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Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
The sonic heaven of Dalston
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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
Anthropology Band
Cafe Oto
★★★★
Paul G Smyth, John Edwards and Mark Sanders
Vortex
★★★★
DALSTON, east London, was the epicentre of free musical marvels last week.
At Cafe Oto the Anthropology Band showed how wondrously electric and acoustic sounds can gel so creatively and with such acerbic unity.
Martin Archer’s searing soprano and guttural tenor saxophone; Pat Thomas’s nonplussing keyboards; the combined electric guitars of Chris Sharkey and Anton Hunter; Dave Sturt’s pulsating bass guitar: Orphy Robinson’s pounding mallets: the cascades of Adam Farclough’s drums and the visceral, breathy vibrato of the trumpet and flugelhorn of Charlotte Keeffe. It was a timbral stew to be earnestly savoured.
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