JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
Best of 2018: Albums
by Ian Sinclair
Troubadour of turmoil: Laura Veirs
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
EWAN CAMERON witnesses a political farce that lacks a clear message
EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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
2018 has been a strong year for instrumental music. Like his 2015 triple-album The Epic, Californian saxophonist Kamasi Washington’s Heaven and Earth (Young Turks) is a monumental jazz, soul and funk record, kicking off with an incredibly exciting version of the Fist of Fury theme tune.
The otherworldly Bellowing Sun (Paradise of Bachelors) from Mind Over Mirrors — aka US composer and musician Jaime Fennelly — is similarly ambitious, an aural document of a year spent living alone on Cape Cod watching nature’s rhythms and cycles.
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