Trying to keep myself up and moving this afternoon, so I can get my biological clock off London time, I'm listening to "In the Wind: The Woodwind Quartets" by the late Makanda Ken McIntyre. Think World Saxophone Quartet with more instruments and fewer players.
In fact, McIntyre played all the instruments and parts himself (from various flutes, clarinets and saxophones to unusual, for jazz anyway, axes like the oboe and bassoon) and then assembled the pieces into "quartets" electronically. It's cool. A little like African-tinged chamber music. I wouldn't want to listen to it every day. But I am going to get up some mornings and have a hankering to hear it.
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