MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
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‘I’d like each listener to interpret the sounds in their own personal way’
Chris Searle speaks with drummer TOMAS FUJIWARA
Tomas Fujiwara
[courtesy of Tomas Fujiwara]
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes an engaging and nourishing account of the queer subculture that flourished in London between WWII and partial decriminalisation
RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography
TOMAS FUJIWARA, born in Boston in 1977, started on drums when he was seven and heard his dad’s record of a Max Roach/Buddy Rich drums contest.
“No-one else in my family is a musician,” he tells me, “so music was something very much of my own. I had to figure it out as I went along, with the encouragement and support of my parents.
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