Pete Rock & C. L. Smooth – “Sun Won’t Come Out (Instrumental)” (The Main Ingredient Instrumentals, Elektra 1994)
I wish I could give you a cool, “authentic” story of patient crate-digging in which I came upon this rare (and excellent) instrumentals album from the Mount Vernon, NY rap duo, one that would involve actual music-selling spaces, but the truth is I found it completely unexpectedly on a blog (which you should absolutely check out, as it is an old-school gold mine). I guess that makes me a bad person, but it really lit up my late-afternoon walk. (Spoiler: the sun did come out, big time.)
Rue Pajol is pretty long and like many streets in the 18e it’s extremely varied. Outposts of gentrification survive next to old, highly degraded buildings whose windows are getting walled-up one by one; an old post office has become a very stern-looking middle-school, entire lots have gone missing, and the Halle Pajol, currently re-designed by Françoise-Hélène Jourda (as far as I understand, it will be combine green spaces with offices, a youth hostel, a nursery, and a gymnasium), is intened to be a strong, solar-pannel-powered symbol of sustainable urbanism. (Read more on paris.fr)
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