Rainy town (as darkness falls)

Tonight, we enjoy the special beauties of a rainy town in central England as darkness begins to fall, listen to Thomas Merton on city rain, and spend awhile at a window seat in a small café and create for while our own version of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks. 

Journal entry:

 26th November, Saturday

"Sometimes, all it takes
 To make a day full 
 Is to have breakfast in a half-empty
 cafe filled with chandeliers
 And crescent moons
 With someone you love
 As a watery sun
 Climbs into the morning sky.” 

Episode Information:

In this episode I refer to Edward Hopper’s (1942) painting Nighthawks and Thomas Merton’s (1966) essay ‘Rain and the Rhinoceros’ from his book Raids on the Unspeakable published by New Directions. An open access copy of it can be found here: Piefurcation: Rain and the Rhinoceros by Thomas Merton.  

The sounds for this episode were recorded on Henley Street and York’s Café, Stratford upon Avon on 24th November 2022.

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General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

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