Interlude.

Pause glacée sous le soleil brûlant. Greg de Villanova improvise sur un groove éthiopien pendant que le Président médite sur un solo d’orgue Hammond. Le calme avant la tempête.

🌎 Your FM duel between le Président and Greg de Villanova, serves up full-length jazz tracks and a fair amount of Parisian cross-talk between vinyl blows. Here, cool jazz rubs shoulders with hard bop, Latin jazz and a dash of freer modernism: Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, Eric Dolphy, Sam Rivers and Herbie Hancock all turn up, from “Tempus Fugit” to “Fuchsia Swing Song” and “Blind Man, Blind Man”.

1. Tempus Fugit - Miles Davis.
2. The Monkey Time - The Afro Blues Quintet Plus One.
3. Afro Soul - The Afro-Latin Soultet.
4. Groovy Samba - Cannonball Adderley.
5. Geo’s Tune - Ken McIntyre & Eric Dolphy.
6. Fuchsia Swing Song - Sam Rivers.
7. Fever - Usha Uthup.
8. Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme Bwv 645 - Jacques Loussier Trio.
9. Kofi - Donal Byrd.
10. Blind Man, Blind Man - Herbie Hancock.

📝 Gx₃·Φ-42⋮Q, 18 August 2025(Planet number 36)

Under an overcast sky, households occupy sandstone rooms above terraced quarries. Gravity lifts carry flour between levels; the western lift still awaits a replacement motor following last month’s bombardment.

Le Président insists their new pot fits through the stairwell. Greg de Villanova produces a measuring cord. The potter continues wrapping it; delivery by the outer cliff ladder costs extra.

Miles Davis gathers neighbours in Gil Evans’s cliff flat to plan communal cold cupboards. They debate insulation while their host removes six pairs of boots from his bread shelf.

The Afro Blues Quintet Plus One pack beans in ribbed tins. Collectors now buy the empties; at the Terraced Market, one customer tests each lid with his knuckles.

The Afro-Latin Soultet discover their obsolete spice catalogues are collectors’ items. In a Narrow Alleyway café, their grandmother refuses to surrender the copy propping up her table.

Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley, formerly a school music teacher, judges children’s quarry-slide races. He measures each run with knotted cord. His niece requests an independent official.

Ken McIntyre holds the ladder while Eric Dolphy installs another bass-clarinet-shaped rain collector. Dolphy favours the deep reservoir; his neighbours chiefly appreciate not fetching water down seventy sandstone steps.

Sam Rivers keeps the traditional stepped borders of his courtyard garden but lets climbing beans cross them freely. His neighbour lifts a vine to pass him a marriage proposal.

Usha Uthup sells perfume beside the communal ovens. Her first customers came from cliffside nightclubs, not the film houses; she still offers night workers a discount before breakfast.

At the Weavers’ Workshop, Jacques Loussier borrows an ancestral interlocking pattern for a hammock. He alters the crossings around his husband’s elbows. The heritage inspector asks to try it.

Donald Byrd wears his old Air Force band jacket to deliver courtship parcels between terraces. At the upper landing, he checks two addresses and exchanges the accompanying declarations.

Herbie Hancock, who studied composition and electrical engineering, fits a warming circuit beneath his sandstone breakfast bench. His partner moves along it with the coffee, testing each seat.

Don't forget to put the butter back.

BATTLE JAZZ GALACTICA

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