Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Global Routes with TONY BURKE
Emblematic voices of Djibouti and Cuba offer, respectively, an intriguing exploration and reassuring familiarity
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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
YANNA MOMINA recorded Afar Ways (Giltterbeat) in Djibouti, on the horn of Africa.
Music is a serious business for the rural Afar people. Most of them do not have a television so music is performed every night.
Producer and author, Ian Brennan visited Djibouti in the spring of 2018 and discovered Momina accompanied on a two-string shingle played with nails and a matchbox for maracas. She has a stunning vibrato and writes her own songs.
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A horn of plenty, no less!
