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Heart Beats: Stuart A Staples On The Music That Inspired Arrythmia
Luke Turner , June 27th, 2018 09:07

From Linton Kwesi Johnson to Laurie Anderson, Kendrick Lamar to Robert Wyatt, Miles Davis and Insecure Men - Tindersticks vocalist Stuart A Staples selects the music that shaped his brilliant new solo album, Arrythmia

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Sibelius – The Swan Of Tuonela
A Radio 3 moment – It stuck and had a deep effect on me and is a huge influence on 'A Year In Small Paintings'. Perhaps I was looking to understand ways of writing over a longer form, to hold a musical narrative – I realise in hindsight how much this piece was giving me when I thought I was just enjoying.