MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Materialists, Unmoored, Together, and Bambi: A Tale of Life in The Woods
Three free spirits
OLIE BRICE talks to Chris Searle about the liberating impulse of the jazz he plays with Tobias Delius and Mark Sanders
Olie Brice
TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger
GORDON PARSONS endures heavy rock punctuated by Shakespeare, and a delighted audience
STEVE JOHNSON recommends a protest album with a harder edge than many in the genre
DENNIS BROE finds much to praise in the new South African Netflix series, but wonders why it feels forced to sell out its heroine
CARL DEATH introduces a new book which explores how African science fiction is addressing climate change
In his second round-up, EWAN CAMERON picks excellent solo shows that deal with Scottishness, Englishness and race as highlights
STANDING on the chassis of a wrecked car, the expressive image on the album Somersaults shows a group of inner-city boys larking about on an urban wasteland, with one of them flying upside down in a forward roll over the graffitied bonnet.
It’s an image symptomatic of the record itself — edgy, risky, yet filled with a sublimated lyricism and audacity.
That lyricism goes back some way for bassist Olie Brice, who’s joined on the record by saxophonist Tobias Delius and drummer Mark Sanders. Born in east London, Brice spent his teenage years in Jerusalem and those years have stayed with him: “Some of my earliest musical memories are of communal singing in synagogue and around family tables,” he tells me.
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