The Reds, Pinks & Purples - The Town That Cursed Your NameIts ok to play out of time. Music toys with time. Or, maybe songs reflect back that time is always toying with us. The world of a song takes hold of us like an eternity to be lost in, with its repetitions and variations, but ultimately, as with everything else, it has a start and then ends. And theres no place to lose time like San Francisco, where there are no seasons and all the seasons occur within one day; where the fog takes the space where your

whether he's essaying pathos

some even say this album is a turning point for YMO and the international Pop music scene

Mats Gustafsson - Flute

That was the idea here

Texas studio with his partner

showcasing the strong jazz-funk sensibility you’d expect from long-term Level 42 collaborator Badarou

Other album cuts like funk workout ‘Higher’ and the wistful stepper ‘Always Have To Say Goodbye’ have remained staples among soulful DJs worldwide

interspersed with music from the (as then) recently released Sandinista triple album

” The energized “Is it Me or Is it You” comes from traversing the gaps between how you see yourself and how another might see you

Bill Evans

Jesse Williams

and classical music