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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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Thelonious Monk - Alone In San Francisco
A musical voice so unique, so modern. I don't try and understand its power, happy to just let it fill the room around me, to just be within it. I wouldn't know how to describe his playing and humming and its effect on me. Maybe a clear night sky – alive, unpredictable, limitless and fascinating.