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Sometimes Easy, Sometimes Hard: Harmonia’s Deluxe at 50
Both prefiguring the urgency of post punk, while simultaneously providing a continuation of utopian counter-cultural impulses, Harmonia's Deluxe is the sound of the faultline running through the mid 70s, says Toby Manning
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The Strange World Of… Joe McPhee
After providing Severance with the soundtrack to its "defiant jazz" scene, the endlessly explorative work of legendary multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee is enjoying a moment of rare mainstream crossover. With a new taster compilation coming this autumn, Stewart Smith provides 10 points of entry into his sprawling discography
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Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Summer, by Patrick Clarke
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Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Summer, by Patrick Clarke
Patrick Clarke's guide to the best in strange, left-field and underground traditional music returns, with reviews of 10 essential new releases that take in everything from Irish fairy forts to Japanese rivers, strange parallel worlds and stark protest songs
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Anniversary
Sometimes Easy, Sometimes Hard: Harmonia’s Deluxe at 50
Both prefiguring the urgency of post punk, while simultaneously providing a continuation of utopian counter-cultural impulses, Harmonia's Deluxe is the sound of the faultline running through the mid 70s, says Toby Manning
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Hypnosis for Cats: Ben Pester’s Expansion Project Playlist
Ben Pester's brilliantly surreal new book is a "horror novel about office work" where the monster is a business park. Here he takes us through the songs he played while writing and the songs the book seems to summon for him now it's finished and (almost) out in the world
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