Ben Westbeech @ Orange Rooms

If you’re an assiduous reader of this blog, the name Ben Westbeech will sound familiar, or at least his music. As soon as his single “So good today” went out on Brownswood, it was on my player. A winner track introduced by Gilles Peterson, the kind of track that would pop up in my [...]

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This must be England (First echoes from England)

I arrived in England a few weeks ago so I thought I would let you know how this went, musically, so far.
My first glance outside the porthole was above London “Chelsea stadium”, Hey! The Chelsea hotel and that Chelsea girl must not be too far, I thought. Maybe I’ll hear her telling what Stephanie says. [...]

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Jean Francois Bizot R.I.P.

I had this awaken dream once, I was in Las Vegas playing at some one-armed bandit, I suddenly earned lots of money, like $1M. What to do with that? After changing my poor hotel room to a more luxurious one I decided to go back to Europe, there was nothing I could do with that [...]

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Gilles P. meets Gilles Peterson

There are some events that are so meaningful in your life that you can hardly find words to describe them, you just experienced them, taking what you had to take from them, learning from them. 
One of these events happened to me last month, it’s been a while and I could have written a post earlier [...]

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