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On the Radio!

21/2/2022

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Mae fy sengl diweddaraf, Tori Jaaun re Jaaun, wedi bod yn neud yn reit da! Mae wedi cael ei chwarae ar Resonance FM, Radio Cymru, Exile FM a BBC 6 Music, ac wedi cael ei cynnwys yn "Fresh Favs: batch 435" ar y blog poblogaidd cherddoriaeth newydd, Fresh on the Net.

Radio appearances so far for Tori Jaaun re Jaaun re:

DJ Ritu, A World in London Unlocked 82 - January 26th 2022, Resonance FM - https://www.mixcloud.com/djritu/a-world-in-london-unlocked-82-january-26th-2022/

Georgia Ruth, 01/02/22, BBC Radio Cymru - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00140t1

Jon Read, The Monday Night Ride-Out, 14th Feb 2022,  Exile FM - https://exilefm.com/podcasts/the-monday-night-ride-out-17

Tom Robinson, BBC Introducing Mixtape, 21/02/22, BBC 6 Music - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0014n1g

Also, "Community Garden: Lockdown Version" got played on "The Ska Show With Beefy, Jan 30th 2022" on Southern FM (Australia!!) - https://embed.sounder.fm/play/241126 

The Worldwide Welshman Radio takeover continues!

More international & local collaborations to come...
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Indo-Cymru Cydweithrad #1: Raag Yaman

2/2/2022

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Last spring, during lockdown, I was invited by Indian classical singer, Subodh Pandey to participate in an international musical collaboration. He set up a video call between me and two of his friends, the vocalist Aakriti Bhatt and the tabla player, Maneesh Rawat. The three of us had not met before. Facilitated by Subodh, we developed a piece together. Aakriti proposed the two compositions in Raag Yaman, Maneesh created the tabla part, and I composed the guitar and synth accompaniment and added a drum machine. The working-title of the project is Indo-West Collaboratives  (इंडो - West – सहयोगी) and we were supported by the Asia-Europe Foundation's Mobility First! grant. In the summer, Aakriti and Maneesh got together in Harmony Studio, New Delhi, to record the vocals, tabla, tampura and swarmandal. They sent this to me over the internet, and I chopped it up a bit and recorded guitars & synths. I was staying in London that week, so I ended up recording the parts in MJ & Hugo's home studio in Whitechapel (check out their band, Temporal Comet). I filmed the video in their back yard, too.
Lyrics & Interpretation
The raga/scale is Raag Yaman.
The first bandish (compostion), "Tori Jaaun re Jaaun re", is a song of love and gratitude for one's mentor, romantic partner, good friend, or family member, from the Dilli Gharana tradition:

Tori jaun re jaun re balihari...
Tori Pyari si suratpe balma re jaun re jaun re balihari...


Aakriti's interpretation: "oh my dear, you are my affectionate, your face is so beautiful and I feel so much positivity after seeing you that I just want to see you all the time. Your presence makes the ambience very nice, I feel so good when you are present in front of me"

Kush Rang ke mai bal bal jaun...
Charan me sheesh Jhukaun


"my dear mentor, I cannot explain how special you are to me. I just put my head on your feet"

Part 2 of the piece is a Tarana, composed by Vidushi Kaushiki Chakraborty. A tarana is a type of vocal composition in Hindustani classical music that uses nonsense syllables which are believed to be derived from Persian and Arabic.

Tana dir tanaum tana dir na...
Tana dir tanaum tana dim tana dir na...
Tana dim tana dere na
Na dir tada ni tadir tadani tadir tana na
Tana dir tanaum tana dim tana dir na......


Credits
Bandish (Composition) - "Tori Jaaun re Jaaun re" - written and composed by Dilli Gharana
"Tarana" - composed by Vidushi Kaushiki Chakraborty

Performed & arranged by:- Liam Rickard (Wales), Aakriti Bhatt (India), Maneesh Rawat (India)
Video & audio produced by Liam Rickard

Recorded in Harmony Studio, New Delhi, & Temporal Comet Studio, London

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New lineup, new video!

17/1/2022

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Gig This Saturday!

6/12/2021

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Tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/star-of-the-sea-re-opening-gig-tickets-215000431077
Program:
7.30pm Fairytale Cellist
8pm Badger & Ailsa
8.45pm Worldwide Welshman
9pm Lofi-Jones with Ailsa & Badger
10pm post-gig hanging out!
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Ethnofonik 2021

1/12/2021

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Yn fuan arol dod adref o COP26 yn yr Alban lle roeddwn i wedi bod yn protestio, berfformio a gwylio presentations yn y Green Zone, es i i Ffrainc i gymryd rhan yn "Ethnofonik 2021". Pob blwyddyn, mae 18 cerddorion o wledydd gwahanol yn dod at ei gilydd yn Ris-Orangis, ychydig i'r dde o Baris, i rannu caneuon o'n diwylliannau gwahanol, creu trefniadau gyda'r band, a pherfformio'r trefniadau ar sawl llwyfan yn yr ardal. Dyma'r livestream o'r perfformiad olaf ar y 27ain o Dachwedd.
Photos coming soon
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Camino to COP

26/10/2021

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Karuna Bhavan temple, Lesmahagow, Scotland
I've joined a group of pilgrims walking from London to Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit. Yesterday we had a short walk from Douglas to Lesmahagow. We stayed in the Karuna Bhavan temple. The devotees have kindly let us stay here on their little eco-farm, thanks to several members of our group visiting them yesterday to ask them nicely. Previously, we've stayed in churches, community halls, and even a Days Inn at a motorway service station.

I first met the pilgrims on the 5th of September in a church in Kilburn, North London, on their first stop (I already knew two of them who were my coursemates Tom and Jelena, which is how I got involved with this). I played a show for them, accompanied by my last-minute band, Kerttu Sorumen (vocals), Michael Ekeghasi (vocals, cajon), Lewis Stagg (accordion) and Liam Lenohan (keys). It was a lovely show.
I next met them in Leek, Staffordshire, on September the 26th. My courseamtes and I, lead by Jelena, had arranged an event this weekend in Leek to coincide with the walkers passing through the town. I stayed with them for their rest day on the 27th, and played an evening show for them in the church where we were sleeping (I slept right up front near the altar). On Tuesday the 28th I walked with the pilgrims from Leek to Macclesfield. It was quite rainy. That evening I went to stay on Mathew & Kim's alpaca farm, and then I went back to my new houseshare in Machynlleth (I moved to Mach, I'll write about that in another post).
I rejoined the walk at Gretna on the 16th of October. I took the train up from London. I'm walking with them to Glasgow.

16/10/21  - Meeting the walkers in Gretna
17/10/21 -  Gretna - Ecclefechan

18/10/21 Ecclefechan - Lockerbie

19/10/21 Lockerbie - Johnstonebridge

20/10/21 rest day in Johnstonebridge

21/10/21 Johnstonebridge - Moffat

22/10/21 Moffat - halfway to Abington

(We couldn't find a place to stay for this leg, so we shuttled back to Moffat)

23/10/21 yesterday's pick up point - Crawford - Days Inn Abington

24/10/21 - Abington - Douglas (through a windfarm!)

(Epic photos day)

25/10/21 Douglas - Lesmahagow

We couldn't find a place to stay in Douglas, so most of us a were shuttled back to the Days Inn. A few lucky ones including me with less money (the youth group) got to stay with some other Caministas in their Air BnB. We traveled there in electric vehicles, and back to Douglas in the morning.

25/10/21 Karuna Bhavan Temple
Last night, one of the devotees told us about their beliefs and what they think about climate change - in summary, he said that the Krishna Consciousness Society believe that the sustainable solution is to transform our inner selves and overcome greed (over consumption of resources), which he said is the root cause of the climate & biodiveristy crisis we are in. He says that we cannot find material solutions for material problems. My mother would agree; she would like us to live simpler lives, traval less, spend more time in nature, become regionally self-sufficient in food.

I can see many parallels in what he said with what we are learning at the Centre for Alternative Technology, where one of the areas of study is Behaviour Change. i.e. technological advancement alone cannot save humanity, we also need to reconnect with nature and evolve away from energy-intensive material consumerism - hence the slogan "system change not climate change". So many human-made systems on our planet, especially in the "developed countries", rely on energy-dense fossil fuels providing giga-joules of on-demmand chemical energy. Renewable electricity will provide less energy overall (as explained by David MacKay back in 2008), and will increase demmand for rare-earth minerals, much of which are currently extracted by low-paid workers in environmentally destructive ways. Nuclear power could enable us to maintain the high-energy lifestyles which some people are used to and others desire, but also comes with its own set of problems and challenges which have yet to be ironed out. Basically, in the future scenarios where we don't wipe ourselves out (along with many other species who were just minding their own business), we will have to reduce our consumption of energy & resources and share what we have more fairly. This does not mean "going back to the stone age", because we do have plenty of genius material/technological solutions out there which make our lives better!

We are raising money to support environmental activists in the Global South. Visit caminotocop.com to donate.

Thanks for reading.
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Oscilloscope!

30/3/2021

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Recently, my art-college friend, Charles, invited me to be Ed's co-host on the monthly experimental electronic music show, Oscilloscope, that they run along with their friend, Rob.
The last time I saw Ed was in November 2018 when we performed a concert together in Blue Sky Cafe in Bangor (with Roger Hughes, Ben and Eve Goodman).
It was a great pleasure to meet experimental audio visual artists Mark Albrow (https://markalbrow.bandcamp.com), Gary Lee Nelson, Erik Nystrom and Dafydd Roberts (Listen To The Voice Of Fire). I had a lot of fun. Check it out:
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Within My Hungry Arms - Ian S Rickard & Son

24/3/2021

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On Sunday morning, March 21st, my Dad heard journalist & Chaplain, Debbie Thrower speak on Radio 4 about a Grandmother who'd told her that she has "hungry arms" for her grandchildren, whom she hadn't been able to hug since the first lockdown. This inspired him to write "Within My Hungry Arms". He showed it to me, and we recorded it with my zoom. It was conceived, written and recorded in one morning. He is struggling to play guitar these days due to his neck and back problems, so I played guitar on the song for him.
A few days later, my sister, Ciara, filmed us in the garden and edited together this excellent video clip. Love the retro filter! She is really getting good at her new trade.

Trade secrets: We used the audio from the original Sunday morning recording. This is because outdoors you hear some car sounds and dogs barking which might have disturbed the recording. But next time, I will probably record the audio outside too, because I like the outdoor quality of the sound (to try and replicate this, I recorded some birdsong on that spot and we added it to the audio mix on the video).
1. (a capella)
I have hungry arms,
My heart is bleeding,
My mind is weakened,
My body needing,
I want to see an end,
To all this grieving,
And hold you all again ~
Within my hungry arms.

2.     D
Oh my days & nights~
     A7      D
Have been so lonely,
           G
A lifetime lingering,
              F#m
Thinking, "if only",
              G
But there's a sea to cross,
            Bm
To sail, so slowly,
              D                
'till I can hold you all,
G         A7      D
Within my hungry arms.
 
3.       D         A7    D
Páín punctuates my daily dealings,
     G
As I watch and wait,
            F#m
And keep my feelings ~
               G
All boxed and bottled up,
                Bm
My thoughts are reeling,
          D
Until I hold you all,
G        A7      D
Within my hungry arms.
4.        E
When this nightmare ends,
       B7  E
That's so elastic,
              A
And the daytime dawns,
                 G#m
With light, fantastic,
                  A
I won't feel so forlorn,
                         C#m
So damned, so drastic,
          E               
Once I've held you all ~
A               B7       E
Within my hungry arms.
 
5.         E
I have hungry arms,
       B7          E
My heart is bleeding,
                  A
My mind is weakened,
               G#m
My body needing,
                A
I want to see an end,
                 C#m
To all the grieving,
             E          
And hold you all again,
A         B7     E
Within my hungry arms.
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It was my birthday...

28/2/2021

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It was gonna be a big one, it was gonna be the BEST ONE EVER.... but, we had to postpone it because of a certain virus...(see song below)
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Atgofion o Nos Galan 2020

31/12/2020

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Choose your platform
Last year's NYE concert, streaming worldwide

Dyma record o cyngor chwarais i blwyddyn dwythaf yn Gent, Gwlad Belg hefo band o tua 20 ffrind, rhai nath ymyno ar y funed olaf, a rhai eriall o'r gynilleidfa. Dwy'n nghobaithio eich fod  yn mwynhau ein jam fawr! Roedd o'n lot o hwyl.
Fi sydd wedi cyfansoddi rhan fwyaf o'r canneuon (heb law am yr un traddodiadol), gyda help ar ambell i gan gan  Sion, Jilly a Maya. Diolch i'r band gwych am ei holl solos nuts ac i'r gynilleidfa am eich egni.

Dyma'r fywyd rydan ni esio i pawb!
Agor y ffinniau rwan.

#opentheborders
Click here for videos of the concert! (YouTube playlist)
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