Music Review 20
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Peter Gabriel, Scratch My Back (EMI)For decades the concept album, alongside patchouli, kaftans and beedis, has been left to rot in a drawer marked ‘1960s aberrations’. Of late, together with…
Posts by Hanspeter Kuenzler
Just for the Record
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Just as the likes of The Klaxons and Simian Mobile Disco followed their pointers to start a ‘movement’ that flickered briefly but brightly and led to a Mercury Prize Award…
Eastern Promise
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Upon arrival in Beijing, the first thing to strike those unfamiliar with China is the newness of it all. It begins at the airport. So vast and elegant and empty…
Jamie Cullum, Jazz Emotion
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Cullum burst on the scene in 2003 with Twentysomething, a selection of standards, originals and surprising cover versions, including Hendrix’s ‘Wind Cries Mary’. His new album The Pursuit begins with…
Island Man
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Chris Blackwell founded Island Records 50 years ago exactly. Blackwell, whose family owned a large sugar and rum export company in Jamaica, dropped out of Harrow School, London when he…
Call Of The Wild
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Wild Beasts from Kendal, close to the Scottish border in the north-west of England, are a case in point. With their first album Limbo, Panto they served up a complex…
Kings Of Indie
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And it wasn’t just King Creosote’s albums. Five years after its inception, news of Kenny Anderson’s homespun recordlabel had spread. More and more of his friends, and then the friends’…
About A Boy
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Aside from the likes of the two Jameses, other talent is emerging,among them Eugene McGuinness, whose debut mini-album Early Learnings of Eugene McGuinness was released in 2007 on the…
Moments Of Fortune
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Sublime: I was taken aback when I saw the album title. I thought, I didn’t know Tracy Chapman could be so sarcastic! Tracey Chapman: Good! That’s one of the reactions…
