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At Pantglas
The lights are out
The phone is cut off
For good

There are voices
Clear, youthful
Rung with feeling
That are silent

The wheeled track
With ruts down
To the hill’s stone
Has overgrown

No tiny windmill turns
The ancient solar panels
Long ago sold
In Exchange and Mart

And still time takes me
Both green, still, and dying
To that height
When this was not so.

I was 18-years-old and not long after we went up the hills to Pantglas. I have no idea how we got there. Did we walk? Did someone drive us there? It was the first of many journeys. The place was powered by what we’d now understand as the most primitive means of producing what was called, then, natural energy. There was light, but little else. And I remember playing my songs, innocently, as if they knew this time in this place belonged to them…and all listened, and why? Because I was young and earnest and so were they and we were all filled with the spirit of this time and place. It would have been autumn. We walked the five or more miles down from the hills, not knowing the way exactly and having no torch, but we were carelessly hopeful. Soon, this time ended, and different needs and different passions occluded those present on that evening. Now, every aspect of it has gone.

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from What was left, released March 31, 2023

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Jon Airdrie and the Enablers Newport, UK

The Enablers is a band/project having the central notion of bringing a core number of people together to fashion a collection of songs, and then to record these songs, capturing the mood of the time - the mood both of the compositions themselves and of the band for the project's duration. To date, there have been eight Enablers. ... more

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