Sunrise Over Brooklyn

Revisiting an avant-garde jazz masterpiece by El-P and the Blue Series Continuum from 2003

It’s the peak of summer, and I’ve just moved back to Hamburg. I’m broke and in my mid-20s, hustling as a freelance writer while trying to finish my law degrees, but distracted by the many bars of my neighborhood, a working class area close to the city’s red light district.

My nights out often end at Golden Pudel Club, a wooden shack at the riverfront, wh…