Marvin Pontiac

Between the U.S.A and Africa radiates this mix of Blues, Jazz, and Rock brought forth by the imaginary "Marvin Pontiac," born in 1932 to a Jewish mother (from New York) and an African father (Mali), and who died, hit by a bus, in 1977. Behind this fictitious project, skillfully crafted, lies the genius of John Lurie: actor, painter, and above all, the renowned musician, founder and leader of "The Lounge Lizards" (1979). With his deep, gritty voice, as dark as pitch, the puppeteer Lurie (amid marimbas, saxophones, shekeres, and trombones) weaves the threads of a vivid fresco of the desolate, nocturnal New York alleys, the infamous neighborhood bars flooded with whiskey, and, parallelly, the ancestral Mother Earth Africa. A masterpiece!