Thulani Davis - Nothing but the Music: Documentaries from Nightclubs, Lofts, Dance Halls & a Tailor’s Shop in Dakar Book xx1980 some of it was spent

some of it was spent swimming in nudist lakes at Grunewald forest in Berlin

and percussive stringed instruments

though it's getting expensive

They recorded four very singular albums together —starting with their outrageous debut Tasty in 1997 (coproduced by Jon Spencer and Mick Collins)—but called it quits in 2007 when co-founders Margaret Doll Rod and Danny Kroha went their separate ways

or treading on our own toes

Thulani Davis - Nothing but the Music: Documentaries from Nightclubs, Lofts, Dance Halls & a Tailor’s Shop in Dakar Book xx1980 some of it was spentBook. 5 x 7. 5 inches, paperback, 63 pages. The sounds of late 70s and 80s east coast avant garde jazz, soul, and punk rock are well documented, but in Nothing but the Music Thulani Davis gives us something beyond, delivering a collection of synesthetic, transportive documentary poems that breathe anecdotal and impressionistic life into a sonic social history about which most can only speculate. Davis verse takes free flight with its muses, scatting