Reviews of Habibi Funk 031, Kayatibu, and The Good Ones
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‘We are looking at spiritual affinities and how these liberate and at the same time transcend the political’
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to South African pianist NDUDUZO MAKHATINI
Nduduzo Makhathini performing in Amsterdam on 28 October 2021
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SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
NDUDUZO MAKHATINI is an extraordinary pianist. Born in Umgungundlovu, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa in 1982, his musical universe carries the spirits of his Zulu ancestry, engendered through his piano studies at Durban University of Technology and his doctoral research at the University of Stellenbosch.
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