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Key Posts
- Book Four: post-cautionary tales
- Mythos and Logos: a Dark Mountain talk
- Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist
- Introducing the Mountain
- Sensing and Knowing
- Dark Mountain Music
- In Patagonia, Part 2: on Nature
- In Patagonia, part 1: on escape
- On the correct management of despair
- The Return of ‘The Vernacular’: A conversation with Sajay Samuel
- The quants and the poets
- The Poet and the Machine
- Out on the stubborn skerry
- Defining the Mountain
- Against Global Communication
- What Do You Do, After You Stop Pretending?
- Towards an Uncivilised filmography
- Defusing the Apocalypse
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Bringing It Home: An Invitation to the Last Uncivilisation Festival
posted by Dougald Hine
17th May, 2013
The first year, it happened as Jay Griffiths was speaking, just as she came on to the theme of shape-shifting: the PA system broke down, the misplaced formality of the hall came apart and we found ourselves sitting around her, … Continue reading →
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Thanks For Coming
posted by John McAndrew
14th May, 2013
My father had two prostate surgeries when he was in his mid seventies. After the second one he contracted something called Guillain-Barre Syndrome. It caused a paralysis that began in his hands and feet and quickly, within days, spread to … Continue reading →
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Carrying the Fire
posted by Douglas Strang
10th May, 2013
Carrying the Fire, Wiston Lodge, June 14-16th “I found a one-word poem by the fireside. It said ‘hearth’. So I wrote it out in orange all that a hearth contains. Heat. Art. Eat. Hear. Earth. Heart. What more? Hart.” Jay … Continue reading →
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From the Mourning of the World
posted by Sophie
9th May, 2013
Four years ago, when the Dark Mountain Project launched as a radical literary venture, it’s safe to say that putting together a vinyl compilation album was not one of the things necessarily envisaged. But life is full of interesting surprises. … Continue reading →
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On magic and music
posted by Sophie
29th April, 2013
We have less than 48 hours to go to fund From the Mourning of the World our latest project featuring many of the wild and uncivilised artists we’ve met on our travels – curated by Dark Mountain stalwart Marmaduke Dando. … Continue reading →
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Beating the Bounds
posted by Sophie
25th April, 2013
There are just 6 days left of this campaign to fund our first Dark Mountain album of wild and uncivilised music From the Mourning of the World. Acclaimed folk musician Jon Boden whose track Beating the Bounds appears on the … Continue reading →
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The Art of Protest
posted by Sophie
23rd April, 2013
With just eight days to go until our crowdfunding deadline, Dark Mountain caught up with The Murder Barn‘s Chesca to discuss music and the art of protest. What is it that interests you about the Dark Mountain Project, and this … Continue reading →
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Chris Wood on Dark Mountain and the voice of Anon
posted by Sophie
19th April, 2013
Legendary musician and BBC Radio 2’s Folk Singer of the year 2011, Chris Wood, has supported Dark Mountain since our very early days. His new version of Caesar is exclusive to the Dark Mountain album… What was it that interested … Continue reading →
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Bleak – possibly the best blues band in the world. Ever.
posted by Sophie
16th April, 2013
The third in our series of blog interviews with musicians featured on the forthcoming album From the Mourning of the World offers an eyeopening insight into the minds of death.blues band Bleak. If you like what you see and hear … Continue reading →
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No Vinyl Fetish
posted by Marmaduke Dando
8th April, 2013
As the crowdfunding campaign for our first record cranks up – please support it if you can, as there are only a few weeks left! – I thought I’d give everyone a bit more of an explanation behind some of … Continue reading →
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Key Posts
- Book Four: post-cautionary tales
- Mythos and Logos: a Dark Mountain talk
- Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist
- Introducing the Mountain
- Sensing and Knowing
- Dark Mountain Music
- In Patagonia, Part 2: on Nature
- In Patagonia, part 1: on escape
- On the correct management of despair
- The Return of ‘The Vernacular’: A conversation with Sajay Samuel
- The quants and the poets
- The Poet and the Machine
- Out on the stubborn skerry
- Defining the Mountain
- Against Global Communication
- What Do You Do, After You Stop Pretending?
- Towards an Uncivilised filmography
- Defusing the Apocalypse
Blog categories
- Audio ( 4 )
- Blog ( 180 )
- Books ( 1 )
- Books ( 2 )
- Events ( 9 )
- Featured ( 78 )
- Film ( 4 )
- Key Posts ( 18 )
- Other Media ( 1 )
- Reviews ( 5 )
- Uncategorized ( 13 )
- Uncivilisation ( 8 )
- Visual Art ( 7 )
Blog Archives
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