Have you been to France in the summer? The monkey loves it. The beaches of Les Landes, the wide-open spaces with distant views of the Pyrenees around Carcassonne, the Mediterranean heat and blistering sunshine of Marseilles, the endless vineyards of the Dordogne, the way Paris can go UK-like from sun to rain in the blink of an eye, dining al fresco, great food, and a shrug of the shoulders when someone gets it mildly wrong on the road instead of the snarling steroid-fuelled rage of the UK. It’s all captured on new slice of trip-hoppy mellowness from Djar One, Hopefully, as vocal snippets way down in the mix recall a radio somewhere in the distance as you doze amid the somnolent buzz of crickets and the fragrance of lavender and rosemary…
(Out now HERE)