Name: Ilama Ilama by Loïc Dequidt
Duration: 11 min 49 s
Description: Loïc Dequidt Quartet. Picture from a gig with Loïc Dequidt Ensemble @ Nefertiti, but live recording (sorry for the quality) from a gig at Glenn Miller Café in February 2010. A Yemeni song called "Ilama Ilama", with Staffan Svensson (tp), Mattias Hjorth (b) and @peternilssonmusic (ds) on 🔥!!!

Loïc Dequidt Quartet. Picture from a gig with Loïc Dequidt Ensemble @ Nefertiti, but live recording (sorry for the quality) from a gig at Glenn Miller Café in February 2010. A Yemeni song called "Ilama Ilama", with Staffan Svensson (tp), Mattias Hjorth (b) and @peternilssonmusic (ds) on 🔥!!!

Ilama Ilama

Vidwan Guru Karaikudi R Mani - Mridangam
Vidwan Ghatam Suresh - Ghatam
Vidwan Amrit - Khanjira
Vidwan Bharadwaj R Sathavalli - Morsing

Karaikudi R Mani Suresh Amrit Bharadwaj @ Abbaji Day Bombay

LYRICS:

There was a boy from Pennsylvania 
They say he had a gift, but I gotta tell ya
This is a story of repression 
Think it's time we heard that plagal confession
*A when?*

Once upon a rhyme and rhythm
There was something uninformed about him 
Never seemed to have a real voice
didn’t think he had another choice
Decided he would hide behind the saxophone 
Oooooooo

The times when he don't play the blues
Didn't understand the social cues
He struggled hard to find the reason 
And so he blew his horn for mental pleasin'
Some kinda modal disposition 
Made him want to be a jazz musician 
*so what*

Diggin deep down to the core
Riffin on the chords, what the hell for?
Nothing else seemed to work
Otherwise he’d go berserk 
Decided he would hide behind the saxophone
Ooooooooo

*sax solo* 

Improvised a solo what a waste
Avoiding all the fears he should face
What if this tonal disguise 
Will never find a way to harmonize?
Decided he would hide behind the saxophone 
Ooooooooo

Ilama Ilama

Loïc Dequidt

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