MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
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Latest releases from Nik Bartsch, Van Morrison and TEKE::TEKE
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
Nik Bartsch
Entendre
(ECM)
★★★★
SWISS pianist and composer Nik Bartsch is best-known for leading the groups Ronin and Mobile and for the avant-garde work he crafts.
Sometimes called Zen funk, his music sits somewhere between European jazz and contemporary classical, with his trademark sound full of precise, verging on mathematical, rhythms, beats and hooks.
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