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NTS GUIDE TO: JAZZ IN MURAKAMI NOVELS

'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.

TRiNH

TRiNH - an hour of covers and nostalgic feels, playing a wide range of genres with a focus on L-O-V-E.

Javier Alvarez

Javier Alvarez

Javier Alvarez has been played on NTS in shows including Subterranean Odyssey , featured first on 1 June 2016. Songs played include Cinq Chansons Pour Percussion and Mambo À La Braque.

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Javier Alvarez

Javier Alvarez has been played on NTS in shows including Subterranean Odyssey , featured first on 1 June 2016. Songs played include Cinq Chansons Pour Percussion and Mambo À La Braque.

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Cinq Chansons Pour Percussion

Arnold Marinissen, Alvarez, Lege, Fox, Volans, Vivier

BV Haast Records•2003

Mambo À La Braque

Javier Alvarez

Empreintes DIGITALes•2000

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