EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
Album reviews
Latest releases from Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth, The Go! Team and modern jazz artists
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
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
Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth
Utopian Ashes
(Sony)
★★★★
HAVING led Scottish indie rockers Primal Scream for nearly 40 years, Bobby Gillespie still has the ability to surprise.
Utopian Ashes is a duets album with Jehnny Beth from the Savages, inspired by legendary musical partnerships like Gram Parson and Emmylou Harris and George Jones and Tammy Wynette.
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