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Reaching a near-mythical status amongst fans of free jazz’s most worldly intrepid explorer, these seldom heard Paris soundtrack sessions known as Music, Wisdom, Love have evaded collectors’ grasps and confused historians for exactly 50 years. Instigated in Paris in 1967 and filmed during Don’s downtime on a visit to the Chat qui Pêche nightclub in March 1967 (where he played with Karl Berger, Henri Texier and Jacques Thollot), the bulk of this cinematic portrait was filmed on the streets of Paris under the direction of creative all-rounders Jean-Noël Delamarre and Nathalie Perrey, who, as their careers bloomed, would become pivotal figures in underground French cinema – straddling La Nouvelle Vague, adult entertainment and cinema fantastique in what can only be described as speedball cinema. As the supportive creative family that primarily played home to French vampire/horrortica director Jean Rollin, both Nathalie and Jean-Noël, his brother Jean-Philippe Delamarre and a small team of other fans of oblique media would be responsible for a vibrant micro-culture that awkwardly flourished on the outskirts on the Parisian new wave – combining comic book culture, Lettrism, sexual liberation, psychedelic rock, graphic design and (with this record as prime example) free jazz and avant-garde music. What previously might have been regarded as an unlikely coupling, with the benefit of half a century of archival hindsight, this release documents the essential cosmic collision of two fantastic planets.
supported by 14 fans who also own “Music, Wisdom, Love (Film Edit With Poetry)”
I have been waiting for this album for 30 years. I have it on a bootleg cassett, 45 minutes of bliss, but the last seconds are not there. I am overwhelmed with joy, this is just fantastic. alain nakbi
supported by 12 fans who also own “Music, Wisdom, Love (Film Edit With Poetry)”
i never thought it possible ever again being impressed, shaken, thrown down to earth, lifted up into at least the third of heaven before i came across this album of don cherry today: glory be to jah, om shanti om, om mani padme hum, hare krishna, bismillahir rahmanir rahim ... here within music transcends itself into transcen_dance ... the cosmic play lila ... or one might say: dance: the dance of shiva nataraj ... to the supreme truth: tat tvam asi - you're it. torsten