Jazz Music for Night Owls

Veggie Dave · May 11, 2015

In which case...

(contains some horror film style images)

The band stopped playing this song when their fan base expanded and newer fans didn't realise that the song's about Albert Camus' book, L'Etranger (The Stranger / The Outsider), rather than racist drivel about killing Arabs/Muslims.

You can probably understand why my music drives my other half batty sometimes.

altissimo · May 11, 2015

well if we're going a bit dark and gothic....

Mack · May 11, 2015

Aaaaaaannnnd back on the subject of late night music:

Lovely song this.

trimmy · May 11, 2015

It's someone i must get to see live, Sade has a beautiful voice....calming !

Mack · May 11, 2015

I always thought she was resident in Spain, and big in America etc, but apparently she lives in the Cotswolds now. Probably has a residency at the Seven Tuns in Chedworth.

She has the same bandmembers as she did back in the 80s, and seems to put out records as and when she wants to, on her own terms, without trying too hard to reinvent herself or please the critics. Take notes, Madonna!

saxplorer · May 11, 2015

And something a bit different to sing you to sleep: a piece that is always ending and always starting.

Wikipedia says: "... a thirty minute piece titled "Discreet Music." It was originally intended as a background for Robert Fripp to play against in a series of concerts. The liner notes contain a diagram of how this piece was created. It begins with two melodic phrases of different lengths played back from a Synthesizer'sdigital recall system (the equipment used in this case was an EMS Synthi AKS, which had a then-exotic, built-in digital sequencer). This signal is then run through a graphic equaliser to occasionally change its timbre. It is then run through an echo unit before being recorded onto a tape machine. The tape runs to the take-up reel of a second machine. The output of that machine is fed back into the first tape machine which records the overlapped signals. "