Benji releases the first single - Satellite - from debut album Songs to Make You Happy on the 25th November 2022 via Pear O' Legs Records

After a solo hiatus of over five years, Welsh singer and songwriter Benji Tranter returns with his debut album Songs to Make You Happy. With a lo-fi, DIY ethos, unembellished guitars and vocals deliver a charming, sometimes chaotic, collection of vignettes; diary entries, polaroid snapshots, throwaway poems and short stories. The influence of US songwriters like Elliott Smith, Conor Oberst and Daniel Johnston is clear throughout, with occasional elements from Scott Walker, Nick Drake, and the care-free naivety of Jonathan Richman.

Growing up on the Welsh Marches, Benji has been songwriting for many years now, penning two EPs in 2014 and 2016, more recently focussing his efforts toward his power-pop group Ski Lift who have been featured across R1, BBC6 and BBC Wales. He has also collaborated with Jovis Lane in pop outfit Show Boy, and is currently a member of psych-folk group The All Night Chemist.

"Beautifully crafted" - Adam Walton, BBC Wales

Satellite

The producers corner sample challenge #280

ENERGIZER #280

Revisiting a disquiet junto recording from 3 years ago - https://soundcloud.com/caustic_gates/disquiet0420-third-quarter - even managed to find the rudimentary graphic score I jotted down for it at the time. 

Voices different this time, but picked a similar bright chord for halfway through.

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More on this 579th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Memory Serves (The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0579: Memory Serves – Disquiet

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disquiet0579 - fourth quarter

This talk was given on February 18th, 2023 at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.

For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org.

About the speaker: 

Fr. James Brent, O.P. holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Saint Louis University. While there, he specialized in the rationality of faith. He currently teaches at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.

Spirit, Soul, and Body According to Thomas Aquinas | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

stbb 846 GoodWilL

Created using only the 6 samples provided by Marcus Fischer. I used Bitwig's samplers to slice and create patterns for percussive parts or in some cases just let the original content playback in real time. I used a tempo that matched one of the lead pads from Marcus's set.

Gone Fisching (Disquiet0600)

This lecture was given on November 9th, 2023, at the University of Oregon.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Dominic Langevin is vice president and dean of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies, where he also serves as an assistant professor of systematic theology, specializing in sacramental theology. He did his undergraduate studies at Yale University and his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He was formerly assigned as a parochial vicar at St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish in Charlottesville, Virginia, serving the University of Virginia.

Salvation for Sinful Christians: The Sacrament of Confession | Father Dominic Langevin, O.P.

The Thomistic Institute

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