A House In The Riff [top] →

They say you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave the Riff.

At night, if you press your ear to the fireplace, you can hear the call and response of the mountains talking to the sea. It is a hypnotic loop. You try to leave, but the door swings back on a perfect turnaround. a house in the riff

Since "the Riff" could refer to the in Morocco, a musical riff (as in a repeating chord progression), or a fictional location , this content is structured as a short, atmospheric prose piece that plays on the ambiguity. A House in the Riff 1. The Atlas of Sound The first time you hear it, you don’t understand the geography. You think a "riff" is just a bar of rock and roll, a jagged edge of guitar. But out here, in the spine of northern Morocco, the Riff is a mountain range that falls into the sea like a broken chord. They say you can check out anytime you