ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
Latest editorial
Album reviews
Latest releases from Nik Bartsch, Van Morrison and TEKE::TEKE
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
Nik Bartsch
Entendre
(ECM)
★★★★
SWISS pianist and composer Nik Bartsch is best-known for leading the groups Ronin and Mobile and for the avant-garde work he crafts.
Sometimes called Zen funk, his music sits somewhere between European jazz and contemporary classical, with his trademark sound full of precise, verging on mathematical, rhythms, beats and hooks.
Similar stories
New releases by Porridge Radio, The Cribs, and Bjorn Meyer
New releases from The Dreaming Spires, Bruce Springsteen, and Chet Baker
New releases from Allo Darlin’, Loyle Carner and Mike Polizze
Reviews of More, Remembering Now, and New Vienna