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Kris Davis and the Lutosławski Quartet – The Solastalgia Suite

A brisk sweep of American letters might suggest the title of Thomas Wolfe's second posthumous novel You Can't Go Home Again as a kind of crystallisation or riposte of F. Scott Fitzgerald's now classic The Great Gatsby, whose main character could look out over the teeming quiet of the Long Island Sound, described in the novel as a 'great...

JJJJJerome Ellis – Vesper Sparrow

The Clearing the debut album by JJJJJerome Ellis is one of the records I have thought about most over the past few years, for its standout musical qualities, for the strength of the voice it introduced and for what those things together entailed, honing in on a particular facet of music while crystallising its force as a communicative tool. From...

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

In the films of John Cassavetes the threat of violence can get right up into the nostrils...

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