In the provincial town of Udon Thani, in Northern Thailand, in the middle of a brain-meltingly hot day, my partner and I find a terrace and sit down to have ...
A widow is haunted by the past
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Jan Swafford’s Johannes Brahms: A Biography reviewed
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This week on Litro Lab podcast, we have an experimental piece with original music. On a time when many of us are stranded in one place – do you ever ...
This week on Litro Lab, we access the anxious thoughts of a man while he walks through a rainy city. This is an experimental piece that blends music and words. ...
This week on Litro Lab, we invite you to close your eyes and immerse yourself in this oneiric flash fiction piece that tells the story of a little boy and ...
There was an edge to it, a whiff of violence and unhinged possibility. In those days, the style of Leftist street protest was carnivalesque
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All this misjudged levity is really an attempt to sublimate the subject matter of the record that inspired this collection: depression.
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Focusing particularly on the words of Paul McCartney and John Lennnon, Frank Meola’s essay “Reading Words, Hearing Music” is about song lyrics and poetry and the difference between the two. ...
Joanna Pocock speaks to iconic US composer and polymath Phillip Corner as he plays at Hackney’s Café Oto.
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My second novel, Melissa (Salt, late 2015), is – like a lot of my writing – all about music and neurology.
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Melbourne writer Venita Munir interviews Calexico co-founder and drummer John Convertino.
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I dropped the needle of the old vinyl edition of This Is The Sea somewhere towards the end of side two.
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‘(There is) ultimately only one conflict which constantly reappears under a different guise … to reconcile life with work in the purest sense.’
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Dr. James Holden considers the irresistable pull of Christmas’s sleigh bell-punctuated nostalgia.
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A fascinating series of essays bringing together singers, songwriters, bands, performers, A&R men, producers and audiences into the whirling gumbo of rock ‘n’ roll.
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A look back at how Boris Vian makes words dance in this jazz age classic.
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“The first ‘song’ I ever wrote was ‘Baby.’ Inverted commas because a) everyone else does, the fools, and b) it’s got a verse, a chorus, and a second verse and ...
As part of our current Music theme, Marie Gethins recalls the concert that changed her summer.
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“More, give us more, we’ll never be satisfied, never stop. We scream and beg, order and demand, plead and grovel over a simple thing, not all too different from you ...
