I’m posting this today because if you haven’t seen or heard it yet you deserve to. Plus it seems perfect for a Sunday.
A Nightingale Sings Outside Our Window by Erland Cooper was a special piece created for BBC 6 Music to create a timestamped snapshot of these times. If the Covid-19 pandemic has brought and continues to bring many truly awful stories to our society it has also sometimes enabled and inspired us as humans to create moments of beauty. This is one of them. Taking field recordings made by 6 Music listeners whilst in lockdown, together with words from Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, (a recording that must be around 200 years old), Paul Weller, and some beautiful strings, Cooper creates a powerful piece that is truly moving. Deespite the changes we have all undergone, he manages to find a sense of exhilaration and hope through the sounds.
Quite wonderful.
Erland Cooper - A Nightingale Sings Outside Our Window
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