Art Ensemble of Chicago - Theme de YoYo (Les Stances à Sophie)

Este tema dos Art Ensemble of Chicago, para o filme Les Stances à Sophie, é excepcional. Uma fusão de jazz e funk, com dois saxes o de Roscoe Mitchell e o Joseph Jarman. Gravado em França em 1970. E a letra, muito à frente...

A Soul Jazz Records de Londres relançou recentemente o filme.

Your head is like a yoyo,
your neck is like the string,
Your body's like a camembert
oozing from its skin.

Your fanny's like two sperm whales
floating down the Seine
Your voice is like a long fart
that's music to your brain.

Your eyes are two blind eagles
that kill what they can't see
Your hands are like two shovels
digging in me.

And your love is like an oil-well
Dig, dig, dig, dig it,
On the Champs-Elysees.

Com a devida vénia, aqui fica um texto sobre o álbum, do site Soul Strut

http://www.soulstrut.com/index.php/reviews/indepth/Les%20Stances%20A%20Sophie/

ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO - Les Stances A Sophie (1970)
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Added Sunday, January 31, 2010


The Art Ensemble of Chicago was at the forefront of avant-garde Jazz in the 1960s and 1970s. Les Stances A Sophie was recorded during a period when the band was living in Paris, France. They were asked to create a score for a movie Les Stances A Sophie by the French New Wave director Moshe Misrahi. The music was never used for the film, but it was released as an album on its own. The album gets off to a great start with Theme De Yoyo, a hot Jazz-Funk piece. The song has a strong drum track by Don Moye and a catchy bass line that would make a great loop. It also features the vocals of Fontella Bass of “Rescue Me” fame, who was married to the band’s trumpet player, Lester Bowie. The rest of the album varies between the avant guard, Theme De Celine, mood pieces, Variations Sur Un Theme De Monteverdi (I), and straight Jazz, Variations Sur Un Theme De Monteverdi (II). There are definitely moments that might excite a producer, but for Soul-Jazz lovers, just play Theme De Yoyo over and over, it’s that good.