Einar Selvik
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Einar Selvik is a skald and the founder of the Norwegian band Wardruna . Anyone who's been enjoying The Vikings  will have heard his mus...
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The Will of the Way Things Are
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As regular readers will know, I am a long term Gong fan. It's therefore with great sadness that I learned today that Daevid Allen, who ...
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Raga Kapi
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Here are some videos of South Indian, Carnatic music. They're taken from a concert in London and feature  Jayanthi Kumaresh and Patri S...
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Hexagonism
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I've always found there to be something deeply pleasing about the hexagon, its sixness, its symmetry, the way it falls from a circle or ...
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Winter solstice 2014
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On Brentor
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The South West of England possesses three dramatic tors, each topped by a church or the ruins of a church. Glastonbury Tor is the most famou...
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Revels and wrens
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And so to Ludlow Castle to play bagpipes at its Medieval Christmas Fayre. Photo by Joolz Webb I was invited once again by Paul Sau...
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