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Mystical Moves, Dance and Freedom : Interview [Salah El Brogy]

There’s a thriving dance community in the UK that really helps you keep that fire in your belly...

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Describing Das Unheimliche. Interview: Davide Carbone/Honzo [Honzo]

There is plenty of temporary music out there right now. The format does not matter but the intentions of the producers do. ...

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We are watching your culture too. Captured

Captured highlights the premise that embracing diversity is essential for the continued development of Native American art....

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Language games across the checkmate of infinity

These are not really poems, that's why I put the word poem in inverted commas in the title. ...

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A mixture of figuration and abstraction. Interview [Bernie Clarkson]

'It was such a surprise to win the trip and exactly the sort of prize I would have chosen for myself'...

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Siena in all its least-known corners (Federico Pacini)

Pacini photographs the off-season, with its overcast skies and grey suburban areas....

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Make Better Music 73: Mindful Qualities

Quality requires a mindfulness and quietness to allow ideas to form, take shape, emerge and grow...

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Cannibalisation: recycling of recyclings of recyclings [Asmus Tietchens : Fahl]

Does the strategy of infinite recycling accrue a new aesthetic or degrade the existing one?...

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Solefald : World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud

To say that they're referencing Dadaism or Situationism wouldn't be a cop out, but it wouldn't tell you anything either, and that is the danger of this record....

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Arboretum : Royal West of England Academy

Fittingly, many of the paintings also included in this show are left raw and unframed, exposed to the elements – and artistic scrutiny....

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Donor : Against All

Schappert takes material from the present-day and brings out the dystopian aspects of a much closer and less-glamourous dystopian future....

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Nick Lord : Realising The Truth [Interview]

When I first started to draw, I was massively influenced by the expressionists. Egon Schiele in particular. From them I learned the importance of breaking away from tradition...

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Zeitkratzer : WHITEHOUSE

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”W/dropcapithin the institutionalised avant-garde, overt but actually often inert rule-breaking is the norm. There are numerous hidden codes...

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Taylor Momsen, Acoustic [Live]

When she chooses, Momsen has the ability to convey emotion, forgivably narcissistic emotion, but emotion nonetheless....

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Mariachi El Bronx III

Here they’ve taken the vernacular and made something contemporary and lasting...

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Tom de Freston : Orpheus and the Minotaur

De Freston' s work has little to do with the emphatic and aggrandising tradition of history painting....

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Terry Riley and Africa Express at Tate Modern [Film]

Tate Modern and Africa Express present Terry Riley’s In C Mali is released online on 27 November at The Space...

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Reeves Gabrels [Interview]

Reeves Gabrels, currently guitarist in The Cure and formerly David Bowie’s collaborator in Tin Machine, interviewed...

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Steve Rothery : Bush Hall [Live]

The closest thing to Fish-era Marillion in their mid-80s prime as you're likely to get...

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Adam X : Irreformable

Adam X is open and unashamed about his industrial/EBM connections, in sad contrast to some other producers...

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Late Rembrandt

The Rembrandt in the paintings at the National Gallery... is a man who suffered: as a victim of unfortunate tragedies, and as a result of personal flaws....

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Pagan Britain (and Ronald Hutton)

Qithin the generous limits imposed by the evidence you're free to imagine the past how you like....

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Trick or Treat! A Celebration of Samhain

It is the festival of Samhain from whence our contemporary experience of Hallowe'en stems...

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Max Richter : Royal Albert Hall [Live]

The final word is this was a truly historic evening for music, and Vivaldi’s reputation to wow audiences shines undimmed. ...

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Haken : Restoration [EP]

Haken have the instrumental virtuosity and musical scope of the best in progressive rock, but unlike some other bands they aren't content to create reverential pastiches of 70s greats....

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The Bug : Angels and Devils

An atmospheric dub record that easily ranks amongst Kevin Martin’s best....

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Frontiers Records : AOR and Proud

Three new releases from Frontiers Records give a taste of what the current AOR scene has to offer....

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Hey Preston! [Festival]

Hey Preston! is an all-day indoor music event coming to Preston’s finest live venue 53 Degrees on Saturday 20th September...

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William Burroughs : Animals In The Wall

Animals In The Wall will feature 40 original William S Burroughs art works...

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Présence Autochtone: Montreal First Peoples Festival

Présence Autochtone, Montreal First Peoples Festival, celebrates the cultural heritage of the Americas' aboriginal nations through film, music, dance and other visual arts....

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