Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Album reviews with IAN SINCLAIR: December 22, 2022
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Montparnasse Musique
Archaeology
(Real World)
★★★★
THIS marvellous debut album is the creation of Algerian-French producer/DJ Nadjib and South African House DJ Aero Manyelo, who met by chance in the Montparnasse–Bienvenue metro station in Paris.
Lucky us. A self-consciously Pan-African set, the music ranges far and wide over the continent, focusing on the music of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Which makes sense – it was recorded in France and Belgium with a group of talented Congolese musicians.
Mixing dance, electronica, rock, trance, techno and a whole host of other genres I don’t really know about, it sounds absolutely amazing. Badarou is particularly special, a big, open-hearted track that brings to mind the best work of Johnny Clegg and Savuka.
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