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‘I’d like each listener to interpret the sounds in their own personal way’
Chris Searle speaks with drummer TOMAS FUJIWARA
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JOHN FLINT explores the Appleby Blue development, winner of the Stirling prize 2025
GORDON PARSONS enjoys the wealth of wisdom and the clarity of expression from a dialogue between Chomsky and Mujica
GUILLERMO THOMAS enjoys a survey of the current state of the CIA (aka Langley) from an expert and insider of sorts
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O CONNOR and JOHN GREEN review The Choral, Belen, Dragonfly, and Colossal Wreck
WILL STONE is frustrated by a performance that chooses to garble the lyrics and drown the songs in reverb
RITA DI SANTO points out the social experience of exploitation and oppression that inform the popular winners at this year’s festival
TOMAS FUJIWARA, born in Boston in 1977, started on drums when he was seven and heard his dad’s record of a Max Roach/Buddy Rich drums contest.
“No-one else in my family is a musician,” he tells me, “so music was something very much of my own. I had to figure it out as I went along, with the encouragement and support of my parents.
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