A street photograper is an ethereal being. At once present and invisible at the same time. So the music is serving to evoke an air of a magician. There's mystery and alchemy in the ability to not just capture a moment but line up the various layers of what is happening to take you through an image into other connections that you would probably have missed even if you'd been there. If it's a collaboration with a subject there is the ability to help them feel at ease and reveal themselves to you. If it's a moment that wasn't set up, then
Revealing and hiding are key themes. The photographer is also not directly present in the dialogue between final image and viewer either, but the result of their presence is - you have assumed their position and inhabit their view. They are facilitators, connectors of worlds. Being able to freeze time allows us to see it in a new way. That's magical, and something that music and sound, as they need time to manifest, can't do.
The processing of the music here is deliberately oversaturated to sound as though from a bygone era, emphasising a time that no longer exists. The track is in 3/4, a waltz - a time signature of three evokes a slight 'away-with-the-fairies' daydream aura...especially with unexpected key changes. Waltzes are playful and romantic - qualities you need as a street photograper to identify and imply moments that tell more than what is on the surface.
Mandolins, vibraphone, jazz drums, flutes, double bass are a mixture of instruments familiar and esoteric brought together,