Jim Hickson
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Our Freedoms Must Be Won (opens the original)
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It’s been seven years since Songs of Our Mothers, the first album from the collaboration between London jazz group Kefaya and Afghan-Hazara singer Elaha Soroor. With time comes change, and life in Afghanistan has changed dramatically – especially for women and musicians persecuted by the Taliban. Kefaya & Soroor’s music has evolved in response. Their long-awaited follow-up moves away from jazz in favour of heavier rock and electronic influences, even veering towards punk and metal at times. Ther
Where the South Winds Wail (opens the original)
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Swampy surf rock, psychedelic Peruvian chicha and ambient blues – within Brian J. Gitkin’s global genre-hopping, guitar-twanging discography, these are the elements that keep coming back around. And they’re here again on his fifth album, together with touches of New Orleans music and gospel. Although he plays most of the instruments here himself, Gitkin’s real speciality is in his composition, where he pulls on the threads of these different styles and reweaves them together so confidently that
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