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Back to the garden

“I LOOK back on the early ’80s in a very positive way because I was aware that it was a good time,” says the poet and composer Virginia Astley from the sitting room of her Dorset cottage. Forty years ago, the 24-year-old Astley released , a sublime album of gentle English psychedelia that blends field recordings of birdsong and church bells with

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