a beautiful album, accompanied me through many different parts of my life...
i remember how neatly prayer (oh doctor jesus) & fishermen, strawberry & devil crab used to fit exactly into the cycle ride from my house to my work when i was working in that vast windowless room for directory enquiries in leamington spa...
also how the entire album fitted into the journey time from here to a past lovers house...
the way gil evans makes the musicians rise & fall so gracefully and seemingly without structure while miles floats over or plays his part within...
so anyway, i carefully didn't listen to any of it until it was all on my shuffle and then me & dinah went over manolis's where we were in a perfectly stupid laughing mood... i left her @ the busstop heading to college and put on my headphones and set off walking down tufnell park road...
strange mix of familiar emotional reactions to the music and contemporary sights & sounds...
i walked in a wide arc from there (walking away from ours) back round to our road and our house...
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found myself taking loads of pictures and a few videos - all on my phone - greyish autumn day throwing up strangely satisfying dark glimpses of landscape and buildings...
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all to that album, to miles & gil...
i was concerned that when i got to the main roads i'd have to cross to get home the cars would interfere with my listening pleasure, but crossing both holloway & hornsey roads was remarkably easy and natural, you know when you don't even have to stop walking, just drifting over in a gap when the traffic is stationery, or the traffic in both directions thinning out miraculously to let you cross...
and so i was about to cross over into our road when the album came to it's huge end and i'm very happy that it's back in my life...
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