EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
Album reviews with Simon Duff: November 29, 2021
New releases from Aya, The Fall and Jon Hopkins
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
Aya
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(Hyperdub)
★★★★
AYA is one of Hyperdub’s latest signings and her debut album for the label is a heady mix of innovative, provocative poetic experimental dubstep influences combined with left field understated whispered folk.
It aims to pull the listener through tangled moments within her life that are in conversation with each other.
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