Name: Slow Down, England
Duration: P00H04M41S
Description: The third Covid lockdown here in England had a more resigned and pessimistic feel to it. Now, nearly two months into it, and spring approaching, there's some lifting of moods. Here, life continued much as it has done for the last year. We avoid too much media, get on with work, run along the seafront and fret about home schooling. It's not so bad.

Slow Down, England

by Andrew Riley-Watson

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The third Covid lockdown here in England had a more resigned and pessimistic feel to it. Now, nearly two months into it, and spring approaching, there's some lifting of moods. Here, life continued much as it has done for the last year. We avoid too much media, get on with work, run along the seafront and fret about home schooling. It's not so bad.

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"I have of late,—but wherefore I know not,—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire,—why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"

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released February 18, 2021

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Andrew Riley-Watson Worthing, UK

Worthing, on the South Coast of England.

This music is : melancholy and nostalgic; long, and immersive.

Field recordings mix with orchestral arrangements and ambient drones.

Think William Basinski, GAS, Aphex Twin and John Hopkins.

My music has in the past been featured on BBC Radio 3 ... more

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