The world of tomorrow

“Got ‘Til It’s Gone: “You don’t know what you have until you lose it” this small voice which returns in loop in this piece of Janet Jackson it’s Joni Mitchell’s (a sample of her song Big Yellow Taxisong from 1970) reactivated by the detail in 1997 at the younger sister of Michael Jackson.

“Joni Mitchell never lies” as Q-Tip says.
There is a genius at work in this piece that erases the barriers of time and space between the musicians.

Last Friday, October 7, 2022 was the 25th anniversary of the release of this album by Janet Jackson “The Velvet Rope”, a disc which is both “her masterpiece and a classic of R&B, and even of the pop of the 90s” as Etienne Menu declares in Music Diary (review to read online HERE). The author devotes a long article entitled “In 1997 Janet Jackson signed the best second half of an album in history”. It’s as subjective as it is stimulating and it makes you want to listen or re-hear with a new ear (especially the second part of the disc).

Back to the future this evening, like the excerpt from the film by Robert Zemeckis (1985) that you hear at the start of the programme: taking a walk in the past can allow us to write the world of tomorrow.

The world of tomorrow it is a flagship title of the Supreme NTM group (released in 1990) and it is also that of a series to see at the moment on art written and directed by Katell Quillévéré and Hélier Cisterne. 6 Episodes to describe the beginnings of those who were not yet called Kool Shen, Joeystarr Where Dee Nasty (but Bruno, Didier and Daniel) and who will write the history of hip-hop in France (along with many others): musically and visually it’s fascinating.

In the series “back to the future” on the news side you will hear “Hiroshima” the last song Lous & the Yakuzas (released today), a fantastic voice from Louisiana Robert Finley and even an idea of ​​BRUTALISM in the sound: the music of Pierre Henri according to Jean Michel Jarre.

I will also speak to you of the words of Leonard Cohenwhich is the subject of a river documentary: The words of Leonard Cohen by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine – released on October 19 in theaters in partnership with France Inter), entirely written around the song Hallelujah which still resonates so much today.

In addition to the writing work, the documentary highlights the work of John Lissauer, the musician who composed and arranged Hallelujah with Leonard Cohen, for example, had the idea for this syncopation, this suspended time before the Hallelujah chorus.

Also discover two formations announced at the next Transmusicales of Rennes : the Spaniards Rocio Marquez & Bronquio then the stripper Concrete slab.

And finally Oliver Sim: the opportunity to announce the next concerts of inter **: Apple and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France ** (next Wednesday) and then Thursday, October 27 Mark your calendars: concert triple poster Oliver Sim, Sébastien Tellier, Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul.

We can leave now with the most Greek of Marseille singers: Johan Papaconstantino “Glass” which was just released today.

Have a good trip.

Titles broadcast:

• Janet Jackson “Got ‘Til It’s Gone (feat. Q-Tip & Joni Mitchell) (1997)

• Johan Papaconstantino: “Glass”

• Lous & the Yakuza: “Hiroshima”

• NTM “The World of Tomorrow” (1990)

• Concrete slab “The hazards of natural wine”

• Robert Finley: “Souled out on you”

• Leonard Cohen “Lover Lover Lover” (1974)

• Kae Tempest “No Prizes”

• Oliver Sim “Fruit”

• Rocío Márquez, BRONQUIO “Un Ala Rota (Garrotín)”

• Jean-Michel Jarre “BRUTALISM”