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Pastorale : Jennifer on Horseback

from Dark Summer Glimpses by Hermione Harvestman

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Jennifer was one of my closest neighbours. She lived about a mile away with her mother in a similar sort of bohemian small-holding to my own so we'd often swap notes and seedlings and recipes and advice and gossip . Her mother was a journalist looking for the good life - raising her daughter wild and free and quite unfettered by such 20th century concerns as school. Often I'd see young Jennifer riding quite naked through the early summer's dawn - a vision of Pre-Raphaelite loveliness - although by 1978 after a bad experience with a boyfriend, she cut all her hair off and 'gone punk'. In 1979, she moved to London where she broke her mother's heart I'm sure, though I don't suppose Hilary ever said as much - not until 1983 by which time Jennifer was a fully fledged Thatcherite yuppie, which broke it even more. I made this music for Jennifer's 21st birthday in 1984 by way of romantic remembrance of those misty morning glimpses circa '75/77 - when she was happy to be a vision cantering on the fells without a care in the world.

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from Dark Summer Glimpses, released August 22, 2014

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'I feel like Wainwright - we are both hermetic ramblers. He made his books for when he was no longer capable of rambling his beloved fells, and I made my music for when I'm no longer able to ramble the by-ways of Albion - but only to listen, and think "Was that really me? That solitary figure who stood in a landscape dreaming of ages past in dread fear of the future."

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