Do you know Claude McKay? Please believe that thanks to our guest, we will end (you and me) with crass ignorance. The man who sits in the armchair of En Sol Majeur is often wearing a pork pie (a pork pie hat if you prefer), with an elegance that multiplies the points of view and above all an obsessive love for nuggets of a diasporic world…
Born in Angola, raised in Brazil, landed one day in Marseille, Armando Coxejournalist, music columnist, will have frolicked for years in tropical music, until one day falling on the author of Banjo and of Home to Harlem (1st bestseller by a black writer in the United States in 1932), until he fell out of his chair this time, when he discovered a novel that we thought was lost from this Claude McKay describing like no other the city of the old port with its Blacks from Marseille and its shady thirties. It is therefore to our headed guest that we owe the publication of Romance in Marseilles…
Armando Coxe’s musical choices
Marvin Gaye – Sexual Healing
Purcell- Strike the Rape