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A new release from Joachim Cooder, and re-releases from Miles Davis and Mountain
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a play about AI that results in a deadening disconnect for its audience
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MATTHEW HAWKINS pays tribute to the performance artist and costumier, Leigh Bowery
SIMON DUFF reviews a new composition by German composer and pianist Florian Weber that blurs the line between where improvisation ends and composition begins
New releases from The Jim Mullen Quartet, Caroline Kraabel/John Edwards, and Matthew Muneses/Riza Printup
Joachim Cooder
Dreamer’s Motel
(Temple Of Leaves)
★★★★
SINGER-SONGWRITER, multi-instrumentalist and son of Ry Cooder, Joachim, who played on his father’s 1997 million-seller Buena Vista Social Club makes a welcome return to the studio with this set of Americana and alt country.
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