#FortnightFridayMusic
Jul 11 2025
The prompt is #Movement
J. Ralph, “The Illusionary Movements of Geraldine and Nazu” 2005, featuring “One Million Miles Away”
This album is an odd one, comprising straight #symphonic tracks, some with #operatic vocals, as well as tracks with those elements integrated with pop melody and #turntabilism touches. “One Million Miles Away” is one of the latter.
I first heard this track in a car commercial that debuted during the 2001 Super Bowl; my search began. At great pains (old style, pre-#Shazam), I ID’d it as a hidden leading track on a 1999 CD “Music to Mauzner By.” by an artist known as SPY. A hidden LEADING track? I got the #CD but never figured out how to navigate to it and get it to play.
I am nothing if not persistent. Some years later I connected the SPY moniker to producer/composer J. Ralph and found “One Million Miles Away” as a listed, conventionally playable track on “The Illusionary Movements…” Sigh of relief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R06ZRt3lIgE