JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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Pat Metheny: Road to the Sun
Crossing boundaries with musical adventurer is a thrilling journey
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MARIA DUARTE goes down a bilingual rabbit hole with an impressive Jodie Foster
DAVID HARVIE recommends a selection of Harry Cleaver’s writing that documents working-class activism and offers a method, and a way of understanding and investigating the world
DAVID YEARSLEY is fascinated by the account of four composers who transformed their experiences of the second world war and the Holocaust into deeply moving works of art
PETER MASON thrills to the sound of south London-born Yussef Dayes, and the galaxy of musicians drawn into his orbit
From post-human revolution in Puerto Rico to trans poetics and queer mythmaking, these three books that imagine new ways of being together
PAT METHENY’S illustrious career spans over 40 albums and he’s the only artist to be awarded Grammys in 12 different categories including for rock, contemporary jazz recording, jazz instrumental solo and composition.
Pushing technology to new frontiers has long been core to his approach, with his 2010 album Orchestrion developing ensemble-orientated music using mechanically controlled acoustic and acoustoelectric musical instruments.
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