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“On the last night of my holidays, I hoped to record the jackdaws that congregate in the trees next to the Basilique Notre-Dame de Délivrance in Quintin, Bretagne. When I arrived there, a concert was in full swing inside the church. I recognised the music from when I sang it more than 20 years ago during an Erasmus in Wales. It was Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, an anti-war composition for soloists, choir and orchestra. I stood there for a while, listening to that familiar and still all-too-relevant music, in the company of the jackdaws. I forgot to take a picture, so this one is from the next morning. “