LEO BOIX, ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review Night Stage, Two Women, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, and Fuze
Album reviews
Latest releases from Renaissance, Peter Knight’s Gigspanner and Paul Brett
KATHRYN JOHNSON recommends the work of Norman Kaplan that was a tool in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes a bold feminist subversion of classic folktales that are ubiquitous in the Irish imagination
A novel by Mexican Juan Pablo Villalobos, poetry by Mexican Ingrid Bringas, and a biography by Argentinian Mercedes Halfon
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an entertaining dramatisation of the famous dispute that gives insight into the struggle, and Murdoch’s unscrupulous mendacity
ELLIS RAE is disappointed by the revival of a nihilistic play that fails to offer alternatives for social change
Renaissance
50th Anniversary Ashes Are Burning
(Cherry Red/Esoteric)
★★★★
RENAISSANCE made their recording debut long ago in 1969, albeit with a totally different line-up, and this venerable prog-rock institution marked their 50th anniversary by performing a series of US concerts with an orchestra during October 2019.
The most memorable of these shows found the band in particularly fine fettle as they brought their distinctive blend of classical, folk, rock and jazz to the historic Keswick Theatre in Pennsylvania.
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