WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: October 28, 2019
Latest releases from Jim Sullivan, Bill Frisell and Paradise of Bachelors
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
Itasca
Spring
(Paradise of Bachelors)
★★★★
LOS ANGELES-BASED musician Kayla Cohen, who records under the moniker Itasca, wrote her seventh album in an old adobe house in New Mexico, having retreated there for two seasons partly in response to the election of Donald Trump.
Inspired by the history and distinctive landscape of the region, the organic folky ballads on Spring constitute a set of impressionistic, sun-dappled travelogues.
Accompanied by members of Gun Outfit, Bitchin’ Bajas and James Elkington, Cohen’s hushed vocals beautifully meld with her terrific acoustic guitar strumming, piano, discreet strings and the occasional lap steel guitar.
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