Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Ahmed a consummate guide to thrilling musical destinations
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Yazz Ahmed
La Saboteuse
(Naim)
YAZZ AHMED'S new album La Saboteuse is astonishing in the scope of its collaborative unity and the power and beauty of the sounds it expresses.
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Recorded in sections and fragments in several studios from London to Copenhagen, in the homes and bedrooms of the musicians and a small room Birmingham's Symphony Hall, it is an amalgam of parts exquisitely fused — a sonic vision of music's future in the present.
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