London, 2020

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Anxiety/Serenity was conceived in response to the situation that the world is experimenting in this first quarter of 2020, through the spread of the COVID-19. 

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The anxiety that has grown in the minds of people, from over-communication, ignorance, fear and isolation. The serenity that has resulted in the natural world, claiming its rights back and finding peace at last — or momentarily. 

Each piece is a rework — through production and treatment — of previously unreleased works for solo harp, some of it performed by Mary Dunsford. 

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Anxiety/Serenity sits between that balance of the moment; of calm and quietness, of trouble and worry. It is the illusion that through a virus to mankind, nature has found its antidote to the human virus. 

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The bonus track, "Chapel of Silence" was inspired by the chapel bearing the same name in Helsinki. It is a field recording of an early Monday morning in the center of London, during isolation. It is interesting to notice the differences in the surroundings when human beings — almost — remove themselves from nature.