Wild Shropshire is a ‘way of being’ in the world. Cultivated from the soil, pollinated by influences and engineered through experimentation. It’s an experience that not only demonstrates the skill of the artisans behind the plate and the storytellers behind the grape; but a deeper and more rooted desire, to develop a fully sustainable dining experience.

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Anthony De Mello once wrote that; happiness is our natural state. That happiness - is in fact - the natural state of little children until a sustained exposure to the stupidity of society and culture, contaminates them. 

The material world frames happiness through a means of acquisition. The attainment of wealth and goods, through a pursuit of self-indulgence.

Whereas the enlightened world cultivates happiness through a means of subtraction.

A simplification of self.

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There is a sound synonymous with devotional practices and sub-continental symphonies. A vibration from a twin-drummed instrument where its tonal depth is built into the hands of the musician.

The instrument is the Tabla. And its composition – encoded in the musician – is a lexicon of love.

Meet Dalbir Rattan. A Jedi of the percussive and mystical. A musician, teacher and artist, devoted to a centuries-old classical order.

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