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Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
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CHRIS SEARLE wallows in an evening of high class improvised jazz, and recommends upcoming highlights in May
MARY CONWAY applauds the revival of a tense, and extremely funny, study of men, money and playing cards
MEHDI ACHOUCHE explores the constant fascination of cinema with Marxist alienation from Fritz Lang and Chaplin to Bong Joon Ho
FIONA O’CONNOR steps warily through a novel that skewers many of the exposed flanks of the over-privileged
MARY CONWAY applauds the study of a dysfunctional family set in an Ireland that could be anywhere
MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
Nicole Mitchell and Alex Hawkins
Cafe Oto
I THOUGHT I was hearing birdsong over the rooftops of Hackney last night, but it was the quivering flutesong beauty of Nicole Mitchell, coming from a musical tryst at Cafe Oto as she blew alongside the grounding piano brilliance of Alex Hawkins, creating a fusion of the sky and the Earth in the heart of London.
Mitchell, born in Syracuse, New York state, bred in San Diego, California where she learned classical flute and busked on the Pacific streets, honed her artistry with the avant garde masters of the Association of the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) of Chicago, forged an empathetic internationalist duo with Oxford-born Hawkins.
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