ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
Latest editorial
Dynamic duo of Allen and Mills a match made in techno heaven
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
Tony Allen and Jeff Mills
Barbican, London
TECHNO, founded in Detroit, was inspired by various black music genres including house, soul, funk and jazz and with their incorporation into electronic music, a new sound was born.
It’s against that background that this latest of many projects by Detroit’s very own Jeff Mills and legendary drummer and Afrobeat co-founder Tony Allen was conceived, as a marriage of analogue and digital.
They open with the decidedly jazzy Locked and Loaded, the first tune from their joint album Tomorrow Comes The Harvest, the perfect Afrofuturist backdrop to a performance that sees Mills bashing out beats on his Roland TR-909 drum machine as Allen hits cymbals and snares.
Similar stories
WILL STONE enjoys a set by an artist too eclectic to be pigeonholed
TONY BURKE recommends a new podcast about the legenary Nigerian musician and political activist FELA KUTI
WILL STONE is frustrated by a performance that chooses to garble the lyrics and drown the songs in reverb
Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist XHOSA COLE and US tap-dancer LIBERTY STYLES