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...’s synthesiser mumble on “Cara De Espejo”; the way “A00 B01” stubbornly refuses to resolve into a melody; the bass pulse that beats throughout like a jittery heart....
...Banning music in Mali is “like cutting off people’s oxygen” says the singer Khaira Arby, Timbuktu’s “nightingale of the north”, in Johanna Schwartz’s feature-length documentary They Will Have To Kill Us...
...A boy soprano and other singers repeat the word “lauda” (praise) while a nostalgic melody and, later, the “Almighty Father” chorale, each heard earlier, make reappearances. All very poignant....
...Despite clear western influences, the songs are inflected with gamakas, the fluid decorations characteristic of Indian melody. “It creates an emotion that is unparalleled,” he says....
...“Delmore Schwartz was a journalist. Ernest Hemingway was a journalist!” Funnily enough, so was Lou Reed....
...Melody Moore makes much of the lofty lines and nervous platitudes of Rita Clayton, mother of Myra’s young victim. George Manahan conducts with bravado....
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