As our lives are restricted the simple pleasures become more important and everyday task that previously were automatic and functional become more significant and central to our lives, the part of our days we can look forward to and get excited about. Cooking a meal suddenly takes on a new centrality twice a day. People have been praising the benefits of slow living for some time- slow food, slow TV and so on- and now it's enforced we can all see the benefits.
Dan Wainwright's How To Have A Bath (Parts 1- 4) is a bit of downtempo, Balearic fun. I shouldn't think he intended it to coincide with life in lockdown Britain when he wrote it but it seems to fit with the new pace of our lives. Dan's put quite a few tracks and e.p.s out in the last few weeks and much of it is available at 'name your own price' at his Bandcamp page at Oddball records.
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Yes 'the slow life'. It is a tragedy that it has taken this pandemic to slow us all down. To reduce consumption and pollution and to perhaps appreciate moments. While Medics and Carers etc still have to work frantically to get us through this disaster i hope some greater awareness and humanitarian understanding may come from it. Or will it just be back to the same old system and habits?
-SRC
Yep, there's a whole other discussion around that SRC. I'd like to think we'll see some fundamental changes to the way we structure our lives/society but I'm a bit cynical about it too.
Cynical/pessimistic
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