Sian
Rhino Flowers

Remember the film noir “ascenseur pour l’echafoid” from 1957, I believe, with Jeanne Moreau? And the sublime soundtrack by Miles Davis?? Dark and rainy atmospheres in a beautiful black-and-white film (given the era), masterfully scored by the American trumpeter. A film that in color wouldn't have rendered its intensity as evident. In Sian's new album “Rhino Flowers,” the same sensation is palpable. It's about a musician who grew up in the south of Spain, recently joining the ranks of Good Looking Records, the independent label by the great LJT Bukem. 22 tracks to enjoy on the chaise longue of your living room (if you're lucky enough to have one and doubly lucky to have a living room big enough to fit it) while sipping some good Armagnac, when the world seems like a shirt too tight for you, and your thoughts overflow from your cranium that you rhythmically nod while staring into the void or the ceiling, with that pleased expression of someone recalling "beautiful things" and overcoming "bad things." Some fine "cool jazz," also excellent for listening while driving, strictly at night, on deserted highways with the starry sky accompanying your fantasy in connecting the dots from 1 to 100 and creating Laocoön-like figures in your imagination, with the bass covering the whistle of your turbodiesel. How much humanity in an album created with artificial instruments! How many ancient things in an album of the latest generation! How much black and white in a multicolored album! Not to be missed.