STEVE JOHNSON recommends a protest album with a harder edge than many in the genre
Makiko Hirabayashi Trio, Pizza Express, Soho
Melodic treat from Copennhagen trio
Ever inventive: Makiko Hirabayashi
DENNIS BROE finds much to praise in the new South African Netflix series, but wonders why it feels forced to sell out its heroine
CARL DEATH introduces a new book which explores how African science fiction is addressing climate change
In his second round-up, EWAN CAMERON picks excellent solo shows that deal with Scottishness, Englishness and race as highlights
Fiery words from the Bard in Blackpool and Edinburgh, and Evidence Based Punk Rock from The Protest Family
MATTHEW HAWKINS is mesmerised by a performance that dissolves the line between audience and performer
MATTHEW SHARPE recommends the essays of a Renaissance politician that instruct and unnerve after 400 years
HAILING from Copenhagen, this trio includes Tokyo-born Makiko Hirabayashi and veteran Danish-American percussionist Marilyn Mazur, whose array of tiny bells and miniature cymbals hang from a crossbar over her drum set and create a metallic transcendence.
Hirabayashi plucks the strings inside her piano and the rubber-souled fingers of bassist Klavs Hovman delve deep during Once Upon a Sea, their tribute to those who perished in the 2011 Fukushima tsunami.
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