MATTHEW HAWKINS relishes the valiant defiance of two gay Scottish painters whose example resists both collectors’ taste and historical fiction
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The Jimi Hendrix of the kora, pure Soviet guitar and North African funk
Essays on contemporary Latin American feminism, a poetry debut by a queer Texan of Mexican heritage, and a lush volume of tango and milonga drawings
JOHN McINALLY welcomes a rigorous class analysis of the history and exploitation of sectarianism by the Scottish ruling elite
The bard pays homage to his two muses: his wife and his football club
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by an incoherent show that fails to question stereotypical assumptions about the Soviet Union
WILL STONE, JAMES WALSH and MARIA DUARTE review Souleymane’s Story, Sunlight, Good Fortune, and After The Hunt
N’FALY KOUYATE, the vocalist, kora and balafon player with the Afro-Celt Sound System, hails from Guinea in West Africa.
Dubbed the “Jimi Hendrix Of The Kora,” after moving to Belgium in 1994 he joined the Afro-Celts singing and playing the kora in a band that mixed electronic music with traditional Gaelic and West African music attracting Robert Plant and Peter Gabriel to take the stage with them.
In February this year N’Faly did a solo UK tour to promote his single Premier Pas and to prepare for the release for the release of his new solo set Re-Generation Part One.
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