Anoukémélénoadarek [Anouk aimait les noix d'arec] - (Michel C, Urbuli Baba)

At last another tune with Michel! Don't mind the whimsical title - we recorded this little piece last week, upon hearing of iconic French New Wave actress Anouk Aimée's passing at the age of 92... If you're a big Fellini fan like me, you'll doubtless have seen her in La Dolce Vita and Otto e mezzo, two of Fellini's greatest masterpieces.
Hope you enjoy this rather meditative little tune - and get to forget, however briefly, about the seemingly ineluctable rise of fascism in France, and in many other places, we're seeing these days...

Michel C (saxophone)
Urbuli Baba (drums)
Various birds (carefree chirping - blithely untroubled by the impending election of a vile, racist, homophobic, anti-feminist neo-fascist as France's new prime minister)

Recorded at Michel's Enclave, Caux. Mixed by Urbuli.
Art courtesy of Alice Eckhart. June 2024.