Don Cherry's New Researches featuring Naná Vasconcelos - Organic Music Theatre: Festival de jazz de Chateauvallon 1972In the late 1960s, the American trumpet player and free jazz pioneer Don Cherry (19361995) and the Swedish visual artist and designer Moki Cherry (19432009) began a collaboration that imagined an alternative space for creative music, most succinctly expressed in Mokis aphorism the stage is home and home is a stage. By 1972, they had given name to a concept that united Dons music, Mokis art, and their family life in rural Tagrp, Sweden into one

and finally

Tim Midyett

and the film

Creating all of their artwork

its eclectic tapestry of sounds flourishes and fractures with choral vocal harmonies

he grew up in an extended family that was both black and white

to the "Earth" of its title

on the fuzz guitars that power the chorus of Lipgloss

"I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes"

The Art School and Optimo

The record also harboured moments of definitive Sigur Rós drama in singles Glósóli and Sæglópur

by venturing further into synthesizers