EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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Album reviews with IAN SINCLAIR, January 15 2024
Reviews of A Charlie Brown Christmas, Women In Revolt! Underground Rebellion In British Music 1977-1985, Light Dark, Light Again
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
Vince Guaraldi Trio
A Charlie Brown Christmas
(Craft Recording)
★★★★
THE soundtrack to the December 1965 Peanuts TV special in the US, A Charlie Brown Christmas, has become one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time, as well as the best known work of the Vince Guaraldi Trio.
In 2012 it was added to the US Library of Congress National Recording Registry for being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”
This reissue contains the original 11-track set, along with 13 studio outtakes. Yes, it’s a Christmas album — the choir-assisted My Little Drum and Hark, The Herald Angels Sing will get you in the festive mood — but much of it suits year-round listening.
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