Land Body Ecologies

by Invisible Flock

Land Body Ecologies is an audio and storytelling podcast sharing stories of Solastalgia from land-dependent and indigenous communities affected by environmental change. Each episode of storytelling is paired with another side of the same story – a B-side where the landscape, then, speaks for itself. Sounds captured in the environment are turned into sound art, and musical expressions unearth from the land. Communities featured ... Read more

Podcast episodes

  • Season 1

  • S01 E04 - Episode 4 - The Crying Place

    S01 E04 - Episode 4 - The Crying Place

    The Crying Place shares a story of the Pgak’yau (Karen) community from the hilly regions of Ban Nong Tao, held at the base of rocky mountain faces and green forests. In this episode, listeners are invited to experience the harvest...

    56:28
  • S01 E03 - Episode 3 – The End of This World

    S01 E03 - Episode 3 – The End of This World

    The End of This World, journeys through Sápmi, from Jåhkåmåhkke to Vájsáluokta to tell a story of a reindeer corral carried out on top of a mountain featuring a journey of several losses: of beings, of entire landscapes, and of cu...

    01:13:53
  • S01 E02 - Episode 2 - Honey (English Language Version)

    S01 E02 - Episode 2 - Honey (English Language Version)

    In Episode 2: Honey, we explore the Mau Forest in the Rift Valley, Kenya, where the population of honeybees have declined in recent decades due to deforestation, forest encroachment and logging. Bees are central to the identity o...

    40:47
  • S01 E01 - Episode 1 - The Free River (English Language)

    S01 E01 - Episode 1 - The Free River (English Language)

    The Free River tells the story of Kemijoki, Finland’s longest river that cuts across the country’s northern region. As the first hydroelectric power station was constructed on the river between 1945–1949, the damming of the river ...

    50:17
  • Bonus

    S01 - The Crying Place: B-side

    S01 - The Crying Place: B-side

    This is the B-side for episode 4 of Land Body Ecologies Podcast, The Crying Place.The B-side shares open fields and the sounds of rain on the village hut roofs. We hear Swae roasting the coffee he grows, the sound of rice paddies ...

    36:30