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Album reviews with Chris Searle: February 21, 2022
New releases from Borderlands Trio, Phil Hargreaves/Richard Harrison and Chris Laurence
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
Borderlands Trio
Wandersphere
Intakt Records
★★★★★
There is irony in the title of the Borderlands Trio, for they embody the mainland of North America. Drummer Eric McPherson is a New Yorker, bassist Stephen Crump hails from Memphis and pianist Kris Davis is from Vancouver, growing up in Calgary.
Their new double album, Wandersphere, is a wondrous journey of sonic artistry with the musicians, in Davis’s words, giving themselves “freedom to just really be in the moment.” She should know: she plays with a beautiful abandon while keeping as close as a musical sister to her two confreres.
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