Cities and Memory:"Through the golden evening sunshine, this local market closing down for the evening was tinged with a certain feeling of sweet melancholy, as another day winds down. Using the chimes of the bells as a rhythmic centre, locked in time with a piano part, I created this piece to evoke the mood I felt while making the recording."And yet in the spacious ambience left between the dominant melodic parts of the track, it felt like there was something missing - like there was a story to be told about the scene and about Oldenburg, but I didn't have the words. Cristina Marras has been contributing her wonderful spoken word storytelling to Cities and Memory for a number of years, so I decided to approach her to see if the piece inspired her to tell that story - and her brilliant work really completes the piece." Cristina Marras:"The piece came from the feeling of passing through a foreign city and catching accidental glimpses of other people's lives: a woman at a bus stop, a window seen from a train. Fragments of worlds we enter without being invited, and leave without being noticed."Oldenburg market reimagined by Cities and Memory and Cristina Marras.

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