Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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Ahmed a consummate guide to thrilling musical destinations
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
Yazz Ahmed
La Saboteuse
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YAZZ AHMED'S new album La Saboteuse is astonishing in the scope of its collaborative unity and the power and beauty of the sounds it expresses.
They were brought together from 10 different locations over a decade and mixed by the brilliant sound engineer Tom Jenkins, audio supervisor for the London Olympics' opening and closing ceremonies.
Recorded in sections and fragments in several studios from London to Copenhagen, in the homes and bedrooms of the musicians and a small room Birmingham's Symphony Hall, it is an amalgam of parts exquisitely fused — a sonic vision of music's future in the present.
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