Mia Pearl - Walk Through The Night

A meditation to visualise your future self, in context of diversity, community and environment. Originally created for The Weather Report, an arts and diversity project led by artist Jill Impey.

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Future Self Meditation

I am

Sünnisurmamärgid

Kohalt Korgõlõ

Unustamise register

This is an early version of a song from the forthcoming album VAGABOND LANGUAGE, recorded in Fingal's Cave in the Hebrides. The cave is carved by the ocean into columnar basalt. The six sided columns reaching from the sea into the vault overhead create the most wonderful acoustic environment. Magical. I talked with an ancient man on the road from Tarbert to Hushinish on Na Hearadh in the Hebrides. He told of me of the tiny whaling ships sailed by local people as they worked to raise a living from their demanding Northern place. It chimed with 7th century gaelic poetry I was reading - about the wild, wide world as seen through those tiny-population, long-ago eyes. A recent Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust funded study shows that the Minch and Sea of the Hebrides Orca families are genetically distinct from the wider population. Unlike the sea eagle, the great auk, red squirrels and so many others the Orcan ancestral lines survived the arrival of men. It is a deep joy for me to think on that. So there is the chorus - a dreamed of and awaited healing, when we can again walk in harmony with the world that is ours - and theirs - the animate and inanimate, that belongs to us and them, as we belong to it and each other.

Vagabond Language

A Grampus Swims In Fingal's Cave

Hanna Tuulikki/Nalle: Songthrush (from Wilder Shores of Love, Alt Vinyl, 2010)
This song was written the day after an encounter with one in the woods near my folks’ home in Sussex. Whilst the verse starts akin to a familiar British folk song, the chorus begins to imitate the actual song of the Songthrush, a bird that is notorious for singing in couplets. The lyrics play with the idea of the bird as a poet, who with his voice and words can seduce a lady and give the answer to her riddle, a common theme in folk stories where a bird and rosebush or bush image is used to symbolise sexual union.

Hanna Tuulikki/Nalle — Songthrush

Fingal's cave, in the wild sea of the Hebrides, is carved by the ocean into columnar basalt. The six-sided columns reaching from the sea into the vault overhead create the most wonderful acoustic environment. Magical. I talked with an ancient man on the road from Tarbert to Hushinish on Na Hearadh in the Hebrides. He talked of the old days when he was a boy and watched his people's small ships sail past. It chimed with 7th-century Gaelic poetry I was reading – about the wild, wide world as seen through that tiny-population, long-ago eyes. A recent Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust funded study shows that the Minch and Sea of the Hebrides Orca families are genetically distinct from the wider population. Unlike the sea eagle, the great auk, red squirrels and so many others the Orcan ancestral lines have survived the arrival of men. It is a deep joy for me to think on that. So there is the chorus – a dreamed of and awaited healing, when we can again walk in harmony with the world that is ours – and theirs – the animate and inanimate, that belongs to us and them, as we belong to it and each other.

In memory, a crossing of great seas (grampus)

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Future Self Meditation

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