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Album reviews with IAN SINCLAIR: April 22, 2024
New releases from Shabaka, Neil Young & Crazy Horse and David Ian Roberts
ALEX HALL is intrigued by a detailed history of Gaza that demonstrates its historic resilience and changing economy
RON JACOBS welcomes the long overdue translation of an epic work that chronicles resistance to fascism during WWII
MAYER WAKEFIELD is chilled by the co-dependency of two lost souls as portrayed by German communist playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz
The Star's critics BRETT GREGORY, JOHN GREEN, MICHAEL BONCZA and ANGUS REID review The Stimming Pool, Misericordia, La Cocina, Irena’s Vow, and The End
CHRIS MOSS welcomes a radical history that brings marginalised stories and overlooked people and agencies to the centre
ANDREW HEDGECOCK relishes visual storytelling with no respect for genres, movements or styles
Shabaka
Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
(Impulse!)
★★★
IT turns out that not only has British jazz pioneer Shabaka Hutchings disbanded two of his critically acclaimed groups — the incendiary Sons Of Kemet and intergalactic The Comet Is Coming — he has also retired his primary weapon of choice, the saxophone.
Instead, starting with his 2022 EP Afrikan Culture, Hutchings has taken up the Shakuhachi, a Japanese flute, and other flutes from around the world.
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