MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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A proud and modest jazz revolutionary
Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist PHIL HARGREAVES about his new album PI, and his long-standing support for the WMA
Phil Hargreaves
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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
AN OUTSTANDINGLY original saxophonist and improviser is Phil Hargreaves, whose new album Pi with vocalist Maggie Nicols (together they are Siapiau), is living and timbral proof of that.
He is also a vice-president of the Workers’ Music Association, so music is only one expression of his love of freedom, although as he says: “the beauty of improvisation is, that at its best, it creates something perfectly fitted to the moment it was created.”
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