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Low Tide Songs

A six-piece song cycle recorded on the Suffolk coast.

By

Mara OkaforApril 2026
Low Tide Songs

Low Tide Songs

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The story

I lived for two months in a fishing cottage in Aldeburgh. Every morning at low tide I walked the same length of beach with a single microphone and a broken Walkman. The songs grew out of those walks — the sound of shells under boots, gulls arguing, a foghorn three miles off. The piano was added later, in a room with no door.

Process

Recorded direct to a Nagra IV-S. Mixed in a converted dairy in Sussex. No editing tools were used to alter the source recordings beyond level matching.

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No generative tools were used. Mastering EQ and compression were applied conventionally.