Birdstuff
The response to David Sheppard’s article on the Music & Migration compilation has been phenomenal, resulting in an instant sell out of the CDs from our shop. The time that it took for us to re-stock may have resulted in a short delay in delivery so apologies to anyone who had [...]
About that Blog.
from Nick Small;
“I’m not really one for finding and reading Blogs, but I happened upon one last week, that of a Fenlander turned Laplander. Hell, here was a man launching himself into a life that most would find intolerable, but that I covet. The entries regarding the trip out to his cabin in temperatures around [...]
A Redwing Winter
by Phil Thornton
They came one morning
A few days after the snow
And perched on next door’s tree
Whose branches hung over the fence
We didn’t recognise them
This alien flock with immigrant songs
As they flew from tree and tree
Yet all pointing in the same direction
As if awaiting a signal of some kind
A kind of thrush perhaps
Yet none [...]
How Far To The Horizon
by Ted Kessler.
Ted Kessler is a friend of ours but you wouldn’t call him a friend of the river. He’s a boy of the city. Well dressed, well groomed and well with it. He will never hold a fishing rod (but if he did, you can be assured it would be of the finest tonkin). [...]
Falling & Laughing Competition Winners
Thanks to everyone who entered the Falling & Laughing competition. Congratulations go to Louise Brooker and Iain Rowan, you are the winners. Your books will be in the post as soon as Grace and Edwyn have added their signatures.
Music is for the Birds
2 March 2010 // Miscellany // Music
First mentioned on CBTR by Ceri Levy in his Bird Effect Diary of August 2009, the Music & Migration compilation is now a beautiful reality.
David Sheppard tells us all about it;
Perhaps it’s an innate empathy with birdsong, or the fact that autostrada perambulating troubadours enjoy kinship with anything which regularly ‘migrates’ along familiar pathways [...]
Birdsongs 2 track list
25 February 2010 // Miscellany
just in case you couldn’t download the cover;
Chris Watson – A Journey South
21 February 2010 // Miscellany
Photos by Chris Watson & Jason Roberts. McMurdo Sound, Cape Evans, Ross Island (approx 78º S).
Chris Watson reports on a recent trip he made to the South Pole, in the company of David Attenborough, over at Touch Radio.
More Chris on CBTR tomorrow when, in conjunction with Heavenly Recordings, we will be making his remix of [...]
The Things You Tell Me
21 February 2010 // Miscellany
by Will Burns
You looked at me across the
table and held my gaze. Eventually
you said this city has nearly killed me
and told me you were leaving for home.
Now alone, I am thinking of
you riding a bicycle to work,
broad daylight in summer,
wearing some cotton dress.
And sequenced, rhythmic,
impossibly slow moving
streams of starlings
high above the pier.
You told [...]
Message From the Country
17 February 2010 // Miscellany
Our friend Ben Myers left London for pastures new – he promised to send us a card whenever inspiration grabbed him… here’s another postal message from our man in the North.
Ben Myers, Man of the Letters
Caught by the River