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“What should a modern day jazz song look like?” was the conundrum Kazuo Ishiguro had to wrestle when Stacey Kent first asked him to pen some original lyrics. The genial Nobel and Booker laureate confessed his initial trepidation as he [...]
From Loose Tubes, Perfect Houseplants and Polar Bear to session work with Prefab Sprout, Robert Wyatt and Radiohead, saxophonist Mark Lockheart has been at the centre of British music for four decades. Now a mainstay of the Edition Records stable, [...]
In great contrast to Arve Henriksen’s last ECM album as a leader, the very maximalist (for him) “Cartography” from 2010, “Touch of Time”, a co-led duo with Dutch pianist Harmen Fraanje, is a series of beautiful miniatures. Over ten delicate [...]
Here’s a surprise: a band based in Berlin performing a programme based mainly on the poetry of Wilfred Owen at a club in Vienna… But perhaps no more surprising than the fact that the instigator of a recent Netflix film [...]
