This Week's Playlist #19 - The Saxophone edition

Week #19 - The Saxophone edition

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Hello everyone :-)

Week 19.

LIfe is getting closer to normal this spring, and in London, this means the concert season has started since April. It’s nice being back to this live music events vibe.

I’ve been to a couple of good gigs this year, but a memorable one was a saxophone player, in a church. I don’t often go to gigs in churches :-) I’ll come back to the musician later in the email but I thought I’d pick up 5 songs with a focus on Saxophone this week.

Morphine - Buena: Morphine is a real UFO band (and the perfect opener for this week). It’s a bluesy, bare-bones rock & roll trio without any guitars. Instead of guitar riffs, the trio relies on sliding two-string basslines, raucous saxophones, and wry, ironically detached vocals.

• Full album: Cure for pain (1993)

King Crimson - Starless: A monument of 70s prog rock here. The closing track of King Crimson’s Red album, possibly the finest song the group would ever record, with a very recognizable sad and hummable main melody and intertwined saxophone part all along.

• Full album: Red (1971)

Mr Bungle - Mr Carousel: Mr. Bungle, Mike Patton’s first band,  are always known for their almost schizophrenic blend of musical styles, including ska, circus music, heavy metal, free jazz, funk, etc. So it's not a surprise that the band's lineup featured 2 saxophonists, who added even an more bizarre atmosphere to the band's music.

• Full album: Mr Bungle (1991)

Incubus - Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song): We're in 1997 at the peak of the nu-metal wave and another UFO rock band comes out of nowhere. Among all the unexpected things, the record's eclectic mix features a quite unexpected saxophone solo at the end of the tune.

• Full album: S.C.I.E.N.C.E. (1997)

Colin Stetson - Spindrift: That's the sax player I went to see in a church earlier this month. A very unique performance. One of the more challenging performances I've seen in my life. Imagine a sax player with the physical build of a cage fighter, mastering the circular breathing technique so he can play 10 minute long pieces without a break for a very Philip Glass-esque hyptonic performance. Check this video for a visual live impression.

• Full album: All This I Do For Glory (2017)

Until the next time, Godspeed!
Thomas

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