Cherry, Don
Music, Wisdom, Love
Reaching a near-mythical status amongst fans of free jazzs most worldly intrepid explorer, these seldom heard Paris
soundtrack sessions known as Music, Wisdom, Love have evaded collectors grasps and confused historians for exactly 50
years. Now available for the first time ever and licensed from producer and director Jean-Noel Delamarre himself.
Instigated in Paris in 1967 and filmed during Dons downtime on a visit to the Chat qui Pêche nightclub in March 1967
(where he played with Karl Berger, Henri Texier and Jacques Thollot), the bulk of this cinematic portrait was filmed on
the streets of Paris under the direction of creative all-rounders Jean-Noël Delamarre and Nathalie Perrey, who, as their
careers bloomed, would become pivotal figures in underground French cinema - straddling La Nouvelle Vague, adult
entertainment and cinema fantastique in what can only be described as speedball cinema. As the supportive creative
family that primarily played home to French vampire/horrortica director Jean Rollin, both Nathalie and Jean-Noël, his
brother Jean-Philippe Delamarre and a small team of other fans of oblique media would be responsible for a vibrant
micro-culture that awkwardly flourished on the outskirts on the Parisian new wave - combining comic book culture,
Lettrism, sexual liberation, psychedelic rock, graphic design and (with this record as prime example) free jazz and
avant-garde music. What previously might have been regarded as an unlikely coupling, with the benefit of half a century
of archival hindsight, this release documents the essential cosmic collision of two fantastic planets.
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Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
15-04-2017
Label
Item-nr
501724
EAN
5060099506307
Availability
In stock