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In 1989, French composer Philippe Cohen Solal, co-founder of the electro-tango trio Gotan Mission, heard Nigerian singer-songwriter Keziah Jones busking on the streets of Paris. That marked the start of an over 30-year friendship, which lately spawned an EP: “Class of 89”. The report incorporates a mix of influences and kinds. The 2 musicians inform FRANCE 24’s Florence Villeminot how their decades-long friendship created the belief essential to compose freely collectively. We additionally take a look at Sir Elton John’s final UK live performance at this 12 months’s Glastonbury competition and the discharge of a long-lost Frank Zappa album from 1970.