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Nov 21, 2013 · October 1 -- The Hunting LifeNovember 16 -- Dead OakDecember 24 -- Frost's Bitter GripFrom the album "The Peregrine". LP released on Experimedia in 2011.
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Mar 31, 2015 · From Lawrence English, January 2015. “I first discovered The Peregrine when I was visiting my friend David Toop in London. He had the book on his desk and I picked it up and randomly turned to a page. It was an exquisite description of an Owl silently hunting. I was struck by the detail and evocative sense of listening in the writing.
From The Peregrine (Room40 RM469).Awaking from a deep stasis, opening our eyes to see the light, and letting go. That's how I would sum the second half of th...
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Mar 14, 2012 · I/O3 – Lawrence English with David Toop & Scanner, London, 2004. English’s latest recording, The Peregrine, released last year on Experimedia, is similarly grounded by a strong theme. Given his early ornithology experiences, you might expect this album to reference the behaviour, flight and predatory skills of its eponymous bird of prey.
Oct 7, 2011 · Based on the book of the same name by J.A Baker (which I confess that I haven’t read), it seems appropriate that narrative is a particularly compelling force at work here – the listening experience hangs heavily on the ideas of time and progression, and though The Peregrine often moves slowly enough to feel outside of time’s linear motion, its subtle changes of scenery are sufficient to remind the listener that they’re not where they were previously. It’s almost as though its ...
May 19, 2015 · J.A. Baker’s nonfiction book The Peregrine was first published in the UK in 1967 and won the Duff Cooper prize. As an example of the genre of ‘nature writing’, it is outstanding, and was described by Robert Moore in the UK Daily Telegraph in 2010 as ‘the most precise and poetic account of a bird – possibly of any non-human creature – ever written in English prose’.
