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Album Reviews with Ian Sinclair: March 27, 2023
New albums from Ralph Towner, The Hold Steady and Algiers
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
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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