Review: Joe Mount of lovable scuzz pop outfit Metronomy mans the latest volume in the long running Late Night Tales, a series who always seem to get the best results out of an unexpected cast of participants (Belle & Sebastien, MGMT, Trentemoeller and Midlake being recent inductees) It's hard not to get sucked in from the sugar sweet opening of Outkast's "Prototype", which is the first of several tracks that demonstrates Mount has a penchant for slow bumping R n B and outsider hiphop with Tweet, Sa Ra and a Dr Octagon classic also appearing. A typically far reaching approach to genres applies here with the cosmic jazz of Chic Corea happily mingling with Autechre and Two Lone Swordsmen and American synth oddities Geneva Jacuzzi and Appaloosa mingling for attention with The Alan Parsons Project and Herman Dune. The de-rigueur cover version arrives with a Metronomy rendition of Jean-Michel Jarre's"Hypnose" whilst Paul Morley ends the selection with a spoken word piece.
William Parker/Leena Conquest/Eri Yamamoto/Darryl Foster - "Flower Song" (from Vermeer - take 1) - (6:59) 94 BPM
William Parker/Hamid Drake/Rob Brown/Coope Moore/Bill Cole/Klaas Hekman/Mola Sylla/Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay - "Villages, Greetings & Prayer" (from Red Giraffe With Dreadlocks) - (15:36) 86 BPM
William Parker/Hamid Drake/Rob Brown/Coope Moore/Bill Cole/Klaas Hekman/Mola Sylla/Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay - "Souls Have Fallen Like Rain" (from Red Giraffe With Dreadlocks) - (14:37) 128 BPM
William Parker/Hamid Drake/Rob Brown/Coope Moore/Bill Cole/Klaas Hekman/Mola Sylla/Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay - "The Giraffe Dances" (from Red Giraffe With Dreadlocks) - (19:45) 124 BPM
William Parker/Hamid Drake/Rob Brown/Coope Moore/Bill Cole/Klaas Hekman/Mola Sylla/Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay - "Tour Of The Flying Poem" (from Red Giraffe With Dreadlocks) - (5:52) 140 BPM
William Parker/Hamid Drake/Rob Brown/Coope Moore/Bill Cole/Klaas Hekman/Mola Sylla/Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay - "Children Drawing Water From The Well" (from Red Giraffe With Dreadlocks) - (6:14) 51 BPM
William Parker/Hamid Drake/Rob Brown/Coope Moore/Bill Cole/Klaas Hekman/Mola Sylla/Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay - "Where Do You Send The Poem" (from Red Giraffe With Dreadlocks) - (12:00) 132 BPM
William Parker/NFM Symphony Orchestra/Jan Jakub Bokun/Charles Gayle/Mike Reed - "A Magical Figure Dances Barefoot In The Mud" (from Ceremonies For Those Who Are Still) - (4:50) 113 BPM
William Parker/NFM Symphony Orchestra/Jan Jakub Bokun/Charles Gayle/Mike Reed - "Light Shimmering Across A Field Of Ice" (from Ceremonies For Those Who Are Still) - (2:28) 127 BPM
William Parker/NFM Symphony Orchestra/Jan Jakub Bokun/Charles Gayle/Mike Reed - "Trees With Wings" (from Ceremonies For Those Who Are Still) - (5:10)
William Parker/NFM Symphony Orchestra/Jan Jakub Bokun/Charles Gayle/Mike Reed - "Rise Up In Sound" (from Ceremonies For Those Who Are Still) - (7:56) 127 BPM
William Parker/NFM Symphony Orchestra/Jan Jakub Bokun/Charles Gayle/Mike Reed - "Humble Serious" (from Ceremonies For Those Who Are Still) - (7:01) 115 BPM
William Parker/NFM Symphony Orchestra/Jan Jakub Bokun/Charles Gayle/Mike Reed - "Tea Leaves Of Triple Sadness" (from Ceremonies For Those Who Are Still) - (4:48) 156 BPM
William Parker/NFM Symphony Orchestra/Jan Jakub Bokun/Charles Gayle/Mike Reed - "Ritual" (from Ceremonies For Those Who Are Still) - (3:52) 148 BPM
William Parker/NFM Symphony Orchestra/Jan Jakub Bokun/Charles Gayle/Mike Reed - "Winter" (from Ceremonies For Those Who Are Still) - (5:48) 91 BPM
William Parker/NFM Symphony Orchestra/Jan Jakub Bokun/Charles Gayle/Mike Reed - "My Cup" (from Ceremonies For Those Who Are Still) - (3:42) 86 BPM
William Parker/NFM Symphony Orchestra/Jan Jakub Bokun/Charles Gayle/Mike Reed - "Encore" (from Ceremonies For Those Who Are Still) - (4:16) 126 BPM
William Parker/Charles Gayle/Mike Reed - "Escapade For Sonny" (dedicated to Sonny Rollins) - (25:24) 160 BPM