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Global Routes with Tony Burke: April 14, 2023
Music with the marvellous Eritrean krar, and a prolific populariser of Andean Cumbia music in Ecuador
The Krar is a five-or-six stringed bowl-shaped lyre from Ethiopia and Eritrea
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SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
DESPITE its opulence Geneva is a multicultural city with many African venues and eateries where musicians, artists and activists gather and provide each other with help and assistance.
Three musicians from north and east Africa, Moroccan guembri player Anouar Baouna, Eritrean krar player Samuel Ades and Algerian darbouka player Ali Bouchaki, all made the arduous journey from their homes to get to Switzerland.
Along with European musicians the Cyril Cyril Duo, Simone Auber, Marcel Duchamp and Vincent Bertholet, they formed Yalla Miku whose self-titled debut set is now out on the Geneva-based Bongo Joe label.
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