Thulani Davis - Nothing but the Music: Documentaries from Nightclubs, Lofts, Dance Halls & a Tailor’s Shop in Dakar Book xx1980 Though rising from their watery

Though rising from their watery tombs only infrequently

that spans five years in the making

or treading on our own toes

some of it was spent swimming in nudist lakes at Grunewald forest in Berlin

Thulani Davis - Nothing but the Music: Documentaries from Nightclubs, Lofts, Dance Halls & a Tailor’s Shop in Dakar Book xx1980 Though rising from their wateryBook. 5 x 7. 5 inches, paperback, 63 pages. The sounds of late 70s and 80s east coast avant garde jazz, soul, and punk rock are well documented, but in Nothing but the Music Thulani Davis gives us something beyond, delivering a collection of synesthetic, transportive documentary poems that breathe anecdotal and impressionistic life into a sonic social history about which most can only speculate. Davis verse takes free flight with its muses, scatting