{"title":"Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-luxury-of-listening-a-book-by-rafi-mercer","title":"The Luxury of Listening - A book by Rafi Mercer","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Luxury of Listening\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA book by Rafi Mercer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe live in an age of constant sound, and very little listening.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotifications hum. Algorithms shout. Music follows us everywhere. We hear more than perhaps any generation before us, yet somewhere along the way we have become less practiced at simply listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Luxury of Listening is not a book about what to listen to. It is about learning how to listen again.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by Rafi Mercer, founder of Tracks \u0026amp; Tales, the book explores listening as something larger than music — as a way of paying attention to places, people, moments and the world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt asks why silence matters as much as sound. How rooms and cities develop their own sonic character. Why records, rituals and physical spaces still hold such power. Why some music asks us to stop rather than continue. And what begins to happen when listening is given time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt its heart is a simple idea: \u003cstrong\u003eattention has become a luxury.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoosing to listen carefully — to an album, a room, a conversation or the quiet of an early morning — is not nostalgia and it is not retreat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a way of being more present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead it the way it was written.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA chapter late at night. A page over coffee. A paragraph that stays with you long after you have put the book down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Luxury of Listening\u003c\/em\u003e was made to be lived with rather than raced through — something to leave beside a chair, return to, underline, lend to someone and eventually find your way back to again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor people who love music, records, cities, listening rooms and the strange, increasingly precious experience of giving something their full attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Luxury of Listening — by Rafi Mercer.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuy the book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TRACKS \u0026 TALES","offers":[{"title":"Burnt Orange \/ Yellow Dot - A4 - 210mm × 297mm (8.3\" × 11.7\")","offer_id":52487518191963,"sku":null,"price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"White \/ Red Dot  - A4 - 210mm × 297mm (8.3\" × 11.7\")","offer_id":53851778711899,"sku":null,"price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2657\/1867\/files\/11_ab6acfd4-83b0-418a-8159-fad5d6a909c8.png?v=1786356378"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.tracksandtales.co\/collections\/books.oembed","provider":"Tracks \u0026 Tales — A Global Guide to Listening Bars \u0026 Listening Culture.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}