To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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Edgar Broughton Band
Speak Down The Wires: The Recordings (1975-1982)
Esoteric
★★★★
This is an excellent four-CD set by the doyens of the ’60s counterculture — the trailblazers of political heavy rock.
Their 1969 debut album Wasa Wasa was cut for EMI’s underground label Harvest.
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