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Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson – Bone Bells

The pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and guitarist Mary Halvorson combine to spellbinding effect on their third duo album Bone Bells, whose title takes its name from a passage in the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2022 novel Trust by the Argentine-American author Hernan Diaz. The record follows a couple of stellar efforts under their own banner in the form of To Be Other-Wise, a...

Muslim Shaggan – Asar

Over the populous span of South Asia, a region which stretches across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka while often regarded as incorporating Afghanistan, musicians of the Hindustani classical tradition are linked and identified according to their gharana, a system of lineage and apprenticeship which indicates their adherence to a particular musical style. When it comes...

Satoko Fujii GEN – Altitude 1100 Meters

Some artists are superstitious when it comes to their birthdays. James Joyce for instance scrambled to complete Ulysses for publication on the date of his 40th birthday on 2 February 1922, to that end continuing to send letters and telegrams and even making telephone calls laden with corrections to Sylvia Beach, the owner of the famous Paris bookstore Shakespeare...

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