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Joselito Sabogal: paintings
Peruvian artist Joselito Sabogal studied at the Colegio Santa Maria in Sao Paulo. His mesmerising and quite often unsettling images are...
Richard Helyar: Christmas in London
Richard Helyar is a freelance photographer.
Marco Galvani: The Oxen
The above is Marco Galvani's musical setting of The Oxen by Thomas Hardy. Here is the original poem: The Oxen Christmas Eve, and twelve...
Charles Shaar Murray on Jimi Hendrix
"There comes a screaming across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now ..." Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's...
Han Sungpil: My Sea
Han Sungpil practises art mainly through photography, video and installations, covering subjects such as environmental issues,...
Simon Belshaw: Music Machine 8
Music Machine 8 uses the short speech that Neil Armstrong made when stepping on to the surface of the moon. The music machine takes each...
Elke Trittel: paintings
Union Fait La France Elke Trittel is a mixed media artist from Germany, currently working and living in the South of France. She works in...
Chris Killip: Skinningrove
Christopher Killip, who died on 13 October, was a photographer who worked at Harvard University from 1991 to 2017 as a Professor of...
Billy Bragg's Playlist #2
Here is another playlist by Billy Bragg. Thanks to Billy for allowing us to host them. Billy Bragg is an English singer-songwriter and...
Track of the Week
The Boban Marković Orchestra is a Balkan Brass Band from Vladičin Han, Southern Serbia. They have won several of the most important...
kaptainkristian: The Magic of Animation
The video essay. It's a thing. This is one of the best.
Track of the Week
Arthur Russell (1951 – 1992) was an American cellist, composer, producer, singer and musician from Iowa, whose work spanned a disparate...
Isabelle Mignot: paintings
Isabelle Mignot is an award-winning French visual artist. She studied at the École du Louvre. Her abstract images are influenced by...
Charles Shaar Murray on Jaco Pastorius
The last two parts of Steve Shepherd and Charles Shaar Murray's documentary are here and here. Steve Shepherd writes poems and takes...
Sam Fendrich: Fake Blues
Sam Fendrich is a composer and poet based in London. He was the first bass player in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and has also led...
Track of the Week
The Pooh Sticks were an indie band from Swansea who recorded between 1988 and 1995. Two of their members have reunited to form Swansea...
Charles Shaar Murray on Jaco Pastorius
Here and here are the first two parts of "Punk Jazz", an absolutely tremendous documentary about Jaco Pastorius. It's presented by...
Tavares Strachan: In Plain Sight
Tucked away on Lower John Street in Soho is the Marian Goodman Gallery, a space so conducive to the viewing of art that it's become one...
Track of the Week
The Bad Plus is an American jazz trio from Minneapolis, Minnesota, consisting of bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Orrin Evans and drummer...
Previously Unreleased Track of the Week
We are extremely happy to be featuring a previously unreleased track by Fela Kuti, which you can listen to here. This is from the press...
Steve Shepherd: photographs
Steve Shepherd writes poems and takes photographs. He used to make radio programmes, mostly jazz.
Véronique Brosset: paintings
Jouiss'anse French artist Véronique Brosset got her degree at the University of Modern Arts in Paris. She calls herself a "silent woman...
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