Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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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
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
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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