NICK MATTHEWS welcomes the return of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s music to the repertoire of this years’ Three Choirs Festival
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New releases from Ibex Band, Lucy Dacus, and Various Artists
LEO BOIX reviews a caustic novel of resistance and womanhood by Buenos Aires-born Lucia Lijtmaer, and an electrifying poetry collection by Chilean Vicente Huidobro
MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
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GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
Ibex Band
Stereo Instrumental Music
(Muzikawi)
★★★★
RELEASED by Paris-based record label Buda Musique between 1998 and 2017, the Ethiopiques album series did a great job of making the wider world aware of Ethiopia’s rich musical culture, especially ethno-jazz artists of the 1960s and 1970s.
However, they never released this fabulous 1976 record Stereo Instrumental Music — it’s only just been rediscovered.
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