It's funny how some songs can transport you to a specific time and place. This song, all glorious thirteen minutes and fifty three seconds of it, came out in 2017 courtesy of Richard Youngs and his Glasgow based electronic/ avant disco outfit AMOR (which had Franz Ferdinand drummer Paul Thomson in its ranks along with Luke Fowler and Norwegian double bassist Michael Francis Duch). It's a total joy, the very in the room four- four drums, the beautiful thick stringed bass notes, piano and tsk tsk of hi- hat and then Youngs' gnomic, Zen lyrics...
'All that there is/ Is interconnected/ All that passes me by/ Is communicated'
...and the chorus refrain...
'We're calling from paradise/ Can you get through?'
Specifically it transplants me whenever I hear it to driving through Vendee in France towards the Atlantic coast, the sun low in the sky ahead of us, the kids in the back seat, our holiday about to begin, in July 2017. For nearly fourteen minutes as Paradise played and we sped down the autoroute towards the coast, it was the best song and the only song in the world. We haven't been to France since 2019- the last time we went was the summer before Covid and so we haven't been since Isaac died and I have a real hankering for it now.
AMOR released three other singles and an album, Sinking Into A Miracle, in 2018 and all had their moments but none of them hit like Paradise hits.
1 comment:
Superb, mystic avant folk artist Richard Youngs inhabits the disco groove. Like you always wanted Robert Wyatt to perform with Chic!
-SRC
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