Prog

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Weekend Argus Saturday

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This week we feature South African funk, pop and R&B duo Easy Freak. Dom Hurd and Jude Kenrick studied jazz at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and as a result of their passion for performing, founded Easy Freak. The duo write and produce all their

Independent on Saturday

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CRAFTFEST, brought to you by the Independent on Saturday and the Shongweni Farmers and Craft Market, is a fun festival for the whole family that celebrates everything craft from food, music and merchandise. And this year some of the country’s top mus

Prog

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Despite what the old cliché suggests, there’s an awful lot to be said for meeting your heroes. After introducing themselves to the world with their glacially beautiful debut Flown, written during the lockdown of 2020, recorded in remote isolation, an

Prog

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Where’s home? Yorkshire – a wilderness life in rather harsh weather conditions, stacks of natural beauty. Love it. Earliest memory of prog? The kids from my dad’s church would meet on Sunday evenings at our vicarage and play their records. I wasn’t a

BBC Music Magazine

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It was good to read conductor Edward Gardner’s reflections on some of his recordings (August) and to be reminded that we live in a time of transition, where recordings are not to be seen as the last word on any particular piece of music. However, the

UNCUT

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Radie Peat on the Lankum approach: “We’re all very intense” How do you breathe fresh life into traditional folk music? The drone notes of the uilleann pipes are indigenous to Ireland; we’re sort of hamming that up to achieve a certain sound. We a

Tatler Hong Kong

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A 60th birthday would normally be cause for extensive celebration, but Jaap van Zweden stuck to the rules for his on December 12. Having returned to his hometown of Amsterdam, where local laws prohibit a gathering of more than two people who don’t li

BBC Music Magazine

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Write to: The editor, BBC Music Magazine, Eagle House, Bristol, BS1 4ST Email: music@classical-music.com Social media: contact us on Facebook and Twitter I was sorry to read of the death of Christopher Gunning (Farewell to…, June). As you rightly say

Prog

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After two forced postponements, the glorious celebration of progressive music that is Prognosis Festival in Eindhoven returns in April. Taking place Friday 15 to Saturday 16, this indoor event boasts big names playing one-off special sets; young, hun

Prog

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THE BRITISH ART-POP/prog lite duo League Of Lights are back with a third album that was conceived largely during lockdown. The husband and wife team of keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist Richard and singer Farrah West set out to cheer up their fan

Fleurieu Living Magazine

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There are two types of people in this world: sunrise or sunset, dawn or dusk. Local singer/songwriter Rob Edwards, unusually, is both. If Rob was an animal, he’d likely be a kookaburra: wise, driven, cheeky and filled with song. Like many animals, ko

Fleurieu Living Magazine

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When The Porch Sessions first launched in 2013, they were about sharing a relaxed and intimate vibe with a small group of like-minded music lovers. Over the years, these award-winning events have grown to include the annual festival of nice things, P

BBC Music Magazine

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I’ve been listening a lot to Broken Branches, a recent release by guitarist Sean Shibe and tenor Karim Sulayman. The album mixes old and new and delves into both of their musical heritages. They are such wonderful performers and make a special team.

Saturday Star

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Funk, pop and R&B duo Easy Freak consist of Dom Hurd and Jude Kenrick. They studied jazz at UKZN, and as a result of their passion for the craft and performing they founded Easy Freak. Jude comes from a musical family who all play instruments, while

UNCUT

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MOST mornings, you’ll find Robert Fripp in his garden. “Every day I can walk out of the door and see the season change,” he says. “It is the first time in the life of a touring musician that I’ve been able to do that.” For Fripp, lockdown has present

BBC Music Magazine

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A cold wind is blowing from the Baltic when I meet clarinettist and conductor Martin Fröst in Stockholm. The sky is the same icy blue as the city’s Art Deco concert hall, which an orderly group of protestors pass with banners that read ‘No to NATO, y

BBC Music Magazine

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Before we begin, Stephen Hough pops into a nearby pharmacy to deliver his latest Covid test for travel. As he contemplates his imminent 60th birthday – on St Cecilia’s Day, 22 November – this most celebrated and well-loved of British pianists is amon

BBC Music Magazine

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I think Purcell could have made it onto this even if he’d written nothing other than Dido’s Lament from Dido and Aeneas. As well as being hugely expressive and emotive, it is also written on a ground bass, which satisfies the musician as well – he’s

What Hi-Fi?

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Although spatial audio for movies and TV is still an Apple device exclusive, the firm’s Apple Music proposition is definitely not limited to its AirPods or Beats headphones. Apple Music’s Dolby Atmos-powered spatial audio tech for music works with an

UNCUT

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Jarak Qaribak WORLD CIRCUIT 8/10 THE Middle East is, to put it lightly, a complex region; especially so if you expand your view to include Arabic North Africa and the land stretching across to the Oxus, most of which comprises the ‘Middle World’ acco

Beat English

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An EP with live songs from ten years. What doesn‘t sound like the most exciting type of release in theory turns out to be an immensely thrilling work of the Berlin experimental techno formation in practice. The material recorded in cities like Berlin

New Internationalist

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To listen to the music of Jerusalem In My Heart (JIMH), the name under which Radwan Ghazi Moumneh records, is to experience a lurching, sonic dislocation. The effect is as peculiar as it is exhilarating. This is definitely Arabic music but combined w

Country Life

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THIS summer, the roof is lifting off the Royal Albert Hall, the lid bursting open to let the Proms fly out well beyond their South Kensington confines to venues all over the UK. They’re off to Derry, Gateshead, Aberystwyth, Dewsbury, Truro, Perth and

BBC Music Magazine

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Write to: The editor, BBC Music Magazine, Eagle House, Bristol, BS1 4ST Email: music@classical-music.com Social media: contact us on Facebook and Twitter Unlike Richard Morrison (April), my music tutor wasn’t at all scathing about Rachmaninov. He sim

BBC Music Magazine

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Domingo Hindoyan has heard of Tranmere Rovers FC, and I’ll be honest, I did not see that coming. True, Hindoyan’s predecessor as chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko, was a fan of Liverpool Football Club, and

Beat English

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The extravagant spelling of the band‘s name should make it clear that this trio from Tel Aviv likes it idiosyncratic. On their self-titled debut, the three musicians mix a wide variety of sounds, including styles such as rave, techno, big beat, hip-h

Pianist

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One small but significant side effect of Covid-19 in the UK has been the rediscovery of art music by the mainstream media. Apparently paralysed by the slow creep of cultural anxiety over the last half-century, print and broadcast outlets have steadil

Prog

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In March 2018, Claudia Brücken and Susanne Freytag reunited at The Garage in Islington, where they performed Propaganda’s 1985 classic, A Secret Wish, in its entirety. It was a move as welcome as it was unexpected. The response, across both sell-out

Beat English

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Carpenter Brut is the artistic alter ego of Frenchman Franck Hueso, who is one of the most successful acts in synthwave. The project‘s aesthetic is based on B-movie horror, metal and the 80s. Wait, metal? Yes, metal, because Bret Halford, the fiction