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aya – hexed!

Bounded by the sheathed noise and strained elocution lessons of 'somewhere between the 8th and 9th floor' and 'backsliding' - which arrived through personal backstory at something akin to a communal mission statement, as she uttered in plainspoken fashion amid the footwork, grime and other deconstructed club phantasms 'It's been four years now I've been trading places, evading faces,...

DaYe 大叶 – Road to Spring 甘泉路

Trained as a classical pianist, on her new album Road to Spring the composer DaYe pays tribute to her hometown of Yangzhou, which is situated on the north bank of the Yangtze and is known as the ancient birthplace of the Grand Canal which was built to connect northern and southern China, as well as for its traditions of...

Joe McPhee – I’m Just Say’n

Free jazz is having a spoken word moment. Whether it's the result of contemporary political strife, a hangover from the enforced quietude of the pandemic, age with its scrawled pages of accumulated wisdom or something else afoot or at play, it seems like improvisational jazz and some of its bastions or associates are turning with real vigour and trenchant...

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