“There are many songs in the landscape”, says Ed O’Brien, guitarist and member of Radiohead, “it roots you in what it means to be a human being; what are we doing walking on this planet”. In this podcast it’s our delight to have time with Ed as he describes the making of his solo album ‘Earth’ in retreat in mid-Wales, amidst a timeless, rich vein of Celtic tradition, and in Brazil amidst the polyrhythms of insects that are at the heart of samba.
Landscape, belief, aliveness, quantum physics, spirituality, and reading poetry aloud in the mountains, the interview dances through concepts, connections and contrasts, from a man who continues to be creating contemporary music that is a record of time, place, resonance and emotions. “Nature and landscape are not always easy places to be but you couldn’t feel more alive”.
Ed O’Brien and ‘Earth’ https://www.eobmusic.com
INTRODUCTORY AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC: Colin Williams
Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:
Led Zeppelin
Bon Iver
Jack Kerouac
Snowdonia
Radiohead
Brazil
Oxfordshire
Vale of the White Horse
Mid-Wales
Cambrian Mountains
Jay Griffiths - Wild
Rhayader
River Wye
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
William Blake
Dylan Thomas
Celtic Nations
The Shard
Plynlimon
Rebecca Solnit - Wanderlust
Barry Lopez
Aberystwyth
Ezra Pound
Dead Poets Society
Atheism
Agnosticism
Buddhism
Aldous Huxley - The Perennial Philosophy
Sufism
Kabbalah
Hinduism
Samba
Laura Marling
Nick Drake
New Mexico
Arizona
Dehli
Rajasthan
Bhutan
Sámi
Aretha Franklin
Quantum physics
Paul McCartney
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34. Extinction ~ loss, hope and redemption
33. Sense of scent ~ second nature, beyond words
32. Sam Lee. The Nightingale ~ totem, identity and hope
31. Black Shuck ~ and the hounds of the liminal lands
30. Ed Parnell. Ghostland ~ In Search of a Haunted Country
28. Gillian Burke ~ storytelling & the light and shade of being alive
26. Karen Parry. Wild Swimming ~ held by water
25. Eva Gunnare. Wild Food ~ tradition & knowledge
24. The Wolf ~ and humanity
23. Interspecies ~ a language between us?
22. The River ~ all things merge into one
21. Roger Hardy, Rhett Griffiths. Sea Voices ~ Siren voices
20. Owl ~ mythology, motif and mastery
19. Wilderness ~ is it beyond our reach?
18. The Sea ~ a prelude
17. Dan Richards. Outpost ~ wilderness and the other
16. Pilgrimage ~ endurance, faith and the 'other'
15. Julian Hoffman. Irreplaceable ~ the fight to save wild places
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