'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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Tim & Barry have been documenting underground music since 2000. Journey from the latest UK drill back in time to classic grime and garage, all the way to afrobeats, dancehall and RnB. Expect the unexpected.
Tim & Barry have been documenting underground music since 2000. Journey from the latest UK drill back in time to classic grime and garage, all the way to afrobeats, dancehall and RnB. Expect the unexpected.
Tracklist
Royal-TRoyal-T Unbelievable
Mercky IceMercky Ice Lockstock
Stereotyp, Stereotyp, Stefan Moerth, Stefan Moerth, SaraSara KU BO Bounce Dat
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DexplicitDexplicit Firebell
CalciferCalcifer Whose Bad (Smarterchild Revox)
JammzJammz Raiden & Tayron (Explicit)
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Gli7chGli7ch Who Do You Luv Rudegyal (I Luv U Refix)