'Somewhere along the line Coltrane’s soprano sax runs out of steam. Now it’s McCoy Tyner’s piano solo I hear, the left hand carving out a repetitious rhythm and the right layering on thick, forbidding chords. Like some mythic scene, the music portrays somebody’s - a nameless, faceless somebody’s - dim past, all the details laid out as clearly as entrails being dragged out of the darkness. Or at least that’s how it sounds to me. The patient, repeating music ever so slowly breaks apart the real, rearranging the pieces. It has a hypnotic, menacing smell, just like the forest' - Kafka On The Shore
Music, and specifically jazz, has always featured heavily in the literary imagination of Haruki Murakami. In this radio special, NTS lays down two hours of jazz records as featured throughout Murakami's corpus.
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Join us for monthly sessions with Carlos René, co-founder of Casa Calypso record shop in Mexico City. Carlos specializes in uncovering rare Latin American recordings and has a passion for a diverse range of genres, including cumbia, Latin funk, Mexican garage rock & psych, boogaloo, and other rare grooves. Let Carlos take you on a captivating musical journey through the vibrant sounds of Latin America that will keep you grooving any time of the day.
Join us for monthly sessions with Carlos René, co-founder of Casa Calypso record shop in Mexico City. Carlos specializes in uncovering rare Latin American recordings and has a passion for a diverse range of genres, including cumbia, Latin funk, Mexican garage rock & psych, boogaloo, and other rare grooves. Let Carlos take you on a captivating musical journey through the vibrant sounds of Latin America that will keep you grooving any time of the day.