The Edit
Threads, textures, and tempos. Stories about how we dress to the beat — the fabric of sound culture told through style, movement, and mood.
The Edit
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Four Clicks, A Quiet Signal
A quiet reflection on sending a weekly email, sharing a book, and learning to trust the unseen paths that words take once they leave your hands.
Four Clicks, A Quiet Signal
A quiet reflection on sending a weekly email, sharing a book, and learning to trust the unseen paths that words take once they leave your hands.
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Packing for Marrakech
Amelia Fairfax packs for Marrakech with Rafi Mercer — reflecting on sound, style, and the slow art of travel, before staying behind for rest, retail, and the city’s colour.
Packing for Marrakech
Amelia Fairfax packs for Marrakech with Rafi Mercer — reflecting on sound, style, and the slow art of travel, before staying behind for rest, retail, and the city’s colour.
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One Day, Hermès
Amelia Fairfax reflects on Hermès and the luxury of waiting — linking the patience of owning a Birkin to the slow rhythm of listening bars and pre-loved style.
One Day, Hermès
Amelia Fairfax reflects on Hermès and the luxury of waiting — linking the patience of owning a Birkin to the slow rhythm of listening bars and pre-loved style.
Time for some travel
Discover and book listening bars selected by the TRACKS & TALES Guide
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Solar Myth — Philadelphia / Coffee · Records · ...
Rafi MercerThere are some places where music arrives as entertainment. It sits in the room like wallpaper, filling silence while glasses touch and conversations move around it. Then there are places...
Solar Myth — Philadelphia / Coffee · Records · ...
Rafi MercerThere are some places where music arrives as entertainment. It sits in the room like wallpaper, filling silence while glasses touch and conversations move around it. Then there are places...
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Idle Hour Baltimore — The Vinyl Bar Federal Hil...
Rafi MercerDiscover Idle Hour Baltimore — a vinyl-led neighbourhood bar shaping the city's emerging listening culture through records, warmth, and late-night intent. Saved. Every future venue page will follow that format...
Idle Hour Baltimore — The Vinyl Bar Federal Hil...
Rafi MercerDiscover Idle Hour Baltimore — a vinyl-led neighbourhood bar shaping the city's emerging listening culture through records, warmth, and late-night intent. Saved. Every future venue page will follow that format...
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Kinyōbi — Copenhagen / Central City — Sound-Led...
Rafi MercerKinyōbi is an emerging music-led restaurant and cultural venue in Copenhagen founded by creative director Will King-Smith. Through curated DJ programming, selector-led residencies, and music-focused hospitality concepts, it is developing...
Kinyōbi — Copenhagen / Central City — Sound-Led...
Rafi MercerKinyōbi is an emerging music-led restaurant and cultural venue in Copenhagen founded by creative director Will King-Smith. Through curated DJ programming, selector-led residencies, and music-focused hospitality concepts, it is developing...
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The Little Jerry, Toronto — A Neighbourhood Bar...
Rafi MercerYou arrive expecting a drink, a table, perhaps a little music in the background. And then, somewhere between the first and second record, something shifts. The Little Jerry doesn't separate...
The Little Jerry, Toronto — A Neighbourhood Bar...
Rafi MercerYou arrive expecting a drink, a table, perhaps a little music in the background. And then, somewhere between the first and second record, something shifts. The Little Jerry doesn't separate...
The Daily Read
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The Map Starts To Speak
Rafi MercerSmall blue markers scattered across the world like signals in the dark. Seattle. Montréal. Austin. Vancouver. Miami. London. Melbourne. Calgary. New York. Tiny towns I've never heard of. Cities I've...
The Map Starts To Speak
Rafi MercerSmall blue markers scattered across the world like signals in the dark. Seattle. Montréal. Austin. Vancouver. Miami. London. Melbourne. Calgary. New York. Tiny towns I've never heard of. Cities I've...
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Texas on the Mind — The Places You Hear About B...
Rafi MercerThere are some places that arrive in your imagination long before you arrive in person. Texas has always been one of them — not because I know it well, but...
Texas on the Mind — The Places You Hear About B...
Rafi MercerThere are some places that arrive in your imagination long before you arrive in person. Texas has always been one of them — not because I know it well, but...
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The Sound Beneath the Sound — Sunday Morning Th...
Rafi MercerDiscover a calm Sunday morning reflection from Rafi Mercer on internal noise, silence, and why listening has become one of modern life’s rarest luxuries.
The Sound Beneath the Sound — Sunday Morning Th...
Rafi MercerDiscover a calm Sunday morning reflection from Rafi Mercer on internal noise, silence, and why listening has become one of modern life’s rarest luxuries.
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The Room Between the Tracks
Rafi MercerThe next Listening Club gathers around one album, played in full. But between its tracks, something else arrives — Sakamoto, Massive Attack, Radiohead, The xx — not as context, but...
The Room Between the Tracks
Rafi MercerThe next Listening Club gathers around one album, played in full. But between its tracks, something else arrives — Sakamoto, Massive Attack, Radiohead, The xx — not as context, but...
Notes on Listening Culture
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Anthony Bourdain and the Quiet Rebellion of Sta...
Rafi MercerUnderneath the food, the travel, the cigarettes and the searching, Bourdain was documenting something most people could feel but not name. A meditation on attention, ritual and why back is...
Anthony Bourdain and the Quiet Rebellion of Sta...
Rafi MercerUnderneath the food, the travel, the cigarettes and the searching, Bourdain was documenting something most people could feel but not name. A meditation on attention, ritual and why back is...
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The New Luxury of Listening
Rafi MercerDiscover why listening culture is quietly becoming one of modern life's new luxuries — from Paul Desmond and Andy Warhol to listening bars, attention, rhythm and the emotional architecture of...
The New Luxury of Listening
Rafi MercerDiscover why listening culture is quietly becoming one of modern life's new luxuries — from Paul Desmond and Andy Warhol to listening bars, attention, rhythm and the emotional architecture of...
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Finding Your Way Back
Rafi MercerOn waking at 4am, putting on Serge Gainsbourg's No. 4, and finding your way back to the things you didn't know you'd left behind — a personal essay by Rafi...
Finding Your Way Back
Rafi MercerOn waking at 4am, putting on Serge Gainsbourg's No. 4, and finding your way back to the things you didn't know you'd left behind — a personal essay by Rafi...
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How the World Found Us
Rafi MercerThere's a map open on my screen — rows and columns, pulled from analytics, each one marking a moment where someone, somewhere, went looking for a place to listen. 190...
How the World Found Us
Rafi MercerThere's a map open on my screen — rows and columns, pulled from analytics, each one marking a moment where someone, somewhere, went looking for a place to listen. 190...
