Pastorale : Jennifer on Horseback (1984) by Hermione Harvestman

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.

Hermione Harvestman - note from 'Dark Summer Glimpses'. Download the entire sequence here:

https://hermioneharvestman.bandcamp.com/album/dark-summer-glimpses

http://hermioneharvestman.blogspot.co.uk/