I had already prepared a few playlists for the coming weeks when I decided last minute to come up with something new. I got a bunch of new plants in my room including a pancake plant (pilea peperomioides), a plant endemic of the Yunnan province of southeast China which got imported in Scandinavia in the 40s. It is a very beautiful plant with flat leaves that doesn't exceed 30cm in height and width. Sometimes I think the plants listen.
This week's playlist starts with an extract from the soundtrack of the 1974 movie The Conversation, composed by a young David Shire, Francis Ford Coppola's brother-in-law. It is a rather sober but very beautiful and tragic soundtrack that is almost solely composed of one piano. The main theme, which is a sort of slow ragtime, comes back every now and then with a delightful little twist to it.
We go on with a piece by the Pierre Nadeau Trio from Canada, discovered on the compilation Ready or Not: Deep Jazz Grooves from the CBC Radio Canada Archive 1967-1977 that I strongly recommend. Pierre Nadeau aka Le gros Pierre (1944-2004) was a Canadian pianist who was active since the 60s. If you understand french I can lead you to that small text about him. His album Extra-Ordinaire is currently available entirely on youtube, which is nice.
After that comes a freshly discovered artist I was very much impressed with, Philip Cohran and The Artistic Heritage Ensemble. Born in 1927 in Oxford, Mississipi, Philip Cohran was known for playing the trumpet in Sun Ra's Arkestra from 1951 to 1961 and it is something that I think you can hear in his own work as well. Early in his career, he invented an instrument he called the Frankiphone or the Space Harp, which is actually an electrified mbira or kalimba; he played it on some of Sun Ra's early albums. This instrument inspired Maurice White to use an electrified Kalimba in performance with Earth, Wind and Fire.[4] Cohran said that he taught White and his brothers music in their youth, much as The Wailers were tutored by Joe Higgs. On the Beach features the Frankiphone on the title track, as well as a piece called "New Frankiphone Blues". (Wikipedia)
Écoute-moi camarade (Listen to me, comrade) is a song were the long forgotten Mohamed Mazouni, who can be rediscovered on the compilation Un dandy en exil (Algérie-France, 1969-1983), tries to convince a friend of his that the girl he is after is not worth it and doesn't care about him. It is a quite powerful song with a very catchy melody. Here is an interesting text about Mazouni and Agleria (both in French and English).
The playlist features also a track from Nat Brichall's Cosmic Language that is I think a contemporary echo to Philip Cohran, Sun Ra and other's spiritual Jazz. This week again the British intense Jazz scene is well represented apart from Birchall by as well Zara MacFarlane and the Portico Quartet. Very dancable songs by the almighty Wally Badarou and Seu Pereira & Coletivo 401 are also present.
Enjoy,
no late check out, still 10h30.
The receptionist
Playlist:
1. David Shire - Whatever Was Arranged
2. Pierre Nadeau Trio - Consuelo
3. Philip Cohran and The Artistic Heritage Ensemble - Frankiphone Blues
4. Sampa the Great - Healing
5. Mazouni - Écoute-moi camarade
6. Nat Birchall - Dervish
7. Zara McFarlane - Angie La La
8. Wally Badarou - One Day, Won’t Give It Away
9. Seu Pereira & Coletivo 401 - Tomara que Suba
10. Portico Quartet - Knee-Deep In the North Sea
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