Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Ernesto Djedje was one of the most innovative and successful artists Cote d‘Ivoire has ever produced
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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
A RISING star in the 1960s, when he became the guitar player and leader of the group Ivoiro Star, Ernesto Djedje set out to modernise Ivorian music and popularised the ziglibithy style of music, a pulsating hot mix of makossa and funk.
In 1968 he headed for Paris to record his first singles, arranged and produced by Manu Dibango and influenced by US soul, the music of Cameroon and Zaire as well as traditional Ivorian music.
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