MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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‘A magical balance of monumentality and the ephemeral’
Jazz pianist ALEXANDER HAWKINS explains to Chris Searle what he's attempting to achieve on his new album Iron into Wind
Egalitarian: Alexander Hawkins
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
INSPIRATION across generations has always been powerfully expressed in jazz and the bond between two musicians of different origins, nationalities and ages is huge between septuagenarian Cape Town drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo and Oxford-born pianist Alexander Hawkins, who’s in his late thirties.
Hawkins is pianist in Moholo-Moholo’s Five Blokes band and together they cut the marvellous Keep Your Head Straight duo album on the Ogun label on which it’s almost as if there are two percussionists drumming.
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