Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Global Routes with Tony Burke: November 14, 2022
Pedro Lima: the revolutionary voice of 1970-80s São Tomé and Príncipe
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
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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
BORN in 1944, Pedro Lima’s musical career began as teenager with his family band Os Leonenses. Lima was one of the very few singers and bands from Sao Tome & Principe who recorded in Luanda, Angola for the N’Gola and Merengue labels in the 1970s and in Lisbon, Portugal for IEFE Records in the 1980s.
“His music is wonderfully rich and delicate, though quite minimalistic in arrangements, revealing the subtle melodies of the islands’ harmonic and backing vocals traditions.”
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