Francine Luce - B� Kay La Vi-a

Francine Luce, from Martinique, invited a group of musicians with whom she had been working whilst exploring the European improvised and the jazz developments of this era for a recording introducing her unique musical heritage. Engineered and edited at Gateway Studio, Kingston, Surrey, September 1996. Location recordings of insects, birds and sea made in Martinique.

Personnel: Francine Luce (voice, water), Evan Parker (tenor & soprano saxophones, water), Claude Deppa (trumpet, flugelhorn, water), Paul Rutherford (trombone), Keith Tippett (piano, musical box), Paul Rogers (double bass), Louis Moholo (drums)