DAVID MORGAN recommends a refreshingly inspiring novel that features encounters with some tremendous women

BARCELONA-based Raul Refree (aka Refree) is a Spanish musician, record producer and composer whose credits stretch back to 1996 when he joined the hardcore group the Barcelona Corn Flakes, cutting the album Menage with them in 1997.
He began his solo project Refree with the album Quitamiedos, followed by a further eight solo releases.
He has produced soundtracks for film and TV documentaries and his productions combine experimental rock, flamenco, traditional Iberian music (sevillanas) and jazz and he interprets his compositions in Catalan and Spanish.

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TONY BURKE explains how an internationally significant breakthrough for workers’ organisation and recognition against two notoriously anti-union global mega corporations has been finally achieved in Canada

TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger