Miles Davis/Marcus Miller: Music From Siesta (Rhino Reserve series, 180g) [RHINO]

Why you'll love it

Back on 180g vinyl in the Rhino Reserve series. Music From Siesta is the second of the three late-period albums Marcus Miller wrote and produced for Miles Davis, between Tutu and Amandla, and it is the most atmospheric of them.

This edition

• Rhino Reserve series
• 180g vinyl

About the album

In the late 1980s, Miles Davis found his most important collaborator since Gil Evans in a young bassist from Brooklyn. Marcus Miller was the main songwriter and producer on Tutu, Music From Siesta and Amandla, and for this score to the 1987 film Siesta he built a Spanish-tinged world of synthesizers, guitar and bass for Davis's muted trumpet to wander through.

It is a soundtrack, so it moves in moods: "Lost In Madrid" returns in five parts, "Siesta / Kitt's Kiss" and "Theme For Augustine" drift and glow, and "Afterglow" and "Los Feliz" close it softly. It sits very nicely next to Sketches Of Spain on the shelf, and not only alphabetically. Put it on at dusk and let the room go blue.

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Out October 16, 2026 on Rhino (cat# RES125655), a reissue of the 1987 album.