Wod
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At last I'm able to give you a bit more information about my new musical project, Wod , about which I've been a bit hesitant to say ...
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Lyric clouds
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Having worried in an earlier post about overusing the words sun, moon, silver and gold in my song-writing, I thought it would be interest...
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Asclepius
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One of the great inventions of the West has to be musical notation . That something as fleeting, abstract and intangible as music can be wri...
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Astrolabes
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Following a tip off from Rima Staines , I went to see the Al-Mizan exhibition at Oxford's Museum of the History of Science yesterday. ...
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The drugs do work, apparently
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With its pages stuffed full of the gurning faces of the fashionably wasted, I've always steered clear of Mixmag . But I picked up the la...
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Canterbury Soundwaves

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Like most hippies, I spent much of my twenties in a fug of hashish, losing myself in fantasy fiction and listening to prog-rock. One of my f...
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BBC Folk Awards 2011
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The BBC Folk Awards were announced last Monday and there were some worthy winners. James Fagan and Nancy Kerr richly deserved Best Duo - y...
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