A Note on Journeys
By Rafi Mercer
Sometimes an album feels less like a record and more like a place.
Sometimes a city feels less like geography and more like a song.
I’ve written a longer piece about that connection, how the records we carry can become maps, and how the cities we visit can become soundscapes.
It’s about Miles Davis in midnight New York, Sakamoto folding Tokyo into a single note, and how a walk through Barcelona can sound like a sleeve you’ve held for decades.
It’s also about how listening bars across the world are building a new kind of atlas, one made of sound rather than streets.
You can read the full essay here: Albums as Maps, Cities as Soundscapes.
Rafi Mercer writes about the spaces where music matters. For more stories from Tracks & Tales, subscribe here, or click here to read more.
