From Cornwall
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Cornwall was unusually quiet in 2020’s first lockdown, empty of the usual Easter tourists. “Something really magic happened to time down here,” says Daisy Rickman, adding the usual caveat acknowledging the wider horrors. Raised in deep-west Mousehole (pronounced “mowzul”), she had been playing in a psychedelic folk band, but now had space to start writing her own songs. She was also reading Ithell Colquhoun’s 1957 book The Living Stones, the surrealist painter’s drifting inquiry into Cornish folk history. “A lot of it is about this part of the coast, between Lamorna and Mousehole,” says Rickman, 27. “It’s amazing when you discover a piece of work that’s focused on something that’s really close to your heart, to see that through the eyes of an artist you really love.”
