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“The blackbird calls in grief.
I know what harm has happened.
Someone has broken his home
and killed his little birds.”
—Anonymous
Interview with Gabriel Ngong Jok, conducted by Natasha Ivins in Kaltuk, Sudan, December 2006: Mr. Jok is a native to Awerial County in the Lakes State and was witness to the devastation wrought by militias and also to the severe lack of education and stability that contributes to a long-term food crisis in the Kaltuk region.
The percussive elements of this piece were composed from three sources: the Ritual of a Stone House recording I made and which is described in the notes for the third track in this piece; the bodhrán drumming of Robbie Harris; the sound of my father, John Hayes, pushing a wheelbarrow over the earth in Utah. These sounds were included because of my interest in the displacement the famine, and hunger in particular, caused in my own family.
Aen Anek Chok Areet, was sung by a group of women in Sudan and was recorded by Natasha Ivins in 2006. It is a song about hunger and the lyrics explain how the singer is so hungry that it is only the diaphragm is holding the heart up because the stomach is so empty.
Other drumming and singing were recorded by Natasha Ivins in Kaltuk, Sudan, at both a Christmas celebration and a welcome-home celebration for a member of the community who had been gone for two decades. Recorded in December, 2006.
The Blackbird Calls in Grief, an anonymous poem in the Fenian tradition. Collected in The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, edited, with translations by Thomas Kinsella (Oxford, 1986), and read by Oona McGlynn, age 6, and recorded June, 2007, at Clifden, County Galway.
Mhuighinse, a sean nós song performed by Bríd Ní Mhaoilchiaráin, at the Ard National School, Carna, County Galway, June, 2007. Mhuighinse is an island off the coast of Carna and this song was first sung by a woman born there who married and moved to Carna. At the end of her life, she uttered this plea that her body be returned to her home island, welcomed by those she loved.
Toibreacha, a poem written by Micheál Ó Cuaig and read by author was recorded at his home in Carna, Galway, in June, 2007. The poem is translated as “Wells”, and is about the water-sources that were used for the village’s residents until very recently. It speaks of how even though not currently being used, the wells are still full of water.
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