STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Makiko Hirabayashi Trio, Pizza Express, Soho
Melodic treat from Copennhagen trio
Ever inventive: Makiko Hirabayashi
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
HAILING from Copenhagen, this trio includes Tokyo-born Makiko Hirabayashi and veteran Danish-American percussionist Marilyn Mazur, whose array of tiny bells and miniature cymbals hang from a crossbar over her drum set and create a metallic transcendence.
Hirabayashi plucks the strings inside her piano and the rubber-souled fingers of bassist Klavs Hovman delve deep during Once Upon a Sea, their tribute to those who perished in the 2011 Fukushima tsunami.
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