MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
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Memorable music from a master gone too soon
SIMON DUFF recommends a beguiling moving and personal musical dream from the award-winning Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson
The recording of the album in Copenhagen's Garnisonskirken Church
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PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF
MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
Johann Johannsson
Drone Mass
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DESPITE its title Drone Mass is neither a setting of the Mass nor a piece that simply drones. Rather it is Johann Johannsson’s personal journey inspired by those two force fields. In essence an electroacoustic oratorio.
Science and technology were a key part in the life of the Icelandic composer. Even in his early work such as IBM 1401 A users Manual, his debut album for 4AD in 2006, he used words taken from an IBM computer manual.
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