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Track of the Week
Billy Bragg is an English singer-songwriter and activist. Two of his most recent projects are the book The Three Dimensions of Freedom...
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Nick Coleman on Björk
VOICES: 3/ love stories Björk: "Hyperballad" (One Little Indian, 1995) There is nothing so old as the day before yesterday's thing. And...
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Drawing Projects UK: an auction
Choose Art/Give Light to Refugees is a benefit art auction – online until midnight on June 29 2020 – that aims to raise funds to help...
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Helen Petts: The Cutty Wren
Helen Petts is an artist and film-maker who explores rhythm, texture, sound and chance events, both in the landscape and in her...
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Matthew Bourne: an improvisation
Photograph by Steven Cropper Matthew Bourne is a recipient of numerous awards and accolades, and possesses an inventive and unique...
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Track of the Week
Hen Ogledd take their name from the phrase for the Old North, the Celtic region comprising Southern Scotland and Northern England in...
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Richard Helyar: North Laine
Richard Helyar is a freelance photographer.
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Crayon Angels: Twice For Regret
Here, verbatim, is the bio for Crayon Angels, who are: Natalina Castiglioni: Vocals Del Halpin: Guitar, Pedal Steel, Mandolin Ian...
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Nick Coleman on music in a pandemic
VOICES: 2/ Melancholy Belshazzar's Feast: "Home, Lad, Home" (Unearthed, 2010) "I can feel it", a friend said only last week, "but I can't...
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Helen Petts: rhythm, texture, sound and chance events
Helen Petts is an artist and film-maker who explores rhythm, texture, sound and chance events, both in the landscape and in her...
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Blanca Regina: an improvisation
Photo by Alberto García-Alix Blanca Regina is an artist, curator and tutor based in London, who is currently involved in creating sound...
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Track of the Week
Simbiatu "Simbi" Abisola Abiola Ajikawo (born 23 February 1994) is better known by her stage name Little Simz and is a British rapper,...
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Christopher Miller on The Godfather
Christopher Miller watches films so that you don't have to. Can something be prodigiously under-imagined? Mario Puzo, talking about the...
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Steve Shepherd: photographs
Steve Shepherd writes poems and takes photographs. He used to make radio programmes, mostly jazz.
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Maria Fusco: Comic Face
Notes on Comic Face His is not a comic face. Immobility The ability to slip through time. Allowing each of us to see through face, to see...
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Nick Coleman on Ann Peebles
VOICES: 1/ The Faux Pathetic Fallacy Ann Peebles: "I Can't Stand the Rain" (Hi, 1973) John Lennon called it "the best record ever" but he...
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Steve Beresford: an improvisation
Photograph by Fabio Lugaro Steve Beresford has been a central figure in the British and international spontaneous music scenes for over...
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Nick Coleman on singing
John Lennon may or may not have been the first Englishman to sing American-derived pop music with an English regional accent, but he was...
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Martha Shepherd on the power of improvisation
Martha Shepherd is a London-based documentary filmmaker from South Wales who likes to explore communities outside of the mainstream. You...
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Richard Helyar: shots of Soho
Richard Helyar is a freelance photographer.
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Peter Moore on Malian Hip Hop
Hip Hop is huge in Mali and Bamako is littered with makeshift recording studios. Most of them are tiny, boasting a computer, a vocal...
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Mark Simpson: film composer
If you can keep your eyes off this clip, try listening to the musical accompaniment instead. It's by Mark Simpson and was created for a...
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Andy Hitchen
This, entitled "The Girl in the Snow Globe", is an illustration for "The Haunted Snow Globe", which appears in Asahi Weekly. Both are by...
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