The throb of boat traffic

The low throb of almost constant boat and ship traffic on the Thames in central London creates a relaxing background low-end drone to sit benath the highly active sounds of waves splashing and crashing against a set of stone steps leading down the river. The Thames at its most urban and industrial can still exude a strange kind of meditative calm.

Recorded by Cities and Memory.

Part of the Music for Sleep project - for more information and to hear more sounds from the collection, visit https://citiesandmemory.com/music-for-sleep/