MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Global Routes with TONY BURKE, January 9 2023
Cuban virtuoso Omar Puente speaks to the Morning Star, and reviews of Hit The Bongo! The Latin Soul Of Tico Records and Somanti by Chouk Bwa and The Angstromers
VIRTUOSO: Cuban violinist Omar Puente
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
THE international salsa ensemble Classico Latino return to the studio with a new set Salsa Classics — a homage to Colombian salsa legend and multi instrumentalist Julio Ernesto Estrada aka “Fruko.”
Classico Latino are stellar musicians led by Colombian pianist Ivan Guevara and British cellist/conductor Graham Walke and feature the Cuban violin virtuoso Omar Puente.
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