Octopusine

The harbor was complicated enough for Craig Binky once to have called it “octopusine,” and Asbury might easily have bumbled into Jamaica Bay or tried to fight the tidal rush in the East River, were it not for the pilot he had taken on.

Batu’s guitarist Chris Franck, after playing samba whilst studying for a degree in France, was tutored by two expatriate Brazilians, Pedro (guitar) and Beberto de Souza (octopusine percussion).

Then his body seemed to turn into rubber; it was as if his joints forgot that they existed, and his limbs turned into octopusine tentacles. His legs went over his head, and round his neck. His arms went under his legs and up his back.