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EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
Good weird, batshit weird, brilliance a-plenty
Good weird, batshit weird, brilliance a-plenty
All the 129 tracks on Miniatures 2020 come in at less than a minute and many are magnificently memorable
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
IN 1981, I was invited to join the pioneering, category-busting and extremely eclectic independent label Cherry Red Records and, once signed, was invited into the despatch department to take my pick of anything in their back catalogue.
It was thus that I got hold of a copy of Miniatures, a compilation LP put together by former Mott The Hoople keyboard player and Cherry Red collaborator Morgan Fisher, released a year before. A vast number of luminaries had contributed 51 tracks, all under a minute in length.
Some of it was great, some weird but the album was unique and memorable and therefore brilliant.
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