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Of all the ways to initiate change, gardening was the most surprising to me. Yet on reflection, perhaps it is the most obvious. Weeds are after all the first thing to reclaim empty space – “just a plant in the wrong place’ as guerrilla gardener ‘Liv’ describes them. Plants are irrepressible and adaptable, like the artists and citizens who are quietly changing the city, one lot at a time.

I wanted to find space in the music, using a sparse brush beat to accentuate the steady but calm nature of their ‘revolution’ – which ironically is so in keeping with nature’s rhythms. The western idea comes to the fore again, with moody stratocasters and a wafting pedal steel vibe almost romanticising the loneliness of planting succulents in an urban cityscape at night. While the solo violin reminds us that that this small defiant act is just a tiny drop in a very large bucket.

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from The Art of Recovery - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, released February 20, 2019

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