Tag: Goran Kajfeš Tropiques

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'Where your attention is, that becomes lively' is just one of the quotes or aphorisms which David Lynch tends to fall back upon whenever he is asked to explain the nature of ideas or creativity or in his own inimitable helium-winged Midwestern way, the consuming happenstance of 'catching the big fish'. Lynch with his longtime collaborative partner Chrystabell are...

From Paul Robeson, Otis Redding, Joni Mitchell and Simon & Garfunkel to Tyla, TLC and Boyz II Men there is hardly a shortage of songs which evoke water, literal or figurative, from still pools and rolling rivers to gushing precipices, from contemplative docks to collapsible bridges and from vaporous mists to the muggiest sweats. The parlance of jazz with...

Making waves around the We Jazz offices and Digelius record store in Helsinki ever since the release of the album opener 'Unity In Diversity' back in February, the Swedish quartet behind Goran Kajfeš Tropiques excel in their own idiosyncratic form of hypno-jazz which might summon equally the cascading spiritual glissandos of Alice Coltrane, the saxophone squalls of Pharoah Sanders,...