BBC interview with Jonathan

TYST - Sinosonica Calligraphica (First Mix)

So many times I see a 'Save the World' t shirt. I'm not against it. Seems to me though that the creatures most in need of saving are the ones wearing the t shirts...

05 The Heron, The Stickleback And The Shrew

I was in Russia once, playing some gigs as a tiny act of support for those damaged by the Tschernobyl radiation. The deep white winter, memorials everywhere to those loved ones lost in war, a collapsing Soviet world all around. I was falling in love with a dancer as a widow wept in the same hotel lobby...

08 Carved In Bone

There is a mystery at the heart of us, that center or essence which cannot be pinned in one place or organ. This is a celebration of meeting and learning about some of those others who have filled my life. Thankyou.

She Walks In Silence

I used to sing "Danny Boy" for my Grandmother when I was a small boy. I never knew why, she just asked me too. Often. When I was older I came to appreciate what it meant to her to have lost my 25 year old Grandfather to war. I guess I reminded her of him. This is for them.

Bonnie Light Horseman My Grandfather The Boy

Sometimes the briefest of meetings leaves a seemingly permanent trace on me... something carried deep, shaping and re-making me in some way. Here are four of so many moments - a beggar child in Aswan, the huge, gentle story-telling car park guardian where I lived as a child in Africa, a homeless family in Indonesia and a friend in England...

Strange Meetings

I have always been captivated by the vagabond-pilgrim life. St Francis' choice of field over palace, Saddhus in India, the aspirant Bodhissatva I've met in China and Thailand. Life as a journey rather than a stockpile. This is a song from the early years of that journey, struggling wobbly towards the light.

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Music to celebrate the wedding of my eldest daughter

The Wedding of Spencer & Taz (Chaff)

Ancient music, found instruments, singing into the silence

BBC interview with Jonathan

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