French pianist Bruno Angelini found much inspiration in a quote from his favourite musician Wayne Shorter's graphic novel, "Emanon": "The lotus exists only in the swamp, in our world of turmoil, and the blooming flower purifies the water around it." It led him to make a recording called Lotus Flowers where he and saxophonists Angelika Niescier and Sakina Abdou pay tribute to Shorter and true "lotus flowers" like Nelson Mandela, Jack London, the IPCC scientists, Rosa Parks, Jane Addams, Berta Caceres and her daughter Laura, and Wangari Maathai who have tried to purify the "swamps" of our world... [ read more ]
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