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Brassy brilliance from Braxton
Anthony Braxton
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WILL STONE enjoys a set by an artist too eclectic to be pigeonholed
RUTH AYLETT reviews two collections of outright political poetry
The book feels like a writer working within his limits and not breaking any new ground, believes KEN COCKBURN
PRAGYA AGARWAL recommends a collection of drawings that explore the relation of indigenous people to the land in south Asia, Africa and the Caribbean
CHRIS SEALE speaks to Palestinian sound artist BINT MBAREH
MARY CONWAY applauds a brave and timely two hander that explores the difference between intimacy and abuse
Anthony Braxton's Zim Septet
Cafe Oto, London
OUT of his breath comes such complexity and profundity of three-quarters of a century of musical sound, whether on alto sax, sopranino or contra bass clarinet.
This is Chicago-born Anthony Braxton who, after his military service, became part of the Association of the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
He made his recording debut in 1966 and has never stopped innovating ever since, even writing his musical titles as diagrams and notations as squiggling shapes.
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