Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Album reviews with IAN SINCLAIR: April 22, 2024
New releases from Shabaka, Neil Young & Crazy Horse and David Ian Roberts
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
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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