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Music Review 23

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Wai, Ora (Jayrem Records)Maka McGregor was once the drummer of Maori reggae band Aotearoa who were instrumental in bringing a voice to New Zealand’s young Maori population. Such was the…

A Life in Music

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Don’t trust anyone over thirty, the Californian activist Jack Weinberger postulated in 1964. For forty years, the music business bought into this dubious credo. But things have begun to change…

Cents and Sustainability

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Gro Brundtland’s imperative to sustainable development, while considering the reduction of poverty and adhering to clean and green investment may have been considered utopian then, but books such as Cents…

The Case for Working with Your Hands

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After graduating as a political philosopher, Matthew Crawford fell into a lucrative job as director of a think-tank, yet got no fulfilment from it. Boldly deciding to break out and…

Creating Tomorrow’s Schools Today

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Our education system resembles the model suited to fit the Victorian age, when schools churned out pupils shaped to meet the demands of the Industrial Revolution. Health and social services…

The Element

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Expert in creativity and innovation, Ken Robinson defines the Element as ‘the meeting point between natural aptitude and personal passion – a self-revelation, connecting identity, purpose and well-being’. But there…

Music Review 22

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Cosa Brava, Ragged Atlas (Intakt Records)Guiitarist Fred Frith first honed his instrumental skills with the archetypically 1970s English group Henry Cow, an ensemble with strong political views, an arch sense…