Smooth Operator – Sade
The bass is a rumour, the drums a brushed secret, and then the saxophone of Stuart Matthewman draws a line so calm it could be mistaken for indifference.
Afterlife Interview with Jimi Hendrix
Riffs and Beats finds Jimi Hendrix on a cloud that still feeds back, a white guitar leaning where a chair should be.
Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
The strings do not enter.
Peaches en Regalia – Frank Zappa
A drum fill kicks the door, bright and almost comic, and then a tune arrives already fully dressed, stacked in bright colours, as if a cartoon court had hired a jazz band.
Fender Stratocaster – Six strings and lightning
It did not arrive as a weapon.
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