Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Contemporary classical and electronic albums with Simon Duff: April 14, 2025
New releases from Nazar, Peter Gregson and Mesias Maiguashca
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Nazar
Demilitarize
Hyperdub Records
★★★★★
BELGIUM-BORN Angolan producer and composer Nazar’s debut album, Guerilla, released in 2020, for the Hyperdub label was a fusion of rough-hewn EDM and field recordings from the Angolan civil war. The new album was written at a time of new romance but at the same time Nazar had a serious Covid illness complication.
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