EWAN CAMERON witnesses a political farce that lacks a clear message
Album Reviews with Ian Sinclair: March 27, 2023
New albums from Ralph Towner, The Hold Steady and Algiers
EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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
Ralph Towner
At First Light
(ECM)
★★★★
IN THE inlay notes of his new record Ralph Towner relates how he discovered the classical guitar in the early 1960s, and was enchanted by “how it was a very pianistic instrument capable of sophisticated polyphony and myriad tone colours.”
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