The bangin' 'Bangladesh' is my favourite track on Your Old Droog's great 'Packs'-album from earlier this year. Although both Droog and Heems bring their A-game and spit some absolutely ridiculous bars on this track, it is the addictive flute vs. bass-beat - including some weird Dutch gibberish at the beginning of the song - that steals the spotlight... Props to producer El RTNC for finding and editing the sample, but the real genius behind this irresistible piece of funk is Dutch flautist Sigurd Cochius.
Cochius, born into a wealthy family - his father owned a glass factory - in 1916, started out as a tennis coach but got involved in the Dutch counterculture movement Provo in the mid-sixties. The ideas of this troop of hippies, anarchists and activists prompted Cochius to become a street-musician and to open the doors of the mansion he inhereted from his mother to anyone who needed a place to stay.
Cochius gained notoriety in the early seventies following his illegal public performances in Hilversum, Utrecht or at Amsterdam's Leidseplein, combining flute and (quite strange) poetry. Despite having numerous expensive flutes taken from him by the police, he persisted and eventually got local politicians to allow performing music in public. Cochius kept on doing his own thing until he died from heart failure in 2001. Celebrate this quirky character by giving his magnificent 'Indianenmars' a spin below, enjoy!
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