Louis VI
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Louis VI, the ‘mixed-race misfit’, one half of the hip hop group ‘OthaSoul’, a born and rais Louis VI is a musician based in London.
His debut EP is called 'Lonely Road of The Dreamer'. Noisey (VICE): "With hints of Isaiah Rashad and the bubbling lilts of Thundercat, [Louis VI] tonally sits in the new school of progressive hip-hop." Complex: "Jazz, conscious hip-hop and even gospel all trickle into Louis VI's music. Lyrically, his flow is densely-packed and without many comparisons."
Fun fact: Did you know the hammock was invented in Dominica 🇩🇲 by our First Nations people? The Kalinago invented the Hammock and then it travelled to the nearby Yucatan peninsula, now Mexico and the Mayans perfected it.
The whole of the Caribbean, particularly the east Antilles because of how close they were was a nation; not each island. Each place in the Caribbean had a different purpose; Dominica was for fruit, wood and defence (natural fortress), Marie galant and Guadeloupe were for fishing and hunting, and so on but this also went further afield; canoeing all the way to trade with people in the Orinoco basin, down in Colombia, all the way up to the Taino people in Puerto Rico and across to the Mayans in Yucatan.
Culture, art, skill, love, music all was shared across the Caribbean. We are one nation truly
11/05/2026
And they say I never smile! 🙃
Photo dump of my life these days - nature and building something new
On celebrating my absolute hero for his 100th birthday.
Funny story when I was a kid I recorded over a whole family VHS tape just to I could watch back the Ant episode “The Trials of Life” because I was and still am obsessed with ants. My gran wasn’t very pleased😂 but I wouldn’t be a Zoologist without him.
Happy birthday Sir David Attenborough thank you for everything!
Nature Ain’t a Luxury - The Exhibition is going on tour to a place new you!🌳
Let us know if you want us to bring it to your city botanical gardens & subscribe via the link in my bio to be the first to hear when tickets are released!
Holding my first 2 exhibitions at the was easily one of special moments of my life but the best part was watching peoples faces from when they came in to when they left transformed. After being exposed to truly biodiverse rainforest sounds, visitors energy had completely shifted. People quickly found after 10mins they could start to pick out animals, & heard the change in time, hear when rain was about to come or the sun had come out. Relearning to listen is fundamental to our future not just for the planets health but our health too.
It took me years this bring this together & another year for me to go & get the recordings but the best part is what it we couldn’t of predicted. It became space where people had agency to wonder, to imagine a better future where our cities and nature are indistinguishable, where sound not just sight is prioritised in the way we design the world around us, to listen my field recordings from indigenously stewarded rainforests & not just be transported to these biodiverse places but retune their nervous system to learn to listen the language we’re all born fluent in, nature.
We allowed people to understand themselves the failures colonialism brought and how to correct that path, but also a space where people could come and genuinely have permission to rest. To have peace, receiving biodiversity sonics signalling life and safety and relaxation that works on an evolutionary level with our DNA. Reading post it notes people left made me cry multiple times, there was hope, sadness, joy, healing, everything we need at the moment.
The fact it sold out 3 months in advance is a testament to that.
You are all invited to the next exhibition, please subscribe to the mailing list via bio so you don’t miss out!
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Camera Ali Refaei
Editor Tom Bryne
With thanks to & Sam Sutaria
Huge thanks to
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03/04/2026
Missing my true home. 🇩🇲 This time last year my friends Dad, a true Rasta, said to me as we walk through his eco farm:
“An American couple once came here and fell in love with the place; they offered me 2 million USD to buy it. I told them to follow me and I took them to the Sous (natural spring) on my land and told them to drink. It was the freshest most alive water they’ve ever tasted. Cleaned not by chemicals but by life. I said, your money is not wealth, this is true richness. Abundant nature, clean fresh water from the land, and ital food from the ground you walk pon. We can be the richest people in the world if we leave Mother Nature to do her thing. Money can never buy this richness”
It’s awful to know and see behind this beauty there are forces at work to destroy it. Some people in the Government think money from extraction from the land is the answer, they hide permanent pollution and destruction of the land behind the word “development” which is a shame because if development is done properly, in a cutting edge and modern way that looks to the indigenous cultures of the past as well as the future, nature doesn’t need to suffer, it can flourish.
While the rest of the world is trying to undo the damage it’s done, will Dominicans recognise they already have the true richness that everybody else so desperately wishes they never let be lost?
Throwback to when I tried Ant meat for the first time Amazon rainforest! Would you try??
Now this was controversial for me as the BIGGEST lover of Ants and Hymenoptera in the world but I have to admit it was delicious and I was surprised how much meat was on this.
Muy técnica the Yuturi (ant in Kichua) is definitely not easy to collect. Look at the size of these things, then imagine them swarming you. These are army ants and their pincers are no joke, hence which it’s a delicacy and he took the plate away after I’d had two.
“Carne de res de la selva!
Miss Sarayaku and the incredible people here a lot. You can hear the sounds on my latest release, website and the next exhibition!
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