STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
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Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: September 18, 2018
The Time For Peace Is Now by Various artists, Ode To Joy by Wilco and Last Cigarette by Angelina
CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity
The bard mourns the loss of comrades and troubadours, and looks for consolation with Black Country Jess
CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity
GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin
Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
Various Artists
The Time For Peace Is Now
(Luaka Bop)
★★★★
HAVING previously released a collection of Alice Coltrane’s transcendent spiritual music, the David Byrne-founded Luaka Bop provide another public service with The Time For Peace Is Now, a set of obscure 1970s gospel tracks from the American South.
Created at the junction between church and street, there is a real warmth and passion to the music, with “lyrics less about Jesus and more about justice,” according to the liner notes.
“Why in the name of God can’t our leaders see what’s happening to humanity,” ask The Floyd Family Singers on That’s A Sign Of The Times.
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