MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
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Album reviews with Ben Lunn: November 14, 2022
New releases from Alex Paxton, Spaces Unfolding and Mihailo Trandafilovski
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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
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production that panders – if inadvertently – to Western prejudice against China
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a history that excavates the enormous role played by agricultural workers in recent times
ALEX HALL recommends a book that places empirical evidence at the heart of understanding racism
Ilolli-pop
Alext Paxton
Nonclassical
★★★★
GAIETY is a word that is rarely associated with contemporary music – creators and lovers of the art form are often (either in stereotype or reality) stuffy figures, who are well versed in the obscure and musically unfamiliar.
For composer and trombonist Alex Paxton jovial and gay are the words that come to mind.
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