MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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Global Routes with TONY BURKE: January 3, 2023
Rosalía and Raul Refree perform flamencos in the Cuna Verde Park in Madrid
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SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
BARCELONA-based Raul Refree (aka Refree) is a Spanish musician, record producer and composer whose credits stretch back to 1996 when he joined the hardcore group the Barcelona Corn Flakes, cutting the album Menage with them in 1997.
He began his solo project Refree with the album Quitamiedos, followed by a further eight solo releases.
He has produced soundtracks for film and TV documentaries and his productions combine experimental rock, flamenco, traditional Iberian music (sevillanas) and jazz and he interprets his compositions in Catalan and Spanish.
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