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ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Music — Polar purity of composition and clatter
Polar Bear — Xoyo, London EC2
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
4/5
I, like most reasonable people, abhor the saxophone.
Seeing two saxophonists on stage with anything other than a big band — also bad — will make me about turn and shelter myself at the bar. But, for Polar Bear, it’s OK.
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