The Africa Cup of Nations kicks off today. I entered a sweepstake at work. These are my predictions.

Just before heading back to Kenya, I picked up a mandolin to take with me. Chris Thile from Nickel Creek will be my teacher. He doesn’t know it yet. This is him with the Punch Brothers performing Radiohead’s Kid A.

Sun beams poking through the clouds on Hampstead Heath, London.

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A field recording taken just before Christmas. A moonlight song, sung by Warren Brush around the camp fire in Nyumbani Village, Kitui. Just a few nights before, we saw a full lunar eclipse.