Sunday at Bob's #5 - First Leaves

I planted some flat-leaf parsley seeds last week and yesterday they finally sticked their green faces out of the soil to my great satisfaction and feeling of well done job. I spent most of my week painting in the studio and I must say I am very pleased with the works produced, I haven't had such a prolific week in a while. However being caged with oil paint and terpentine for entire days results in head pain but nothing that would discourage me from the thrill that it is. It is only the fifth Sunday at Bob's and I can already see some patterns in the music I select with Bubba Thomas' spiritual jazz or Alessandra Leão's brasilian vibes (eventhough musically Brasil is a continent). Anyhow, here is today's playlist.

We start with a song taken from the album of the Al tarab Muscat ud Festival of the Sultanate of Oman in 2005. I am really pleased to own a copy of this, which seems rather rare and expensive but more importantly very varied and impressive music. I don't know much about Mamdoh El Gebaly neither do I know about Abadi Al Johar or other masters present on the compilation. But I have listened to some of their songs thousands of times and keep on going back to that treasure of an album.

It goes on with a extract from the soundtrack of Guy Ritchie's The Man From U.N.C.L.E by Daniel Pemberton (The Counselor and more recently Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse). I am globaly not particularly fond of that soundtrack however it made me discover some gems such as Roberta Flack's version of Compared to What or Che Vuole Questa Musica Stasera by Profumo di Donna.

Then we have the British progressive jazz rock band Trifle, I came accross their great album First Meeting through Strong Arm Steady's In Search Of Stoney Jackson where a few seconds of New Religion is played on a fast tempo. This song somehow reminds me of Cocaine by Universe though I am not sure why, probably because of its structure where the first half of the song contains sung lyrics and a large part is some trippy intrumentals that make you lose your mind.

Bubbha Thomas & The Lightmen Plus One's album Fancy Pants is an album I stumbled upon super randomly after hours of scrolling blogs and I have to admit I wasn't disapointed. It is a piece of work in which the musicians take their time to transport us in a lot of different areas of their talent. I find it extremely vast, interesting and I doubt I am done discovering new aspects of it as I listen to it more and more.

I have to thank Youtube's algorithm for the next one because I was playing cards at the reception with a good friend when this song started playing and charmed us both by it's smooth take on Bill Wither's classic. I will probably try to dig in more into Sivuca's music I haven't had the time this week but from the little I heard he seems like a very exciting artist.

Today's playlist features as well the brasilian-influenced jazz trio from Turin Gialma 3, the great Alessandra Leão who doesn't stop to surprise me since I first discovered her music, Mr. Airplane Man who I saw for the first time live last year at Butcher's Tears in south Amsterdam, Timmy Thomas who, like a lot of people, I first heard sampled on Drake's Hotline Bling and Momo Wandel Soumah's unbeatable saxophone whose album I bought as a kid on a street market in Essaouira, the Moroccan city that hosts every year a Gnaoua festival.

It's already the end of this week but very soon the beggining of a new one!
No smoking in the rooms and remember to check out before 10h30.

The receptionist

Playlist:

1. Mamdoh El Gebaly - Musiqa, Hawatir Misriyya, Maqam Rast
2. Daniel Pemberton - Out Of The Garage
3. Trifle - New Religion
4. Bubbha Thomas & The Lightmen Plus One - Blue Tip
5. Sivuca - Ain’t No Sunshine
6. Gialma 3 - Brushes Samba
7. Alessandra Leão - Partilha
8. Mr. Airplane Man - Don’t Know Why
9. Timmy Thomas - Take Care Of Home
10. Momo Wandel Soumah - Toko