A new Giclée print is now available, featuring the image ‘Samhradh’. Printed on 100% acid free paper using lightfast inks, this is a limited run of 33, signed and numbered. Size: 29cm x 29cm. The price is £25 plus postage and packaging. To place an order, please email starred.desert@gmail.com
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A small collection of early piano compositions has been added to my Bandcamp page. These pieces were recorded onto cassette at the University of York, England during Summer 1996, and the digital transfers were taken from an nth generation cassette copy.
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The faces of the clouds are grinning In the space of a door which will not close, when day is done With aching joints in the sunlight Uncertain of this steel flue for the stove I await bags of hydraulic lime Are the swallows late here? Last night I recalled snowfall along Dr. Mott’s Road Without presentience, a border crossed Too quiet for me to hear though I felt its frequencies – A drone to my learning of a chant […]
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Swaermian (from the album ‘Ethe’) is to be played tonight on BBC 3’s Late Junction. The programme begins at 23.00hrs and will be available on iPlayer shortly after broadcast. Details here
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I am delighted to announce that the esoteric music label Zazen Sounds are releasing Chamber Music Vols 1 & 2 on CD, in a beautifully designed digipack format. There is also a special package available which includes their Zazen Sounds magazine and the two CDs, together with handmade incense. Orders are now open – please visit the link above for further details.
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In the clearing, I am reminded why I am here: The Masque of Fir and Birch, scattered and spacious; The noiseless Snipe, veering away Allowing stillness to be regained; The hermitic rocks enclosed by the Heather Which wakes after the Sun has left its Northern House But most of all, no other human To desecrate, as I do, the hallowed quietus. Here, a tiny pool among many others Where bubbles silver without sound The kenotic blackness of the water. The […]
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The Moon floods the ruinous garden Where I had strewn the debris of some former life; Crowbar, axe, wheelbarrow, fire… The freezing air vitalises, but overnight, the primula slumps to the grass Bearing the appearance of death. Out of respect, I keep my clumsiness away from this sleeper. Awake, my coal-dusted hands – which cannot be cleaned, no matter how much I scrub – Pull the door upon the night, and I lie within a bed made cold: I dreamt […]
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Petrified cloud, blasted slate-grey and rose by ice So high as to appear an airship, static. Only in Winter weather do such clouds shape From the space between themselves and the stars, The nearest mirroring of ourselves: On their side, the Silence, to our Voice. The emptiness within the shed, between wood and ground Is like that space, there at the beginning as the empty grave Until I fill it gradually with a violence (Which moves me to paint upon […]
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