and leadership coach/journalist Jo Confino explore the art of transmission in Buddhism: wisdom and teachings being passed down over time, from teacher to student. 

The hosts touch on the profound and nuanced ways in which Buddhist teachings and insights are passed down through generations, with the goal of cultivating understanding, compassion, and liberation; the role of nature as a powerful transmitter of wisdom; the significance of rituals and ceremonies in honoring this transmission; and more.

Brother Phap Huu emphasizes the importance of deep listening, humility, and direct experience in the transmission process, and how true transmission goes beyond the imparting of knowledge, to a requirement that both teacher and student be in a state of non-self and openness to receive the teachings. 

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🔔 The Way Out Is In: The Zen Art of Living is a podcast series mirroring Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s deep teachings of Buddhist philosophy: a simple yet profound methodology for dealing with our suffering, and for creating more happiness and joy in our lives. 🔔

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The podcast is co-produced by the Plum Village App:
https://plumvillage.app/
And Global Optimism:
https://globaloptimism.com/
With support from the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation: 
https://thichnhathanhfoundation.org/ 

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Plum Village Community ➛ https://plumvillage.org
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🎙️ Live show: The Way Out Is In podcast with special guest Ocean Vuong ➛ https://tickets.plumvillage.uk/events/zen/1682673 

Interbeing ➛ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbeing  
Album: A Cloud Never Dies ➛ https://plumvillage.org/album-a-cloud-never-dies 
Dharma Talk: ‘The Five Powers: Faith, Diligence, Mindfulness, Concentration, Insight - Brother Phap Huu’ ➛ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4PGrMjea7A 
Dharma Talks: ‘Redefining the Four Noble Truths’ ➛ https://plumvillage.org/library/dharma-talks/redefining-the-four-noble-truths 
Thich Nhat Hanh: Redefining the Four Noble Truths ➛ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eARDko51Xdw 
‘The Four Dharma Seals of Plum Village’ ➛ https://plumvillage.org/articles/the-four-dharma-seals-of-plum-village
The Way Out Is In: ‘Feel It to Heal It: The Dharma of Music (Episode #79)’ ➛ https://plumvillage.org/podcast/feel-it-to-heal-it-the-dharma-of-music-episode-79 
Dharma Talks: ‘Redefining the Four Noble Truths’ ➛ https://plumvillage.org/library/dharma-talks/redefining-the-four-noble-truths

Donegal Revisited [BBC Radio 4, 2022-03-29]

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