The Music Machine
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The success of Florence + the Machine’s debut album Lungs on both sides of the Atlantic has shown yet again that a singular vision and commercial success do not need…
Posts by Hanspeter Kuenzler
Coming into the Land
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For eight years, Leslie Feist, alongside cheeky multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Chilli Gonzalez, maverick producer Mocky and the singing, sexual-role-defying conceptualist electro star Peaches, made up a group of expat Canadian artists…
Music Review 29
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St Vincent, Strange Mercy (4AD) St Vincent is the nom de plume of 29-year-old multi- instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Annie Clark from Dallas, Texas. Recording music in her bedroom from the…
The Fairest Of Them All
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For a man as famously private as Bob Dylan, a remarkable number of Bob Dylan sightings have been recorded in Britain alone. There’s the time, for instance, when Bob turned…
Music Review 28
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Hollie Cook, Hollie Cook (Mr Bongo)Of late, reggae hasn’t had much success in reaching an audience outside the long-established centres of fandom. While the more abstract dub experiments from the…
What Goes Around
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Sublime: Your new album is called Long Player Late Bloomer. You’re anything but a late bloomer, though, aren’t you? Ron Sexsmith: In some ways, I feel I am. Even with my…
Music Review 27
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Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi, Rome (EMI)There cannot be many people around with a musical mind as open as Danger Mouse, aka Brian Burton, the New York-born producer and erstwhile London resident…
Music Review 26
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The Kills, Blood Pressures (Domino)The Kills – aka Floridian singer Alison Mosshart (freshly returned from her excursion with Jack White, Dead Weather) and British multi-instrumentalist Jamie Hince – have been…
Rythm Kings
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After The Super Rail Band (Mali), Orchestra Baobab (Senegal), Mulatu Astatke (Ethiopia) and Bembeya Jazz (Guinea), among others, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo from Benin are the latest to receive a new lease…
