13. Rachel’sSelenography

This has been with me for so many private moments. It’s a suite of nocturnal harpsichord and piano music. I really haven’t heard anything like it, before or since. It’s another artist where I thought ‘one day me and Rachel Grimes are going to be best friends and work together’, but they stopped making music 15 years ago. There’s one particular song which has a spoken word part that’s basically a lady telling you ‘you will be safe, someone will have their hand running through your hair’. It’s a promise that whatever is happening in your life right now, it will pass, you will feel safe again. I just see this album as safety for me. If anything was going wrong in my life and I needed an instant grounding – that’s what it’s been for me before. It will probably take me back to having a duvet over my head, listening to that feeling of well, it’s okay, because Rachel’s Selenography has told me somebody will have their hand running through my hair one day, and I’ll feel calm again, I’ll feel better.