The Early Bird Show w/ OK Williams 8th April 2021

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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.

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Tracklist

BarefootBarefoot
Mývatn
Wendy LavoneWendy Lavone
The Gift Of The Sun
Coby SeyCoby Sey
To

MeropeMerope
El Dvipa
David SylvianDavid Sylvian feat. Bill Nelson, Bill Nelson, Ian Maidman, Ian Maidman, Phil Palmer, Phil Palmer, Robert Fripp, Robert Fripp, Steve JansenSteve Jansen
A Bird Of Prey Vanishes Into A Bright Blue Cloudless Sky
Arthur RussellArthur Russell
Soon-To-Be Innocent Fun / Let's See
TapesTapes
Silence Please (Edit)
Pure XPure X
Pleasure
Fred A.Fred A.
Russische Roulette
bar italiabar italia
Fffffroffing
Fred AFred A
November
Dorothy AshbyDorothy Ashby
Games
The CureThe Cure
Out Of This World
Haruomi HosonoHaruomi Hosono
Exotic Dance (YMO Remix)
KyrptonyteKyrptonyte
Love
Jazmine Sullivan, Jazmine Sullivan, H.E.R.H.E.R.
Girl Like Me
OutkastOutkast
Pink And Blue
JadaJada
Money Thru The Cable
Boards Of CanadaBoards Of Canada
Amo Bishop Roden
LyamLyam
Why Don’t I Feel
Arthur RussellArthur Russell
That's Us / Wild Combination
Yancey BoysYancey Boys feat. Common, Common, Dezi PaigeDezi Paige
Quicksand
Skiifall, Skiifall, KnucksKnucks
Ting Tun Up Part II
Infinite ScaleInfinite Scale
Step Above The Surface